Or is that not a thing? I don’t recall seeing much in the way of party games in a self hosted environment.

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    Card games and board games with people. New Year’s isn’t really the time or place for this kind of thing.

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      Some people don’t have the luxury of being in the same place as the people they’re celebrating with. Jackbox games is a popular remote party game, but I am curious if there exists a similar, open, self hosted alternative.

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    I’d love that too.
    Some games like gartic phone / draw.io, codeword, balderdash, jackbox-alike type games, that I could host on my own server to avoid tracking/ads, and play with my family over holidays.

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    The wife and I has returned to Valheim on a selfhosted dedicated server during the holidays, not sure if an adventuring party is the party you were thinking about. I’ve been /dancing on the ship as she steers it over the ocean though.

    Most of the “party” games I have require no self hosting, it’s just split/shared screen co-op on the TV, Gang Beasts is a favourite and depending on what friends are over Genital Jousting can also be booted up for some laughs.

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      I don’t think that is self hosting because I think that the game actually runs on their servers and your deck is just a client. But maybe it actually runs on the deck and the server is just for connecting the clients? 🤔

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    I’m going to ‘selfhost’ nekid party games with my lady friend…does that count? 😈 I am incapable of playing most games tho. Sad that. There are so many out that look so very cool. I’ll have to enjoy them vicariously.