Netflix Star: Daily Trivia is now integrated directly into the Netflix Home page in the US, making the cloud game much easier to find. You can play it on TV with a regular remote instead of connecting a phone or tablet as a controller.
That’s a notable change from the usual setup for Netflix cloud games on TV. Many of them require you to scan a QR code and connect a phone or tablet to use as the controller. With Netflix Star: Daily Trivia, the controls are handled by the TV remote instead.
How Netflix Star: Daily Trivia Works
Netflix Star: Daily Trivia is a single-player trivia game developed by Next Games and Tech Lab Games. Each session starts with a warm-up question based on what you watch on Netflix before moving into general knowledge.
Questions cover subjects including movies, music, sports, food, and history. New questions arrive every day, and you can keep track of your streak, high scores, and previous performances.
You get one session per Netflix profile each day. The game resets at midnight local time with a new set of questions. So the idea is built around coming back regularly rather than sitting down for a long trivia session.
You can also play through Netflix on a computer browser using a keyboard and mouse. There’s no offline mode, which fits with Netflix’s game-streaming setup on TVs and computers rather than its separate catalog of downloadable mobile games.
A Different Way to Control Netflix Cloud Games
The TV remote support is what makes Netflix Star: Daily Trivia particularly interesting from a cloud gaming perspective.
Netflix has generally used phones and tablets as controllers for games running on TVs. That’s how games such as Netflix Minigolf work, with each person connecting a mobile device before playing. Netflix was still using that phone-as-controller approach for its TV games earlier this year, including FIFA World Cup: Launch Edition.
Netflix Star: Daily Trivia removes that extra step. You can open the game through Netflix and start answering questions using the remote that’s already in your hand. For a simple trivia game, that makes a lot of sense and gives Netflix another way to make its cloud games feel more like a built-in part of the TV experience.
The game itself first surfaced on Netflix in August. At the time, it was difficult to find through Netflix’s normal Games rows and was accessible through a direct game page. It already supported TV-remote controls then. The game is now integrated directly into the Netflix Home page in the US, making it considerably easier to discover.
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