Gartic Phone Alternatives: Drawing and Beyond

If you want another game like Gartic Phone, start with drawing and interpretation games. Drawphone keeps the telephone-with-pictures idea; skribbl.io changes the activity to competitive guessing.

Banana Society is an option when your group wants to change genres after drawing. It does not reproduce Gartic Phone's drawing loop.

Keep the telephone format with Drawphone

Drawphone describes itself as telephone with pictures. It offers party creation and joining through Rocketcrab, giving your group another place to explore the passing-and-interpreting format.

Choose it when the part you enjoyed was seeing an idea become something unexpected. Check the current room options together before starting; this guide does not claim that its settings exactly match Gartic Phone's modes.

Add competitive guessing with skribbl.io

In skribbl.io, one person draws a chosen word and the others try to guess it. Points give the round a competitive goal. Its homepage offers a private-room option for friends.

This is a meaningful change even though both games involve drawing. You are trying to communicate a recognizable answer, rather than enjoying how an idea mutates through a chain. A group that loves the final telephone reveal may prefer staying with that format.

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Try a different kind of party game

Codenames Online is a possible change of pace if people want to keep interpreting clues but stop drawing. Connect over your usual call and share the online room.

Banana Society fits a more active change. Each player uses a desktop browser and keyboard. The group collects bananas while hidden Eaters eat, steal, and trip; councils turn those interactions into an argument about what happened.

Try Banana Society when the group wants suspicion and movement. Keep a drawing game when that is what everyone came to play. Its practice mode lets the host preview the controls before asking friends to switch.

Make switching easy on the group

Check device compatibility before the first activity ends. A friend drawing on a phone may need a computer for Banana Society. Do not discover that only after creating the next room.

Share one invitation, state which screen everyone should open, and explain only the objective and essential controls. A short learning round is usually easier to organize than asking people to absorb several games' rules at once.

The Discord party-game guide offers another way to compare formats for a group call.

Sources and review notes

Reviewed September 6, 2026 against the official sites for Gartic Phone, Drawphone, skribbl.io, and Codenames Online. Product descriptions are documented facts; the suggested activity sequence is our recommendation.