While Netflix’s pivot to live sports and ad-tier monetization dominates headlines, its gaming ambitions remain largely under the radar. Three years in, Netflix’s games catalog continues to sit idle, with a lack of guidance anywhere in the streamer’s own earnings materials or even in the platform UX itself. Netflix’s own Q2 2025 Engagement Report, which largely covers the company’s broader content ecosystem such as ad-tier viewership and content volume, makes zero mention of gaming. This absence either tells us that Netflix’s gaming ambitions continue to be an afterthought, or that Netflix is deliberately not reporting engagement hours for its games portfolio because the numbers are too embarrassing to publish publicly. Perhaps Netflix’s clearest signal of ambition came from…