Choose a team building game in four questions
Describe your team, not the game. Answer four questions and get the three games that fit, why they fit, the format and the price for your headcount. No email, no call.
Answer the first two questions and the games that fit appear here, with the price for your headcount.
Which game fits which industry?
A setting the team recognises as its own is the cheapest customization there is: a hotel team solving a hotel mystery feels the event was made for them. This is where we start for each industry.
| Industry | Start with | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Hospitality and travel | Wintervald Hotel Mystery | A hotel story reads as made for a hotel team; an organiser called it "silly not to choose something hotel themed". |
| Banking, finance and insurance | Last Temple Mystery | A bank ran it for 800 shift and branch employees in a single day (see the Citibank case study). |
| Software, engineering and IT | Mission 8-Bit | Engineering teams like real mechanics under time pressure more than quizzes. |
| Games and entertainment | Mission 8-Bit | Game studios have run it with their own office and characters inside (see the Nekki and Playrix case studies). |
| Healthcare, pharma and life sciences | Apocalypse | A race for a cure is a story healthcare and life-sciences teams read as their own. |
| Retail, consumer goods and food | Under the Big Top | A show-business story fits brand, retail and events teams who live in front of an audience. |
| Consulting, legal and professional services | The Dragon's Tear | Consulting, legal and audit teams recognise the work: gather facts, test them, conclude. |
The longer version, with how organisers actually decide: how to choose a team building game for your team. Real examples by industry: case studies.
Questions organisers ask
- How do I choose a team building game for my team?
- Describe the team rather than the game. Four things decide it: what the team is like (competitive, analytical, new, playful or sceptical), whether everyone can be online at the same hour, the occasion, and what the company does, because a theme the team recognises as its own beats any genre. The picker on this page turns those four answers into the three games that fit, with a price for your headcount.
- What team building game works for a competitive sales team?
- One with a score and a winner at the end, under real time pressure. Mission 8-Bit (timed arcade stages), Apocalypse (ninety minutes with an in-game clock) and Last Temple Mystery (a race to decode a temple) are the three we recommend first. If the team also likes to think, a mystery such as Wintervald Hotel Mystery keeps the winner and adds deduction.
- What if my team cannot all be online at the same time?
- Run the game as a Marathon: it stays open for 1 to 5 days and people play on their own schedule, with one leaderboard for everyone. Every game in the catalogue runs in both formats. A live Big Game of 70 to 90 minutes is the better choice only when everyone can join the same hour.