Quick answer
The best games to play with your girlfriend mix a little competition with a lot of talking: PIN Bluff, Poison Food and Scramble Words in the LoveYug app, Would You Rather and Never Have I Ever to get to know her better, and the one-word story over text. For a night in, try the co-op cooking game Overcooked! 2.
| Game | Where you play | Why it works |
|---|---|---|
| Scramble Words | One phone or two, in LoveYug | Hide words only she would guess |
| Poison Food | One phone or two, in LoveYug | A bluffing duel you can lose gracefully |
| PIN Bluff | One phone or two, in LoveYug | Deduction with a poker face |
| Never Have I Ever | Together or on a call | Stories you have never heard |
| The one-word story | Over text | Silly, and it survives slow replies |
| Overcooked! 2 | Console or PC, same couch | Co-op chaos on the same team |
A good game with your girlfriend is one where you both end up laughing, whoever wins. That rules out most party games, which need a group, and most video games, which need one of you to be much better than the other. These fifteen work with exactly two people and say where you play them.
The first four are the games we make, in the LoveYug app: they run on one shared phone or live on two. The rest need only the two of you, a chat app or, at the end, a console or a table.
Phone games made for two
Each of these is a duel for two players. Play on one phone by passing it between you, or live on two phones when you are apart. They are free in LoveYug on iPhone and Android.
Scramble Words
You each hide a secret word of 3 to 15 letters, and LoveYug scatters the letters for the other to rebuild. Fewer tries wins. The best words are the private ones: a nickname, the café where you met, the name of her childhood dog.
How Scramble Words worksPoison Food
You each hide poison on the other's plate, then take turns biting; every poisoned bite costs a heart. You can set the stakes before you start, from breakfast in bed to doing the dishes, so losing is not all bad.
How Poison Food worksPIN Bluff
You each hide a secret PIN, then take turns dialling guesses at the other's. Right digits click into place, and whoever cracks the other's code in fewer rounds wins. Watching her face when a digit clicks is half the game.
How PIN Bluff worksWord Rush
You pick a start letter, she picks an end letter, and you race to a real word that fits. You judge each other's words, which is where most of the arguing happens. Best of 3, 5 or 7 rounds.
How Word Rush works
Games to get to know her better
These are about the answers rather than the score. They work at dinner, on a walk or on a call, and they get better the more honestly you both play.
Would You Rather
Two options, no middle ground. Predict her answer before she gives it, then hear why. The sweet and spicy decks change the mood without changing the game.
Play Would You Rather for couplesNever Have I Ever
With only two of you, every answer comes with a story. Keep it light at first; the surprising answers turn up on their own.
Play Never Have I Ever onlineThis or that, rapid fire
Ten quick pairs, no thinking time: beach or mountains, call or text, early or late. Answer at the same moment and count how many you matched.
Two truths and a lie
Three stories about your past, one made up. It works best with small, specific stories rather than big ones, because those are the ones she will never have heard.
Questions for your girlfriend
Take turns drawing a question and both answering it. Start light, and let the deeper ones come when the conversation is ready for them.
Questions to ask your girlfriend
Games to play with your girlfriend over text
For days apart. Each of these works one message at a time, so neither of you has to be free at the same moment.
The one-word story
You send one word, she adds the next, and the story goes wherever it goes. It usually ends somewhere ridiculous, which is the point.
Guess where I am
Send a tight close-up photo of something near you; she gets three guesses at where you are. It is a better answer to 'what are you up to?' than a sentence.
Rewrite our first message
Each of you rewrites the first message you ever sent the other, knowing what you know now. Then compare with the real thing.
More games to play over textSong of the day
One song a day that made you think of her, no explanation allowed until she guesses why. By the end of a month you have a playlist of the two of you.
For a night in
When you want something to do side by side for an evening.
Overcooked! 2
A co-op cooking game where you run a chaotic kitchen together, on the same team instead of against each other. It is on PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch and PC, and it is loud in the best way.
A 500-piece jigsaw
Slow, quiet and oddly good for conversation, because your hands are busy and nobody has to make eye contact to say something real. Pick a picture of somewhere you want to go together.
What the phone games look like
Real screens from LoveYug. One toggle on the home screen switches between playing on one phone and playing live on two.
The home screen. One toggle switches between playing on this phone and playing live across two. 
Our Dates: days together, birthdays and milestones, with reminders before each one.
Questions about games with your girlfriend
What games can I play with my girlfriend on the phone?
LoveYug has seven games made for two partners: Scramble Words, PIN Bluff, Poison Food, Word Rush, Find First, Would You Rather and Never Have I Ever. Pass one phone between you or play live on two.
What are good games to play with my girlfriend over text?
The one-word story, guess where I am, rewrite our first message and song of the day. Each works one message at a time, in any chat app.
Can we play if we are in a long-distance relationship?
Yes. LoveYug's Online Multiplayer joins both phones in the same live round, wherever you are. You pair once with an invite link, then one of you hosts and the other joins.
Do these games cost anything?
LoveYug is free on iOS and Android with all seven games; the free version has ads and a per-game session limit, and an optional Premium subscription removes them. The question and text games are free, and only Overcooked! 2 and the jigsaw cost money.
More for the two of you
Play with her tonight
Download LoveYug on iPhone or Android and play on one phone or live on two. Free, with all seven games.