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Photo Roulette is a hilarious and occasionally terrifying social game that is perfect for parties. The concept is simple: you and your friends join a lobby, and the game randomly picks photos from everyone's camera rolls. You then have to guess whose photo it is. It leads to amazing stories, laughter, and sometimes a bit of healthy embarrassment.
The game is designed with privacy in mind, only showing photos to the people in your specific lobby for a few seconds. It’s a great way to bond with friends and see side of them you might not have known existed. It’s fast, social, and perfectly captures the 'live in the moment' energy of a good party game.
Fast-paced social gameplay for 3-10 players
Hilarious 'guess the owner' mechanics
End-of-game highlights and scoreboards
Privacy-focused photo sharing
Easy-to-use room code system for parties
Invite your friends to download the app and share your unique game code. Once everyone is in the lobby, the game will ask for permission to access your photos; it will only pick a few random ones for that specific session.
A photo will appear on everyone's screen for five seconds. Four names will appear below it; tap the name of the person you think the photo belongs to as quickly as possible to maximize your score.
Yes, photos are only shared with your friends in the game for five seconds and are not saved by the app or stored on servers.
I’ve had this app for a long time and it was really fun. I’ve played for a while and have had no issues but recently when I try to join I put in a game pin and it says could not join game which I don’t know why it all of a sudden happened. I’ve tried resetting my photos and I’ve also deleted and reinstalled the app. This game is really fun and I enjoy playing but it’s annoying that I can’t play anymore. Does any one have this issue or know how to solve it?
This is honestly a really fun (but revealing 🫠) game for friends. I LOVE how the premium feature isn’t a membership and a one time payment, but the free version is fun enough where you don’t need the payed version to enjoy it. It’s such a great idea and I loveee playing it. That said one feature that I reallllly really REALLY want is to be able to preview the videos before accepting or denying. Like I can see the first frame but if I could hold it down and watch the video to actually be able to tell what it is that would be AWESOME. I get that it takes some of the risk out, so maybe it could be a setting that the host of the game can turn on or off, I just am not comfortable accosting a video if I can’t tell what it is 😅. I also would love to have a feature where you can plant a photo in someone else’s camera roll LOL. Also if there could be more emoji options (maybe that’s also under the premium?). Other than that this game is so fun and I would recommend downloading if you want a game to get to know your friends better!
Hi! This is already a great game to play with friends, but it gets boring sometimes if you can’t play with anyone. I know it’s hard to do random servers because the whole point of the game is to see how well you know the people you’re playing with by guessing which photos are theirs, but I think it could work if there were random servers you can join without and id, but before you start the game, there could be a simple bio for everyone you’re playing with, and it would be customizable. It could say whatever you want, but it would give the people you’re playing with a hint about which pictures are yours if they don’t know you irl. Thank you for your time!
i really love this app and it’s a lot of fun to play with friends, but there are some problems. sometimes it glitches and freezes and i’m unable to play that round anymore with the rest of my friends, and the same thing happens to them. i’m also having an issue right now with upgrading to gold that’s really annoying. i’m trying to buy the $5 gold pack but every single time i click the button to buy it it just loads and loads and never stops. i let it load for about 30 minutes before i tried restarting my phone, deleting the app and reinstalling it, etc. if there’s any way to get around this so i can buy the pack PLEASE let me know!!
This is not a joke. The free version is one 10-photo round. To do literally anything else, you need to pay $10. A week. $10 a week for a party game on my phone. That’s half a grand a year. That’s about what I spend on GAS. My Netflix subscription is less than that MONTHLY. Who is paying for this? It’s baffling, I’ve never seen anything like this before. I’d be on the fence if it was a $10 ONCE. I would absolutely love to hear the explanation for this, but clearly it’s just because a few morons who don’t have an inkling of good spending habits or understanding of the value of money have for some reason, purchased it. It’s genuinely a money siphon for people who don’t realize they’re paying for it anymore.
I can’t tell you how many times the video length has screwed me over the videos always seem to cut out right before they finish or sometimes the video part is just not long enough but even when the video is short it cuts it off a lot of the time please fix that would be awesome
My main complaint with the more recent versions is that you have to pick a set of pictures before every game. In the past you could pick a bunch at once, which would last for a few games. This was great because you might genuinely forget which ones were yours—it made the game way more fun and I wish they hadn’t gotten rid of this feature. Bringing back the old style of picking, or giving the option to pick a bunch of sets at once or just one, would make the game way more fun
I have a way less amount of photos then my friends while playing since most of my photos are backed up to google photos not to my phone. So since I can’t use those they know so quick after a few rounds which photos are mine so fast. It’s less fun when mine come up because after a few rounds they know mine. It would be so much more fun if I could conecta google photos to the app so I have so many more photos to play with.
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The Wall Street Journal Mon Mar 23 2020
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Screen Rant Mon Mar 23 2020
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KnowTechie Mon Mar 23 2020
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PetaPixel Mon Mar 23 2020
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The Guardian Sat Nov 23 2019
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