S&box plans to go free-to-play and embrace human curation saying "Netflix for games doesn't work"

By Vikki Blake · GamesIndustry.biz · Wednesday, 14 October 2026 at 17:58 (32m ago) · Original article ↗

Facepunch Studios plans to make its s&box platform free-to-play toward the end of the year as it shifts from offering as many games as possible to promoting the best and most popular ones.

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