Category: Critical Play

Among Us is a social deduction game released in June 2018 and developed by Innersloth studios. It’s primarily a mobile game, but there is…

Exercises: Game: Transmission Why the graphic design is good: Size: readable font and symbols without it being overwhelming. Contrast: the white on dark (but…

Overview Our team recently changed our game to include an aspect of pop-culture knowledge and, specifically knowledge about celebrities. To see how other games…

I chose to play and analyze Codenames. Our game is very similar to Codenames, except we use faces instead of words for the “agents.”…

Skribblio is centered around players drawing and guessing various drawing prompts. To begin, one player will pick one out of three prompts automatically generated…

Cards Against Humanity Cards Against Humanity is a social game with a theme of adult humor. At the beginning of each round, players draw…

Truth or Dare is a common social, get-to-know-you oriented party game that doesn’t require any equipment (usually) and can be played for groups of…

Phrase Frenzy The theme of Phrase Frenzy is a mix between hot potato and team-based guessing games like Pictionary, Heads-Up, and Charades. Phrase Frenzy…

Throw Throw Burrito a social dodgeball card game created by Brian Spence and published by Exploding Kittens. It is social, frantic and physical. Players…