Everyone in the room can play the games with their phone as the controller. Amazon announced a similar feature for Prime Video last week.
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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.
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.
