24 Amazing and Engaging Games for Groups Online

When you and your colleagues work remotely, it’s more important than ever to connect and engage with one another, making games for groups online an incredibly important team building activity.

As remote work grows in popularity and viability, it offers many benefits. But it also creates challenges for connectivity, engagement, and morale, which is why playing games for groups online is such an important tool for building strong and successful teams.

Whether you’re looking for some quick, fun, and easy free games for groups online or you’re interested in investing in a structured, hosted activity for your colleagues, we’ve got you covered.

Check out our comprehensive list of incredible games for groups online.

Virtual Friendly Feud Social

If you’ve ever wanted to take part in your own Family Feud-style competition, this is your chance! With Virtual Friendly Feud Social, you and your colleagues will break out into teams to compete through survey questions focused on culture and human nature.

And, as an added social element within the game, each round of questions will be followed by a guided social mixer where you’ll have the chance to take part in a group discussion and more deeply explore the survey questions from the previous round.

Skribbl.io

You and your team don’t have to be Picasso or Van Gogh to have fun creating art together. With Skribbl, you and your colleagues can get creative and share in a few laughs with a Pictionary-style drawing game.

To play, you’ll need to create a room for your team. Then, each player will log in to that room. From here, you’ll all take turns being the artist, choosing a word from the three different options provided. You’ll have 80 seconds to draw it as best as possible, and your colleagues will have 80 seconds to guess what it is.

Whoever guesses it quickest receives points and, at the end of the game, the player with the most points wins.

Virtual Hollywood Murder Mystery

An up-and-coming actress has been found dead in her hotel room the morning after an awards show. Now, you and your remote team need to channel your inner detectives as you review the evidence, assess potential suspects, and determine the method, motive, and murderer in the crime.

Donut on Slack

While it’s not necessarily a game, per se, you can literally automate employee engagement and relationship-building using Slack with an app called Donut. This plugin introduces people who don’t know each other well via direct messages and encourages them to meet in person or virtually for a variety of purposes.

This includes:

• Social + watercooler: Facilitate daily conversation prompts in-channel, virtual coffee meetups, CEO coffee lotteries, and lunch roulette  
• Remote or hybrid employees: Create remote team lunches, daily donut meetings, and cross-department introductions
• Learning: Run peer mentorship programs, code review pals, and sales demo buddies  
• DEI + ERGs: Organize discussion groups on diversity, equity, and inclusion and support employee resource groups  
• New hires: Connect new hires through onboarding buddies, new hire lunches, or job shadowing

Donut is a great way to build connections with people who might not otherwise have the chance to.

Virtual Escape Room: Mummy’s Curse

In this online game for groups, your remote team has been transported into a pyramid cursed by a restless mummy. Now you must uncover the secrets of Ancient Egypt in order to lift the mummy’s curse and return before the portal closes forever.

Your team’s problem-solving, collaboration, and communication skills will be put to the test, as they race against the clock (and their peers) to solve the mummy’s complex clues and puzzles.

Online Bingo

One of the simplest and most classic games ever can also be played in an online format. It’s simple: you can either pick a pre-made bingo board template or create one of your own. One great idea is to create a bingo board that helps colleagues get to know each other better with squares like:

• Loves coffee in the morning
• Has a unique pet
• Has an expensive hobby
• Is an avid exerciser
• Plays an instrument
• Can sing
• Has been to South America

All you need to do is jump on your preferred video conferencing platform, write down each option from the square, then have someone draw each item from the board in random order. Ask each person to call out when they hear one that applies to them and then mark it down. The first person to get five in a row yells bingo!

Virtual Jeoparty Social

If your remote team is eager to socialize, have some fun as a group, and channel their competitive spirit, we’ve got just the thing for you! With Virtual Jeoparty Social, you and your colleagues will step into your very own virtual Jeopardy-style game show—equipped with a buzzer button, a professional actor as your host, and an immersive game show platform!

Best of all, this game has been infused with an ultra-social twist: players will take part in a unique social mixer challenge between each round. 

Emoji Sentences

Here’s a fun online game for groups that requires a bit of creativity and makes for a lot of laughs! With Emoji Sentences, you and your colleagues will need to create sentences using only emojis, then the rest of the team will have to guess what they mean.

If you want, you can pick themes as a way to narrow down the possibilities. This could include things like:

• Movies
• Seasons
• Bands and songs
• Places in the world
• Common sayings

For instance, it could be things like:

• Cold turkey: 🥶🦃 
• Monkey see, monkey do: 🐵👀🐒✋
• Time flies when you’re having fun: ⌛️✈️🥳

The opportunities are endless, but you can check out this article for a whole bunch of other ideas.

The Virtual Do-Good Games

Team up with your colleagues for a Virtual Do-Good Games to do some good in the world and give back to those in need, all while having a blast. This is a morale-boosting virtual team building activity that transforms friendly competition into charitable donations. 

If you’d like to learn about even more ways to give back with your colleagues, check out these other charitable and philanthropic team building activities.

Jackbox Games

When it comes to party games, Jackbox Games makes a ton of different party games created for meetings, Zoom calls, and more. This includes everything from drawing and writing-based games to virtual trivia games like its classic You Don’t Know Jack which features “snarky,” risqué, and hilarious questions. 

Virtual Beach Staycation

We’re all in desperate need of a vacation. Luckily, Captain Furling has room for you and your colleagues on his virtually chartered yacht. Come aboard and transport to your “inner Cancun” for a tropical online team building adventure.

Kahoot

Make learning fun and stay connected with Kahoot! With Kahoot! for business, you can create an interactive question-and-answer presentation in minutes. This online platform offers quiz and open-ended questions, polls, word clouds, and more.

Not meant to be a serious learning and development tool, your questions should be upbeat and relevant to your organization—such as fun facts about employees.

Once you’ve made your presentation, share your screen with your team using GoToMeeting, Zoom, or any of the previously mentioned video conferencing platforms, and let the e-learning begin!

Virtual Clue Murder Mystery

In one of our most popular app-based team building activities, groups connect virtually using the video communications platform, like Zoom, and the proprietary Outback app. From there, coworkers break out into teams to solve who had the means, motive, and opportunity to commit a deadly crime.  

Choose to work through the case on your own or have one of our event coordinators virtually host it for you. 

Check out How MyZone Used Virtual Team Building to Boost Employee Morale During COVID-19 to see how this version of Clue Murder Mystery works. You can also watch the above video to get a sense of how you and your group can take part.

Virtual Code Break

Trivia wizzes will love the opportunity to flex their cognitive muscles in Virtual Code Break, another one of Outback’s virtual team building activities! 

Using Zoom and the Outback smartphone app, groups will have to put their heads together to see who can solve the most puzzles, riddles, and trivia before time runs out. The team with the most points at the end will be crowned the winners!  

Host the activity yourself or choose to have one of our event coordinators virtually run it for you. 

Guess Whose Fridge

One thing that everyone has, and which is almost always a little different for each person, is a refrigerator. And if you want to learn something unique about them, then this game for groups online is a good place to start with your team bonding.

All you need to do is have everybody send a photo of their fridge to the person who’s coordinating the activity. Then you can show them all one by one, with each player submitting their answer for who they think this fridge belongs to.

Everyone who gets it right gets a point. Then, when every fridge has been shown, the person with the most points wins!

Virtual Game Show Extravaganza

Just because you’re separated from your coworkers doesn’t mean that playing in an exciting game show-style competition is off the table! In the virtual version of Game Show Extravaganza, you and your team will connect using the video communications platform, Zoom, and the Outback smartphone app.  

In groups, tackle photo and trivia challenges that cover a range of topics, including pop culture and politics. You can opt to run the activity yourself or have one of our event coordinators virtually host it for you. 

2 Truths and 1 Lie

There’s a good chance you’ve heard of the game Two Truths and a Lie. 

But if not, the premise is pretty simple: each person on your team will be tasked with coming up with three facts. Two of them will be true, and one will be a lie. 

Then, the rest of your group will need to decide which ones are which–and you might be surprised by the answers! 

Virtual Happy Hour Trivia

This is no ordinary happy hour trivia game. In this activity, you and your team will take a trip to Hamish McDuff’s virtual pub. This hilarious Scottish pub owner is the legendary host of a trivia game with more than 20 category options to choose from, including sports, food and drink, and even celebrity real estate. This virtual pub trivia game is guaranteed to produce plenty of laughs and lift team “spirits.” It might even include a few special surprises.

If you’re looking for even more amazing online happy hour activities, check out our article: 33 Unbeatable Virtual Happy Hour Games for Workgroups.

Virtual Social Shuffle

Get to know your colleagues and build better connections with this ultra-social virtual team building activity for remote groups. Your group will learn fun facts about one another as you tackle a series of themed discussion topics together and engage in exploratory conversations. 

For even more ways to get to know your colleagues better, check out our list of connection-building icebreaker activities for work.

What in the World?

The premise of this online game for groups is simple: the goal is for each team member to look at an obscure photo of an object and to guess what in the world it is.

But to make this a fun game for groups online, each participant will need to bring their own photo to the table.

Task each player with taking a photo, either in their home or out in the world, that either zooms in on an object or shows it from an odd angle.

Then, connect on youpreferred chat or video conferencing app and have each player share their photos. Go through the photos together, one at a time, with each player sharing their guess in the chat.

Whichever players get it right get a point. Then, once all the photos have been viewed, the player with the most points wins.  

Virtual Team Pursuit

Do you have a team that loves a good challenge? Then we’ve got the perfect virtual team building game for you.

In Team Pursuit, your team will need to get their energy levels up in order to tackle a series of mental, physical, skill, and mystery challenges, earning points for each successfully completed challenge.

What kinds of challenges will you be up against? We’re glad you asked. A few highlights include:

• Air Band Geeks: Who used to or still does play an instrument? Find at least three band geeks and have them hold “air” versions of their instruments. Record a 5-second video of them playing part of a song.
  
  
• Juggling Responsibilities: Who can juggle? Take a 5-second video with that person juggling three or more objects.
  
  
• Tasty Trivia: You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What is it?
  
  
• Commonalities: Determine your team’s most unique commonality. Once you figure out the most unique thing your group has in common, write a rap or rhyme about it of at least 4 lines. Then record a 5-second video of a teammate performing it.
  
  
• Sing Along: Choose a popular song and rewrite the lyrics to be about your team. Record a 5-second video of your team performing it and enter the original song’s title in caption space.

Your team won’t be able to help but have a blast with this activity.

Virtual Trivia Championship

Compete with your colleagues, collaborate with your teammates, test your trivia knowledge, and conquer the leaderboard with this virtual trivia activity for remote work groups.  

Virtual team building activities are a great way to connect your remote employees during this time of self-isolation and working from home. Whether you choose to participate in a virtual Clue Murder Mystery, an online game of cards, a video coffee date, or an e-learning session, these activities can all help boost employee morale and engagement. 

This Or That

If you’re looking for games for groups online that help people get to know one another better, This Or That is a great way to learn about your colleagues.

And the best part is that there are a few ways to play this game.

The first way is to structure it as a debate by polling the group on two (light-heartedly) polarizing options, such as:

• Coke or Pepsi?
• Summer or winter?
• Cat or dog?
• Ketchup or ranch?

Or, you can simply chat through a list of fun questions, such as:

• Would you rather have a third ear or a third eye? 
• Would you rather live in a treehouse or in a cave? 
• Would you rather sell all of your possessions or sell one of your organs? 
• Would you rather hunt and butcher your own meat or never eat meat again? 
• Would you rather get a hand-written card or a phone call? 
• Would you rather know the answer to every trivia question or the lyric to every song? 
• Would you rather go for a run or go for a hike? 
• Would you rather have to hunt and gather all of your food or eat at McDonald’s for every meal? 
• Would you rather be a detective or a scientist? 
• Would you rather have fortune or fame? 
• Would you rather have telekinesis (the ability to move things with your mind) or telepathy (the ability to read minds)? 
• Would you rather have universal respect or unlimited power? 
• Would you rather detect every lie you hear or get away with every lie you tell? 
• Would you rather have telekinesis (the ability to move things with your mind) or telepathy (the ability to read minds)? 
• Would you rather hear a comforting lie or an uncomfortable truth? 
• Would you rather be trapped in an elevator or stuck on a suspension bridge? 
• Would you rather hear holiday-themed music forever, or never heard it again? 
• Would you rather be in jail for five years or be in a coma for a decade? 
• Would you rather be chronically under-dressed or overdressed? 

The goal of this game is simply to strike up conversations between colleagues and get them engaged with one another.

For even more “this or that” questions, check out our list of 200+ would you rather questions for work.

Virtual Trivia Time Machine  

Step into the Outback Time Machine and take a trip through time, from the pre-pandemic 21st century through the decades all the way to the 60s.

This exciting, fast-paced virtual trivia game, packed with nostalgia and good vibes, is guaranteed to produce big laughs, friendly competition, and maybe even some chair-dancing.

Your virtual game show host will warm up guests with a couple of “tablehopper rounds” (breakout room mixers) and split you out into teams. Within minutes, your home office will be transformed into a game show stage with your very own game show buzzers!

And if you’re team is a bunch of trivia lovers, you might want to check out our list of the best virtual trivia games for work.

Does your organization do any icebreaker activities at work? If so, let us know what kinds of things you do in the comments section below!

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