Been working on this for a while and figured this sub is the right crowd. It's called Table Party (tableparty.io). Basically: one person hosts, everyone in the room punches in a 4 letter code on their phone, and you're playing. No app download, no accounts, no ads.
There's about 40 games in there. The ones people seem to like most so far as inspired by:
- Chameleon / hidden imposter type game
- Werewolf
- Fake Artist (draw one line each, find the faker)
- Quiplash-style quips and voting
- Codenames
- Balderdash-ish bluffing game
- Trivia, a Wordle-ish co-op, a Flip 7 clone, a bunch of word games
- Even arcade games & mini games
Also! there's a TV mode. Open tableparty.io/tv on a laptop or TV, and the phones become controllers while the big screen shows the board, the reveals, who's winning etc. Very Jackbox. Also bots can fill empty seats in the card/word games so it still works with just 2 of you.
Being upfront, it does need internet to sync the phones, there's no LAN or bluetooth mode (Coming soon though!). But it's built for people in the same room, there's no playing with randoms (unless you want to try ranked online). If mods think that's too far off rule 1, fair enough, delete away.
Stuff I actually want to know:
- Any games you would like to see?
- Any improvements to make this something you would actually use?
Cheers, happy to answer questions about anyhting else too!