Amazon has today revamped its gaming service Luna with 30 wild party games, and as I found during a recent pre-release hands-on, some of them are like nothing you’ve seen before.

They’re all part of GameNight, Amazon’s push to capture the casual market with more approachable local multiplayer games. If you’ve got Prime, you’ve already got Luna – it’s out now. Just launch it on your Fire TV, smart TV, or tablet, and use your phone as the controller by scanning the QR code that appears on-screen.

The best game is also one of the weirdest I’ve ever played. It’s called “Courtroom Chaos With Snoop Dogg”, an AI-powered improv title in which you try to convince Judge Snoop Dogg to rule in your favour.

You speak into your phone, and after a few seconds of deliberation, Snoop Dogg responds. For instance, in my four-person session, he creates a scenario in which I’m a games designer suing a co-worker for introducing an unlicensed feature. Other members of the group take on the role of witnesses, who can add their own takes to the increasingly absurd case.

It’s an unconventional premise, but it results in frequently hilarious moments – like when I try and bribe Snoop Dogg and he shuts it down instantly. I never thought I’d say this, but I actually had more fun playing “Courtroom Chaos With Snoop Dogg” than “Mario Kart World”. OK, it’s not got the depth or longevity, but for a 20-minute burst it’s hard to beat.

“It’s not AI used to build games, because like we’re not trying to do that,” J.C. Connors, Amazon Game Studios GM, tells Newsweek. “We’re not trying to make games more efficient, but using AI to create a new experience.”

And, it’s important to note, “Courtroom Chaos With Snoop Dogg” comes with the rap legend’s blessing. “We randomly ran into one of Snoop’s friends at a party,” J.C. says. “We said, ‘You think Snoop wants to be a judge?’ And he’s like, ‘I have no idea.’ So he called up Snoop, and the next day Snoop called us up, and he goes, ‘It’s been my life’s dream to be a judge.’”

GameNight launched today, October 23, with 30 multiplayer games, and is set to drop a few more each month. The list includes both Luna originals and previously released titles.

• Angry Birds Flock Party
• Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?
• Big Helmet Heroes
• Bonkies
• Bullship
• Cluedo
• Courtroom Chaos: Starring Snoop Dogg
• Draw & Guess
• Dunk Dunk
• Exploding Kittens 2
• Fakin’ It All Night Long
• Fibbage XL
• Flappy Golf Party
• Garfield Kart 2 – All You Can Drift
• Inversus Deluxe
• Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
• One Hand Clapping
• Quiplash 2: InterLASHional
• Scattergories
• Snow Bros. Wonderland
• Spacelines from the Far Out
• Stunt Kite Party
• Taboo
• Tetris Effect: Connected
• The Jackbox Party Pack 9
• Ticket to Ride
• Tumblestone
• Ultimate Chicken Horse
• Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

As part of the Luna package, there are also 33 bigger budget games like “Hogwarts Legacy”, “Indiana Jones and the Great Circle”, “Kingdom Come: Deliverance II”, and “TopSpin 2K25”. Here is the full list.

• A Game About Digging a Hole
• Alien: Isolation
• Borderlands 3
• Dave the Diver
• Dead Island 2
• Dead Space (limited access available between 10/30–11/2)
• Devil May Cry 5
• Dishonored 2
• Disney Cars
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
• The Evil Within 2
• Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition
• Fallout New Vegas: Ultimate Edition
• Farming Simulator 22
• Fortnite
• Garfield Kart: Furious Racing
• Hogwarts Legacy
• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
• Lawn Mowing Simulator
• LEGO® STAR WARS III: The Clone Wars
• Middle-earth: Shadow of War
• MotoGP 25
• PERISH
• Resident Evil 2
• SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated
• Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege X
• Tomb Raider: Game of the Year Edition
• TopSpin 2K25
• Trackmania
• Wobbledogs
• Worms Crazy Golf

For Jeff Gattis, GM at Amazon Luna, triple-A games like the ones above are not Luna’s focus. “It’s probably the hardest group to win over,” Jeff says of the traditional gaming audience, “especially when you couple that with the kinds of games that they’re playing. Typically first-person shooters, a lot of multiplayer, online competitive stuff where latency matters. Like literally milliseconds matter.”

It’s not about replacing the PC or console experience, but complementing it with GameNight’s suite of uber-friendly party games anyone can play, all of them requiring zero additional hardware. That’s how Amazon Luna is aiming to succeed where other cloud gaming services failed.

Best of all, if you’re one of the 200 million Prime members, all this is essentially free.

Amazon Luna is available in the US, UK, Canada, Germany, France,
Italy, Spain, Austria, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Portugal, Belgium, and Luxembourg.