Amazon on Thursday unveiled its revamped game-streaming service, Amazon Luna, which now includes recent beginner-friendly multiplayer games that may be controlled along with your phone. Amazon Luna is out there at no extra cost for Prime members.
The largest change to the service is the addition of GameNight, a set of greater than 25 local multiplayer games that Amazon says are “designed to bring family and friends together within the lounge.”
GameNight will feature exclusive titles developed by Amazon Game Studios, starting with “Courtroom Chaos: Starring Snoop Dogg,” an AI voice-driven improv courtroom game where players invent absurd characters, spin wild stories, and take a look at to defend their testimonies in front of Judge Snoop Dogg.
Other titles in GameNight include “Indignant Birds Flock Party,” “Draw & Guess,” “The Jackbox Party Pack 9,” “Ticket to Ride,” “Exploding Kittens 2,” “Clue,” “Tetris Effect: Connected,” and more.
By adding a library of multiplayer games that users can play with their phones, Amazon likely hopes that Prime members will turn to Luna for his or her next hangout or game night.
“GameNight takes even further the concept of easy accessibility that’s core to the brand new Luna, delivering a set of incredibly fun and approachable games that absolutely shine when played along with family and friends,” says Jeff Gattis, general manager of Amazon Luna, in a press release. “Anyone with a smartphone can dive right in and have a blast, no matter their gaming abilities.”
Luna also includes access to recent titles like “Hogwarts Legacy,” “Indiana Jones and the Great Circle,” “Kingdom Come: Deliverance II,” “TopSpin 2K25,” and more blockbusters, popular classics, and indie games. As before the revamp, these games (and all games outside of the GameNight library) require a controller or mouse and keyboard to play.
Players who want access to a bigger library of games can subscribe to Luna Premium, previously called Luna+, for $9.99 a month. Premium includes access to titles like “EA SPORTS FC 25,” “Star Wars Jedi: Survivor,” and “Batman: Arkham Knight.”