75+ Would You Rather Questions: Video Game Edition
Video game would you rather questions exist for one reason: gamers were going to argue anyway, so they may as well argue with structure. Put four people in a voice call and somebody will start a fight about difficulty settings, controller versus mouse, or whether saving is cheating. These questions just hand that argument a scoreboard.
The nice thing about gaming questions is that nobody needs a briefing. Everyone who has ever picked up a controller has been betrayed by a save file, humbled by a loading screen, or dropped from a match at the exact worst moment. The specifics change from person to person, but the feelings are identical, which is why these land instantly.
Below you'll find 77 fresh questions split into six categories, plus ways to run them in a Discord call, on a stream, or at a sleepover where nobody wants to stop playing long enough to talk. And if you'd rather skip the reading, the free game on this site has a Video Games category built right in.
Why Gamers Love These
Everyone has a hill to die on. Ask a normal group about their favorite film and you get shrugs. Ask a group of gamers whether they'd take unlimited health or unlimited ammo and you get a whiteboard. Gaming makes people weirdly principled — there are players who genuinely believe fast travel ruins an open-world game, and they will explain why, at length, without being asked twice.
The frustrations are universal. Lag, respawn timers, a controller that drifts, a save file that vanished, the crash right before a boss finally went down. None of that belongs to one game or one platform. It is shared vocabulary, so a question built on it works whether the person across from you has ten thousand hours logged or plays twenty minutes on the bus.
Console and PC loyalty does half the work. Platform arguments are the oldest running joke in gaming, and a would you rather question is a much healthier way to have that fight than the usual one. Nobody gets defensive about a hypothetical. You can put someone's entire setup philosophy on trial — big screen or good headphones, thirty frames or five-second loads — and it stays funny.
They fill dead time perfectly. Queue times, downloads, respawn waits, the ten minutes before the last person joins the call. Gaming has enormous amounts of built-in waiting, and a question that takes fifteen seconds to ask and three minutes to argue about fits neatly into all of it.
Nobody has to reveal anything. Unlike truth-style games, these ask what you'd pick in a fictional world. Shy players, younger siblings, and the friend who only ever types in chat can all answer without exposing a thing about their actual life. That is why they work as an icebreaker for a new server.
77 Video Game Would You Rather Questions, Sorted Into 6 Categories
The everyday pain of being a gamer — hardware, patches, save files and the eternal shortage of free evenings. Start here; everyone has been personally wounded by at least three of these.
- Would you rather lose every save file you own or never be able to save again?
- Would you rather have unlimited free time but terrible internet, or perfect internet and one hour a day?
- Would you rather play with a controller that drifts or a keyboard with a sticky spacebar?
- Would you rather wait ten minutes between every match or restart the level after every single death?
- Would you rather own every game ever made but only play one per year, or buy games normally?
- Would you rather crash right before a boss finally dies or right after a two-hour cutscene?
- Would you rather have a huge screen with awful sound or great headphones and a tiny screen?
- Would you rather be stuck at thirty frames a second forever or stuck with five-second loading screens forever?
- Would you rather never get another update or get a compulsory update every time you launch?
- Would you rather grind a hundred hours for a guaranteed reward or roll the dice exactly once?
- Would you rather only replay games you have already finished or only play games you have never heard of?
- Would you rather your controller battery die mid-match or your Wi-Fi drop mid-match?
- Would you rather have to play standing up or play with the sound off?
Pure build-crafting. Every question here is a trade-off between two things you genuinely want, which is why the arguments get technical fast.
- Would you rather have unlimited health or unlimited ammo?
- Would you rather fly slowly or teleport short distances?
- Would you rather have a shield that never breaks or invisibility that never ends?
- Would you rather double all your damage or halve every cooldown?
- Would you rather freeze time for five seconds or rewind it by five seconds?
- Would you rather have infinite inventory space or infinite stamina?
- Would you rather respawn instantly with nothing or slowly with everything?
- Would you rather have a companion that fights for you or a mount that never gets tired?
- Would you rather have one overpowered ability with a huge cooldown or ten weak ones you can spam?
- Would you rather see every enemy on the map or never take fall damage again?
- Would you rather have perfect aim or perfect timing?
- Would you rather heal yourself instantly or revive teammates instantly?
- Would you rather max out one skill completely or be halfway decent at all of them?
Cozy builder or brutal survival run? Story or systems? This is the round that reveals what kind of player someone actually is, whatever they claim.
- Would you rather only ever play an open-world game or only ever play puzzle games?
- Would you rather play a horror game alone at midnight or a rhythm game in front of a crowd?
- Would you rather have an incredible story with dull gameplay or brilliant gameplay with no story at all?
- Would you rather play a strategy game where one match takes eight hours or a fighting game where it takes eight seconds?
- Would you rather be locked to the hardest difficulty or locked to the easiest?
- Would you rather explore an enormous empty map or a tiny map crammed with secrets?
- Would you rather play a farming sim that never ends or a shooter with no respawns?
- Would you rather fully complete one game or leave thirty games half-finished?
- Would you rather play a racing game with no brakes or a platformer with no double jump?
- Would you rather every game be turn-based or every game be real-time?
- Would you rather play a survival game where hunger never stops or a stealth game where you can never run?
- Would you rather have permanent death in every game or unlimited lives in every game?
- Would you rather only play single-player forever or only play multiplayer forever?
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- Would you rather have a teammate who never talks or one who never stops talking?
- Would you rather be the best player on a losing team or the worst player on a winning one?
- Would you rather lose every match with perfect connection or win every match on terrible ping?
- Would you rather be matched with strangers who are brilliant or friends who are hopeless?
- Would you rather have voice chat with no mute button or no voice chat at all?
- Would you rather queue alone instantly or wait ten minutes for a full squad?
- Would you rather everyone see your stats or never be allowed to see your own?
- Would you rather be carried to a win or narrowly lose a match you played perfectly?
- Would you rather have your rank reset every month or never be able to rank up again?
- Would you rather always be the first out in a battle royale or always come second?
- Would you rather have every skin in the game but nobody else can see them, or one skin everybody envies?
- Would you rather get shouted at by a stranger or silently abandoned by your own team?
- Would you rather be the leader who calls every play or the player who just follows orders?
What if real life had game mechanics? Health bars, quest markers, respawns and a shop that sells skills. This round gets philosophical faster than you would expect.
- Would you rather live inside an open-world game or inside a cozy farming game?
- Would you rather have a real-life health bar or a real-life map with every objective marked?
- Would you rather be the hero of a brutally hard game or a background character in an easy one?
- Would you rather earn real-life achievements complete with a sound effect or carry a real-life inventory that holds anything?
- Would you rather have a save point you can return to once a year or a quick-load you can use once a week?
- Would you rather live in a horror game world with a weapon or a peaceful world with absolutely nothing to do?
- Would you rather your life have background music or live commentary?
- Would you rather level up by sleeping or level up by walking?
- Would you rather respawn at home whenever you get hurt or never get hurt but never leave the house?
- Would you rather have a skill tree you unlock slowly or a shop where you can buy any skill instantly?
- Would you rather be a side character with an incredible storyline or the main character with a dull one?
- Would you rather see everyone else's stats floating above their heads or have yours floating above yours?
No strategy, no build theory, just nonsense. Save this one for last — it is the round where everybody stops taking the game seriously and starts laughing.
- Would you rather sneeze every time you land a headshot or hiccup every time you level up?
- Would you rather your character walk everywhere backwards or only sideways?
- Would you rather sit through a loading screen before every conversation or a cutscene before every meal?
- Would you rather your controller rumble whenever you lie or beep whenever you are wrong?
- Would you rather every jump make a cartoon sound or every footstep squeak?
- Would you rather your main look exactly like you or sound exactly like you?
- Would you rather be followed by a tutorial pop-up that never goes away or a commentator who spoils everything?
- Would you rather carry one enormous backpack or a hundred tiny pockets you can never find anything in?
- Would you rather say "quest accepted" out loud before every task or bow before every door?
- Would you rather every enemy be a duck or every boss be an extremely polite librarian?
- Would you rather strangers be able to see your health bar or your mood bar?
- Would you rather only be able to speak in emotes or only in preset chat-wheel phrases?
- Would you rather your game pause every time you blink or speed up every time you laugh?
Play It on Discord or at a LAN Night
The queue-time round. The simplest version and the one people actually use. Somebody reads a question in voice chat, counts down from three, and everyone types their answer in text chat on zero so nobody can copy. Whoever is in the minority has to defend themselves before the match starts. It costs nothing, needs no bot, and turns the dead time before a lobby fills into the best part of the night.
Two-round elimination. Better for a bigger server. Read a question, split into the two answers, then hit the losing side with a follow-up that makes their choice worse — you took unlimited ammo, fine, now you also have one health point. Anyone who switches sides is out. It rewards people who thought their answer through instead of picking the funnier option.
Stream chat polls. If you stream, post the two options and give chat thirty seconds to vote. Then read the result out and explain, at length, why chat is wrong. Lurkers who would never type a message will click a poll, and a question with a genuinely split result can carry ten minutes of downtime between matches.
Sleepover and LAN night version. Everyone stands in the middle of the room. Read a question, and each answer gets a wall — you physically run to your side. It gets people off the sofa, it is loud, and it works brilliantly at that point in the evening where everyone is too tired to keep playing but nobody wants to admit it. Add a rule that the smallest group has to explain themselves and you have twenty more minutes of night.
Group chat drip. One question a day, posted in the morning, no explanation. People vote with emoji reactions and then argue in the replies for hours. It is the lowest-effort way to keep a gaming group chat alive during a week when nobody is actually online at the same time.
For Younger Gamers
Every question on this page is clean — no swearing, nothing gory, nothing that needs a parent hovering. But some rounds suit kids better than others. For younger players, roughly six to ten, start with Silly Gamer Scenarios and In-Game Powers & Abilities. Both are pure imagination, neither needs any real gaming experience, and the powers round quietly teaches trade-off thinking without anyone noticing.
Living Inside a Game is the surprise winner with this age group. Kids take the premise completely seriously and will spend twenty minutes designing their real-life skill tree, which is far more entertaining to listen to than it sounds. Genres & Playstyles works well from about nine upwards, once a player has enough games behind them to have preferences worth defending.
The one to save for later is Multiplayer & Online. It is entirely clean, but it leans on ranked frustration, toxic teammates and getting abandoned mid-match — territory that means much more to a teenager than to a seven-year-old. If a younger player is already in ranked lobbies, it lands fine, and it can be a useful way to talk about how people behave online without making it a lecture.
For family gaming nights, mix one silly question with one powers question and one living-inside-a-game question, then stop. Three questions is plenty when half the table is desperate to get back to the console, and leaving people wanting more is how this becomes a thing you do every week rather than a thing you did once.
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Are video game would you rather questions kid-friendly?
Yes. Every question on this page is clean, with no swearing and nothing gory. The gaming life, genres, living inside a game and silly sections are the safest bets for younger players. The multiplayer round touches on toxic teammates and losing streaks, which is more of a teen and adult topic than a bad one.
Do I need to play games to enjoy these?
Not really. The questions are written to stay generic — an open-world game, a horror game, your main, a battle royale — so nobody needs to know a specific title to have an opinion. Someone who has only ever played phone games can still argue about unlimited health versus unlimited ammo, and that is the whole point.
Are these good for a Discord call?
They are close to perfect for one. Read a question out loud, count down from three, and everyone types their answer in chat at the same time so nobody copies. It fills queue time, works with any number of people, and gives quiet members of the server an easy way to join in without having to tell a story.
Can I use these on a stream?
Yes, and they work best as a chat poll. Post two options, let chat vote for thirty seconds, then read the result and explain why chat is wrong. It fills downtime between matches, gives lurkers a reason to type, and every question here is safe to say out loud on any platform.
Can I play video game would you rather questions online?
Yes — play the free Would You Rather game and choose the Video Games category. It deals out gaming questions one at a time with live vote percentages, so you can see how your picks compare to everyone else who answered. No download and no sign-up, on any phone or on a second monitor while you queue.
