Checkout tabletop simulator there’s a ton of different games in the workshop.

I think my friend group has the most fun turning games we know into absurd games. Like in uno, we’d turn on all the bullshit settings on so people’s hands are being swapped left and right while other people are picking up 50 cards.

I’m partial to pretending I’m a less pos version of Steve Harvey on Family Feud. You get to ham it up when someone replies with an answer that obviously is going to have sexual answers.

Tabletop Simulator has like real board games too but I can’t get my friends to read any type of game rules so that’s when I give up and start doing stupid shit

And yeah we use discord to talk

Some of my favorites that have a higher frequency of “major upset” events. It really depends on your group, and how they like to play.

I stick with pretty quick and accessible games, because we frequently have to teach new people and I hate spending 3 hours on one playthrough of a huge game and then the newbie never gets a chance to try again with their new understanding.

Favorites:

• Wizard reliably makes our whole table lose their minds
• Love Letter takes sudden drastic turns and is so quick to play
• Bang! (the dice version) has as much treachery as it does chaos
• No Thanks! is an exercise in collective sadism
• Nanuk has perhaps the best “oh shiiiiiiiiiiiii-” moments with a combination of hidden information, bluffing, push-your-luck, pleading for help, backstabbing, and high-stakes card flips

Bluffing games:

• Coup
• Skull
• Cockroach Poker

Card games with sudden win conditions:

• Five Crowns
• Mahjong
• LLAMA

Asymmetric information games:

• Secret Hitler
• Codenames
• Mysterium Park

Not as frequent, but sometimes perfect for the right crowd:

• Three Dragon Ante
• Get Bit!
• GUBS
• Ca$h n Guns has foam guns that the whole table points at each other at once, Mexican Stand-off style