15 Online Games to Play with Coworkers

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• In any given work environment, team-building activities are great for boosting morale, improving teamwork, and boosting team performances. With many jobs being online or remote, there is still a need to have these exercises to bring your team together.
• These online team building games for remote employees do not need to be a frequent occurrence but rather scheduled every once in a while or every time a new member joins the team – you can use these as a way of welcoming them to the team and also provide an icebreaker.
• In this article, we have compiled 15 games for remote employees that can be played online with multiple players as well as solo players.

It is relatively easy to play games virtually these days with most games being available on most, if not all, platforms. According to a study conducted in 2019, 60% of people preferred gaming on their Personal Computers as opposed to anything else. This means that a lot of video game developers develop games that are also suitable for PC and this means that all the games on this list will be available on PC.

The Most Important Gaming Platforms in 2019. Source: Statista.com

ONLINE COLLABORATIVE GAMES

1. Call of Duty

One of the best online games for coworkers is Call of Duty. The game is set in World War 2 and you have to fight with your team and protect each other from the enemy and finish various missions together. This is a great game for collaboration and teamwork because it teaches the players to work together for the common good and to reach their goals.

2. Murder in Ancient Egypt

Murder in Ancient Egypt is a great game to enhance teamwork because it encourages the team to work together in order to solve a murder mystery using puzzles, escape rooms, and various problem-solving games to reveal who the culprit of the crime is.

3. War of the Wizards

Another game that is good for team building for online group games for work is War of the Wizards. This is a collaborative storytelling game that focuses on magic and wisdom. When playing this game, the team becomes minions to Wizards who have been at war for a long time, and as the wizards’ minions, the team must collect magic items, overcome some obstacles set in their way, and even cast spells in order to create a strategy with the ultimate goal being able to collect two ‘Last Wizard Standing’ tokens. The game can last up to 90 minutes with one of the team members being a facilitator and leading the team to the ultimate goal.

4. Fortnite

Another one of the best online team-building games is Fortnite. Fortnite is a battle royale game that offers challenges for teams to play and win together. This is great for team building because the team will have to work together while following instructions on how to stay alive and win the game.

ONLINE GAMES WITH COWORKERS

5. Grand Theft Auto V Online

Grand Theft Auto V Online is a game that allows up to 8 people in a team to take on massive boss battles or get the chance to explore the dungeons. It allows for group play with the best and/or new players leveling up to new content when a mission is completed. There is a lot of reading and instructions that come with the game which makes it fun and also easy to follow along and play.

6. Virtual Charades

To play virtual Charades, you will divide your team into smaller teams of two. You can use Google images or a random image generator to find pictures that one of the team members can act out to the other who should try to guess what the image could be in order to gain points. The best thing about virtual Charades is that it is a familiar game with everyone and it has been a staple game across all boards for many generations.

7. Online Trivia

A good game that works best for online teamwork games is Online Trivia. Just like regular Trivia, you will divide your work team up into two or three small teams, you will have a games master who will facilitate the game and ask the questions. Since it is being played online, the teams can have their own private chat rooms where they can discuss the answers to the questions asked freely without interfering with each other. 

To make this even more interesting, you can add alcohol to the mix and the losing team has to take an agreed-upon amount of shots. This would be a very fun game for the end of the workweek – just so people can unwind, have fun, and connect with each other as humans and not coworkers.

8. Words With Friends 2

Words with Friends is a great online game to play with coworkers. It is fun, simple, and can take up to 10 people at a time to play – divided into two teams of five people. The game is similar to Scrabble where you are given letters and you have to make words out of the letters given to you. The team with the best word score wins the game.

FREE ONLINE TEAM GAMES

9. Online Bingo

Online Bingo is one of the office games that you can play for free. This can be a good starter game to your office game nights. It is fun and familiar with people of all ages which means it is inclusive of people across all age ranges. To play online Bingo, you will have to make a sheet or board listing a couple of things that normally happen around your work environment; for example “answered a phone call, did chair yoga, did eye strain exercise…” and other such statements. After you have made the Bingo board, you will distribute it to your team and establish what the rules of the game are going to be, you will then set up a timeline on how long it will take to play the game, and finally after the game is done being played, the facilitator or games master will award points to those who did well and if possible award prizes.

10. Virtual Werewolf

Virtual werewolf is a good worker game to play online because it relies on you and your team to be able to save a village from werewolves. However, you – or one of your teammates – could be a werewolf and it would be the responsibility of the team to find out which one is the werewolf and try to stop them before they wreak more havoc on the village. This game is similar to Among Us – which can be replaced or added to your list of games to play online with coworkers.

11. Typing Speed Race

Typing Speed Race is one of those online remote games that promote a little bit of friendly competition amongst coworkers. To play this game fairly, use a typing tool like typingtest.com so you can keep track of how fast each team member can type per minute. To make it even more fun, you can have special prizes that will be awarded to the top 3 fastest typers.

12. Quick Draw

Quick Draw is the virtual game equivalent to Pictionary where you draw a picture and the people on your team try to guess what you are trying to communicate by what you have drawn. The good thing about quickdraw is that it can be played on several online office services such as Zoom, Webex, Skype, and Slack.

VIRTUAL GAMES TO PLAY WITH COWORKERS

13. Truth or Dare

Truth or Dare is one of the interesting virtual games for coworkers who are trying to be a little more comfortable with each other. Depending on what type of people are playing, you can either involve alcohol or not. To play the game, a facilitator or games master will go around the room or conference asking each and every player ‘truth or dare?’ the person then gets to choose one of the options and the games master has to provide the person with either a question that requires the other person to answer truthfully or dare them to do something – which they must do. If alcohol is involved, the person might choose to not do the dare or say the truth and in this case, they will be required to take shots of whatever alcoholic beverage they are drinking.

14. Ten Strikes

Ten Strikes is a mixture of ‘Put a Finger Down’ and ‘Never Have I Ever’ wrapped into one game. To play, every player holds up all ten of their fingers and each player goes around saying something that they have either done or have never done. If someone has done that thing before, they put a finger down. With every statement being made, all of the other players put their fingers down if it applies to them until they run out of fingers and they are essentially out of the game.

15. The Question Game

This is one of the free online multiplayer team games and to play the Question Game all you need is to reply to a question with another question. For example, one player will say “Hi Phil, how is work going?” and another player will say “I’m supposed to be working?” and a third player will retort “Haven’t you been working all this time?” and so on. If a player answers the question with an answer and not a question, they are out of the game.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

• What are some of the best online games to play at work?

Assuming that you have nothing else to do at work and you would like to kill some time playing video games, here is a list of some of the best online games to play at work;

• Solitaire; you can never go wrong with any of the Solitaire games. They are free and do not require an internet connection to be played. They are also easy to play and learn if you have never played before.
• Plants v. Zombies; this classic game will have you create a defense barricade using plants to kill off the zombies that are coming to your house. The aim is to try and stop them from making it to your front lawn and eating you. It is a fun way to spend time away from work.
• Candy Crush; the best thing about this game is that it can be played on mobile phones and so can literally be played anywhere and no one would know you were playing a game unless they leaned over and saw your screen. Candy Crush is such an addictive game so you might want to be careful not to spend all your work time playing the game

There are a lot of other games that you can play during your break at work or when you are having a slow day. We hope that the ones provided will help you kill off some time.

• What are some suggestions of fun games to play virtually?

Of all the fun games to play virtually, most of which have been covered in this article, we shall add on a few more. These games are sure to bring out the fun whether you are playing alone or with your office buddies; Cards Against Humanity, 20 Questions, Most Likely To, and Heads Up.

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CONCLUSION

In conclusion, this article has provided you 15 games to play with virtual teams when you want to bond with coworkers while working from home. There are also some additional games that can be played solo and others that only require 2 or 3 other players. These games are aimed at improving teamwork and collaboration and bringing the entire team together so they can work seamlessly with each other

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