Every pick below opens a real game for two. Send your partner one link, keep your call going and play on your own phones or laptops, wherever you both are.
Free to start · No download · Your partner joins free, with no sign-up
The best games for long-distance couples are ones you play live together, not lists of questions: a co-op mystery like Snowfall at Hollowfell, get-to-know-you games like Oddly in Sync, or a classic duel like Cribbage. One of you opens a free room in the browser and sends the link; your partner joins on their own phone with a nickname and no account. Keep your FaceTime, WhatsApp or Zoom call going alongside.
Co-op games where each of you sees something the other can’t, so you have to talk it through. No quick reflexes needed, apart from Little Lanterns.
A snowbound observatory and a missing comet plate. The evidence is split between your two screens, so every clue needs both of you.
Free: Chapter 1At Yours Plus: The whole case
One of you explores, the other plays a ghost who passes through walls. Open a way out of each room together.
Free: 3 complete rooms in each worldAt Yours Plus: 28 rooms across 3 campaigns
Two tiny couriers in a moonlit village. Hold the bridge while your partner crosses, then get both lanterns home.
Free: The first cooperative levelAt Yours Plus: All 6 cooperative levels
One of you holds the map, the other the destination clues. Talk your way across the island, then swap jobs.
Free: One island and a role swapAt Yours Plus: 3 islands and 6 routes
Questions with a reveal, so the conversation has somewhere to go. Pass anything you’d rather not answer; nothing here scores your relationship.
Pick your answer, predict theirs, then reveal together. The long-distance deck is made for two phones on a call.
Free: A complete 3-round night in any of 7 decksAt Yours Plus: Every night in all 7 decks, up to 12 rounds, Finish my sentence, Who’s more likely, Memory lane and Plan our day rounds, double-point predictions and Our story
Choose a side in secret, predict theirs and reveal together. The couples deck has 105 choices written for two.
Free: 6 complete roundsAt Yours Plus: 12 or 24 rounds and every deck to print
Guided date-night sessions, two of them written for long distance. Play on two phones over a call, or print the sheets.
Free: The first sessionIncluded with At Yours Plus, or US$3.99 once
Classic duels on your own screens. Your cards stay on your phone, the room checks every move and nobody can sneak a look.
Keep four, feed the crib and peg to 121 on a wooden board. Every hand is counted aloud for you.
Free: A complete game to 121At Yours Plus: Best-of-3 and best-of-5 matches
Race your 15 checkers home, hit a loose piece and turn the game around. Legal moves are shown for you.
Free: One complete gameAt Yours Plus: Matches to 3, 5 or 7 and the doubling cube
Draw, discard and build your melds, then knock before they do. Each screen only ever sees its own hand.
Free: One scored handAt Yours Plus: A full match to 100 points
Aim, bank and sink your putts across 3D courses, then compare scorecards. A terrible bounce is half the fun.
Free: 3 complete starter holesAt Yours Plus: All 48 holes and five courses
Live 3D air hockey, paddle against paddle. It’s fast, so keep the game in front and the call on another screen.
Free: First to 3 goalsAt Yours Plus: First to 7 goals
For a call where you mostly want to chat: short turns, nothing to learn and easy to play with one hand.
Take turns joining two dots. Close a box and go again. You’ll learn it in seconds and chat the whole way through.
Free: 3×3, 4×4 and 5×5 gamesAt Yours Plus: The 6×6 grid and a series
Roll five dice, keep the good ones and fill 13 boxes. You both watch every roll live.
Free: The whole gameAt Yours Plus: A series scoreboard across rematches
The same six cards for everyone today. Each of you plays on your own phone, then compare scores on the call.
FreeAt Yours Plus: 30 past deals
One draws, everyone else guesses. It needs three or more, so bring a friend or make it a double date.
Free: A complete 2-round gameAt Yours Plus: More rounds and seasonal word packs
Your usual app does the calling and the game runs in a web browser beside it. Here’s the setup, and what works on one phone.
Call as you normally would: FaceTime, WhatsApp, Zoom or anything else. At Yours doesn’t add calling of its own.
One of you picks a game on this page, types a nickname and creates a room in the browser. Nothing to download.
Paste the invitation into your chat. Your partner opens it, types a nickname and joins. No account, no payment.
You both press Ready and the host starts. Dropped out? Reopen the link in the same browser to get your seat back.
The easiest way. Put the call on one device and the game on another: video on a phone propped up and the game on a laptop or tablet, or the other way round. Every game on this page works like this, live ones included.
Turn-based games work well. Depending on your phone and app, the video call shrinks to a small window or carries on as sound while you’re in the browser. Air Hockey and Little Lanterns are live and wait for both game screens, so play those with the call on another device.
A sample evening for when it’s 8 pm for one of you and 3 pm for the other. About 75 minutes, and every part of it is free.
One of you: 8:00 pmThe other: 3:00 pm
Both play the Daily Cribbage Hand on your own phones, then compare. It changes at midnight UTC, not your local midnight, so you’re dealt the same six cards.
One of you: 8:10 pmThe other: 3:10 pm
Open Snowfall at Hollowfell’s free first chapter, about 10–15 minutes, then Pocket Expedition’s first island if you want more.
One of you: 8:40 pmThe other: 3:40 pm
Settle it with a complete game of Cribbage to 121, or three holes of Mini Golf.
One of you: 9:10 pmThe other: 4:10 pm
Three free rounds of Oddly in Sync’s long-distance deck. Then pick a time for next week, and take turns so the same person isn’t always up late.
Short on time? Skip the call: both play the daily hand when it suits you and send each other your scores. For a quicker plan, try a 20-minute game night for two.
Every game above has a free version, and your partner never needs an account. When you want the whole evening, the host’s At Yours Plus (US$4.99/month or US$29/year) opens the full Hollowfell case, all 28 Lantern House rooms, every Little Lanterns level and Pocket Expedition island, and longer Cribbage, Backgammon and Gin Rummy matches. One Plus covers both of you.
Just Us is a one-time US$3.99 game, and it’s included with At Yours Plus.
Games you play live together from your own phones or laptops: co-op mysteries and puzzles like Snowfall at Hollowfell, Lantern House and Pocket Expedition, get-to-know-you games like Oddly in Sync and Would You Rather, and classic duels like Cribbage, Backgammon and Gin Rummy. One of you creates a room and sends the link. Every game on this page starts free.
Yes. Keep your FaceTime, WhatsApp or Zoom call going and open the game in a web browser; At Yours doesn’t include calling of its own. With a second screen, put the call on one and the game on the other. On one phone, turn-based games work with the call running alongside, but live games like Air Hockey and Little Lanterns need the game in front.
No. One of you hosts and your partner joins free with just a nickname. Free games need no account at all. To play the full games, only the host signs in with At Yours Plus.
Every game here has a free version: a complete game of Cribbage, Backgammon or Dots and Boxes, Chapter 1 of Hollowfell, three rooms in each Lantern House world, the first Little Lanterns level and more. At Yours Plus (US$4.99/month or US$29/year) opens the full games, and one Plus covers both of you. Just Us is also a one-time US$3.99 game.
Choose a time that’s evening for one of you and afternoon for the other, and take turns so the same person isn’t always up late. On busy days, play the Daily Cribbage Hand whenever it suits you: it changes at midnight UTC, so you’re both dealt the same cards and can compare scores later.
No. Everything runs in the web browser on a phone, tablet or computer, for both of you. There’s nothing to install.
