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Games like Gartic Phone

None of these is the telephone chain — what they keep is the good part: drawing badly on a phone while your friends decide what you meant.

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Drawful is the closest cousin. You draw a prompt nobody else has seen, everyone invents a title that could pass for it, and the room votes with the real prompt shuffled in — so the broken-telephone punchline arrives at the vote instead of at the end of a chain.

Fake Artist puts the whole table on one canvas: everyone knows the word except one player, each of you adds a single line twice round, and then everybody points at once. Dixit swaps the pen for a hand of paintings — one clue, everyone plays a lookalike card, and the scoring punishes being too obvious.

Table Party is not affiliated with Gartic or any other developer, and there is no telephone mode here — if the chain itself is what you want, Gartic Phone already does that well. These are the games for the same night: a canvas, a bluff, and no reward for drawing skill.

Three for the drawing-badly night

Questions about Games like Gartic Phone

Is there a telephone or chain mode?

No — nothing here passes a drawing down a chain. Drawful is the nearest feeling: your drawing meets everyone else’s invented titles, and the distance between them is the joke.

Do I need to be able to draw?

The opposite. Drawful is won by the titles people invent for the mess, and in Fake Artist a clear drawing is a mistake — render the word too well and you have handed the faker the answer.

How many can play?

Drawful and Dixit seat up to eight, Fake Artist up to ten. Fake Artist needs four before the faker has anywhere to hide.

What do we draw with?

A finger, on a phone-sized canvas. Fake Artist gives each player their own colour, so afterwards it is obvious exactly who ruined the picture and when.

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