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13 Great Games Like Heads Up!

Our experts have spent time searching for great games similar to Heads Up!. We also offer games selected by matching genre and age rating.

Heads Up! is a word-guessing game where one person holds the tablet or smartphone on their forehead and guesses the word it displays from clues given by the other players. The others confirm if they got it right or wrong and they flip the smartphone up or down to indicate, whereupon the next word is displayed.

Unfortunately, Heads Up! is not available on Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One or Xbox Series X|S. However, we recommend the following games that offer a similar experience or theme:

Heads Up!

Game Details

Content Rating: PEGI 3

Skill Rating: 4-12 year-olds

Release Date: 16/10/2013

Platforms: Android and iOS

Genres: Puzzle and Turn-Based

Developer: @Impending

Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room

Costs: Purchase cost. In-game purchases

Hand Picked Games Like Heads Up!

These are our hand-picked games similar to Heads Up!. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we identify games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Heads Up!. These selections also include games that offer a different experience but address a similar theme or topic.

Scribble It

Expected Content Rating: PEGI 3

Release Date: 20/10/2020

Price: Free

Platforms: Mac and PC

Genres: Creative and Puzzle

Accessibility: 26 features

Developer: @DetachOfficial

Players: This is a single player game. You can play with up to 16 players online

Scribble It is a digital take on the classic board game Pictionary. You take turns drawing a word as the other players try to be the first one to guess it. The benefit is that you don't have to be in the same place to play. Also, there's the added...

Triple Agent

Content Rating: PEGI 3

Release Date: 20/07/2017, updated in 2019

Price: Free

Platforms: Android and iOS

Genres: Puzzle and Role-Playing

Developer: @Tasty_Rook

Players: You can play with 9 players in the same room

Triple Agent is a parlour-style game that uses one device passed between 5-9 players, assigning them either an agent or double-agent role as the game starts. There are tip-offs from the game about other players, the discussion around the table with each...

Bounden

Content Rating: PEGI 3

Release Date: 21/05/2014

Platforms: Android and iOS

Genres: Physically Active and Puzzle

Developer: @AdriaandeJongh

Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room

Bounden is a smartphone dance game that gets players to use their bodies. Two people hold opposite ends of one smartphone then move together to keep a cursor over the ball.

Spaceteam

Spaceteam (Series)

Content Rating: PEGI 3

Release Date: 01/12/2012

Price: Free

Platforms: Android and iOS

Genres: Action, Physically Active and Puzzle

Developer: @Hengineer

Players: You can play with 8 players in the same room

Players pilot a spaceship, each with their own control panel on their smartphone or tablet screen. The switches, dials, sliders and levers are labelled with randomly-generated peculiar names: ‘Astral Synth’, ‘Gripvent’, ‘Starmesh’,...

Dragon Box

Content Rating: PEGI 3

Skill Rating: 6-10 year-olds

Release Date: 09/05/2012

Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS

Genres: Puzzle

Developer: @DragonBox

Players: This is a single player game

DragonBox is an educational series of games that teaches young children maths, such as algebra using pattern matching with symbols. Unlike other educational games, the fun is in the doing in DragonBox, rather than incentivising learning with separate...

Here Kitty!

Content Rating: Not rated by PEGI

Skill Rating: 4-10 year-olds

Release Date: 04/05/2020

Price: Free

Platforms: iOS

Genres: Action, Physically Active and Puzzle

Accessibility: 15 features

Developer: @Impending

Players: This is a single player game

Here Kitty! is a real-world hide and seek game you play by hiding your phone. It's from the same team behind Heads Up. When the child calls out or gets near the phone makes cat noises to give them clues to find it. When it's...

Cricket Through The Ages

Content Rating: Not rated by PEGI

Release Date: 03/10/2019

Platforms: Mac and iPhone, iPad

Genres: Action and Sports

Accessibility: 9 features

Developer: @DevolverDigital

Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room

Cricket Through the Ages is a competitive sport game themed around cricket but with little to do with the rules of that game. Players face off and aim for each other as much as wickets. Controls work by holding or tapping the screen to spin limbs and...

Prune

Content Rating: PEGI 3

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Release Date: 15/11/2015

Platforms: Android and iOS

Genres: Puzzle and Simulation

Developer: @Mcdjoel

Players: This is a single player game

Prune involves slicing, but here you must carefully cut off tree branches to encourage the tree to grow in a particular direction. It starts simply but turns into a challenge for parents and young children to work on together.

Games Like Heads Up! Based on Genre

These are games of a similar genre mix to Heads Up!. This includes games from the Puzzle and Turn-Based genres. We pick out games of a similar PEGI rating to further hone these generated suggestions.

Heads Up! is in These Lists

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Work Together to Thrive

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.

Donkey Kong Country Returns

Chicory: A Colorful Tale

Rogue Heroes: Ruins of Tasos

Mechstermination Force

Degrees of Separation

Street Power Football

Journey to the Savage Planet

Sackboy: A Big Adventure

Sky Children of the Light

Affordable Space Adventures

Tick Tock: A Tale For Two

Overcooked

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes

Lovers In A Dangerous Spacetime

Redfall

Back 4 Blood

Divinity: Original Sin II

Escape from Tarkov

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Seige

Get Children Talking

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.

Tick Tock: A Tale For Two

Heads Up!

That's You!

Overcooked

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes

Spaceteam

Triple Agent

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