The seventh episode of Black Mirror season seven featured a mobile game called Thronglets, which were local Tamagotchis. Netflix is bringing the fictional game to life. It's now available to subscribers of the streaming service on iOS and Android.
The series explores the theme of digital addiction and its impact on the human psyche, and Thronglets is one of the central elements of this narrative.
The actual game was developed by Night School , a studio known for the mystical adventure Oxenfree . Netflix acquired the studio in 2021.
In the Black Mirror universe, Thronglets is presented as a supposedly long-lost project from Tuckersoft, the same studio that fans remember from the interactive episode Bandersnatch. In this game, players have to take care of cute but mysterious creatures called Thronglets, gradually revealing new parts of the fictional documentary “The Ritman Retrospective.” The film is dedicated to the game’s mysterious creator, Colin Ritman.