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We’ll quickly be developing on the two-year anniversary of when Netflix launched the long-awaited follow-up to the 2000 Aardman film Hen Run. Titled Hen Run: Daybreak of the Nugget, the film landed on Netflix globally in December 2023, and as a part of its launch technique on Netflix, a recreation was put into growth known as Hen Run: Eggstraction. That recreation is now due out in October 2025, however will not be coming to Netflix as initially deliberate.
The sport was first announced by Netflix and Aardman in 2023, with preliminary plans to launch in 2024. On the time, it was famous that the sport could be launched completely on Netflix Games. Whereas that by no means materialized, recreation growth continued all through 2024. Final week, we acquired the information that Hen Run Extraction was on the way in which, however it might be going multiplatform. We’ve now confirmed that Netflix received’t be amongst these platforms.
Described as a top-down heist recreation, Hen Run: Eggstraction picks up the place the 2023 Netflix movie Hen Run: Daybreak of the Nugget left off, following the gang as they group up as soon as once more to save chicken-kind. Bella Ramsey and Josie Sedgwick-Davies reprise their roles as Molly and Frizzle within the recreation, which shall be obtainable on Nintendo Change, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One, Xbox Sequence X|S, and PC through Steam and the Microsoft Retailer.
With the information of Hen Run: Eggstraction skipping a Netflix Games launch, the upcoming slate of titles appears to be like fairly slim. The brand new Insurgent Moon recreation remains to be in beta and was initially scheduled for a launch in July (unclear whether or not that’s nonetheless the case.
The information arrives at a time of rebuilding for Netflix Games, which has shifted its focus over the previous 12 months or so beneath new management. As a part of that pivot, we’ve seen just a few dozen video games faraway from the service altogether, together with 23 deliberate removals for July 2025, which has come as a shock to the builders behind these titles. We’ve additionally seen quite a few video games that had been put into growth and deliberate for launch, such as Hen Run: Eggstraction, which additionally had its launch scrapped. The final main spherical of scrapped releases occurred in late January 2025, after we acquired phrase that titles such as Tales of the Shire, Don’t Starve Collectively, and Compass Level: West would not be launched on Netflix Games.
Netflix didn’t reply to a request for remark.
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