12 Best CrowdParty Alternatives - Features, pros & cons, pricing | Remote Tools

Skyrocket Your Team is a team-building experience to bring distributed teams closer together through online escape rooms. It enhances communication, cooperation, and team spirit, including a debriefing of the experience to reflect and learn

• Free demo available
• Standard and premium pricing available
• 10% discount with a code Remote.tools

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Best for remote or distributed teams as a team building activity once in a quarter

It's designed especially for remote teams

The bot was published on the slack app directory two months ago, and has now been organically adopted by more than 300 companies, including some big names in tech 🙌 With Icebreaker time!, you can: 💡Create engagement in teams during sync/async social moments 🥑 Simple to use: type /icebreaker on any slack channel or private chat

• It's free, and I rely on small voluntary contributions to keep the service running
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In any sync or async moment in a team or group of people (for example, after a standup!)

It enables people to get to know each other and create bonds!

Create an interactive slide deck, start a zoom call with your friends or coworkers, and present your screen. Everyone can join in to your event with their phones, and answer questions, type responses, be silly with a noise board, and more!

• Free account available
• For a limited time, the premium account is only $4 a month!

If you want to make remote calls, meetings, or get togethers more interactive and less exhausting

This tool is designed to be used for remote workers — presentations for meetings, class quizzes, family get togethers are all a little better with interactive games or quizzes

Have fun with your team on Slack! Play fun & engaging trivia games & icebreakers. It’s bonding time! - 5k+ questions with fun categories; Marvel, Harry Potter, Friends & more - Trivia picture quiz with 10+ categories - Icebreaker games; This or That, Co-worker questions, 2 Truths & a Lie - Weekly trivia & Trivia of the day - Custom contests for training, onboarding etc. - Leaderboards

• Free trial of 14 days
• Paid plans start from $24/ month
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It can be used by remote teams missing out on office watercoolers

Ricotta Trivia helps to solve the employee engagement aspect in a remote setting

Building a great company culture leads to greater productivity, enhanced performance, and more collaboration. In a remote setting, this is a challenge. Afino makes it easy to keep your team connected and engaged, removing virtual barriers and benefiting your bottom line

• 14 day free trial available
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We help managers create engaging environments that keep their teams connected, no matter where they are working from. Easily find and host fun events, get personalized suggestions, and see feedback from your team

Build great relationships with your team, no matter where you're working

Slack & Microsoft Teams may be for work but with remote teams, they are the only source of camaraderie and team-building With Trivia's suite of quizzes, bring Social & Fun back to your workspace (right inside Slack & Microsoft Teams) Trivia quizzes are fun, easy to launch and provide a quick, 5-minute break to your workday. And they're real-time, meaning the team comes together to play!

• Free trial: 7-day trial with 10 quizzes to try for free
• Standard: For workspaces up to 100 members with unlimited quizzes
• Pro: For workspaces with more than 100 members with unlimited quizzes and exclusive feature to create custom quizzes
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• Teams that use Slack & Microsoft Teams for communication
• Remote teams looking to make employee engagement better
• For making the most of breaks along the course of the day and boost team productivity
• Breaking the monotony of working all day
• Building a stronger and more connected remote work culture

Trivia is completely based on tools that have supported remote collaboration intensively - Slack & Microsoft Teams. We really believe that we can encourage better engagement amongst employees and increase productivity by introducing fun and quick breaks while working remotely

Bored helps remote teams have fun together and socialize through games. There are 3 games right now (and a lot more coming soon): - Spot the Faker: A game of accusations and deception - Trick or Trivia: A game of trivia, but with a twist - Give me a Break: 2-minute breaks you can take by yourself You know what the research says: happy teams are more productive

• Free for now
• Pricing plan will come soon but it will be very affordable
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For quick breaks during work, or a larger Friday fun session

It is meant for remote teams to socialize and build team camaraderie

Covalent is a platform designed to connect you with your peers and teammates to enhance your team’s productivity and virtual workplace environment Covalent’s simple, intuitive UI and integrated video feed provide for memorable and personal connections

• Free

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Covalent helps new, remote teams build better bonds

It's hard to build effective bonds in quarantine; Covalent hopes to help!

Doozy give you access to your own virtual private space – 100% dedicated to team building and culture. What we do: - Ready to go team building activities - A social dashboard for all company events - Quiz, icebreakers, games, premium experiences, clubs and your own events of course "Culture eats strategy for breakfast", get your own working. Now.

• Free up to 25 teammates
• Premium coming soon
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To connect virtual teams, daily!

We are actively supporting a better Future Of Work through making remote work a sustainable way of working.

Roll20 is described as a ' Powerful toolset to expand pen-and-paper tabletop games and play online with friends' It's free-to-use, browser-based, and features a full suite of tools to build characters quickly, roll dice, and run any campaign

• Free Service

It's a great website, and it can be used for happy hours, meeting virtually, and socializing. It is used by remote teams, VCs, meetup hosts, conference organizers, schools, families, and friends

Roll20 provides a rich toolset including a character builder, map tools, dynamic lighting, video and voice chat, and a powerful dice roller for remote teams to make their remote work more fun

Your favorite RPG game systems are playable with Fantasy Grounds. While you can play ANY game on Fantasy Grounds, these systems allow you to buy preloaded content that is ready to play. Less prep time for the GM means more playtime for the players and a more enjoyable online experience overall.

• Available as a lifetime purchase, or as a monthly subscription.
• FGU Standard at $3.99 Monthly OR one time pricing of One-Time Pricing $39
• FGU Ultimate at $9.99 for first 3 months, then $9.99 Monthly OR One-Time Pricing of $149
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If you are a hardcore gamer, use Fantasy Grounds to make your game easier to prep, more immersive for your players, and faster to run.

Remote workers who love RPGs can enhance their gaming experience using Fantasy Grounds.

Quizzes come weekly via email, Slack, or Microsoft Teams. Results spark conversations about something other than the weather or weekend plans, as we celebrate the winner and the funniest wrong response. Difficulty, timing, categories all customizable

• Four-week free trial, no credit card required
• Paid plans start from $1/ month/ participant
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Professional services (lawyers, finance), tech companies, and schools are the most common teams that love the weekly trivia fun from Water Cooler Trivia

It's asynchronous, which is critical for remote teams