Free online games to play with your coworkers
Party games for your team call. Start a party, paste the link into your Zoom, Meet or Teams chat, and everyone’s playing in about 30 seconds. No install, no sign-up. Yes, it works on most locked-down work laptops.
Free · No sign-up · 3–16 players + audience · Laptop or phone
Start a party, share a link, play
Open a tab. Share a code. Play in 30 seconds.
If you can open a link, you can play.
Start1 Start a party
Pick a name and a mascot. You get a room with a four-letter code.
- coworkergames.com/BKTF
2 Paste the link in your call
Drop the invite link into the Zoom, Meet, Teams or Slack chat. People join from a laptop or a phone.
3 Play in your own tab
Everyone plays on their own screen while you talk on the call. Patch, our rubber-duck host, explains the rules so you don’t have to.
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Double Booked The funniest-answer game
Two answers. One slot. The room decides.
Everyone gets prompts about work life, like “An honest out-of-office message.” Two players answer each prompt, and everyone else votes for the answer they like best. Win every vote in a matchup and your answer is stamped ALL ACCEPTED, plus bonus points.
It ends with The Last Word: one acronym, everyone answers, medals decide the winner. Run out of time and AutoComplete™ answers for you. It will be bland. It will be worth half points.
- 3–16 players
- Best with 3–8
- 6–12 minutes
- Audience welcome
More on the way: a drawing telephone game, a hot-potato word game and a drawing and guessing game.
Engineering team? Play the Merge Conflict edition, the same game with git, deploys and code review.
The recurring meeting nobody remembers the purpose of
A standing invitation to a standing disappointment.
Thank you for your invitation. I will check my calendar.
Built for teams on a call (Zoom, Meet, Teams)
No signup, no install, no downloads. Made for a laptop with 40 tabs open and a manager on the call.
Safe for the all-hands. The prompts stay clear of politics, religion and anything HR would want a word about. The family filter masks profanity, and the VIP can censor the rest.
Works on strict corporate networks. It’s plain HTTPS on port 443 and falls back on its own when a proxy blocks WebSockets, so there’s nothing for IT to open up.
Quiet on calls. Sound starts low and is easy to switch off, because nobody needs a fanfare over their manager.
Your seat survives a crash. Reopen the link and you’re back, half-typed answer included.
Light on your laptop. Idle screens sit still and hidden tabs stop animating, so your video call doesn’t stutter.
When to play
Icebreakers for any team on a call: finance, sales, HR, support, and yes, engineering.
Friday social
Play a Standard game, then another. The lobby counts wins across games, so somebody logs off a champion.
Try Any team, Standard length.
New-hire welcome
New hires learn the team’s sense of humor in ten minutes instead of a quarter. The prompts need no inside knowledge, so nobody is left out.
Try Any team.
All-hands warm-up
Up to 16 people play and up to 100 more vote from the audience, so the whole department gets a say.
Try Audience on, Extended timers on.
Monday kickoff
A Short game is one round plus The Last Word, about six minutes. Play it before the agenda and everyone’s awake for it.
Try Any team, Short length.
Virtual holiday party
Keep the call open, play two or three games, and let the audience heckle. No paper hats, no cake to order.
Try Any team, Standard length.
Retro
It’s easier to talk about what went wrong after you’ve voted on “A creative explanation for why the numbers dipped.”
Try Engineering.
Engineering team? Play the Merge Conflict edition, with a Dev Life pack. Games for engineering teams
Find the guide for your team
The same games for everyone. The guides below say which prompts to start with and how to run the call.
Games for remote teams
A team spread across homes and time zones, together for fifteen minutes.
Team building for HR
Safe for work, nothing to install, and a message you can paste to invite everyone.
Games for engineering teams
Turn on Dev Life: git, deploys and code review, with the rest of the prompts still in the mix.
How to host on Zoom, Teams or Meet
Four steps, no screen sharing, and what to do if someone can’t join.
Frequently asked questions
What are good games to play with coworkers online? Are there free ones?
Free ones exist, and this site is one. Double Booked is the funniest-answer game: everyone answers silly prompts about work and life, then votes on the funniest answer. It runs in each person’s own browser tab while you stay on the call. A drawing telephone game, a hot-potato word game and a drawing and guessing game are on the way.
Do we need to sign up or install anything?
No. Nobody signs up and nothing is downloaded. One person starts a party, pastes the invite link into the call chat, and everyone else opens it in a browser tab, on a laptop or a phone. You pick a name and a mascot and you’re in. That’s the whole setup.
Is this only for developers?
No. Most prompts are about everyday work and life: meetings, email, the home office, the lunch break. Nobody needs to know anything technical to play, and the rules are explained out loud by the host. If you run an engineering team, switch “Prompts for” to Engineering in the lobby: the Dev Life pack adds git, deploys and code review, and the game becomes the Merge Conflict edition.
Is it really free?
Yes. It’s free, and ads pay the bills. Ads only appear in natural pauses: on pages like this one, in the lobby while people join, and on the results screen between games. Never while anyone is writing, voting or watching a reveal. Using an ad blocker? Everything still works.
How many people can play?
Double Booked takes 3 to 16 players and is best with 3 to 8. Up to 100 more can join the audience to watch and vote. With the audience on (it is by default), anyone who arrives mid-game watches and votes, then gets a seat in the next game if one is free.
What if our team is bigger than 16?
Up to 16 people play and up to 100 more join the audience, where they vote on every matchup. For a whole department, that is usually enough. You can also run two rooms and compare the winners. Both are on the host guide.
Does it work on Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams?
Yes, on any of them. Stay on the call for faces and voices, paste the invite link in the chat, and everyone plays in their own browser tab. Nobody screen-shares the game, so nobody squints at a laggy stream. Step by step for Zoom, Teams and Meet.
Can people play on their phones?
Yes. It’s built for laptops first, but every screen works on a phone. Join from your phone’s browser and stay on the call on your laptop. If lots of people are typing on phones, the VIP can turn on Extended timers to double the clock.
Will it work on our corporate network?
Almost certainly. It’s an ordinary website on HTTPS, port 443. If your network blocks WebSockets, the game switches to regular HTTP requests by itself. If your company only allows approved sites, ask IT to add coworkergames.com.
How long does a game take? What is a good game for a 15-minute team meeting?
A Short game of Double Booked takes about six minutes, a Standard one around twelve. For a 15-minute team meeting, pick Short: you can set it up, play it and still have time for the agenda. For a longer social, play Standard, then play again.
Is it safe for work?
Built to be. The prompts stay away from politics, religion and anything you’d hesitate to show at an all-hands, and the family filter (on by default) turns profanity in names and answers into comic grawlix (#@$%!). It can’t catch everything, because your colleagues write the answers, so the VIP can censor any answer during voting and medals.
Do we need accounts? What do you store?
No accounts. You type a name and pick a mascot, and your browser remembers both for next time, along with a token that puts you back in your seat. Your answers live in server memory while the room is open and are deleted when it closes. The privacy policy has the details, in plain English.
What happens if my browser crashes?
Open the room link again in the same browser. You’ll be back in your seat in a couple of seconds, in the right phase, with your half-typed answer restored. The game doesn’t wait for anyone, so if the timer runs out first, AutoComplete™ answers for you. Be quick.
What is the best Jackbox alternative for remote teams?
Try this one. The Jackbox Party Packs are a big reason games like this exist. The host buys the game, often on Steam, runs it on their computer and shares their screen while everyone else joins from their phones. Plenty of company laptops block Steam. Coworker Games runs in the browser for everyone, host included, so if you need a Jackbox alternative without Steam, this is one. It’s a smaller show for now: one game, with more on the way. We’re not affiliated with Jackbox Games.
How do you run a virtual game night for a remote team?
Pick a time, tell people it takes about ten minutes, and keep the call open for faces and banter. Start a party, paste the link in the chat, and wait for everyone to join the lobby. Play one Standard game, then another if people want it. End while it’s still fun.