An alternative to AirConsole and Jackbox

What is the same

• The game is shown on a TV, laptop or projector
• Each player uses their own phone as the controller
• Players join by scanning a code, with no controllers to buy

What is different about Our Console

• All 21 games are included, with no purchase and no subscription
• No app and no account, for the host or for the players
• Phones talk straight to the screen over your own WiFi, which keeps the delay very low for racing and football
• 12 of the 21 games can be played alone, and 8 of those add computer opponents
• Games from Indian homes: Carrom, the Kerala card game 28, Housie, cricket, and dumb charades with Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and English films
• A tournament mode: five games, each picked by a vote on the phones, and one champion

When the others are the better choice

Our Console has 21 games. AirConsole and Jackbox have much larger catalogues. Our Console has a few drawing and writing games (Sketch It, Fake Out and Odd One Out); they have many more. If you want a wide library, or you play with people who are not in the same room, one of them will suit you better.

Our Console is made for people in one room on one WiFi network who want to start playing within a minute.

The 21 games

• Turbo Circuit (solo or up to 8): top-down 3D racing with drifting, item boxes and a rocket start
• Goal Rush (solo or up to 8): 3D football in two teams, first to three goals
• Snake Arena (solo or up to 8): one shared board, 60-second rounds, longest snake plus KOs wins
• Penalty Shootout (solo or up to 8): shooter against keeper, while everyone else calls the side
• Super Over (solo or up to 8): bat one over of cricket while the others bowl and call each ball
• Sumo Smash (solo or up to 8): 3D shoving on a ring that crumbles from the edge
• Blast Grid (solo or up to 8): drop bombs, break crates and knock the others out
• Paint Wars (solo or up to 8): paint the floor and close loops; most floor after 60 seconds wins
• Trivia (solo or up to 8): vote for a category, then five questions from easy to hard
• Math Rush (solo or up to 8): five sums and a closest-guess final; with friends, a streak lets you freeze a rival
• Memory Code (solo or up to 8): repeat a growing colour sequence; players who are out flash fake colours
• Most Likely To (3 to 8): vote for who fits the prompt and guess who the room will pick
• Hot Bomb (3 to 8): hold the bomb for points and throw it on before it blows
• Fake Out (3 to 8): write fake answers to true facts and find the real one
• Odd One Out (4 to 8): find the player who does not know the secret word
• Mafia Night (5 to 8): secret roles; the Mafia strike by night and the town votes by day
• Sketch It (3 to 8): draw a secret word on your phone while the others guess
• Act It Out (4 to 8): dumb charades with films, in two teams
• Carrom (solo or up to 4): point carrom, flicking the striker from your phone
• 28 (exactly 4): the Kerala trick-taking card game for two teams of two
• Housie (2 to 8): tambola with your own ticket on your phone

Questions

Is there a free alternative to AirConsole?

Yes. Our Console has 21 games with no purchase or subscription. It runs in the browser and uses phones as controllers in the same way.

Is there a free game like Jackbox?

Our Console has party games played with phones on a shared screen, with nothing to buy: a drawing game (Sketch It), a bluffing game where you write fake answers (Fake Out), a hidden word game, Mafia, dumb charades, a voting game, a hot-potato game and trivia.

Does Our Console work for players in different places?

No. It is made for players in the same room, connected to the same WiFi as the big screen.