Last updated on January 4th, 2026 at 10:20 am
Charades!™ – Word Game Review
Charades!™ is a Word/Education/Card game from FatChicken Studios, first launched in 11th June 2013.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 8,268+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Charades!™ Stand Out
Charades! is the outrageously fun and exciting multi-activity game for you and your friends! And thanks to you, it's also the #1 Word & Card game in the USA!
With different challenges from dancing, singing, acting or sketching — guess the word on the card that’s on your head from your friends’ clues before the timer runs out!
Features:
- Play with one friend, or one hundred at the same time.
- Draw a new card by tilting your phone up or down
- Wacky activities from dancing, impersonating to trivia will challenge even the most well-rounded players
With over 100 themed decks to choose from, many packed with over 400+ exciting gameplay cards, the fun will never stop! So whether you're an artist, a singer, an actor, or a science nerd–there's something for everyone.
Decks include:
- TV Shows & Movies
- Dance Moves
- Science
- I Love the 70s, 80s, & 90s
- Movie Characters
- And lots more!
Challenging players in trivia and creativity, your next party, reunion or family game night will never be the same.
This Word game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Charades!™ is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 31st October 2023
Recent improvements include:
- Bug fixes
Download & Availability
Charades!™ is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
5 stars bc under literature they have our two favorite book series pjo and thg.
This game is very and we mean VERY fun, though its simple its a great bondage game for friends and family and really ANYBODY AT ANYPLACE AT ANYTIME! Would recommend for people to play.
We love it even if we dont get it.
Please make us game modes then we could have it be hard to do.
(So this is gonna be long) so this is a very very very very very fun and cool app to play with friends and family if you are bored or have nothing to do with a family member or friends so get this as soon as you can our first charades and already love it and we got it a day ago!!!#getand we love it<3.
Hi this game is a Hard but fun but we want you get good edit youll have 100% fun and 0% awfulness but good luck and have fun.
This game is awesome.us and our family have a lot of fun playing it.we also love that it dont have to have WiFi.BEST GAME NIGHT GAME EVER.
We really like this app! Since heads up has become 2$ and you have to pay for specific category's, this works out great! We always make custom decks and have them prepared when going to universal or Disney for the lines. We have ones with Disney characters and rides and one with universal / dream-works. Its such a great app.
We play this during school and all the teachers hate us!!! FIVE STARS.
We love the game charades it is so fun us and our family love it we play it every night well some because we have school we are really smart we can guess every face expressing in the face expressing category that is how much we love this game and how smart we are.
We like this game. It is really fun to play with family and friends. Its a fun game that makes you laugh. We like that it has so many different categories that you can choose from. We like that you can create you own.
We Love this app very good for game nights.
This game makes us wanna lick justyn davis.
We love this game! We recently went on a trip to represent our school and we got this game for our hotel room friends and we had a blast.
We love this app The only thing is we wish is was more languages a part of it.
This app is bussin most of the good options are free and u can just get your coins up for free and use the locked ones we play it in school when bored 10/10.
Love this game its super fun and us and our brother play it when we are bored, what a great game thank you so much for making this.
It would be perfect if we could click on the topics After to learn more.
,well we like this game it great for family and friends n all that and we have no words to describe so Im just saying that its the best game we have at the moment we think maybe the only.but some thing we want to know is how many people are to play? But its still great ! Scarlet uncorin.
The game is pretty cool. We play this game with our family a lot at our family gathers so to have it on devices too is awesome.
Hey if any of the developers are listening can you please add in Greek mythology? That would be awesome thank you.
Ok so it is an amazing game! All tho it has a thing where it says movie and some of the words are like death plz fix thos.
This game is great. But is even more fun when you are waiting 50 minutes in an line at Halloween horror nights.
This is awesome and perfect for our family for nighttime and stuff so YEAH.
We had a ton of fun playing this game in all different occasions. We initially discovered it when searching for Heads Up substitutions after seeing the price. We quickly downloaded Charades and had a MUCH better experience than we ever did from Heads Up! Overall we would absolutely recommend this incredible, fun, and simple, game! It can be played in a variety of ways and places! Just as advertised, its lovely.
Love the game but would love to see more topics!! Please add Gilmore Girls.
We were really bummed that the original heads up game wasnt free and we were skeptical that any other game could be free and function as flawlessly and as fun as the original game. However this game is perfect! Great for car trips and has mostly free genres that are really easy to explain to others. Its a perfect mix for our family of adult, teen, and kids trivia all in one game, no special modes selected! Im so happy that we dont waste our money.
This app is so good. It has more categories than the the heads up app and all the categories can be unlocked without paying.
This is so fun us and our siblings friends play all the time theres five of us so we split 3 and 2. We love this game and people should play it more we create our own ways to play we rate it a five star.
We love this game! Its super fun to play with people you can play with friends sibilings and family its an amazing game to play and has so many ways to play it.
Awesome app we love it we play wit family to Dey love it to.
This game is amazing is all we need to say.
We love playing this game with our friends but we would love it a lot more if Greys Anatomy was added.
Its a good game. Not much to say really.
We dont play it a lot but we like it.
This a amazing game please try it.
So its a great app and us and our friends often use it. We babysitted some little kids and we decided to play. We thought that the normal "movies and shows" would be too hard for them so we did "kids movies and shows" and it was going great until one card came up and they were so confused and we looked at it and it was family guy so thats just probably a little bug right there. Or maybe they put family guy in there because they thought it was a kids show idk man.
This game is so fun to play with our family, but Im not able to give 5 stars. You are not able to change custom made names of the decks. Some people have anger issues, and might end up breaking their device from getting mad. Please fix this issue. On the other hand, this game is so fun to play with friends and family. It helps bring you closer. Our family and we love to play Charades in our free time.
Agree with other reviews this is a fun and crazy game for small or large groups. We used it for teaching and created decks of vocabulary, but we made a typo when entering the deck name and we cant change it. Ability to edit your custom deck cards and deck title would bump this up to 5 star.
So the games is great but when you hold the device to your head and it just barely tilts backwards it skips the question.we also had a problem with categories like movies because so questions are not easy for kids cus there were a lot of old movies. But otherwise the game was great and a great choice if you wait in line a lot.
Charades is super fun, especially to play when guests are over, but we can usually only play 1 category because of the kids, and so we can only really do act it out. If there were better topics it would be a lot more fun. But otherwise super awesome.
This app is great but we wish you didnt have to watch an add after every time you play a game but over all we love it.
Love how we can make our own thing so fun to play with the homies when were bored.
Im glad there is a free version on the App Store and its nice that you can make your own sets but for some reason the app froze our phone. Just now while looking at other reviews we found other people had the same problem. Please resolve as it is our only critique.
This game is pretty fun but we shouldnt be called charades because its more like heads up and that is pretty much all we can think of even though we just drank a soda with caffeine we are tired. Ok thats our review. Bye.
So, us and our family love to play this game! There are a few things that should be changed though. You should be able to extend or shorten the time you have to answer. Also you should have to pay 100 coins to unlock topics. We know it makes it more active but atleast make it about 40 coins. Hope you see this and change based on it bye.
We love this game and its fully functional and our family loves it! But they have all of these movies and they dont have our favorite movie! We were wondering if you could possibly add Harry Potter? Other than that the app is awesome.
There are too many ads. We recommend buying the no ads thing for 99 cents.
Its a good game but we wish we could control the time limit.
This is pretty good. We just wish they made it more clear which way to tilt the screen.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.11
- Size: 45.95 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: FatChicken Studios
Last updated: 31st October 2023 | Genre: Word, Education | Developer: FatChicken Studios