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'Work from home' - a work arrangement that has become increasingly popular and widely adopted by businesses over the past year. As this trend continues, the traditional office interactions and casual chats with colleagues are temporarily put on hold. In addition, daily online meetings on familiar applications have become monotonous and dry, with everyone reduced to voices and faces on a laptop screen.
To bridge the distance without losing the connection, Mytour Xperience has curated a list of 5 online game platforms that allow you and your colleagues to interact remotely and unwind together after stressful work hours.
Don't just meet in virtual meetings, gather your team instantly, and let the gaming begin!
Gartic.io - Unleash Your Creativity in this Interactive Drawing Game
Gartic.io is an online gaming platform that seamlessly combines interactive chat with drawing games, developed by Gartic. Falling into the category of drawing and puzzle games, Gartic.io offers a straightforward gameplay experience. Here, you'll need to harness the full power of your imagination and creativity to tackle two alternating tasks: drawing and guessing keywords. It's also a playground for showcasing your artistic abilities through randomly intriguing keywords.
Players take turns selecting a keyword and creating a drawing to describe it. The remaining participants must then look at the drawing, guess the keyword, and enter the correct answer into the chat box before the specified time runs out. Failure to do so results in no points awarded. Besides accuracy, speed is crucial in identifying the correct answer to score the highest points. A typical game session lasts for 30 minutes and concludes when someone reaches the maximum score.
Despite its simple rules, Gartic.io promises to be an incredibly engaging online game through its vibrant drawing activities and imaginative challenges. Notably, the lively discussions about the various keywords add an extra layer of excitement to the gaming experience.
Apart from joining available game rooms, Gartic offers a private room feature that allows you to create your own room and invite up to 50 people. This feature is perfect for work teams or friend groups to create a room and play together.
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In addition to Gartic.io, you can explore other games in the 'Gartic online game ecosystem' such as Gartic Phone (draw and guess) and two interactive drawing games on different platforms: Gartic Bot (supported on Discord) and Gartic on Stream (supported on Youtube and Twitch).
Gartic.io is an online gaming platform that office workers must try with their colleagues. Besides the cognitive benefits like stress relief, stimulating creativity, and enhancing quick reflexes, playing this game might even unveil some 'anonymous artists' within the group!
Gather Town - Captivating Graphics in a Charming Online Space
Gather Town, a website adorned with enchanting graphics, is steadily attracting a large user base during the current period of social distancing. This website is sure to be the 'savior' for those monotonous hours of solo work at home!
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Gather Town is an online meeting platform that combines online gaming for interaction and entertainment, often likened to a vibrant 'virtual office.' Beyond office spaces, there are various themes to choose from, such as gardens, cafes, beaches, playgrounds, party areas, and more.
Gather Town offers a variety of entertainment games such as Werewolf, Codenames, Poker, Sudoku, Dominion, allowing people to play together and relax after stressful work hours. As an online meeting application, Gather Town supports all essential features like video calls, screen sharing, and note-taking.
To recreate the office atmosphere, users can only interact when they move close to each other. In this proximity, the microphone automatically connects, enabling users to chat. For group meetings, individuals simply gather at a location to see and hear each other.
When an individual wants to focus on work, they can move to a private space and activate the uninterrupted mode (quiet mode). To initiate a conversation, colleagues need to 'ring the bell.'
Additionally, users can personalize their 'office' with charming and diverse furniture. Notably, Gather allows users to choose ambient sounds for their space, such as murmurs in a dining room, the sound of a fountain, ocean waves, or a flowing stream.
Spyfall
The online game Spyfall is a simplified version of the werewolf genre. Hence, Spyfall is perfect for those new to hidden role-playing games.
As the game begins, a random player becomes the spy, and all others receive a role card indicating their role and location. For instance, if the location is a 'restaurant,' the group might have roles like chef, waiter, or diner,...
The group typically remains unaware of who the spy is, and vice versa; the spy is unaware of the assigned role and location on the other players' cards. The spy's goal is to conceal their identity and determine the location on the cards before being exposed. Meanwhile, the goal for the remaining players is to hinder and identify who the spy is.
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After being assigned roles, players take turns asking each other questions, attempting not to reveal too much information about their location in the questions and answers. The spy, although unaware of location details, must answer 'correctly' when questioned to avoid detection. Simultaneously, the other players should avoid asking or answering overly revealing questions, as the spy could deduce their locations and secure victory.
Once confident about the location, the spy can reveal at any time and will win if it matches the card's actual location. Victory leans toward the players' group when they collectively vote for the true spy.
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With Spyfall, you and your colleagues will experience 'brain-teasing' moments filled with hilarious 'out-of-this-world' questions and answers. Beyond enhancing focus and stimulating logical reasoning, Spyfall is an ideal game for office professionals to 'gather online' after stressful work hours!
Card Against Humanity
Cards Against Humanity - an online gaming website suitable for those seeking interactive team-building activities with colleagues during social distancing. Similar to other online gaming platforms, the Cards Against Humanity website allows you to create a virtual game room and invite others by sharing a link.
Each player receives 10 white cards with content resembling an answer to a question or a fill-in-the-blank statement. The player's task is simple: choose the answer they find most humorous for the judge. Subsequently, the judge selects the most impressive answer, and the owner of that answer becomes the judge in the next round.
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Cards Against Humanity delivers immense entertainment with outrageously absurd answers infused with humor and creativity. It promises to be an incredibly fun game that you and your colleagues should definitely try!
Secret Hitler
Secret Hitler is an online gaming website set in pre-World War II Germany. With its high level of 'brain-hacking,' you need to engage your thinking and stay vigilant to avoid deception. Undoubtedly, this will be one of the most intriguing deduction games, perfect for playing with your colleagues.
Secret Hitler is an online game falling under the category of hidden role and logical deduction board games, where each player embodies an assigned anonymous character. Players take on the roles of politicians aligned with two opposing factions: the liberal faction and the fascist faction. If you belong to the liberal faction, your goal is to thwart fascist tyranny. Conversely, if you belong to the fascist faction, your objective is to gain the trust of liberals, create chaos, and assist Hitler in establishing a new world order.
Players are randomly assigned one of three roles: liberal, fascist, or Secret Hitler (with only one Hitler, and players in the fascist faction will know who Hitler is). Subsequently, a government is elected, comprising a Chancellor and a President, who enact policies by choosing 3 randomly drawn policy cards (probabilities: 2 liberal - 1 fascist; 2 fascist - 1 liberal; or all 3 cards of the same policy). The policies enacted can be:
The liberal faction wins when 5 liberal policies are successfully passed or when the liberals identify and eliminate Hitler.
The fascist faction wins when 6 fascist policies are enacted, or Hitler becomes the Chancellor after 3 fascist policy enactments.
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Secret Hitler features gameplay quite reminiscent of online Werewolf. The game may pose a challenge for those unfamiliar with this genre initially, but after a few rounds, you'll find it an incredibly engaging game that you simply must try.
Above are 5 online gaming websites that Mytour Xperience believes will cure the monotony of 'work from home' within the four dull walls. Don't wait any longer; experience them now with your friends and colleagues!
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