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Think your squad is unbreakable? Think again. Join us as we count down the most chaotic and friendship-destroying games ever made! From backstabbing board games to rage-inducing video games, these picks will have you questioning everyone you trust. How many of these has your friend group actually survived?
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00:00This is what happens when we play cards, though.
00:01Spades, all this stuff.
00:02Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks
00:06for the most chaotic games that could ruin your squad.
00:09How do you guys feel now?
00:10Pretty good. Not great, Shane.
00:12Well, I get to go again.
00:13If you love games, be sure to check out WatchMojo's new game, Terrible Influence.
00:18Just launched for purchase at TerribleInfluence.com.
00:21Terrible Influence is a satirical board game about the dark side of fame
00:24from the writer of the most popular girls in school and us, WatchMojo.
00:28Boom.
00:28I can make an apology video.
00:31Oh, you so would.
00:32Click on the link in the description to check out the game
00:34and be the first to play Terrible Influence.
00:38Number 10. Monopoly.
00:40This game should come with a trigger warning.
00:42Why don't we play Monopoly?
00:45Switch version.
00:46We've got Star Wars Monopoly, Rasta Monopoly, Gallipolopoly, Edna Krabopoli.
00:53Let's stick to original Monopoly.
00:56Real-world capitalism is depressing enough,
00:58but something about a microcosm version of it where your loved ones are your biggest enemies
01:02just makes it all the more problematic.
01:04It's all fun and games at first, buying land and building houses.
01:07In no time, the game spirals into a humiliation ritual.
01:11Cheater, cheater, cheater, cheater, cheater, and I caught him.
01:13That's crazy.
01:14Oh, we caught him.
01:15He caught him over the shoulder.
01:17Players turn into toxic landlords, watching their friends fall into financial ruin.
01:22There will always be someone who takes it way too seriously and tries to flip the board
01:26while the richest in the room just sits back to smirk.
01:28If you don't want to see your friends at their worst, stay away from this one.
01:32Another case of Monopoly-related violence, chief.
01:36How do those Parker brothers sleep at night?
01:39Number 9.
01:40Coup.
01:41Pathological liars and gaslighters assemble.
01:43This card game is all about bluffing.
01:45One of the reasons why people love it so much, that extra little wrinkle,
01:49is that you don't actually have to have the characters that you're claiming to use the power.
01:57Players start with two character cards detailing their influence and two coins each.
02:01They must then take turns performing actions based on the influence they have or are pretending to have.
02:06A captain could perform a duke's action and tax another player by lying about their influence.
02:11Like most politics, some stuff has happened and we're not quite sure what it was.
02:16An ambassador could claim they're an assassin and force someone to drop a character card.
02:21Anything goes, unless you call their bluff.
02:23It'll all boil down to how well you know your friends.
02:27How far would they go to betray you and why do they keep coming for you?
02:30By the end of the game, you are either a certified villain or you got played.
02:34So that means I'm dead.
02:36Yeah.
02:36Yeah.
02:36That's fair.
02:37Oh no.
02:38An honorable death.
02:39Damn, did you have fun?
02:42Number 8.
02:43Munchkin.
02:44If you have a friend who's been trying to bring this to game night because it's a low-key version
02:48of Dungeons & Dragons, run.
02:50A delightfully cruel parody of role-playing.
02:54Munchkin is like a role-playing card game, but instead of fantasy play pretend, you get offensive backstabbing from your
02:59BFFs.
03:00Players start at level 1 and must climb up to the highest level by slaying monsters and collecting treasures.
03:05The fun part, or so this game will have you believe, is the sabotage.
03:10Will's not level 3 anymore.
03:12Boys, uh, steal a level.
03:15So basically, now I'm level 3.
03:17Right when someone is close to winning, their so-called best pals will gang up on them, give them extra
03:23monsters to deal with, or use curse cards to take them down a notch.
03:27Simultaneously, they could be aiding another player.
03:29When this keeps happening, you are bound to doubt your friendship.
03:33But your turn's over, so-
03:34But your turn's over, so congrats.
03:36So, that sucks.
03:38Number 7.
03:39Risk.
03:39This board game brings out the megalomaniacs hiding in plain sight.
03:43Where can I put this?
03:44What is it?
03:45It's Risk, Jerry.
03:46The game of world conquest.
03:48The goal is to conquer the world, and the way to do so is to wage war.
03:52Naturally, you'll need allies to defeat your enemies, but it doesn't take long for one to turn into another.
03:58Well, you want to go for a ceasefire, Joey?
04:00You want to go for a ceasefire for this turn?
04:04The politics is dirty.
04:06The betrayals will have you saying,
04:07A2, Brute, and you will not always be lucky enough to take revenge.
04:11Promises are meant to be broken, and the grudges that start here probably won't go away anytime soon.
04:17The only thing at risk here is the integrity of your squad.
04:21I think it's time to put the herd on the Ukraine.
04:24I come from Ukraine.
04:26You not say Ukraine weak?
04:28Yeah, well, we're playing a game here, pal.
04:30Ukraine is game to you?
04:31How about I take your little bonus?
04:33Ah!
04:34Six!
04:35Number six, the Super Smash Bros. series.
04:38Don't mistake the bright look of this video game for harmlessness.
04:41The ultimate showdown is almost here, and I, the announcer, invite you to smash your rivals off the stage in
04:49Super Smash Bros. Ultimate!
04:52The point of the Super Smash Bros. games is to knock your opponent off stages.
04:57However, that's easier said than done.
04:59Characters have their unique strengths and weaknesses,
05:01so the beef starts when someone else picks a character you were eyeing.
05:05He's alive!
05:06What?
05:07He's alive!
05:08Oh!
05:10Oh!
05:11My God!
05:13Then you'll fight over whether you want items enabled or not because those bad boys up the ante with their
05:17effects.
05:18If you somehow manage to get over that, trash talking will enter the chat.
05:22Finally, when someone who has clearly been spending hours on the game beats you and you're exposed as a button
05:27-mashing noob,
05:28you will resent them forever.
05:30Needless to say, you won't be bros after this game is done with you.
05:35Oh, sweet satisfaction!
05:37Number five, Overcooked.
05:39This divisive cooking game will turn your bosom buddy into a nightmarish boss.
05:43Do it!
05:44For the sake of humanity!
05:46Which plate?
05:47Take this tomato and put it on something!
05:49It's supposed to be a cooperative video game where players put on chef's robes to complete orders in time
05:54while clearing obstacles and preventing hazards.
05:57What it really is is a pressure test.
06:00At any moment, you're either being judged for your skills or you're the one doing the judging.
06:04All right, I think, is this burger finished?
06:06There we go.
06:07No, that one needs bread.
06:08If your gang manages to clear a level, great!
06:11Teamwork makes the dream work.
06:13If everything is on fire, no one's communicating, and things are going downhill,
06:17be prepared for some serious finger-pointing.
06:19Before you know it, you're in an episode of Hell's Kitchen,
06:22and a Gordon Ramsay wannabe is calling you an idiot sandwich.
06:25It's stressful.
06:26All of you, come here!
06:27That soup looks like a dog's dinner!
06:29Number four, Diplomacy.
06:31If you're trying to cut ties with a friend group, introduce them to this board game.
06:36The game takes place on a stylized map of Europe, broken into large spaces called provinces.
06:41The seven players each begin the game holding several provinces that reflect the national boundaries of a major European power,
06:49more or less as they stood circa 1901.
06:51In Diplomacy, players are transported to pre-World War Europe,
06:55where each player controls one of the so-called Great Powers.
06:58The first to take over 18 or more supply centers wins.
07:01It sounds simple until you realize that the only way to get those supply centers under your thumb is by,
07:07well, diplomacy.
07:08Players can speak with one another, forming alliances and gathering intelligence any way they wish.
07:14It's up to the players to determine how best to win allies,
07:18or at the very least, convince their enemies to pick on someone else.
07:21Information is currency, and negotiation is the key to success.
07:26However, if everyone just did what they said they were going to do, there would be no game.
07:30True colors come out when trust is turned to dust and everyone's a master manipulator.
07:35There's no luck factor to blame, so the deception hits harder.
07:39It's endlessly aggravating.
07:40That player will almost inevitably have to turn on their allies at some point,
07:45rewarding their trust with a knife in the back.
07:47If we had no scruples, this is where we'd plug our game Terrible Influence.
07:51And while we do want to influence you to buy the game,
07:55it would be terrible if we did it this way.
07:57Terrible Influence
07:58Fame is not for the faint of heart, or for friends you want to keep.
08:02And let's players roleplay as the heroes of today, who unfortunately are not always heroic.
08:08Terrible Influence is a satirical board game brought to you by WatchMojo,
08:12where clout chasing can make you president if you play your cards right.
08:15Designed by Mark Cope, aka the creator of the most popular girls in school,
08:20this game will have you questioning your morals.
08:22You get to be president, no matter what terrible things you did along the way.
08:26It's like the new game of life, unfortunately.
08:29Choose roles like vlogger or game streamer,
08:32and wade through the murky waters of celebrity,
08:34gathering influence, money, power, and fame.
08:37Don't be surprised when you get cancelled because your ride or die sold you out though.
08:41You can always turn your cult-like fanbase against them.
08:43Just don't blame us if they never talk to you again.
08:46After all, it is lonely at the top.
08:48We didn't make the rules to real life, we just tried to make a game about it.
08:52It's called Terrible Influence.
08:54Alright, now that we got that out of our system, back to the list.
08:57Number 3. Secret Hitler
08:59How could we exclude a game that will quite literally have you accusing your friends of fascism?
09:04You're basically trying to convince everyone that you're a liberal.
09:08Meanwhile, though, there will be several of us who are secretly fascists,
09:12and one person who is secretly Hitler.
09:15Whether you're playing the physical board game or its online counterpart,
09:18Secret Hitler is peak social deduction paranoia.
09:21At the start of the game, each player is covertly assigned an identity.
09:25Don't trust anybody in this game, I guess.
09:26The liberal team must prevent the fascist team from enacting their policies,
09:30all while attempting to discover who's who in the process.
09:33Sort of like a mini version of The Traitors.
09:35After your squad has played this game,
09:37we can guarantee that you will be analyzing them for their lying tells for the rest of their lives.
09:42I feel sick.
09:43My eyelid is actually twitching.
09:46Is that like a fascist thing?
09:48Number 2. The Mario Party series
09:50The people you enter this video game with,
09:53and the people you emerge in the aftermath, are often not the same.
09:56Prepare to lose.
09:58Ooh!
09:59In Mario Party, players have to collect stars on a board
10:02by buying them with coins,
10:04which they get by playing mini-games.
10:06The premise is so easy,
10:08it almost sounds like a children's game.
10:09That's how Mario Party gets you.
10:11Gameplay is complicated when stars move or get stolen,
10:15which is usually when the tensions start to rise.
10:17It doesn't matter.
10:18Literally, it doesn't matter.
10:19Damn it!
10:22Even worse is when losing players suddenly end up winning
10:25because the game decided a random achievement deserves bonus stars.
10:29The only other game that's this infuriating is probably Mario Kart.
10:33The resentment they create lasts much longer than the games themselves.
10:36All right, yeah, I don't even care.
10:38I don't care.
10:39Number 1. Uno.
10:41This is the card game equivalent of rage baiting.
10:44It all starts with the cards you're dealt.
10:46This is the only card option for this color that I have.
10:49Let's just put it down.
10:50That's what they always say.
10:50If you hear long-suffering sighs,
10:53you know your friends are cooked.
10:55As the game begins,
10:56players must either put down a card that matches the top of the discard pile
11:00or pick up one from the deck.
11:01You win when you're empty-handed,
11:03but it's not easy when your biggest cheerleaders hate to see you win.
11:06That was wild.
11:08That was a crazy turn of the bet.
11:10Just when you're about to taste victory,
11:11your day ones will hit you with draw fours.
11:14Cheating accusations will fly,
11:16rules will be pulled up,
11:17and if you forgot to say Uno before you throw down your last card,
11:20the entire room will celebrate.
11:22It is impossible to recover from the emotional damage Uno deals.
11:26Uno?
11:27Yeah, some of us play.
11:29Some of us talk.
11:29If you love games,
11:31be sure to check out WatchMojo's new game Terrible Influence.
11:34Just launched for purchase at terribleinfluence.com.
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