‘Black Mirror’ fans can now play adorable video game ‘Thronglets’

Black Mirror season seven featured an episode that focused on an advanced video game called Thronglets – and now you can play it for yourself.

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Black Mirror season seven launched on Netflix earlier this month and episode four (Plaything) featured an advanced new video game. A spin-off from 2019’s interactive episode Bandersnatch, Plaything saw Cameron (Lewis Gribben/Peter Calpaldi) become obsessed with the newly created video game Thronglets, with the cutesy creatures evolving as modern technology improved.

The end of the episode featured a QR code that lets you download a mobile version of Thronglets for yourself. “In 1984, Tuckersoft changed the world with the game Bandersnatch. 10 years later the studio created another game so dangerous that it was canceled midway through development.

“Just in time for Black Mirror Season 7, Netflix’s own game developer Night School Studio picked up the pieces, and now’s your chance to play the subversive game that never was: Thronglets,” reads the official description.

“Thronglets is part virtual pet, part village manager, part strategy game, and part existential conundrum. It all starts simply enough: You have to care for a fuzzy yellow little creature. Feed it, play with it, give it a scrub when it’s been rolling in the dirt. Keep it happy and it’ll split in two. Sufficiently care for this new offspring and it’ll split again. And again. And again.” The game also features a number of Black Mirror Easter Eggs and quickly takes on a dark turn.

Would do anything for this Thronglet.

You can raise your own throng on Black Mirror: Thronglets. Now on Netflix Games pic.twitter.com/bXeApxqjQA

— Netflix (@netflix) April 13, 2025

Thronglets is included with all Netflix subscriptions and is available to download here.

Speaking to Netflix, Charlie Brooker said he was inspired by Tamagotchis for the episode. “It’s amazing how quickly you get attached to it. I left it in the pocket of some jeans and it went in the washing machine, and it got boiled and died, and I felt genuine remorse and I felt terrible like I had boiled a hamster alive.”

“I also read an article once about somebody who had a game, either Civilisation or SimCity, on an old computer in the ’90s, but they kept it going for two decades uninterrupted, and it started going bananas basically,” he added.

Last month, a Netflix executive spoke about turning a number of their hit shows into video games. “We have to find worlds that are very attractive for people to be in and to tell their own stories. Bridgerton is one. I think Stranger Things has a lot of potential there. I believe One Piece is another one that I would love to explore.”

In other news, Paul Rudd has recreated his vintage advert for the Super Nintendo in order to promote the upcoming Switch 2.

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