Long Distance Relationship Games: 15 Online Games to Play Together

The best long distance relationship games let you play on separate phones while you talk: How Well Do You Know Me, Word Chain, Spectrum Guess and couples Truth or Dare all run in a private CardYard Room for two. For a quick game over text, send each other Would You Rather or This or That questions.

Below are 15 games for long distance couples, sorted by how you're connected: on a video call, by text, or for a planned date night.

Key takeaways

• For FaceTime or video calls, open a private CardYard Room: one of you hosts with Premium and the other joins free, so one plan covers you both.

• How Well Do You Know Me and Spectrum Guess test how well you know each other; Word Chain and Hue Hunt add friendly competition.

• Over text, send Would You Rather, This or That or Two Truths and a Lie prompts; they need no app.

• Every game here runs in a phone browser with no download.

Long distance relationship games at a glance

Games to play on FaceTime or a video call

Start a call, then open a CardYard Room and share the six-character code. Each of you sees your own screen, so answers stay secret until the reveal.

1. How Well Do You Know Me

In How Well Do You Know Me, one of you answers a pack of multiple-choice questions in private, and the other predicts the answers before they're revealed one by one. Pick the couples deck, one of seven free decks. Our How Well Do You Know Me questions list has more ideas.

2. Spectrum Guess

Spectrum Guess online asks one of you to give a clue for a hidden point on a scale, like "romantic to practical," and the other sets a dial to guess where it sits. It works with two players and shows how alike you think.

3. Word Chain

Word Chain is a two-player race to link compound words and phrases, like water, bottle, cap. Play a duel in a private Room, first to three links wins.

4. Hue Hunt

In Hue Hunt, one of you picks a secret color and gives a short clue, and the other guesses on a board of 480 colors. It's calm, visual and good for a slower evening.

5. Truth or Dare

Truth or Dare online shows each prompt to both of you and keeps turns even. Pick a couples deck, keep dares doable over a camera, and see Truth or Dare questions for couples for more.

6. Never Have I Ever

Take turns reading Never Have I Ever statements and confess on camera. Choose a clean or spicy deck depending on the night.

7. Blind Ranking

Blind Ranking shows five surprise items one at a time, and you each lock a rank before seeing the next. Compare your lists at the end and argue about the differences.

Games to play over text

These games need no app: copy a prompt from CardYard and send it.

8. Would You Rather

Send a Would You Rather question and wait for the answer, then ask why. Set a theme like travel, food or your future plans for prompts that fit you two.

9. This or That

Fire off quick pairs, like beach or mountains, from the This or That questions list. It works well for a few minutes between classes or meetings.

10. Two Truths and a Lie

Send three facts about your day or your childhood, one made up, and let your partner guess the lie. Two Truths and a Lie also runs as a game with scores if you play on a call.

11. Red Flag or Green Flag

Send a dating scenario from Red Flag Green Flag and decide together whether it's a red flag or a green flag. Expect a debate.

12. 21 Questions

Take turns asking each other 21 questions. Mix light ones with the questions you've never asked.

Date-night games for long distance couples

13. Match the Room with friends

Invite friends to Match the Room and see whether you and your partner give the same answers as the group. It turns a call with friends into a double date.

14. Online chess or checkers

A free chess or checkers site gives you a slow game to play over a few days, one move at a time.

15. Watch-and-guess movie night

Start the same movie at the same time, pause it every 20 minutes, and guess what happens next. The closest guess picks the next movie.

For more two-player ideas, see our online games for couples and couples party games.