So. You’ve burned every bridge in your friend group by playing Cards Against Humanity one too many times. You’ve made eye contact with Grandma while reading a card that said “Pixelated Bukkake.” You’ve discovered the exact phrase that makes Chad cry. You’ve weaponized awkward laughter like a tactical nuke.

And now you’re bored. Good.

Because the world is full of party games that are just as offensive, chaotic, and morally questionable as Cards Against Humanity — and I’m about to show you the unholy buffet. These aren’t just recommendations. These are weapons. Use them wisely.

🎲 1. What Do You Meme?

“CAH, but make it Instagram.”

You like memes? You like judging people for their lack of timing and comedic ability? Congratulations — this is your version of the Hunger Games. Players pair captions with viral images and try to outwit each other, which is fun until someone uses the caption “When your ex texts you ‘I miss us’” on a photo of a screaming goat. Suddenly, you’re reliving trauma in HD.

Also, the expansion packs get… weird. “Game of Thrones”? Yes. “Stoner Pack”? Absolutely. “NSFW”? Now we’re in the deep end. Just pray no one’s parents walk in while someone plays the card that says “My therapist says I have meme-induced intimacy issues.” It’s a lawsuit waiting to happen.

🧠 2. Jackbox Party Pack (Any of Them, Really)

“The internet raised me and now I can’t feel emotions.”

Jackbox is digital crack for chaotic energy. The games let you draw, lie, vote, sabotage, and emotionally manipulate your friends in real time — all while sitting in your living room like you’re hosting a reality show for degenerates. There’s no physical card deck. Just you, a screen, and your rapidly deteriorating sense of self-worth.

And the worst part? Jackbox stores your terrible answers. You’ll think you’re funny until your “draw a happy dog” ends up looking like a satanic rotisserie chicken and gets immortalized in the cloud. Someone will screenshot it. Someone always screenshots it. That’s your legacy now.

💀 3. Bad People

“CAH, but it’s personal and someone will cry.”

This game is just “Roast Me” with cards. It doesn’t matter how tight your group is — after two rounds, you’ll find out who actually thinks you’re the most likely to join a cult or ruin Christmas. And you can’t even be mad, because deep down you know they’re right.

There’s always that moment of panic when someone says “Oh this one’s easy” before slapping your name down like they’ve been waiting for this day since you ghosted them in 2018. It’s not a game — it’s a psychological purge disguised as entertainment. Add alcohol, and you’ve just unlocked Pandora’s box with a vape pen.

🃏 4. Apples to Apples

“Cards Against Humanity for church groups and corporate retreats.”

This is the game your aunt brings to the family reunion because she thinks it’s just like Cards Against Humanity — and she wants to feel edgy but still be able to pray about it later. It’s safe. It’s polite. It’s aggressively Midwestern energy in card form.

That said, if you’re really clever, you can still break it. It becomes 100% more entertaining when you start forcing wildly inappropriate interpretations of totally innocent words. Play “Justice” with “Bananas”? Suddenly you’ve created commentary on the prison-industrial complex and potassium. Galaxy brain unlocked.

🐔 5. Joking Hazard

“If CAH and Cyanide & Happiness had a baby and forgot to raise it.”

There’s no pretending to be clever in this game — you are assembling crude stick figure comics that usually end in violence, sex, death, or existential despair. It’s perfect. The best part is when someone builds a strip that starts with “I love you” and ends with “I was never real,” and the entire group goes silent because someone just trauma-dumped with cartoons.

And if you play long enough, you start to see the same comic panels recur, like cursed tarot cards. One day it’s funny. The next day, the same smiling stick man reminds you of your ex and now you’re crying into a Capri Sun. It’s art. It’s pain. It’s content.

🧼 6. For The Girls / We’re Not Really Strangers / Pick Your Cringe

“What if Cards Against Humanity grew up, found therapy, and got hot on Instagram?”

These games are less about laughing and more about unlocking the box of emotional instability you keep duct-taped shut in the back of your mind. One card will say “Describe your first heartbreak in three words,” and suddenly everyone’s sobbing and trauma-bonding like it’s a group therapy session hosted by Cosmopolitan magazine.

Still, if you’re into that vulnerability-core energy, these games slap. It’s like journaling, but in a group, and with less eye contact. Play at your own risk. And please, for the love of serotonin, don’t mix it with alcohol unless you want to spend the next morning texting, “Hey, sorry I trauma-dumped about my stepdad’s boat.”

🧠 7. Utter Nonsense

“It’s Cards Against Humanity, but you read it in a British accent while pretending you’re dying of consumption.”

This game is like theater school for the deeply unserious. The cards themselves are already dumb, but the real game is watching your friends absolutely butcher a Russian accent while screaming something like “My farts smell like victory.” It’s performance art, if performance art wore Crocs and had three Red Bulls.

What makes it next-level stupid is that the game rewards commitment, not accuracy. You don’t need to sound Irish. You just need to sound unhinged. Go full method actor, sob mid-sentence, pretend your chair is a horse — if you don’t win the round, at least you’ll win the war for attention.

🚨 Honorable Mentions

☠️ Final Thought

If you’re looking for games like Cards Against Humanity, just ask yourself:

“Do I want to laugh, or do I want to destroy what’s left of my social life?”

Either way, these games got you. Just make sure to apologize to your friend group after game night. Or don’t. They knew what they signed up for.

Bring the chaos. Mute the morality. Shuffle the deck.

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