Clubhouse has began testing an in-room gaming characteristic, the corporate has confirmed to TechCrunch, and its debut recreation might assist customers get to know one another higher. The characteristic’s launch title known as “Wild Cards” presents customers a sequence of icebreaker questions and challenges. It might ask you to “pitch an idea for a movie in 60 seconds,” as an illustration, or to “share five things from your search history.” To play, you will have to decide on the “Games” choice underneath +Rooms. It’ll open a social room for you the place you possibly can invite mates to play. 

As TechCrunch notes, launching a characteristic not provided by different audio companies akin to Twitter Spaces could possibly be a part of Clubhouse’s efforts to get new customers to remain. The audio chat app shot up in recognition within the early days of the pandemic when full lockdowns had been applied and other people had been seeking to join with mates and strangers in new methods. Its success led to the event and launch of different audio merchandise by extra well-known corporations, together with Facebook’s audio rooms, Spotify’s Greenroom (that is been rebranded as Spotify Live) and Amazon’s Amp. 

Clubhouse’s recognition and download numbers took successful when these rival companies emerged, particularly after pandemic restrictions began lifting. Lots of customers selected to maneuver to extra established social networks providing related audio companies, as a result of they have already got an present community on these platforms. Still, Clubhouse informed The New York Times again in December that it is nonetheless rising and that the corporate is assured it isn’t only a pandemic fad. Over the previous few months, the service has launched a handful of latest and experimental options in an effort to get customers to remain. One of them is the chat operate in voice rooms for individuals who’d fairly textual content, and the opposite is assist for net listening within the US.