Netflix Debuts 20- to 50-Minute Horror Game Unhinged on June 30
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Updated · Rolling Stone · Jun 24
Netflix Debuts 20- to 50-Minute Horror Game Unhinged on June 30
3 articles · Updated · Rolling Stone · Jun 24
Summary
June 30 brings Unhinged to Netflix’s TV app as a standalone interactive horror story starring Zoë Kravitz and Sadie Sink, with players using their own smartphones to navigate an apartment-building escape.
A two-year-old Night School breakthrough drove the design: players can aim a phone at the TV as a flashlight, while audio shifts between devices so in-game calls and ambient sounds come from different speakers.
The game is built for non-gamers rather than console players, dropping joysticks and steep difficulty for branching choices, texts and calls, and a short 20- to 50-minute replayable format.
For Netflix, Unhinged marks a more ambitious push beyond tie-in and mobile titles, as the streamer uses its 2021 Night School acquisition to test original, low-barrier narrative games.