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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 Rooster Run. Titled Rooster 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 sport was put into improvement referred to as Rooster Run: Eggstraction. That sport 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 can be launched solely on Netflix Video games. Whereas that by no means materialized, sport improvement continued all through 2024. Final week, we acquired the information that Rooster Run Extraction was on the best way, however it will be going multiplatform. We’ve now confirmed that Netflix received’t be amongst these platforms.
Described as a top-down heist sport, Rooster Run: Eggstraction picks up the place the 2023 Netflix movie Rooster Run: Daybreak of the Nugget left off, following the gang as they crew up as soon as once more to avoid wasting chicken-kind. Bella Ramsey and Josie Sedgwick-Davies reprise their roles as Molly and Frizzle within the sport, which shall be obtainable on Nintendo Change, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One, Xbox Sequence X|S, and PC by way of Steam and the Microsoft Retailer.
With the information of Rooster Run: Eggstraction skipping a Netflix Video games launch, the upcoming slate of titles appears to be like fairly slim. The brand new Insurgent Moon sport 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 Video 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 a couple of dozen video games faraway from the service altogether, together with 23 deliberate removals for July 2025, which has come as a shock to the developers behind these titles. We’ve additionally seen quite a few video games that had been put into improvement and deliberate for launch, reminiscent of Rooster 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 reminiscent of Tales of the Shire, Don’t Starve Collectively, and Compass Level: West would not be launched on Netflix Video games.
Netflix didn’t reply to a request for remark.
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