30+ Online Multiplayer Games

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A variety of board games, card games, and other online activities for you and your friends

Co-authored by Janice Tieperman Reviewed by Ashton Wu

Last Updated: November 27, 2024 Fact Checked

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Multiplayer games are a great way to stay connected with your friends online… but how can you crank up the quality time without breaking the bank in the process? Not to worry—we’ve put together some lists of the best free and paid games that you can enjoy with your friends, including some digital card and board games. With our recommendations, you’ll be ready to take your next game night by storm!

Free Online Multiplayer Games

Board Game Arena
Tabletopia
Cardzmania
Colonist
Garctic Phone
Play Scrabble
Frantic Fanfic

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Board Game Arena Board Game Arena lets you play tons of multiplayer games directly from your browser, like Yahtzee, Gin Rummy, Ludo, and many, many more.
- Number of players: Depends on the game
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Tabletopia Tabletopia makes it easy to play a variety of both classic and modern tabletop games with your friends, like Go, Chess, Scythe, Wingspan, and tons more.
- Number of players: Depends on the game
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CardzMania If you’re a fan of multiplayer card games, you’ll love Cardzmania , a site that lets you play tons of multiplayer card games with your friends in your internet browser, like Poker, Crazy Eights, Pinochle, and many more.
- Number of players: Up to 12 players, depending on the game
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Colonist If you and your friends enjoy the fast-paced action within the Settlers of Catan universe, you’ll love Colonist , an online iteration of Catan that you can play with your friends.
- Number of players: Up to 4 players
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Play Scrabble Play Scrabble is the perfect online gaming option for you and any friends who enjoy word games, like Scrabble. Compete against one another to create the highest-scoring word combos, and achieve victory.
- Number of players: At least 2 players
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Gartic Phone Garctic Phone mashes the games of Telephone and Pictionary together as players are invited to write strange sentences, draw pictures based on those sentences, and then try to guess what’s happening in the pictures drawn.
- Number of players: Up to 16 players
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Frantic Fanfic Frantic Fanfic invites you to write to partner up with your fellow players and write a zany piece of fanfiction. As you read through your fics, players will vote on their faves and see who gets the most points. ^{[1]
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- Number of players: At least 3-4
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Skribbl.io Skribbl.io brings Pictionary to a digital stage, allowing groups of players to doodle their hearts out with the help of provided prompts.
- Number of players: Up to 20
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Broken Picturephone A mash-up of Telephone and Pictionary, Broken Picturephone is all about doodling pictures and writing captions based on previous captions and drawings created by other players.
- Number of players: Up to 8 players (or 14 if you’re a Patreon subscriber)
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Codenames Online Codenames is a high-stakes, team-based guessing game where your goal is guessing the correct codewords before the opposing team.
- Number of players: Up to 64
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Krunker Krunker is a First-Person Shooter (FPS) style game presented with a minimalistic, block-style design.
- Number of players: Up to 6-20 per server, depending on if you have a verified account or premium access
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Tagpro Tagpro is the game to play if you and your friends are craving some capture-the-flag-style gameplay.
- Number of players: At least 4
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Tough Love Arena Tough Love Arena is a stand-out title in the indie fighting game genre. With the game’s simple navigation, it’s easy to set up a private lobby with your friends.
- Number of players: Up to 8 players
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Tetr.io Tetr.io puts a fun multiplayer twist on the classic Tetris game, all from the comfort of your web browser.
- Number of players: At least 100 players
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Board Game Online Board Game Online lets you play a one-of-a-kind, digital board game with your friends, where the goal of the game is reaching the finish line before everyone else.
- Number of players: Up to 16 players
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Gidd.io Gidd.io lets you and your friends play a variety of classic games, like Monopoly, Ludo/Sorry, Texas Hold Em, and more.
- Number of players: Depends on the game
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GeoGuessr GeoGuessr sticks you (and your friends) in a random part of the world courtesy of Google Street View. Upon landing in a new location, you have to guess where everyone is.
- Number of players: Up to 100 players
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Curve Fever Curve Fever invites you and your friends to participate in a snake-style game where the goal is to overcome and outsmart your fellow players.
- Number of players: Up to 10
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Lordz.io In Lordz.io , create a party with your friends and take down fortresses in this fantastical, medieval-themed universe.
- Number of players: Up to 3 players
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Battle Dudes Battle Dudes , a multiplayer shooting game, has a party system that allows you to play with friends.
- Number of players: At least 2 players
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Jklm.fun Jklm.fun allows you to host a room for you and your friends where you can a word game or a pop culture guessing game.
- Number of players: Up to 16 players for BombParty; up to 100 players for PopSauce
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Rank5.io Rank5.io invites you and your friends to rank each other based on certain prompts.
- Number of players: At least 2 players

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Jackbox Games With 10 party packs and counting (with 5 minigames per pack), Jackbox games offers the ultimate party game experience with you and your players. Just one person needs to own a Jackbox Party Pack; from there, the game owner can easily share their screen on Discord . Jackbox games are played from your phone , so you can play from anywhere you get a cellular connection (and have access to a screen share platform, like Discord)!
- Cost: $25 to $30 per pack
- Number of players: 2+
- Where to buy: Jackbox website
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Stardew Valley Stardew Valley invites you and up to 3 friends to create a farm homestead in Pelican Town, a cozy community. Grow crops, raise farm animals, and achieve goals within your community to unlock new features (though you can enjoy even more new features by installing mods ).
- Cost: $15
- Number of players: Up to 4
- Where to buy: Steam
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Baldur’s Gate 3 Baldur’s Gate 3 invites you and up to 3 friends to explore the world of Faerûn on a thrilling but dangerous fantasy adventure rooted in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons .
- Cost: $60
- Number of players: Up to 4
- Where to buy: Steam
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Don’t Starve Together Enter a whimsical and macabre world with up to 3 friends where you do your best to survive (and, of course, not starve).<ref>
- Cost: $15
- Number of players: Up to 6
- Where to buy: Steam
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Phasmophobia In Phasmophobia , you and up to 3 other friends work for a ghost identification company, where you try to identify the specific type of ghost/spirit that’s haunting a home or building.
- Cost: $14
- Number of players: Up to 4
- Where to buy: Steam
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Lethal Company You and up to 3 other friends work for “The Company,” where you collect scrap metal and other trinkets from foreign planets to sell. The catch? All of these planets are inhabited with dangerous creatures.
- Cost: $10
- Number of players: Up to 4
- Where to buy: Steam
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Sid Meier’s Civilization VI Play as a famous historical leader as you and your friends create your own civilizations. As the ages pass, work to make your nation the strongest by any means necessary.
- Cost: $60 (though it’s often on sale)
- Number of players: Up to 6 players
- Where to buy: Steam
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Chained Together You and up to 3 friends are trapped in Hell together, but are given the rare opportunity to escape. The main catch: you and your fellow “inmates” are all chained together, which makes your ascent difficult.
- Cost: $5
- Number of players: Up to 4
- Where to buy: Steam
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Spy Party You or a friend play as a spy trying to blend into a party, while the opposite player takes on the role of assassin. The spy is trying to complete all of their tasks without being detected by the assassin, whose goal is to eliminate the spy.
- Cost:
- Number of players: 2
- Where to buy: Steam