Nobody starts by asking for a party game. They ask for something to play with two people, or something that works with fifteen, or something a nine-year-old can win. These 15 lists sort the same 43 games by the question you actually arrived with.
Group size, age and setting decide more than genre does. A game that is brilliant with twelve people can be unplayable with three.
Games that work when there are only two of you.
Games that get better the more people turn up.
Two-player games for a date, a sofa or a long journey.
Clean content, simple rules, playable with a ten-year-old.
Team-building games that will not embarrass anyone.
Full games that start and finish before the food arrives.
Every game here needs one phone and nothing else.
For a group that has only just met.
Party games that work as drinking games — or without.
The six families the catalogue is built from — every game belongs to exactly one, so these add up to all 43.
Secret roles, straight faces, and accusations.
Describe it, act it, draw it, guess it.
Quiz questions, riddles, maths and brain-teasers.
Dilemmas, confessions and pointing fingers.
Bluff, debate, and build stories together.
Timers, tongue twisters and sixty-second madness.