Skip to main content
  1. Home
  2. Gaming
  3. News

Netflix adds Kentucky Route Zero and Twelve Minutes to its game lineup

Netflix’s game library continues to expand with today’s addition of two very notable narrative-driven games from Annapurna Interactive: Kentucky Route Zero and Twelve Minutes.

Kentucky Route Zero is an episodic-narrative adventure game that’s centered around the titular, mysterious underground highway. It took seven years for all of the episodes to release, but it’s all now available in one package. It’s hard to go into too many details without revealing spoilers, so suffice it to say that it’s a fantastic, critically acclaimed experience that anyone who likes games with interesting narratives with enjoy. 

Recommended Videos

Meanwhile, Twelve Minutes is a point-and-click adventure game starring Jame McAvoy, Daisy Ridley, and Willem Dafoe about a man stuck in a time loop where a man breaks into his house and kills both him and his wife. While its premise and presentation are certainly eye-catching, the game proved to be pretty divisive upon its release due to an unsettling revelation in its ending. Players can now see what the fuss is about with both these games on mobile if they already have a Netflix subscription. 

Netflix also announced that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge and Vikings: Valhalla will come to Netflix in the first quarter of 2023. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge is a fun retro-style beat ’em up featuring the iconic characters that garnered a five-star review from Digital Trends earlier this year. We called it a “must-play for both TMNT and beat-’em-up fans alike.”

Meanwhile, Vikings: Valhalla is a Netflix-exclusive game based on the show of the same name. Developed by Emerald City games and published by Tilting Point, Vikings: Valhalla is a strategy game where players build settlements and battle other Viking clans.

Kentucky Route Zero and Twelve Minutes are available on the Netflix app via iOS and Android. To download them, go to the Games tab on the Netflix app and choose the game you’d like to play. This will then bring you to App Store or Google Play Store, where you can download Kentucky Route Zero or Twelve Minutes and then start playing on a mobile device. 

Tomas Franzese
Former Digital Trends Contributor
A former Gaming Staff Writer at Digital Trends, Tomas Franzese now reports on and reviews the latest releases and exciting…
You can finally play Red Dead Redemption on your phone, thanks to Netflix
Includes the full story and Undead Nightmare, with no extra purchase or ads
Red Dead Redemption

What’s happened? A couple of weeks ago, we reported that Red Dead Redemption would be joining the list of games on Netflix. Now, the company has delivered on that promise by making the legendary Wild-West adventure playable on both Android and iOS for the first time.

The full original story comes bundled with the fan-favorite expansion Undead Nightmare, so you get the Western action and the zombie-horror twist.

Read more
I’ve decided the PS6 launch games Sony needs to dominate the next-gen console war
Sony likes to drop something big to kick off a new generation, here are my predictions
The Dualsense Controller lying on a table.

We’re half a decade into the PlayStation 5 era, and the console is packed with must-play games across just about any genre, with many more to come. And, while we’re still working through our backlog, I’m looking ahead to just what we could be playing on the PlayStation 6 when it launches.

Sony’s next-generation console is likely to be an absolute powerhouse when it potentially arrives in 2027, but that means little if we’re still playing our PlayStation 5 games on it. And, while there will always be gaps in our gaming histories that we can fill with some last-gen games on the new console, Sony likes to drop something big to kick off a new generation.

Read more
Your phone could one day become a real Steam gaming machine thanks to Valve
Valve is laying the groundwork to run full Windows PC games on ARM hardware.
A picture of the Steam Deck

What’s happened? In a rare, deeply technical interview, Valve has revealed that it has been funding and guiding major open-source projects to make Windows PC games run properly on ARM chips. For those of you unaware, ARM is the architecture that powers phones, tablets, and many low-power devices, and Valve believes it could unlock a whole new future for Steam beyond traditional PCs and handhelds. The interview conducted by The Verge shows that this is not a side experiment but a long-term strategy that has been quietly building for years. Valve has also been quietly funding Windows-on-ARM gaming projects and encouraging broader industry support, even beyond Linux and SteamOS environments.

Valve has been heavily backing FEX, an open-source Windows-on-ARM compatibility layer similar to Proton.

Read more