Netflix unveiled several big announcements from its video game division Thursday, just as the streamer has launched a suite of new party games to be played on TVs via your phone as a controller. These “game night” offerings mark Netflix’s first big push into TV games, as the service had only been experimenting with rolling out a few titles here and there across markets.
Among the reveals were an upcoming “Knives Out” mystery party game for the TV, as well as multiple new games coming to mobile, including Rockstar’s “Red Dead Redemption” and “Best Guess Live,” a new guess show-style game hosted by Howie Mandel.
As of Thursday, available party games for TV through the Netflix app include “LEGO Party!,” “Boggle Party,” “Party Crashers,” “Pictionary: Game Night” and “Tetris Time Warp.”
“Coming soon” will be “Dead Man’s Party: A Knives Out Game,” a party game tied to Rian Johnson’s upcoming third “Knives Out” film, “Wake Up Dead Man,” which set to release Dec. 12 on Netflix.
The games launch on the heels of Netflix’s streaming rival, Amazon, releasing a similar lineup of “game night” titles on its cloud gaming service Luna.
“Starting today, you can play games on your TV, using your phone as a controller — no setup needed, it’s as easy as streaming your favorite shows,” Netflix president of games Alain Tascan said during a press event revealing the news Wednesday night in Los Angeles. “You can now go from watching ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ to playing ‘Pictionary: Game Night’ without ever leaving Netflix. And for those who love to play anywhere and everywhere, we’re bringing even more games to your phone with our own special Netflix touch.”
See below for Netflix’s descriptions of its new and upcoming TV games and mobile games.
Boggle Party (Out Now)
The Boggle you know has some new tricks in Boggle Party. Up to eight players use their phones or tablets to find words among a grid of random letters, swiping and tapping over them as they’re found. Whoever finds the most unique words wins. You can play solo and work your way down the achievement list while you’re waiting for the rest of the party to arrive, too.
LEGO Party (Out Now)
LEGO Party’s collection of mini-games is here to cheerfully and competitively test your friendships. If you wanna win, make your way around the game board and rack up as many golden bricks as possible before the rest of the living room does. Play short-order cook, throw swords, pilfer donuts from a dragon’s lair, and more in this raucous party game.
Party Crashers: Fool Your Friends (Out Now)
Who showed up to the party uninvited? It’s up to you and your friends to find the culprit in this bonkers game of deduction and social tomfoolery. Party Crashers is for three to six players, and all but one will know the secret word for any given round. The invitees give each other hints to describe the secret word, hints that make sense to everyone who knows the secret word but will confuse the outsider. The goal? Outing the person pretending to know what everyone else is talking about.
Pictionary: Game Night (Out Now)
Everyone thinks they’re an artist until it’s time to show off their skills in public. Pictionary: Game Night will make you race against the clock to decipher your friends’ and family’s doodles. Speed is of the essence here. Decipher their scribbles as fast as you can if you wanna win this fast-paced party game, because the quicker you guess correctly, the more points you and the wannabe Picasso earn.
Tetris Time Warp (Out Now)
Tetris Time Warp is the beloved worldwide classic with a twist: Clearing lines of retro-styled Tetrominoes warps you into a bonus zone inspired by the game’s 40-year history — each with its own period-specific rules.
To get back to the present, you’ll have to finish mini challenges before time runs out. Each Time Warp has its own rules connected to the retro era you’re playing in. For example, some versions don’t have Hard Drop, while others may limit Tetromino rotation.
Dead Man’s Party: A Knives Out Game (Coming Soon)
World-famous detective Benoit Blanc is in the house to solve another murder. This time? It’s at your house and everyone’s a suspect in this social party game where you and your crew star in your own Knives Out mystery. It’s up to you to deduce what happened and convince everyone you’re not the killer. Or, if you are, you’ve got to keep Blanc off your tail and make sure you influence the vote so you don’t get outed.
Mobile Games
LEGO DUPLO World (Out Now)
Now your toddler can play with their DUPLO blocks anywhere. This open-ended digital world is a safe, creative place where exploration, storytelling, and learning rule the day.
Barbie Color Creations (Out Now)
This digital coloring book is perfect for aspiring artists and Barbie fans alike. Each scene has near limitless options for creativity and customization, with pens, markers, and a whole lotta glitter.
Toca Boca Hair Salon 4 (Out Now)
Trim, shave, highlight, and more in the latest hairstyling game from Toca Boca. Express yourself with straight irons, braiders, and color sprays; then hit the style station for a new outfit before jumping in the photo booth to show it all off.
PAW Patrol Academy (Coming Soon)
Your pre-schooler or kindergartner has a whole new way to explore Adventure Bay in PAW Patrol Academy. The educational mini-game collection focuses on things like spelling and vocabulary; shape, number, and letter recognition.
WWE 2K25: Netflix Edition (Coming Soon)
The most extreme, the most intense, the most dominant WWE mobile experience is available only from Netflix. In this console-quality wrestling sim, you’ll ascend the ranks through the WWE Universe as one of 40-some superstars including Roman Reigns, Trish Stratus, Undertaker, and Rhea Ripley. Pre-register now and prepare to make your way through tag matches, no-disqualification singles matches, and more as you fight your way to the top of the WWE Universe in your quest for glory. How you get there and how powerful your superstar will be by then is up to you. (Pre-register now for WWE 2K25.)
Netflix Puzzled (Coming Soon)
Get ready for a plethora of daily puzzles featuring Netflix favorites such as Stranger Things, Squid Game, KPop Demon Hunters, Bridgerton, and Emily in Paris. You’ll find classics like sudoku, fresh takes on old favorites like crosswords and word searches, and more. Play on Android and iOS, and —for the first time — play on Tudum.
Red Dead Redemption (Coming Soon)
What Grand Theft Auto III did for mafia stories, Red Dead Redemption did for Westerns. And for the first time, you can play it on mobile. It comes complete with the zombie-infused Undead Nightmare story expansion. You play as John Marston, a gunslinger caught between a rock and a hard place. His family’s been kidnapped by the Pinkertons, and to get them back he has to hunt down the remaining members of his old gang. It’s high time for a trip back to the Dead West. (Click here to pre-register.)
Best Guess Live (Coming Soon — available only in the US)
Best Guess Live, created by Jeff Apploff, is a weekday mobile game show that fits in your pocket. You compete in real time against other real players for your share of thousands of dollars in real money. Hosted by Hunter March and Howie Mandel, the game gives you five clues, which last 20 seconds each — but you’ll only get one chance to answer. If your answer is wrong, you’re out for the rest of that puzzle, but answer correctly on the earliest clue and you share the winnings! No pressure. Can you figure out the secret item each weekday?
