Top 5 Drinking Apps: Because You Lack Basic Social Skills
2021-05-01
Here’s a curated list of the best drinking game apps you can download for your next social gathering for when you’re not able to run the fun yourself.
Having these digital babysitters in your back pocket ensures maximum delegation. You can put the entire burden of entertainment and basic human interaction onto the app and feel absolutely no pressure. It’s the modern way to party: emotionally distant and driven by a screen.
After heroically sacrificing my liver to over 20 of the most highly rated drinking game apps out there and wading through the reviews of their users, I’ve put together this list of the top 5 mobile drinking game apps on iOS and Android.
This list is purely based on my superior opinion. If you disagree, feel free to submit your “feedback” in the comments section below, then go £*#@ yourself.
Quote of the day:
Don’t abuse the alcohol, let the alcohol abuse you
1. Psych
Possibly one of the best party apps out there! Psych gets everyone involved by creating a joinable lobby for all players.
You pick from a variety of categories where each player gets to make up fake answers to real trivia questions. The objective, is to guess the outrageous real answer among your idiotic friends’ fakes. Points are awarded for being correct, and for successfully PSYCHing people into picking your obvious lie.
It tops the list because you can spend a lot of time on this and is highly replayable. Each game is unique and can go all sorts of ways depending on who you’re playing with and exactly how far past the point of coherence you’ve all traveled. The only downside? It’s entirely device-based. You miss out on the rich tapestry of in-person human interaction. But for many this would the main selling point, especially if you’re stuck with people you’d rather not look directly at.
2. Charades
A close second place is the app that everyone knows the rules for and does not fail to entertain.
Similar to the original game but with different challenges from dancing, singing, acting or sketching — guess the word on the card that’s on your head from your friends’ clues before the timer runs out! The app offers a large array of themes, ensuring maximum confusion and plenty of opportunities to use words ironically, literally, or euphemistically to justify your terrible clue-giving.
One of its main advantages is that it caters to groups of any size, from a single room packed with depressingly sober people to a small gathering of advanced-stage drunks. No skill or prior knowledge is needed, which is perfect, as your guests will have neither. The simple rules can be absorbed remarkably quickly, right before they are forgotten again.
3. iPuke
A largely underappreciated game, probably because the title is so aggressively honest. Playable with any size group by simply placing the device in the middle, treating it like the toxic, digital game board it is.
On every turn, you draw a card presenting two beautiful choices: a dare or an unwise amount of shots to consume. To avoid a skipped turn, you must complete at least one. Both options are worth points in a game only winners will regret. The first person to reach the points goal ‘wins’ the game, achieving the ultimate prize: a hangover. With over 260 cards, your capacity for self-destruction is the only limit.
This app lands at third for its sheer commitment to getting the party aggressively started. It offers a good variety of unique dares that successfully lowers the collective IQ of the group. The only con? The scoring system is slightly broken, with points remaining the same whether you inflict physical pain on yourself with a drink or emotional trauma with a dare. However, a skipped turn is always there as a gentle, sobriety-inducing alternative.
4. Picolo
An app that is raved about and unarguably highly developed and fun to play. Use the questions, prompts and dares given to you to compete against eachother in a alcohol-fuelled game of ability.
Form teams (or don’t, who cares), answer the questions, and follow the rules. The app takes care of everything. It’s perfect for when you simply can’t be bothered with the brain-melting prep of a ‘manual’ drinking game.
The Picolo app is free to download but only comes with the starter pack which is enough to keep you entertained for a while. The additional content comes at a price which you will inevitably pay once the alcohol has successfully eroded your perception of responsibility. The other con is the lack of creative freedom; you are simply following the orders spat out by the device. Some may find this restrictive, but others enjoy this, who knows. Give it a try.
5. Dirty Potato
Lastly is the alternative game of the year in our books, a simple and exciting game that is played best in groups which creates a thrilling sense of urgency & anxiety for all.
The game originates from the classic Hot Potato idea, combine this with some random, filthy questions along with a few embarrassing challenges and abracadabra, you’ve got Dirty Potato! A fast paced game that is a quick and easy game to get a party going.
After playing this a few times, it was a pretty good way to get everyone lively and talkative but quickly loses its charm after a few turns. Definitely worth a download and a game or two every now and again.
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