What is Netflix's Game Controller app? The app's name is very literal - it's a virtual game controller with a layout similar to physical game controllers.

The app, dubbed "Netflix Game Controller," lets you use your phone as a controller after pairing it with your TV in order to play the games available through Netflix's service.

With new Game Controller app, Netflix games move from mobile to the TV The streamer promises you'll be able to use it to play games on your TV soon.

The Netflix gaming service is coming to TVs, and before that launch, Netflix has provided users with a digital game controller app for iPhone.