Ustwo Games revealed five years ago that it was working on the third installment of the highly regarded puzzle series, Monument Valley. It will launch exclusively on Netflix Games on December 10, 2024, following a lengthy period of anticipation.
Today during Opening Night Live, a trailer for Monument Valley 3 gave us our first proper look. It has a new small protagonist who is holding a lantern, making it both familiar and unique. As previously, the player manipulates scenes reminiscent of M.C. Escher with the touchscreen to build pathways for the character to advance.
Monument Valley 3 appears to employ a similar aesthetic and spatial puzzle design to its predecessors, while it appears that the protagonist with the lantern will occasionally need to guide other characters through the mazes in an efficient manner. In the first game, there was only one main character, but in the second, a mother and her child navigated mazes together while they explored relationship-related subjects. Monument Valley 2 won the Game Award for Best Mobile Game in 2017 and the Best Puzzle Webby Award in 2018. Both games received high praise from critics for their designs.
Monument Valley 3 will premiere exclusively through the Netflix Games app, but like its predecessors, it will technically be available on both iOS and Android. As we have previously documented, Netflix has had trouble attracting big numbers of users, and it is debating internally whether or not to include in-app purchases or advertisements on its gaming platform going forward.
