Play Netflix’s New Party Games on Your TV (with Your iPhone)
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Netflix is turning your smartphone into a game controller for its new multiplayer party games. “We’re creating a completely new way to play games, Netflix recently announced, “one that’s as easy as streaming a show on a Friday night. All you’ll need is Netflix and your phone…”
Five new titles are coming to the service soon at no extra cost. Your iPhone or Android phone becomes the controller, allowing you to compete with others in the room or play solo. Here’s what’s on the way.
- LEGO® Party! – Square off against your friends in the ultimate LEGO party game. Compete in hilarious minigames and hunt for gold through themed Challenge Zones.
- Boggle Party – Race against the clock to find words (the longer, the better) in a jumbled-up letter grid. Play solo or make it a party with up to eight players.
- Pictionary: Game Night – Draw ’til you drop — or one of your friends guesses what you’re sketching — in this hilarious and fast-paced spin on Mattel’s classic group game.
- Tetris Time Warp – 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?
- Party Crashers: Fool Your Friends – 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.
Games aren’t new to Netflix. Available under the “Mobile Games” tab of the Netflix homepage, current games include Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Farming Simulator 23, Pinball, and Street Fighter IV CE. However, these new additions will be Netflix’s first social party games — and among the first titles to run on TVs using smartphones as controllers (though device support, including Apple TV, hasn’t yet been confirmed).
Netflix co-CEO Gregory K. Peters revealed the company’s plans for cooperative gaming earlier this year, telling investors, “We think of this as a successor to family board game night or an evolution of what the game show on TV used to be…we’re excited about delivering some cool experiences in that space.”
Sounds like most of us have a new Netflix experience to try out over the holidays this year with family and friends! If you’re already playing games on Netflix, keep an eye out for the release of these new titles. If you haven’t played any games on Netflix yet, check it out to get ready to compete when these new multiplayer games launch. It might just reimagine the family game night for the streaming age.
