After playing the Psych! Outwit your friends and knowing Cards against Humanity, I was wondering what other easy-to-start games to play with friends and family are out there.
I try to update and review the games as I can, my aim is to have a handful of games that are usable by remote family and friends of any age, which is easier said than done. Ideally these would be browser-based games so that they work on any device.
Any contributions are welcome.
- Type/Name/Description, Link, Rating, ➕PROs, ➖CONs,
- Cards against..., https://allbad.cards/ (github), ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, ➕Party-ready, very simple, ➖very crude
- Many Decks - Cards against..., https://md.rereadgames.com, ⭐⭐⭐,➕ Good game flow
- Guess the drawing, https://skribbl.io/, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, ➕very easy to start, Party-ready
- Categories, https://scattergoriesonline.net/, ⭐⭐⭐⭐, ➕easy enough,Party-ready, ➖Extended english vocabulary required!
- Truth or Dare, https://psycatgames.com/app/truth-or-dare/, ⭐⭐⭐⭐, ➕Easy interface
- Pictionary Word generator, https://randomwordgenerator.com/pictionary.php, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, ➕Party-ready, ➖just a word generator
- Truth or Drink, https://truthordrink.app/, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, ➕Lots of categories
- Never Have I Ever, https://psycatgames.com/app/never-have-i-ever/, ⭐⭐⭐, ➕It's a drinking game, ➖Just a question generator
- Would You Rather..., https://wouldyou.app/, ⭐⭐⭐, ➕Party ready
- Garthic Phone, Garthic Phone, ⭐⭐⭐⭐, ➕ Drawing things with/against your friends based on things you/they write;
- Anagrams battle, Anagram Thief!, ⭐⭐⭐⭐, ➕ Easy to use, Puts your english vocabulary to the test;
- Poker, https://www.pokernow.club, ⭐⭐⭐⭐, ➕ very simple, no need to register
- Drawize, https://www.drawize.com/, TODO
- Codenames, https://codenames.game/, TODO
- Horsepaste, https://horsepaste.com/, TODO
- Tetris, https://jstris.jezevec10.com/, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, ➕ no need to create accounts
- Azala's Picture Cards, Cards against..., https://azala.info, TODO
- Trivia Generator, https://www.randomtriviagenerator.com/, , ⭐⭐⭐, ➖not able to share questions
- Quizzes, https://social.quizwitz.com, ⭐⭐⭐, ➕ only organizer needs account, ➖ quizzes done by people,
- Jigsaw Puzzles, https://jigsawpuzzles.io/ , ⭐⭐⭐⭐, ➕super cool if you're into puzzles
- Pictionary, https://skribbl.io/, TODO
- Charades generator, http://www.getcharadesideas.com/, MEH!
- Settlers of Catan, http://www.catanuniverse.com/en, TODO
- Settlers of Catan clone, https://colonist.io/, TODO
- Geography, https://posio.abrenaut.com/ (github.com), TODO
- Internet Scrabble Club, https://www.isc.ro/, TODO
- Psych-alike, https://github.com/MuditJ/Trivia-Game, MEH...
- Free Civilization Web, https://github.com/freeciv/freeciv-web, TODO
- First-person voxel team shooter , http://warbrokers.io/signin.php , TODO
- Dungeon battles, http://iogames.space/treasurearena-com , TODO
- Hack'n Slash , https://wilds.io/#, TODO
- Iso shooter, https://squadd.io/ , TODO
- MMO Strategy , https://www.tribalwars.co.uk/, TODO
- Cells Multiplayer , https://agar.io/, TODO
- Snake but AWESOME, https://powerline.io/ , ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ , ➕competitive
- physics-based 1-1 push-soccer, https://www.pongis.com/, TODO
- physics-based Teams push-Soccer, https://nitroclash.io/, TODO
- physics-based Teams push-soccer, www.haxball.com, TODO
- Teams grab-and-shoot soccer , http://socceracy.com, TODO
- Pong 1-1 3D, https://www.cubeslam.com, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
- dots and boxes, http://dotsgame.co/, ⭐⭐⭐⭐, ➕tricky, 1-4 players
- Chess, * https://lichess.org/, TODO
- Zombie survival Battle Royale https://zombsroyale.io/, TODO, ➖Ads
- Zombie survival, http://zombs.io, TODO, ➖Not sure how to invite friends
- Another guess the drawing, https://gartic.io/, star::star::star::star:
- Classic Minecraft, https://classic.minecraft.net, , ➕You can invite up to 9 friends
- Taboo, https://playtaboo.com/, TODO
- Real-Time-Strategy, https://www.openra.net/, TODO
- A retro multiplayer shooter, https://www.teeworlds.com/, TODO
- 3D deathmatch shooter, http://sauerbraten.org/, TODO
- Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe, https://www.openttd.org/, TODO
- Open Roller Coaster Tycoon 2, https://openrct2.io/, TODO
- Command & Conquer - Red Alert, https://cncnet.org/red-alert, TODO
- Game Off 2020 - Link
- Game Off 2019 - Link
- Game Off 2018 - Link
- Game Off 2017 - Link
- 2016 - Game Off IV - Link
- 2015 - Game Off III - Link
- 2013-2014 Game Off II - Link
- 2012 Game Off - Link
- open source HTML5 games, https://superdevresources.com/open-source-html5-games/ , ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
- Games on github, https://github.com/leereilly/games#user-content-browser-based
- github search for Multiplayer, https://github.com/search?q=browser+game+multiplayer
- Self-hosted on alternativeto.net, https://alternativeto.net/category/games/all/?platform=self-hosted&p=1
- libhunt list of self-hosted games, https://selfhosted.libhunt.com/categories/1692-games
- 51 Best Open Source HTML5 and JavaScript Games 2020, https://www.edopedia.com/blog/open-source-html5-and-javascript-games/
- 30 Amazing Games Made Only With HTML5, https://tutorialzine.com/2015/02/30-amazing-games-made-only-with-html5
- Zombie invasion - Run, http://zombie.ninja.org.za/, TODO
- The house - point & click, https://the-house.arturkot.pl/, TODO
- 3D block puzzles, http://pennyshen.github.io/block_party/ (github), ⭐⭐⭐⭐, ➕simple
- Snake, http://slither.io/, ⭐⭐⭐, ➕open, type name and go
- Text-based Victorian alternate history rpg, https://www.fallenlondon.com/login, TODO
- Keep everyone in your kingdom happy , https://graebor.itch.io/sort-the-court, TODO
- A PICO-8 platformer about climbing a mountain, https://mattmakesgames.itch.io/celesteclassic, TODO
- The Settlers, https://www.thesettlersonline.com/en, TODO
- Mastermind meets Android Lock, https://maxwellito.github.io/breaklock/, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
- Dev Shop, https://devshop.secretgeek.net/ (The kanban game about running a software development shop), ⭐⭐⭐, ➖ lots of clicking
- The Software Manager, https://thesoftwaremanager.com/, TODO
- Learn Javascript with an Elevator, http://play.elevatorsaga.com/, TODO
- Crosswords, https://www.wealthwords.com/, TODO, ➖commercial
- A puzzle game with photons, superposition and quantum measurement)**, https://quantumgame.io/
- Hexagon Tetris, (hextris.io)[https://hextris.io/], TODO
- Connect-4, https://kenrick95.github.io/c4/, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, ➕it just works
- ZigZag like endless arcade game, https://eugenyn.itch.io/amazing-track, ⭐⭐⭐, ➕very simple arcade
- Space shooter kbd+mouse, http://js13kgames.com/games/radius-raid/index.html, TODO
- Air Console, https://www.airconsole.com/
- Jackbox ganmes, https://www.jackboxgames.com
- Open Source Game Clones, https://osgameclones.com/
- Table Top Games, https://tabletopia.com
- Online games, https://earlyaccess.pogo.com/
- Ticket to Ride and more, https://www.daysofwonder.com/online/en/play/
- awesome-selfhosted, https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted/blob/master/README.md#games
- Games on github, https://github.com/leereilly/games
- Game dev incl browserquest, https://rastergames.itch.io/ (rastergames.itch.io/browserquest)
- HTML5/WebGL source port of Quake, https://github.com/Triang3l/WebQuake
- cells game, alternative to agar.io https://github.com/huytd/agar.io-clone
- Town of Salem (like Mafia or Werewolf), https://www.blankmediagames.com/ , 💩, ➖Flash
- Deck-building land-expansion game, https://dominion.games/, TODO, ➖requires signup & RTFM
- ➕ or ✅ = OK
- ➖ or 🔴 or ❌ = NOT OK
- ❓ = NOT SURE