Viewers play as a cat stealing a priceless painting from a museum and outwitting a guard dog. There are so many different combinations of scenes that can play out. The trivia-based game Cat Burglar is actually really fun. There isn’t much wiggle room beyond whether you get answers right or wrong. It’s more interactive than Headspace: Unwind Your Mind, but it’s still designed to be a trivia game first and foremost. The game gives the trivia questions a minimal storyline, as you need to answer correctly in order to free the little characters who have been captured by an evil sword. It’s based on a popular app called Trivia Crack, and it’s basically a daily trivia game. Similarly, Netflix files Trivia Quest under the interactive tag, but it isn’t an interactive story like the entries below. Useful for what it’s meant for, but not so much for a story experience. You can customize from there, but it’s just a glorified menu. The only interactive part of this is picking which Headspace program you want: meditation, relaxation, or sleep. This shouldn’t even really count as an interactive experience, but Netflix has labeled it as an Interactive, so we’re mentioning it. Honorable mention: Headspace: Unwind Your Mind This ranked list considers how much fun each Netflix interactive special is, what kind of stories they’re telling, and whether your choices actually have any effect on the overall story. The service’s latest interactive special, Choose Love, finally dives into the seeking-romance genre that’s been such a hit for Netflix reality shows like Love Is Blind and The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On. Still, Netflix continues to drop the occasional interactive story, and we’re continuing to rank each one based on how interactive it actually is. These Choose Your Own Adventure-style stories were some of Netflix’s more distinctive offerings for a short while, but fewer of them are being produced now as Netflix’s focus shifts toward more fully realized games, like the mini masterpiece Laya’s Horizon. Wild marked a new phase for Netflix’s interactive shows, which started off with relatively simple interactive experiments for kids in 2017, designed to test the waters for actual Netflix games down the road. 2018’s Black Mirror: Bandersnatch and 2019’s You vs.
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