UPDATE 11/14: You can now play five new party games on your TV with a Netflix subscription. It include titles based on Boggle, Lego, Pictionary, and Tetris, as well as a new game called Party Crashers: Fool Your Friends. Everyone in the room can connect their phone to the TV to play together.
Netflix also announced another party game coming soon based on the Knives Out movies. It’s a murder-mystery social party game where Benoit Blanc asks you to help solve a crime.
Other mobile games coming to your Netflix subscription include Barbie Color Creations, Lego Duplo World, Paw Patrol Academy, Red Dead Redemption, and WWE 2K25. The brand is also launching a new puzzle game for crosswords, sudoku, and word searches, plus a weekday quiz called Best Guess Live where you can win real money.
Original story: Netflix’s move into gaming has been an odd pivot for the brand, but its latest move—bringing party games to your TV that you can play with family and friends using your phones as the controllers—makes a lot of sense.
You pick a title on your TV, and everyone in the room who wants to play can connect using a QR code. The party games are launching with five titles, four of which are from recognized brands.
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It includes Lego Party, which launched last month on PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox for $40. It includes 60 mini-games that can be played with up to four players. There’s also a super-fast word game called Boggle Party, where up to eight players are working to find the longest word on a jumbled-up grid.
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If you like Drawful in the Jackbox games series, you’ll probably like Pictionary: Game Night, based on the popular drawing game. Other players will be quickly guessing what you’re drawing as you do it on your phone’s screen, and you’ll be racing against the clock.
The last title from a known franchise is Tetris Time Wrap. Netflix’s description says, “Time-travel with friends to different eras of Tetris, from the 1984 original to the classic Gameboy version. Can you warp your way to a top score?” This game first appeared in the Tetris Forever game compilation released last year, but it’s the first time you can access it individually.
There’s also an original game called Party Crashers: Fool Your Friends, which sounds like it may be a lying game like Among Us or the board game Sounds Fishy. “One person at this party secretly has no idea what everyone else is talking about. Figure out whose clues are fishy to unmask the crasher,” Netflix says.
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We don’t have a launch date; Netflix says they’ll arrive “this holiday season.” These games will be a free add-on, but Netflix didn’t say if they’re coming to all subscription tiers.
We’d expect Netflix’s currently compatible TV devices to support all the games. That list includes streaming devices from Amazon, Chromecast, Roku, Nvidia, Xfinity, and Xumo, as well as smart TVs from LG, Samsung, Sony, TCL, Vizio, and Xumo.
Last week, Amazon announced a similar push with its Prime subscription. It will add 25 easy-to-play titles to its Luna service under the “GameNight” moniker, which includes games based on Angry Birds, Clue, Exploding Kittens, Ticket to Ride, and Snoop Dogg.
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