by from netflix triviaverse is a new “quick trivia experience” that will start rolling out to the streaming service on Tuesday. The games are quick, usually under five minutes, and you can play solo or head-to-head with another person. I have to check it out before Tuesday’s announcement, and I think a lot of people will load it up for fierce trivia competitions with their loved ones over the holidays.
Is that how it works. Guided by your host, a mysterious pair of eerie glowing eyes, you will choose whether to play alone or against another person. Each round features a series of increasingly difficult trivia questions, and you’ll have one minute to correctly answer as many as you can. You’ll be tasked with solving trivia in a bunch of different categories, including animals, geography, science and technology, world history, sports, food, music, movies and TV, art, literature, and “miscellaneous,” according to a list. of topics provided by Netflix spokesperson MoMo Zhou.
The rules differ if you play with one or two people.
Responses are presented alongside a virtual D-pad, and you choose the one you want by pressing that direction on your controller or keyboard, clicking on it with your mouse, or, if you’re on a touchscreen device, tapping the response directly. . The more trivia questions you answer correctly, the more points you’ll get, and if you get a streak of correct answers, you’ll earn more and more points.
The rules are slightly different if you play with one or two players. On its own, it will take three one-minute rounds. With another person, each do two one-minute rounds, one at a time. If you’re playing on a TV, this means your opponent can see you trying to guess correctly, which added to the stress and competition when I played a round with my wife.
At the end, the game will count your score. In single player, you’ll earn a title based on your performance against a series of “challenges,” which are increasing amounts of points. (Of course, I’m a fan of the “Surprisingly Average” title, which features a yawning face emoji.) In two player, you don’t get the title, you just have bragging rights. Although if tied, there is no tiebreaker; the game simply encourages you to play again.
It’s Netflix’s next step in gaming.
triviaverse games have minimal setup (you can even skip the intro!) and choosing answers is quick, making it ideal for a round or two of trivia on your own or big trivia battles with your friends and family. But like other interactive Netflix titles, triviaverse it won’t work on a handful of devices (including Apple TV), so if you want to try it out, make sure you have something that can actually play it.
triviaverse marks the last interactive title on Netflix (remember Bandersnatch?), but it’s also the service’s next chance at trivia after trivia quest, a 30-episode daily trivia series that premiered in April. It also represents the next step in Netflix’s growing gaming ambitions, which include a growing catalog of mobile titles and explorations into cloud gaming. I think the fast nature of triviaverse could make it a hit, and depending on how successful it is, we may see similar light games on Netflix in the future.
