ACT OUT

Act it out. Guess it. Lose your mind laughing.

Play charades online as the worst mime ever to take a stage. Your body is a floppy ragdoll, your friends are typing "ladder", and speaking is against the rules.

How a round goes

The curtain closes. You get a secret word — only you can see it.

The curtain rises. Now you have a stage, a crowd, a timer, and a puppet that does not want to help you.

Everyone else races to type the answer. The fastest guess scores the most. Your job is simply to be understood.

You will not be good at this

That's the point. Nobody looks competent doing this, and the worst performances get the biggest laughs. There is nothing to practise and no skill to grind — the person who has never played is often the funniest one in the room.

Every limb is yours to ruin

• Aim each arm separately with the mouse, or flap them both like wings
  
• Kick a leg out, bend at the waist, nod, shake your head
  
• Freeze a pose and build the next one on top of it
  
• Go completely limp at any moment
  
• Stick to a wall and keep posing up there
  
• Leave a frozen statue of yourself on stage next to you
  
• Grab props in either hand — heavy ones visibly drag you down

Bring your own words

Hundreds of words across 12 categories, or write your own pack right in the game: paste a list, set the difficulty, done. Share it on the Workshop in one click.

Guessing works in any writing system, so a pack in your own language plays exactly as well as the English one.

Bring your own stage

Five stages, from a living room to an abandoned space base. Or build your own in Blender and publish it — light it yourself, throw out the theater's walls, do whatever you want with the space.

Also in there

• 3–10 players, Steam invites, and a server browser
  
• Push-to-talk voice chat — except the performer's mic is cut while they perform
  
• A podium with awards nobody asked for, like Most Wrong Guesses