Screen sharing a game kills the fun: one person plays, everyone else watches a laggy stream. The games below work differently. Keep the call open for talking, and everyone plays on their own phone or laptop by joining a room with a four-letter code. They work alongside any video or voice call app, with nothing to install.
Imposter is the stand-out for calls: everyone types a one-word clue about a secret word, except the imposter, who has to bluff. Then you argue on the call and vote. Most Likely To and Would You Rather need no skill at all: vote on your phone, then everyone sees the result at once and the call erupts.
Imposter · Most Likely To · Would You Rather
Sketch It is a drawing-and-guessing game: one person draws on their screen, everyone else sees the drawing live and types guesses. Forbidden Words is a word-description game: describe the word without the forbidden ones, and guesses typed on the phone count automatically, so it plays well remotely.
Race games give everyone the same puzzle at the same moment with a live leaderboard. Make 24 in "One at a time" mode is a great call game: one card, everyone races to make 24, and the call hears who got it first. Party Night strings 3 to 6 games together with one scoreboard for the evening.
Make 24 · Typing Race · Five Letters · Neon Trails
One person opens partygames.buzz, picks a game and presses Host a room. Paste the room link into the call chat (or read out the four-letter code). Everyone opens it on their phone, types a nickname and is in. The host presses Start. If someone is streaming the call, share the watch link so viewers can spectate.