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Ask HN: Fun video games for remote 15 person team bonding/fun?

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I'm running a remote team. We did zoom happy hours/hang outs for a while and got bored from having unstructured and undirected hangout times. We replaced this with team "among us" games, which was very engaging and everyone enjoyed. Our team grew, and we outgrew among us (more than 15 people on the team now, larger among us games didn't work well) and I'm looking for some larger scale ~15 - 30 person games we can play together. Pretty open to any suggestions here.

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marcalc
GeoGuessr has been pretty fun for my team during remote hangouts. Highly recommend for the engagement of a very diverse multicultural team.
proc0
I've been wondering what it would be like to have a team event in Factorio. It's not a popular game in this regard, but I have a feeling if everyone in the team likes games, it could be a great team-building experience since it would be building a factory together.
cblconfederate
You can run opensimulator (second life server) and have your office server to chat and build or just hang out and dance. The viewer is generally lightweight so most users should have no problem joining
chunkles
Another game in this genre is Satisfactory.
matt_s
No advice, but question: did you have people that aren’t into gaming and how did that work?
0xB31B1B
yes, I personally am not into gaming at all. "Among us" is a goofy game that I'm terrible at. I've found that having some structure to hangouts by having a very simple thing to do together has made the actual bonding part much better.
mobilio
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory.

Free, open source. I'm using mod ET:Legacy. Can run on Windows, Linux and macOS. Lightweight - because game was published like 20 years ago.

There are lot of servers.

crate_barre
Lol, bro open Steam. Video games aren’t some niche thing that you need to ask advice about. You sound like a parent that doesn’t listen to their kids. There’s probably 10 people on your team or in your company that can shoot off some ideas.
bradknowles
This question assumes that everyone wants to play video games.

I’m not at all convinced that assumption is valid.

Either way, why not just ask the team members what they would like to do as a team bonding exercise?

LarryMade2
So 15 person games

- BZFlag comes to mind, if you get shot you respawn so no one is on the sidelines.

- If people are not into shooters you might consider some virtual world activities like something on Second Life or other virtual world simulator.

RecentlyThawed
Gartic Phone can be up to 30 players I think. It's like the game of telephone mixed with pictionary. It's browser based so you can play on mobile/tablet/pc. https://garticphone.com/
FranksTV
Jackbox Part Packs have some great games that can handle up to 20.