The new release is called "Triviaverse" and it will be a full-featured interactive game that will allow subscribers of the network to test themselves and compete against an all-knowing "Trivia master" using the TV remote. The game features a test where answers have to be given as quickly as possible before time runs out and to beat high scores for badges.

"Triviaverse," a trivia game show, premiered on streaming platforms worldwide today and is available in nine languages: English, Spanish (LatAm), Spanish (Spain), Portuguese (Brazil), French, German, Italian, Korean, and Japanese.

The game itself is pretty straightforward. Contestants must get as many questions right as they can in a set amount of time using the arrow keys on their remote. Questions will range from history to science and pop culture. They get progressively tougher as you get further into the rounds.

When players reach certain milestones, they earn badges, starting from "Bird Brain," then "Preschool Graduate," "Lucky Guesser," "Shockingly Average," "Mere Mortal," "PhD Dropout," "Super Nerd," "Potential Genius," "Certified Genius" and "Triviaverse God" — the most epic-sounding title for which players can strive.

There are two ways one can play in "Triviaverse" - one player mode which will feature three trivia rounds; or two-player mode which is split into two trivia rounds per player.

"Whether it's challenging a personal best to beat 4,000 points or dueling your friends to reach 10,000 points, we hope you learn something new and have fun!" Netflix Director of Product Management Rick Sanchez wrote in the announcement posted on the company's blog.

While Netflix has experimented with interactive storytelling before, not all of those past efforts have been designed to be played like a game. In 2017, the company began publishing interactive stories for subscribers to enjoy, like "Cat Burglar" and "Black Mirror: Bandersnatch," among others. It also had a "Triviaverse" precursor in the form of its interactive game "Trivia Quest," which had a different format consisting of episodes, one per day through April 2022. But the new game is much more stripped down in format, as if Netflix wants to test whether or not subscribers would be interested in just using its service as a game-playing platform instead of for interactive features that also tell stories.

The new trivia game comes a year after the company started investing in gaming, something Netflix said would eventually go beyond mobile games.

For example, following the promising Q3 earnings results from Netflix, VP of Gaming Mike Verdu disclosed at TechCrunch Disrupt that the company is exploring the cloud gaming area and opened a new gaming studio in Southern California. The company recently purchased the gaming studio Spry Fox as well, which joined the five in-house games studios at Netflix.