Awkward Family Photos: Greatest Hits
Designed by: Uncredited
Awkward Family Photos: Greatest Hits is a party game – one in a line of them – inspired by the website of the same name. The game consists of a deck of cards with the genuinely strange family pictures of the title, and another deck of movie quotes. Each round, one player selects a photo, and the other players all choose a quote from their movie card that they feel is suitably apt (or suitably inapt!) for the picture in question. Everyone reads out their selection, and the ‘photo’ player chooses a winner. After a set number of rounds, the player with the most points overall wins the game.
The ‘check availability’ button currently leads to the original Awkward Family Photos game, which works very similarly but asks a question of each image rather than providing movie quotes.
Sam says
Awkward Family Photos: Greatest Hits is one of those games that is occasionally very funny, but more often hits a dull note, as the juxtaposition of photo and movie quote either don’t combine well enough to work, or badly enough to be inadvertently comic. What it feels like is that somebody has seen the traffic the website gets, and realised there is a potential revenue stream to be opened up by hooking a game to its coattails. It’s okay, but like the images that inspired it, it’s often just slightly awkward. I haven’t played the original: it sounds like a small improvement in allowing players a bit more input, but there are a host of party games – including the ones linked here – that do this kind of thing better.
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Take That!
None, unless you’re offended that your subjective opinion isn’t shared by the table.
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Fidget Factor!
Very low
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Brain Burn!
While AFP: Greatest Hits is not entirely bereft of humour, it is almost entirely bereft of brains.
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Again Again!
After a few plays, you’ve seen all the photos, but at least the combination possibilities still remain.
