Two players are given a small line drawing to add to, something simple like a spiral or an arrow. While other games like Drawful and Tee K.O. have tended to emphasize an individual’s artistic ability, Civic Doodle is more collaborative. The last game in the pack is Civic Doodle, and it’s the artsy contribution to this year’s pack. I’m still not sure what the problem was, but was disappointed to have to sit this one out. The screen continued to change between rounds and my wife has the exact same phone, so I’m pretty sure it wasn’t the device’s fault. I tried rebooting the phone and using a Kindle Fire instead, but got the same result. Bizarrely, no one else in the room had the same issue. For some reason, the user interface wouldn’t load on my phone (a Samsung Galaxy Avant), displaying a blank white screen whenever it was time to send texts to other players or choose a potential partner. Unfortunately, I ran into some tech issues with this game. Monsters who do especially well during the first couple of rounds have their powers revealed to the group early, letting other players know what to watch out for. The twist is that each player starts with a human persona, but everyone is secretly a monster with a power that’ll affect how hearts are distributed at the end of the game. Players can send text messages through their device to gauge the interest of other players, making it more likely they’ll find someone who wants to date them back. Next up is Monster Seeking Monster, a supernatural dating game that’s sort of like Werewolf meets Mystery Date. The object is to collect more hearts than the other players by going on the most successful dates. We all agreed this had been handled better in Use Your Words, with silly photos that better lent themselves to cracking jokes. My group didn’t care for this mode since most of the pictures were a little too bland to be funny. The final round is always a photo round, using stock pictures and encouraging each player to make up an embarrassing instagram caption. We had fun with this game, though the prompts were slightly too situational for my group’s tastes. The low-poly, mid ’90s aesthetic brought me right back to my first Gateway PC, and humorous popup ads and a parody of Microsoft’s Clippy pop up before answer time to entertain the audience.
At the end of a round, everyone votes on which combination they enjoyed most, with points going to the person who crafted the best burn and some pity points for their victim. Another player is then given your answer and told to make up a different prompt which will make the first player look foolish. Each player is provided a prompt and told to answer honestly- in the example above, I was asked what I thought of Wonder Woman.
The second game listed is Survive the Internet, and it’s all about twisting your friends’ words and making them look silly.
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