A co-op party game where you draw things humans can understand, but an image recognition AI can't! 2-6 players can join with just one copy of the game, using your mobile browser as your controller.
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Deviation Game is a co-op party game for 2-6 players that pits human creativity against AI perception. Your goal: draw secret prompts like "Flamingo" in a way humans can understand, but an image recognition AI can't!
If just one person owns the Steam game, everyone can join by watching that player’s screen. Up to 6 players can join for free using their smartphones’ web browsers via a QR code.
1. Join using your own device
Using your mobile device, scan the QR or enter the room code at outdraw.ai to transform your device into the game’s controller!
2. The drawer picks a prompt
The drawer first picks a secret prompt from categories such as objects, actions or even concepts.
3. Time to deviate!
Then they just gotta draw it! But remember, the aim is to trick the AI while making sure your friends still get the picture!
4. Everyone (plus the AI) guesses
Once the drawer is done, all the guessers will submit their best guess, including the AI! Choose carefully, you only get one chance!
5. The answer is revealed!
If you fail to fool and the AI guesses right, then humans lose! If the AI fails and humans guess right, then humans win!
By embracing the medium of games, Deviation Game aims to use AI as a collaborative tool that seeks not to replace human creativity but to enhance it. Through the game, players learn to express themselves in new ways to deviate from what the AI has already learned, making for a fun and brain-teasing party experience, where you’ll create things no one has ever seen before! Flipping Alan Turing’s revolutionary 1950 Imitation Game on its head, Deviation Game encourages players to fool the AI instead of the AI trying to fool them.
At the end of each game, players can consent to their drawing being used to potentially train the AI... or not! Allowing you to decide how the game may evolve. Collection is opt-out by default, and all data without consent will be deleted. By working together, players from around the world can collectively uncover the biases in large AI models by exposing their blind spots in interpreting diverse, culturally specific drawings.
Deviation Game was initially showcased as an art installation at Civic Creative Base Tokyo in 2023. The work has since been shown in globally renowned exhibitions, such as Ars Electronica, Taipei Digital Art Festival, and Now Play This, engaging audiences of all ages and sparking critical discussions around AI and creativity.
Deviation Game was developed and self-published by a group of good friends consisting mainly of game designer Tomo Kihara and art-design duo Playfool (Daniel Coppen & Saki Maruyama). With a focus on play, their practice centres around designing tools that foster creativity and making artistic interventions that engage with urban space and society. Their previous work How (not) to get hit by a self-driving car received an Honorary Mention in the S+T+ARTS Prize 2024 at Ars Electronica.
Deviation Game is their first experience to self-publish an indie game.
Q. How exactly does the AI guess?
A: In each round, the AI will return numerous guesses, depending on the number of players in the game. If one of those answers are correct, AI wins!
Q: Doesn’t the AI just have access to all the prompt words? Surely it’s cheating!
A: Not at all! While some examples are provided to the AI to give it more context, it is freely guessing each answer it submits, which is why sometimes they’re a little off-base.
Q: What AI model are you using?
A: Throughout Early Access, we are experimenting with various AI models via the service OpenRouter. In the future, we plan to introduce a feature that allows players to choose which AI model to go up against.
Q: Does the game’s AI get smarter after each game?
A: No, the AI is not learning in real-time. However, custom improvements to the AI can be made with a future update after enough data has been collected to retrain the model.
Q: How is our drawing data being collected?
A: We only collect drawing data that has been given explicit consent. Collection is opt-out by default, and all data without consent will be deleted.
Project: Tomo Kihara, Playfool (Daniel Coppen, Saki Maruyama)
Engineering: Kye Shimizu, Daiki Hashimoto, Jasper Stephenson
Music: Plot Generica
Logo: Yu Miyama
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Languages: English, Japanese
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別々のお題（父親、探偵）に同じ絵（蘭姉ちゃんの家系図）を描いて、どちらも当てられたときはカンニングを疑いました。
配信者が遊んでるのに惹かれて買って友人と３人で遊びましたがめちゃ面白かったです！ パーティーゲームとしてかなりよく、ゲームは誰かが１つ持ってたら部屋を立ててブラウザやスマホでお絵描きして参戦できるので遊びやすいですね。 ただ画面共有などが必須なのでDiscordなどの画面共有と通話にいるのと、絵を描くためのPCブラウザかスマホはいるって感じですね。 【凄い点】 お題がピザでタートルズ、父親でダースベーダー描いたら名指しで当ててきたのでよくあるAIクイズみたいな雑な精度じゃなくガチで高めの精度で当ててくるのでかなり面白く歯ごたえがあります。 エジプトがお題の時に千年パズル描いたらAI騙せましたが、カービィなどは当ててきます。 今までのお絵描きゲームみたいに伝えることではなくAIにバレないようにするっていう新機軸かつAIを活用してるゲームとしてかなり面白いですね。 ３人でも楽しいですが６人などフルメンバーでやるのも楽しそうです。 【不満点】 少しの不具合？というか友人のスマホが古くて対応してないAndroidブラウザがあるみたいな感じで止まってたのと、マウスなどで絵を描くときにマウスがある程度操作しやすいようにしとかないと描きにくすぎるとかあったので、遊ぶときはそのへんのチェックはしときたいですね。 あとはアーリーだから仕方ないですがAIの回答が間違ってるのに正解になるのが時々ありますね。 【総評】 ３～６人で会話しながら遊べるパーティゲームお探しなら是非 アーリーですが１４００円の価値はあると思います。2026/01/12現在。 遊ぶときは１人だけ買えばいいのでリーズナブルです。
いいゲーム。 たまにAIだけが当ててくれた時は、 AIに寝返ろうかなって思いました。
cool concept, but there are times it feels like the AI is absolutely cheating. In one round, the category was countries and the drawer drew a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ portrait of one of the other players, to imply that their nationality was the word. There was literally 0 other information for the AI to draw on and it somehow guessed the correct country, giving some bs excuse as to how it guessed it. Those moments kind of kill the vibe
[h1] 絵心がありすぎるのもつれぇわ… [/h1] このゲーム[b] 絵心無しのアイディアマンが一番強い [/b] [u] AIは字や後書きは普通に無視や認知します [/u] 最大6人（買った人がプレイせず配信のみなら+１参加可能） Discordでゲーム画面配信前提（URLには絵は出ません） YouTube配信等では先に部屋コードをオフにする（身内企画の場合参加されます） 点のみ注意です AIを意識しすぎて誰も分かる訳ないクソ問にユーザーが1人正解してナイスセーブがかかったり 安直に書きすぎて普通にAIに答えられたりします 個人的にロビー人数を最大8人まで増やせれば本当に嬉しいです… 開発者やロビー負担も考えるとかなり気長に待ちそうな気もします ただその合間にもAIが強くなってるのが面白い所 絵「クワガタっぽい何か」 A「クワガタ」 B「イノシシ」 C「ダンゴムシ」 D「クワガタ」 AI「サイ！」 正解「イノシシ」 ⇑ 実際にあった事です [h2] 後AIが普通に強いです [/h2]
ここ数年でリモート飲み会する時の大当たりゲーム 低スペック、グラボ無しでも遊べます プレイヤーは6人、一人が買えば他の五人はゲーム持ってなくてもよくて、全員が、回答者になって遊べます。 ゲーム開始後にアクセス用のQRコードがでます、これを6人全員読み込みます パソコンで本体起動してる人もスマホで読み込んでプレイヤー参加します パソコンのブラウザでもいけます ネット越しでやるときはDiscordなどによる画面共有が必要です、起動してる人の画面は進行状況を、手元の参加した後の画面はお絵かき用のみです AndroidでQRコード読み込む場合、Chromeで動かなかったので別ブラウザが必要でした お絵かきは消しゴム機能が無いので1発書きです
横とか逆さまに書くなというルールはどこにもない 完全勝利
A really fun game to crowd around the living room TV and play with friends - it usually gets the entire group howling with laughter! Great to see the game originating from a Japanese developer/publisher. I reported a Steam Deck audio bug in their Discord, and received quick comms that they're working on fixing it. Sometimes their AI bot goes down, or the network seems slow/laggy, so hoping they provide some more consistency there. Great idea, great team, looking forward to playing more and seeing what the devs add along the way!
Refreshing change to your standard Pictionary-style drawing/guessing game. If you've ever had a friend opt out of playing a game with you because they're bad at drawing, they will EXCEL at this game. In my experience, "bad drawers" perform the best because the humans typically are accustomed to their friend's art style and what they're intending to draw, and AI doesn't know what's going on. The game rewards thinking outside of the box and being a creative problem-solver over being good at making pretty pictures. Absolutely consider picking this game up. It's challenging and fun.
遊び方も簡単で面白いです！ お絵描き時のUndo機能か消しゴム機能があれば文句なしです
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