Netflix is making good on its plan to convey co-op occasion video games to your tv. The corporate simply outlined a quintet of multiplayer video games that can be accessible to subscribers a while this vacation season. In response to Netflix, to play you have to select a recreation from a brand new tab after which join your telephone to make use of it as a controller. The corporate claims the method is “as straightforward as streaming a present on a Friday night time.”
The preliminary lineup of video games seems pretty sturdy, and contains the just lately launched Lego Occasion; a title known as Occasion Crashers: Idiot Your Buddies that sounds a bit like Amongst Us; and takes on Boggle and Pictionary. Rounding out the record is Tetris Time Warp, which seems to be the identical minigame that got here in Digital Eclipse’s glorious Tetris Perpetually assortment from final yr.
Whereas Netflix has been dabbling in video games for years, it has primarily been within the realm of cell gaming. It was solely in the beginning of 2025 that firm made it clear that these sorts of cloud-based occasion video games had been a precedence.
On the Recreation Builders Convention in March, Netflix’s gaming CEO Alain Tascan listed multiplayer video games as one of many 4 pillars of the corporate’s present gaming technique, which additionally contains narrative titles, kid-friendly video games, and mainstream experiences like Squid Recreation: Unleashed. “We’re beginning with these,” Tascan advised The Verge on the time. “Down the street we would add extra if it is sensible, however I believe beginning first from these 4 is already rather a lot.”
There’s no particular launch date for the preliminary wave of multiplayer TV video games, however Netflix says they’re “coming quickly.”
