Netflix is launching Unhinged on June 30 — a first-person horror game from Night School Studio, the team behind Oxenfree. It stars Sadie Sink (Stranger Things, Spider-Man: Brand New Day), Zoë Kravitz (The Batman, Divergent), and veteran voice actor Troy Baker.
Unhinged follows two young women in neighboring houses as one tries to survive a home invasion. The whole thing runs just under an hour, designed to feel like a single Netflix episode — but it's built to be replayed for different narrative branches, and yes, you can die. Gameplay is phone-driven: you receive in-game calls and texts, and use your phone as a virtual flashlight to look around the world. It streams to your TV through the Netflix platform, so if you have a Netflix subscription and a phone, you're set.
This isn't Netflix's first brush with interactive storytelling — Black Mirror's Bandersnatch was an interactive live-action film — but Unhinged is a proper video game, not a choose-your-own-adventure video. Night School game director Sam Warner told Rolling Stone the team drew heavy inspiration from the Wii and Nintendo DS: "We looked deeply at the Wii [and] the Nintendo DS. I grew up with those, and I think that focus on novel innovative play was something that we really started this game with."
Unhinged launches June 30 and is included for all Netflix subscribers at no extra cost.
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