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TSDAdam

Question / Advice: My small group of friends who've met-up once a week for 20+ years need something web-based to stay sane during lockdown. What do you play remotely with friends in a browser?

Me and three friends have gotten together every week for over 20 years now to play games. In the past it's been whatever the current consoles are, but now we're all stuck inside for the foreseeable future, and want to stay in touch.

I'd love to find something web-based (two of them on PS4 these days, another Xbox, me on PC) that we can get together to have a laugh on a few hours a week. I thought of setting up something on something like Roll20, but getting them to buy into proper RPG will be hard. So I'm open to suggestions really. Roll20-lite would be cool, but I'm not sure what's out there.

What do other members here play to stay in contact remotely, that requires nothing more than web browser?

Posted Mar 18, 2020, 10:05 AM UTC

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shrimply137•

Why not find a crossplay game to play?

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mmoqueen•

Town of Salem is perfect for this. Just don't meta game if you're voice chatting etc.

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TSDAdamOP•

I'll check it out, on first glance looks a bit like Werewolf etc?

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mmoqueen•

Yeah, it's exactly like that. I haven't played in a while, but I recommend the gamemode with vampires, bodyguards, transporter etc because it's more chaotic haha. I think the original gamemode was just 1 serial killer and 3 or 4 mafias as bad guys - which can at times be too easy for townies with a smart lobby.

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NumbskullVitamin•

If you can't afford Salem Mafia is free and me and my friends play it all the time, it's amazing

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haxalroz•

But be careful as town of salem can break friendship

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RugbyEddPC•

Could look into something like tabletop simulator

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TSDAdamOP•

Yeah I like the look of it, I've had it in Steam for ages, but AFAIK it's not browser based

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[deleted]•

skribbl.io is good web browser fun

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mpf138•

Age of empires 2 for pc/Xbox live might be good. Or even if you all have terrible PC’s you could join an Ultima Online free server (Outlands, Renaissance, etc) and it will run fine. If you aren’t familiar with that game have a look, might check your boxes if you are used to D&D type things.

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TSDAdamOP•

My friend lost years of his life to UO way back when :)

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cryogenblue•

DnD with a roll20 account/app https://roll20.net/

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[deleted]•

Bloons

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