A new run of Stranger Things hit Netflix today, but I’m not allowed to watch it until the missus is free to binge on it too. She didn’t say anything about not playing Stranger Things 3: The Game, though. Out today and developed by BonusXP (the folks working on Dark Crystal Tactics), it’s a very Super Nintendo-styled action RPG with split-screen local co-op. Perhaps not quite the same ’80s nostalgia as the show, but it doesn’t look half bad, and the developers claim it covers most of the third series’s story. Below, a launch trailer, although I can’t say how much of it is spoilers.

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