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We’ve relied on Netflix to occupy our time with movies and TV shows, but now it’s a go-to for games too.
When the party is dying down or you need something to do with your family on a Thursday evening, you can turn to Netflix Party Games to get the fun rolling. While board games are always a good idea, sometimes you need something a little less intense and no setup.
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Below, we’re explaining how to access the party games, what games are available and what you need to play.
What games are available to play on Netflix?
LEGO Party!, Boggle Party, Party Crashers: Fool Your Friends, Pictionary: Game Night, Tetris Time Warp, Overcooked! All You Can Eat and the Jackbox Party Essentials collection. Netflix has released descriptions of each, which we're including here.
Boggle Party
1–8 players
“The classic word search game has some new tricks in Boggle Party. Up to eight players use their phones or tablets to find words amongst a grid of random letters, swiping to mark each word. Your TV serves as a scoreboard, showing the found words and tallying up everyone’s scores. Whoever finds the words, or words with the most letters, wins. You can also play solo while you’re waiting for the rest of the party to arrive.”
LEGO Party!
1–4 players
“LEGO Party! is a collection of mini-games that might just test the limits of your friendships. As in the Mario Party games, you navigate your way around a game board and try to rack up as many golden bricks as possible. You can do this in many ways—by playing short-order cook, matching minifig heads and sword throwing. Battle up to four friends to see who can collect the most donuts from a dragon’s lair, and then see how far you can slide across an icy pond. And that’s just the beginning—there are 60 mini-games in all. With Minigame Rush, you can create custom playlists from the bevy of activities available. As you play LEGO Party!, you’ll earn experience points that unlock new ways to tweak your minifig’s appearance. You can also mix and match pieces from iconic LEGO sets like LEGO Pirates, LEGO Space, and LEGO NINJAGO.”
Pictionary: Game Night
2–10 players
“Everyone thinks they’re an artist until it’s time to show off their skills in public. You’ll race against the clock in Pictionary: Game Night to decipher the doodles of your friends and family. Pictionary: Game Night puts one wannabe Picasso in the spotlight while everyone else has to guess. The artist in question sketches their masterpiece on their phone, and it’s displayed on the big screen in real time. Should someone guess correctly, both they and the artist get points — the faster the correct guess, the more points. Then it’s the next artist’s turn. Whoever has the most points after three rounds wins.”
Tetris Time Warp
1–4 players
“It’s the Tetris everyone knows and loves, with a twist: Every time you clear lines of tetrominoes—which look a little, shall we say, retro—you’re warped back to historic versions of Tetris as a special bonus round. Each time warp has its own rules. For example, some versions don’t have 'hard drop,' while others may limit tetromino rotation. Clear the challenge, and you’ll rack up bonus points and head back to the modern era.”
Party Crashers: Fool Your Friends
3–6 players
“Inviting yourself to a party is a bad look. You might be able to play it off if you’re subtle enough, but there are bound to be at least a few people who know you’re there of your own accord. That’s the premise of Party Crashers: Fool Your Friends, a bonkers game of bluffing, fibbing, and hidden information. The goal? Figuring out who the party crasher is. All but one player will know the secret word for any given round. The invitees give each other hints to describe the secret word, and they make sense to everyone except the person who doesn’t know the word. Players type the hints on their phones, while the big screen is the main display with everyone’s scores. After hints are submitted, it’s time to vote. Did someone’s hint seem just a little too vague? Smash that Sus button on the big screen. Then the group deliberates and votes on the identity of the party-crasher. If someone’s hint gets voted 100% sus, it’s time for that person to explain themselves. Games last between two and five rounds.”
Overcooked! All You Can Eat
“The Onion Kingdom is under attack from a towering spaghetti monstrosity known as the Ever Peckish. To save your home from this malevolent mass of carbs, you must travel back in time to hone your culinary skills. You’ll battle through more than 200 chaotic levels spanning two full campaigns and all their expansions. Prepare frantic meals in wildly impractical kitchens located on pirate ships, haunted houses, and even shifting ice floes. When a magical cookbook unleashes a horde of terrifying Unbread, the stakes get even higher. Master the madness alongside an exclusive roster of Stranger Things characters to conquer the lunch rush.”
The Jackbox Party Essentials
2–8 players
“Turn your living room into a comedy writer’s room with The Jackbox Party Essentials, a curated trio of the franchise’s most iconic hits: Drawful 2, Fibbage 4, and Quiplash 3. This collection is designed for maximum mayhem with zero friction; players simply scan a QR code on the TV to turn their smartphones into controllers. Whether you’re sketching ridiculous prompts without an eraser in Drawful, crafting convincing lies to outsmart your friends in Fibbage, or facing off in a head-to-head battle of wits in Quiplash, the goal is always the same: make the room laugh. With support for up to eight players, it’s the perfect way to turn a quiet night in into a raucous session of absurd prompts and legendary inside jokes.”
How do you find the Netflix Party Games?
To play on your smart TV, find the “games” row on Netflix, hit the “play game” button, then pair your mobile device as a controller by scanning the game's QR code.
To play your phone, you can find a full list of all the mobile games Netflix offers right here.
What do you need to play the Netflix Party Games?
Just a Netflix subscription, a TV or web browser, and your phone.