Netflix's New Era of TV Games Starts Now

Netflix is launching a new slate of TV-streamed party games that are all playable using your phone as the controller. The Verge reports: To start, Netflix is offering Boggle Party, Party Crasher: Fool Your Friends, Lego Party, Pictionary: Game Night, and Tetris Time Warp. A social deduction game based on the Knives Out series, Dead Man's Party: A Knives Out Game, is also part of this new slate but will launch at a later time. The streaming platform's approach to gaming has been unfocused, with the company bouncing between being a boutique development studio while also being a platform for premium and exclusive mobile gaming experiences. Offering party games on your TV seems like a better fit -- one that could allow Netflix to finally find its gaming footing.

This does sound like a good plan

[drinkypoo]

Anybody else ever play You Don't Know Jack with three other people? I think that was the first really clean and comprehensible party quiz game, and a YDKJ title seems like it would be a good fit here.

Pretty much any cellphone can now do a decent imitation of a Wiimote (besides the sensors, you could also use camera data) and it would also be hilarious to see people accidentally chuck their phones across the room while bowling.

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[hyades1]

I love this idea! I've got friends and relatives of all ages who love board games, quizzes, murder mysteries and stuff like that. I can see these games, especially the Knives Out one, providing some really fun get-togethers.

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[nsbfikwjuunkifjqhm]

It seems so obvious, I can't believe it took them this long to get it.
So far it's been a weird mix of decent licensed games that don't belong on mobile (everything from Spiritfarer to GTA), plus a bunch of generic match 3/idle games that were clearly designed with microtransactions and ads in mind and just feel weird without them (though I'd still take that over actually having mtx and ads).

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[nuckfuts]

I still have a couple of versions of You Don't Know Jack on CD. I haven't played it in years, but it was a real hit when I set it up at parties.

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[drinkypoo]

Same. I've never seen anyone get pissed off at it, which differentiates it from most other examples :)

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[drinkypoo]

first post modded redundant

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Pictionary soundtrack

[tepples]

If Pictionary doesn't call back to Tim Follin's soundtrack for the 1990 NES game [youtube.com], then it's Pictionary in name only.

More crappy games....like they have already

[bsdetector101]

Found no games on Netflix that's appealing, same as Apple games. Gimme some AAA games !

It's super hard to care

[larwe]

The enshittification of, well, practically everything has reached a point where I treat the announcement of "new games from ${BEHEMOTH}" as simply an announcement that a new spew of "engagement driving" advertisement applets is forcing its way onto my screen under the guise of "you may like...". I completely ignore Netflix games - it's not what I subscribe for. I put this roughly on the same level as the autoplay previews that now bombard you on Netflix (yes I know that's been the case for a while, but as a