Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales

Developed by Next Games, Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales was a Netflix game, now removed from Netflix in Dec 2024. Authoritative server state. Revival needs a server reimplementation. Technically blocked or shelved. See the case notes.

Server-authoritative live-service (NextGames command/model-framework): the ContentModel (unit stats, ability/level/gacha configs) and the player roster/progression are ModelSyncAsync'd from the server at login; boot is gated on Authenticate/Login/Session and dead-ends at LoginTimeout offline.

Next Games (Netflix-owned) live-service match-3 gacha RPG (v24.2.0.116759). Unity IL2CPP, gen-2 com.netflix.games SDK with a Unity bridge, so the Netflix login gate itself is tool-clearable - but that is not the wall. Built on the NextGames command/model-framework (same as Marvel Strike Force / TWD: No Man's Land): every state change is a server-validated Command, and the game's content (unit stats, ability/level/gacha configs) plus the player's roster/progression are a ContentModel synced from the server at login (ModelSyncAsync), NOT bundled. The 202 MB of local Addressables are art/scenes/audio only (characters, chapters, gacha, battlepass, arena) - there is no config/data/balancing bundle and no local content DB. Boot is a Bootstrapper state machine gated on Authenticate/Login/Session; offline it times out (LoginTimeout) and the model never syncs, so no playable state is reached. Reviving it would mean reconstructing the entire server-side content model + account backend from nothing (the data isn't in the APK).

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