In addition to the similar games listed above, which have been linked to this game specifically in the database, you may find games with a similar theme to Heads Up! in the following lists:
Play is more fun when it’s shared. This is as true about video games as it is when building a massive sandcastle on the beach or playing hopscotch in the playground. Finding brilliant team games is a great way to involve more people in the fun and share the experience together as a family. More experienced players naturally help novices contribute to the team.
Along with teamwork, the games I’ve selected here use the fact that players are all sitting next to each other.
These are games where players take on different roles in order to complete unusual tasks. The fun is often as much about the conversations (and arguments) that happen in the room as what’s happening on the screen.
Most video games are about what happens on the screen. Or that's what it's easy to assume. However, the best multiplayer experiences are as much about interactions between the other players in the real world. Whether you are set next to you opponent on the sofa, or chatting to them online, deciding whether to trust them and how best to get the better of them is a lot of fun.
The games in this list, take this aspect of all video games, and make it a central part of the play. It includes games where you need to pause the action and talk about who's the murderer, like
Among Us. Or they require you to talk to each other to decipher how not to die like
Keep Talking and Nobody Dies. Then there are games where you need to talk to co-ordinate your strategy like
Wilmot's Warehouse and
Conduct Together.
It can seem that all children do these days is stare at their screens and play video games. We worry about screen time and what the violence, addiction and gambling is doing to their brains.
However, along with screen time comes many other things we can celebrate. All kids do these days is talking to other. All kids do these days is learn the skills of rhetoric and debating. All kids do these days is develop their social confidence.
It sounds a little far fetched, but watching my kids play the new “hit” game Among Us I’ve realised these are exactly the sorts of things they are really developing when they are sat staring at their screens.
Here are some great examples where you need to talk, and talk intelligently and intelligibly, to do well in the game.
