Games to Play With Your Girlfriend: 20 for Home, a Call or Late at Night

The best games to play with your girlfriend are the ones that get you both talking and laughing, not the ones with the best graphics. At home, start with Two Truths and a Lie, Would You Rather or a couples quiz; on a phone or FaceTime call, 20 Questions and Guess the Song need nothing but your voices; late at night, truth or dare and a couples dice game like Dirty Dice take over; and if you both game, a two-player co-op like It Takes Two beats any versus game. Below are 20 ideas sorted by where you are tonight, with what each one needs.

Games to play with your girlfriend at home

No board, no app, no setup. These work on the couch, at dinner or on a walk, and every one of them ends in a real conversation.

1. Two Truths and a Lie

Say three things about yourself, one false; she guesses the lie. Even after years together you'll find stories you never heard. Keep score across the evening and let the loser pick dessert.

2. Would You Rather

Two-option questions, the more specific the better: "Would you rather relive our first date or skip ahead to our next trip?" The rule that makes it work: always ask "why" after she answers.

3. How Well Do You Know Me

Each of you answers ten questions about the other (favourite childhood meal, worst job, the song she sings in the shower) and scores a point per right answer. Our couples quiz questions list has 100 to read out.

4. This or That, speed round

Ten pairs as fast as you can: beach or mountains, cook or order in, big wedding or small. No thinking allowed. Then go back to the two answers that surprised you.

5. Story Chain

One sentence each, building a story about the two of you: "We missed the last train home, so we…". It gets ridiculous in three turns, and it becomes an inside joke.

6. Recreate the photo

Pick an old photo of the two of you, or of her as a kid, and recreate it as exactly as you can. Take the new picture side by side. It's silly, it's free and it ends with something she'll actually post.

Games to play with your girlfriend on the phone or FaceTime

On a call you can't read each other's face, which makes guessing games harder and funnier. These need only your voices.

7. 20 Questions about the two of you

One of you thinks of a place you've been together, a gift or a song from your first month; the other gets 20 yes-or-no questions. It doubles as a memory test, and she'll notice what you remember.

8. Guess the Song

Hum or whistle, no lyrics; she guesses the title. Bad humming is half the game. It's also the easiest way to find out what she listens to when you're not around.

9. Where Am I?

Describe your surroundings without naming the place: the sounds, the smell, what's on the table. She guesses the room, the shop or the street. Best when one of you is out walking.

10. Rate My Day

Each of you rates the day out of 10, then tells the best and worst moment. It's a check-in that doesn't feel like one, and it makes a good nightly habit if you're long distance. For more two-city ideas, see our long distance couple games.

Games to play with your girlfriend at night

Late evenings are when flirty games land. Agree on the heat level first: a game she can say no to is a game she'll say yes to.

11. Truth or Dare

Mix sweet truths ("What did you think of me the first night?") with dares you can do on the couch. Our truth or dare questions for couples are sorted from cute to spicy, so you can start mild.

12. Never Have I Ever

Say something you've never done; if she has, she tells the story. Keep it light at first and turn it up later in the night.

13. Dirty Dice

Dirty Dice puts a couples dice game on your phone: one die picks a body part or a place, the other an action, so every roll is a new dare. You set the heat (Mild, Medium or Hot), and Date Mode builds the dares from warm-up to peak so nothing jumps too far too fast. Two decks are free, there's no account and no ads.

14. Kiss, Marry, Cuddle

A sweet take on the classic: name three things about her (her laugh, her cooking, her hoodie that's really yours) and she picks which she'd kiss, marry and cuddle. Then it's her turn.

15. Hot or Not, date edition

Name a date idea, she says hot or not in two seconds: sunset picnic, pottery class, bowling, staying in. You end the night with a shortlist for the next weekend.

App games for two phones

When she's at her place and you're at yours, a game that shows the same thing on both screens is the closest thing to sitting together.

16. Dirty Dice: Play apart

Dirty Dice's Play apart rooms run the same dice on two phones. You create a room and send her the invite link or the 6-character code (it works for 24 hours); she joins on her own phone and every roll lands on both screens at once, with a ping when it's her turn. She joins free and plays the decks you've unlocked. Stay on a call while you roll.

17. Closerly

Closerly is a couples app built for two phones. Pair once, then play live: truth or dare, this or that, Never Have I Ever and a "how well do you know me" quiz. A daily question you both answer before the reveal keeps you talking on the busy nights.

Video games to play with your girlfriend

If you both game, pick co-op over versus. Losing to each other gets old; solving something together doesn't.

18. It Takes Two

A two-player-only co-op adventure about a couple, where every level needs both of you. Its Friend's Pass lets one copy's owner invite the other to play online for free.

19. Stardew Valley

A calm farming game you can share a farm in, on the same screen or online. Good for a girlfriend who doesn't usually game: no reflexes needed, and you can play an hour or a whole Sunday.

20. Overcooked 2

A chaotic co-op cooking game where you shout orders at each other. It's either a test of teamwork or the funniest fight you'll ever have. Play a few levels, not a whole night.

How to pick the right game for her

• Match her energy, not yours. After a long day, a talking game beats a competitive one.
• Let her choose sometimes. A game she picked is a game she'll enjoy.
• Start mild. Easy questions first, flirty later, and the heat level is always hers to set.
• Make it a ritual. "Game night Thursdays" sticks better than "we should play something".

For a full evening plan with snacks and a running order, our date night games for couples at home post has one.

Common questions

What games can I play with my girlfriend without anything?
Two Truths and a Lie, Would You Rather, How Well Do You Know Me, This or That, Story Chain and 20 Questions all need nothing but the two of you.

What games can I play with my girlfriend over the phone or FaceTime?
20 Questions about the two of you, Guess the Song by humming, Where Am I, Rate My Day, and app games that show the same screen on both phones.

What is a good app to play games with your girlfriend?
Dirty Dice: Spicy Couple Games is a couples dice game with a heat filter, Date Mode and Play apart rooms for two phones, where your partner joins free. Closerly is a couples app with live games and a daily question.

What are fun games to play with your girlfriend at night?
Truth or dare, Never Have I Ever, Kiss Marry Cuddle and a couples dice game like Dirty Dice, starting mild and turning it up as the night goes on.

What video games can couples play together?
Co-op games work best: It Takes Two is made for two players, Stardew Valley is calm and beginner-friendly, and Overcooked 2 is fast and loud.