Netflix has released a new game for its mobile catalog in early May 2022: it is Relic Hunters Rebels, a shooter RPG with looter mechanics. The game is created by Rogue Snail, a Brazilian development team. As always, the game is available at no additional cost.
Relic Hunters Rebels (no connection with Tia Carrere’s series) features four characters: Jimmy, Ace, Pinkyy and Raff. It is based on obtaining weapons, each of which offers unique abilities. The characters will have to face ducks and space turtles, to defeat the Ducan Empire. You can see a trailer below, shared via Twitter.
Rogue Snail CEO Mark Venturelli said, “In addition to being huge Netflix fans, we were thrilled to be one of Netflix Games’ first pioneering developers and to be part of this story from the very beginning.”
Hunters, we have some exciting news to share with you: Relic Hunters Rebels, our mobile Shooter/Looter/RPG, will be available on @netflix in April! 🎉
Shoot and dash your way through levels, fight enemies and get a lot of loot to craft or improve amazing weapons! 🔫 pic.twitter.com/a4tuDlBxvo
— Relic Hunters Universe (@RelicHuntersU) March 23, 2022
Like other Netflix games, there are no microtransactions and no advertisements: this allows the team to “focus on making the game fun without worrying about how to pay our bills.” The game is also designed to be able to work without problems even on older smartphones, in order to reach as wide a user as possible.
The team also explained that one of the Netflix game’s characters, Baru, is non-binary – the developers hope this will help players feel “accepted for who they are”. Finally, here is the game of April 2022 included in the subscription.