Netflix's Bandersnatch;is it a game?

[zehcoutinho]

I´ll watch it and get back to you

[fenrif]

On Friday 28th of December Netflix released Bandersnatch,a feature length Black Mirror episode.It's a choose your own adventure experience with the viewer(player) tasked to make key decisions that drastically affect outcome though out the movie. Does this qualify as a game? or an interactive movie?

It depends how drastically it alters the ending. Most video games that make the claim to drastically altered narratives don't even attempt to pull it off, unless you think red, blue and green are drastically different in terms of plot.

Interactive movies aren't games because it's just a movie you watch and then push a button once in a while to chose a different scene, or swap out an actor. If your choices actually have meaningful impact, and they are based on logic, then I'd say that's a game. If you're just randomly pressing buttons to get a win or a lose then it's more gambling than a game. But if you have to work out clues and deduce the correct choice based on whats going on in the film then i could see some good gameplay there.