Netflix's New Era of TV Games Starts Now (theverge.com)
(Thursday November 13, 2025 @10:30PM (BeauHD)
from the reinventing-family-game-night dept.)
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- News link: https://games.slashdot.org/story/25/11/13/2333224/netflixs-new-era-of-tv-games-starts-now
- Source link: https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/820289/netflix-casual-party-game-multiplayer-tetris-pictionary
Netflix is [1]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.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/820289/netflix-casual-party-game-multiplayer-tetris-pictionary
> 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.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/820289/netflix-casual-party-game-multiplayer-tetris-pictionary
This does sound like a good plan (Score:2)
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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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.