Games to play on a video call with friends, family or your team
A game livens up a video call, whether you are catching up with friends in another city, calling your grandparents or looking for an icebreaker for a remote team. The games below work with any video call app, and most of them only need a browser.
What makes a good video call game
Games for calls should be quick to explain, cope with a little delay and let everyone play at once on their own device. When one person shares their screen and clicks for everyone, the game drags.
- Everyone plays on their own phone or computer.
- Rounds are short, so lag and late arrivals don't matter much.
- Joining takes seconds, ideally without creating an account.
- The results give people something to talk about.
Price guessing over video
Waskostas fits this well. One person creates a lobby and pastes the invite link into the call chat; everyone else opens it in their browser and joins, as a guest if they like. All players see the same product at the same time and have 15 seconds to guess its price. After each round everyone sees the real price and the round ranking, and that is usually when the call gets loud.
A five-round game takes a few minutes, short enough for the start of a meeting or a break in a family call.
More ideas for calls
- Trivia: a host reads questions and everyone answers in the chat at the same time.
- Show and tell: everyone has 60 seconds to fetch the oddest object in their home.
- Emoji riddles: describe a movie or song in the chat using only emojis.
- Guess the desk: everyone sends a photo of their desk and the others guess whose it is.
- Online drawing games where each player draws on their own device.
Icebreakers for remote teams
A team game should be light, include everyone and be over in about ten minutes. Price guessing fits because nobody needs special knowledge and nobody has to answer personal questions. The products also give new colleagues an easy thing to chat about. With the friends leaderboard you can run a small weekly team ranking.
Frequently asked questions
Do all players need an account?
No. Only the person who creates the lobby needs a free account. Everyone else can join as a guest with the link or code.
Does it work with Zoom, Teams, Google Meet or FaceTime?
Yes. Waskostas runs in its own browser tab or app, so it works next to any video call software.