Party Games

Q: Do we need more than one phone?

No. Every game in Party Games runs on a single iPhone or iPad. Duels split the screen so two people play at once; the party games pass the phone from hand to hand. There is no online multiplayer and nothing to pair.

Q: Can I play alone?

Yes. All eight duels have an optional robot opponent with three difficulty levels, so you can practise solo or give a younger player a fair match. The three party games — Imposter, Hot Potato and Charades — need a group.

Q: Is it free? Are there ads or in-app purchases?

Party Games is free to download and all eleven games are free to play. It is supported by ads: a short full-screen ad can appear between games, when you leave a result screen — at most every few games, never during play and never in a new player's first few matches. There are no banners. The optional in-app purchases are themed word packs (Fantasy, Space, Wild Animals, Fruit & Veg), each adding a new category to Charades and Imposter, and the Party Pass, which includes every current and future pack. They are one-time purchases, not subscriptions, and work with Family Sharing — and buying any of them turns the ads off. You can also watch a short video to play a locked word pack free for one hour.

One phone. Eleven games. Everyone plays. Eight face-to-face duels and three pass-the-phone party games for families and friends — on a single iPhone or iPad. All eleven games free, no accounts — and ads only between games, never during play.

Free · Ads between games only · Optional word packs · iPhone & iPad · iOS 17+ · Ages 4+

Party Games home screen — a colourful grid of all eleven games, the duels on top and the party games below, with the trophy cup score in the corner

An illustrated How to play screen — a simple picture and two lines of rules shown before a game starts, with a big Play button

Ping Pong duel — the screen split top and bottom, one paddle per player, the ball mid-rally and the score for each side

Charades — a word card held to the forehead, with the timer counting down and tap or tilt to mark it right or pass

Imposter — the pass-the-phone reveal screen telling one player the secret word and the imposter only the category

Hot Potato — a glowing potato ready to be passed, the hidden fuse burning down before it goes off in someone's hands

At a glance

The facts, in one place.

Party Games is a free, family-friendly party game collection by Schnalz Studio for one iPhone or iPad. It contains eleven games — eight two-player duels (playable solo against a robot) and three pass-the-phone games for 3 to 8 people — works fully offline and needs no account. All eleven games are free, supported by short ads that appear only between games; the only in-app purchases are optional word packs for Charades and Imposter, and buying any of them turns the ads off.

Players

1–8 on one device. Duels are for two (or one vs. the robot); Imposter takes 3–8; Hot Potato and Charades take any group.

Games

11 in total — 8 face-to-face duels and 3 pass-the-phone party games. Every one opens with an illustrated How to play screen.

Platforms

iPhone and iPad, portrait. iOS 17 or later. No Android version.

Price

Free to download, and all eleven games are free to play, with short ads between games. No subscriptions. Optional one-time word packs add new categories to Charades and Imposter — buying any pack or the Party Pass turns the ads off.

Offline

Yes, fully. No accounts, no servers of ours, no internet needed to play. Buying a word pack goes online through Apple's App Store; ads need a connection too, and without one they simply don't show.

Age

Rated 4+. Made for families, friends, classrooms and grown-ups at a party. No chat, no strangers. Ads only between games, non-personalised and limited to general-audience content.

Solo play

All 8 duels have an optional robot opponent with three difficulty levels: easy, medium and hard.

Publisher

Schnalz Studio (Schnalz Digital), Hong Kong. Bundle id com.schnalz.partygames.

How it works

Pick a game. Pass the phone. Play.

No pairing, no sign-in, no second device. If you can hand someone a phone, you can start a game.

1 · Pick a game

Choose one of eight duels or three party games from the home screen. All eleven are free to play.

2 · Learn it in ten seconds

Every game opens with an illustrated How to play screen — a picture and a couple of lines. Even first-timers get it.

3 · Face off or pass it on

Duels split the screen so two people play at once. Party games pass the phone around the room. The trophy cup keeps score.

The duels

Eight ways to settle it.

Two players, one screen, face to face. Or take on the robot at easy, medium or hard.

Ping Pong

Classic bat-and-ball. Slide your paddle, angle the return, first to the target score wins.

Air Hockey

Fast, slippery and loud. Guard your goal, hammer the puck, and watch the rebounds.

Tic Tac Toe

Three in a row, the game everyone already knows — with a robot that gets sneaky on hard.

Sumo

Shove your opponent out of the ring before they shove you. Timing beats strength.

Fast Finger

A reaction game. Wait for the signal, tap first — and don't jump the gun.

Light Cycles

A neon bike duel. Leave a light trail, turn hard, and make the other rider crash into it first.

Mini Golf

A 3-hole 3D course. Pull back, aim and putt — fewest strokes takes the round.

Snowball Fight

Duck, aim and throw. Land more snowballs than you take before the timer runs out.

The party games

Three games for the whole room.

Pass-the-phone games for groups — the kind that make a car ride, a sleepover or a family dinner go loud.

Imposter

Find the spy. Everyone sees the secret word — except one player, who only knows the category. Ask questions, bluff, vote. For 3 to 8 players.

Hot Potato

Pass the phone fast — the fuse is hidden and nobody knows when it blows. Whoever is holding it is out. Last one standing wins the round.

Charades

Act it out. Hold the phone to your forehead, teammates shout guesses, tap or tilt to mark right or pass. Free-for-all or teams mode.

Optional word packs

More words for Charades and Imposter.

Every game is free and complete without them. If your group wants fresh words, each themed pack adds a new category to both Charades and Imposter. Packs are one-time purchases, not subscriptions, and are shared with your family through Family Sharing. Buying any pack, or the Party Pass, also turns off the ads between games.

Fantasy

Dragons, wizards and fairy tales.

Space

Rockets, robots and aliens.

Wild Animals

From lions to ladybugs.

Fruit & Veg

Juicy, crunchy and fun to act out.

The Party Pass includes every current and future word pack. Prices are shown in the app and on the App Store and vary by country. Want to try one first? Watch a short video to play a locked pack free for one hour. Already bought a pack? Restore it any time in the app's Settings.

Features

Made for a crowd. Safe for everyone.

Big, colourful and immediate — with nothing in the way while you play.

How to play, every time

An illustrated rules screen before each game. Nobody has to explain anything — hand it over and go.

Robot opponent

Play any duel solo against the robot — easy for the little ones, hard for the bragging rights.

Trophy cup

A running score between two players across every duel. Best of the evening takes the cup.

Haptics, sound & music

Every hit, goal and blast has a buzz and a sound. Music and effects can be turned off in Settings.

iPhone & iPad

Portrait on both — a phone for two heads bent over it, an iPad for the whole table.

Nothing in the way of play

Offline, no accounts. All eleven games are unlocked from the first launch. A short ad can appear between games, never during one, and any word pack or the Party Pass turns the ads off.

Privacy

Nothing comes to us.

Party Games is a game for one device. Here is the little it stores, what the ads that keep it free involve, and what we never see.

Short version: We collect no personal data. There are no accounts, no servers of ours for the app and no analytics. The app shows ads between games, served by Google AdMob; to show them, Google may process limited data such as your IP address and device identifiers. The ads are non-personalised, and the app never asks for permission to track you. Buying any word pack or the Party Pass turns the ads off.

Party Games is published by Schnalz Studio (Schnalz.net / Schnalz Digital), based in Hong Kong, which is the controller for the app's own handling of data described here; Google's processing for ads is governed by Google's policies, linked below. For anything privacy-related, use the support form below. Last updated 15 October 2026.

No account

There is no sign-up, no username and no password. Open the app and play. We never ask for your name, email address, phone number or age.

What the app stores on your device

Only game state: the trophy-cup score between two players, the robot difficulty you last picked, player names or team names you type in for the party games, and your sound, music and haptics settings. All of it stays in the app's local storage, is deleted when you delete the app, and can be reset from inside Settings at any time. Names entered for a round are just labels for that session — they are not linked to anything. So that ads stay spaced out, the app also counts the games played and remembers when the last ad was shown, along with the end time of any word-pack trial you unlocked by watching a video. These stay on the device too.

Motion sensors

Charades can be controlled by tilting the device. Tilt uses the built-in motion sensors on-device only, purely to detect the "correct" and "pass" gestures. Motion data is never recorded or transmitted, and you can use tap controls instead.

Advertising

From version 1.2, Party Games shows ads so that all eleven games can stay free. A short full-screen ad can appear only between games, when you leave a result screen — never during play, never in a new player's first few matches, and at most every few games. There are no banners. Buying any word pack or the Party Pass turns these ads off. Separately, you can choose to watch a short video to play a locked word pack free for one hour; that video only plays when you tap to watch it.

The ads are served by Google AdMob through the Google Mobile Ads SDK, which the app includes. To show ads, Google may process your IP address (from which a coarse location can be derived), device identifiers such as the identifier for vendors, data about your interactions with ads, and diagnostic data such as crash and performance information. Because the app never asks for tracking permission, the device's advertising identifier is not available to it. The app requests non-personalised ads only, limited to content suitable for general audiences. None of this data comes to us. Google's handling of it is governed by Google's own policies: How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services and the Google Privacy Policy.

Your choices in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland

If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, Google's consent form is shown before any ad is requested. You can change your choices at any time in the app under Settings → Privacy choices.

Analytics and tracking

We run no analytics and no crash-reporting service of our own, and the app never shows Apple's tracking permission prompt. Apart from the ad processing described above and purchases handled by Apple, nothing about you or the people you play with leaves the device.

Purchases

All eleven games are free and unlocked from the start. The only purchases are the optional word packs and the Party Pass, sold as one-time in-app purchases; there are no subscriptions.

Every purchase is handled entirely by Apple through the App Store. Schnalz receives no payment details and no personal data about you. To unlock a pack, the app asks Apple's StoreKit on your device which packs your Apple Account owns; that check goes to Apple, never to a server of ours. Restores and Family Sharing work the same way, and refunds are handled by Apple.

Younger players

The app is rated 4+ and is deliberately built to suit younger players too: no chat, no user-generated content shared with anyone and no external links inside the games themselves. Ads appear only between games, never during play; they are non-personalised and limited to content suitable for general audiences, although an ad, if tapped, can open a web page or the App Store. The optional word packs can only be bought through Apple's own purchase confirmation, so Ask to Buy and Screen Time purchase settings apply. We collect nothing from anyone, younger players included; the ad processing by Google described above applies to every player.

Changes

If this policy changes, the updated version is published at this address before the change takes effect.

Support

Need a hand?

Message us, or browse the FAQ. We read every one.

How many people can play Party Games?

Between one and eight, all on the same device. The eight duels are for two players sitting face to face — or one player against the robot. Imposter takes 3 to 8 players, and Hot Potato and Charades work for any group that can pass a phone around.

Do we need more than one phone?

No. Every game runs on a single iPhone or iPad. Duels split the screen so two people play at once; the party games pass the phone from hand to hand. There is no online multiplayer and nothing to pair.

Is Party Games suitable for the whole family?

Yes. It is family-friendly: big, colourful screens, simple controls, an illustrated How to play page before every game, and no chat and no accounts. Ads appear only between games, never during play; they are non-personalised and limited to content suitable for general audiences. The optional word packs can only be bought through Apple's own purchase confirmation, so Ask to Buy and Screen Time purchase settings apply. It is rated 4+, so younger and older players can join in.

Can I play alone?

Yes. All eight duels have an optional robot opponent with three difficulty levels, so you can practise solo or give a younger player a fair match. The three party games — Imposter, Hot Potato and Charades — need a group.

Does it need an internet connection?

No. Every game in Party Games works fully offline — on a plane, in a tent, in a car. There are no accounts and no servers of ours. Buying an optional word pack goes online through Apple's App Store, and the ads between games need a connection too: without internet, they simply don't show.

Is it free? Are there ads or in-app purchases?

Party Games is free to download and all eleven games are free to play. It is supported by ads: a short full-screen ad can appear between games, when you leave a result screen — at most every few games, never during play and never in a new player's first few matches. There are no banners. The optional in-app purchases are themed word packs (Fantasy, Space, Wild Animals, Fruit & Veg), each adding a new category to Charades and Imposter, and the Party Pass, which includes every current and future pack. They are one-time purchases, not subscriptions, and work with Family Sharing — and buying any of them turns the ads off. You can also watch a short video to play a locked word pack free for one hour.

Which devices does it run on?

iPhone and iPad, in portrait. It is built for iOS 17 and later. Charades can be controlled by tapping or by tilting the device.

What games are included?

Eleven games. Eight duels: Ping Pong, Air Hockey, Tic Tac Toe, Sumo, Fast Finger (a reaction game), Light Cycles (a neon bike duel), Mini Golf (a 3-hole 3D course) and Snowball Fight. Three party games: Imposter (find the spy), Hot Potato (elimination rounds with a hidden fuse) and Charades (act it out, with a teams mode).

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