Draw & Guess
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Playing now
124−29 vs. yesterday
All-time peak
40,450Aug 2021
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| Game update | Update Notes June 10th - Add more detailed feedback during game start up - Artbook Viewer: Improve loading times and reduce download sizes for overview - Artbook Viewer: Add keyboard navigation - Various UI optimisations | — | |
| Major update | Progression, Social, and Artbooks - LIVE NOW Hey everyone! We have quite a lot of content to share with you today, so BUCKLE IN as we dive into all of the new features we just dropped. Character Unlocks/Progression Following a public vote from the community, 79% of you told us you don’t want cosmetic microtransactions in Draw & Guess. As of this update, they are GONE FOREVER. We decided not to have an “earnable AND buyable” model, as we w… | 23136526 | |
| Community | Removal of Ink, Unlockable Characters, and Upcoming Price Change Last month, we asked you all a simple, but important question: “Should we remove Ink from Draw & Guess?” Ink is a premium currency we introduced during the revamp of Draw & Guess in 2024 for cosmetic-only characters/skins. We did this in an effort to support the long-term health of the game so that we can continue to support new features and game modes. This came at a cost; Draw & Guess was no… | — | |
| Game update | Update Notes March 2nd - Extend Lunar New Year celebrations - Added new unlockable LNY skin for Marina - Fix not being able to leave a match while it is paused - Fix chat not being accessible in matches while someone was disconnected - When timer for the drawer runs out, prevent undo / redo / clear - Fix that we sometimes showed multiple enumerations on subscribed wordlists - Various UI optimisations |
Announcements are the developer’s own posts to the game’s Steam news feed: updates and their patch notes, in-game events, releases and sales. The important ones are marked on the players chart.
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| Community | 2026 Roadmap & Community Ink Vote Draw & Guess 2026 Roadmap - Driven By Players Draw & Guess has come a long way since its initial release just 5 years ago, with new game modes, a complete visual overhaul, a built-in wordlist browser, match history to review previous games, and the introduction of many beloved characters. 2026 is set to be our most exciting year yet, and to celebrate the start of the Spring Festival, we want to… | — |
| Community | Lunar New Year Update & Launch Party Art Contest Winner Happy Lunar New Year! We wish you all prosperity, health and good fortune for the entire year of the Horse! To kick off the new year, we’ve dressed the game for the occasion and invited Lunar Princes Gus, Hachi and AL4N over for a visit! Check out the quest list to see how you can add them to your crew for free! We’re once again looking at some exciting new changes coming this year of the Horse… | — |
| Game update | Update Notes Jan 29th \ Improve reliability of claiming rewards · \ Increase time to come up with a guess when using “custom words” from 15 to 45 seconds · \ Tweaked what color is stored when using the paint-over-eraser · \ Fixed that the multi-line-eraser checked overlap with the draw-position, not the end-position · UI Optimisations | 21700345 |
| Game update | Update Notes Jan 22nd Removed keyboard shortcuts for unavailable tools when using Invisibility modifier · Various Bugfixes · \ Fixed a possible stuck issue in the guess phase · Fixed some button states in main menu · Fixed some animation issues on Lyndel · UI Optimisations | 21603117 |
| Major update | Draw & Guess: Mobile + In-Game Event + Creator Program Draw & Guess is now available on Mobile! Hey everyone! We’re excited to share with you all that Draw & Guess has officially launched on Android and iOS! We’ve heard many requests over the years that you want to be able to play anytime, anywhere, whether at home, on the train, or with friends. This mobile version brings the full Draw & Guess experience to your fingertips, complete with access to… | 21196537 |
| Game update | Update Notes November 5th Players can now enable the classic background music in the game settings · improve feedback when trying to join a full lobby · players can now re-trigger the AI compatibility check in the game settings · some synchronized changes and preparations along with mobile version · improve RAM usage for the game · Bugfixes · UI Optimisations | 20684922 |
| Game update | Update Notes October 13th Preparation for Halloween: Spooky Skins will return from 17th Oct to 2nd Nov. Remember to check out the shop! · Added a sound for voting result in Whisper game mode · Updating a word list now also updates the author’s name if it was changed · Bugfixes · UI Optimisations | 20370562 |
| In-game event | Draw & Guess: Mobile - Pre-Registration Now Available! Draw & Guess: Mobile - Pre-Registration Now Available! Hey everyone! Shortly after our initial release back in 2021, launching on mobile felt like the next natural step for Draw & Guess. As the game continued to grow, we wanted to take some time to rebuild it from the ground up to ensure DG would be here for the next 10 years, rather than the next 10 months, which led us to our revamp project.… | — |
| Game update | Update Notes August 20 Main menu freshened up · New Gu-355 patch with 863 words for Robot and Battle Royal mode · Improved Japanese Kana font · The in-game chat history will now remain in Ending ceremony and lobby · Fix an issue where lobby drawing lines could get lost if host is still in ending ceremony before returning from match to lobby · Fixed a permission bug regarding deletion of lines in lobby drawing · Bugfi… | 19660426 |
| Game update | Update Notes June 26th: Summer Party is on! - Welcome the summer and join the beach party! - Improved SVG export - Improved kicking security - Bugfixes - UI/UX Optimizations | 19014529 |
| Game update | Update Notes June 10th - Fixed wordlists not fetching more lists when scrolling down - Fixed issue of drawer in Stage not seeing hidden chat - Improved internal layer logic - For invisible mode, lines now remain for a short time before fading - Fixed saturation selector not listening correctly when color was chosen via palette - Prepared data layout to align with mobile version - UI/UX Optimizations | 18811687 |
| Game update | Update Notes May 22nd - You can now export animated GIFs from Whisper matches in Sketchbook - New confetti, borrowed from Lucian ! - Improved pixel art Undo - Fixed clear undo in Stage mode - UI/UX Optimizations | 18563073 |
| Game update | Update Notes May 8th - Battle Royal can now be joined directly from lobbies, with everyone in the lobby joining at once! - Game mode settings now open when creating a lobby, facilitating mode selection - Improved Pixel Art drawing performance - Improved Drawing Performance for images with a lot of lines - Drawing Tool fixes - UI/UX Optimizations | 18389068 |
| Game update | Update Notes April 24th - Lobby list allows for easier filtering by server region and shows a connectivity indicator - Lobby list also shows the turn time for lobbies - Fix multiline eraser not working after hiding the UI in sketchbook - Fix returning to lobby right after the game start showing infinite loading screen - UI Optimizations | 18215533 |
| Game update | Update Notes April 1st - Multi-line eraser now supports removing points - Fix some problems with pressure detection when using a Pen as Input Device - Fix erasers not working after switching between eraser types - UI Optimizations | 17937855 |
| Game update | Update Notes March 28 - The Topic from *Lounge Mode* is now shown in the Lobby Browser - Handled more cases where game could get stuck connecting during startup - Performance Optimizations - Some UI fixes | 17887508 |
| Game update | Update Notes Feb. 17th - Wordlist is now hidden in the lobby list when the lobby is set to Lounge - Fixed player display issues in Stage when players have disconnected - Custom lobby name is now persisted when returning from game to lobby - Fixed an issue with some gravity images being out of bounds in the ending presentation - Add a tooltip for truncated guesses in match history for Whisper mode - various UX improve… | 17391727 |
| Community | Lunar New Year contest winners Happy lantern festival! The end of the Lunar New Year period also marks the end of our Lunar New Year drawing competition! Thank you everyone for your cool submissions! 💚🐍 Without further ado, here are this competition's winners! -drummroll- First place goes to…. 俊江! Second place goes to….! Bobby And third place goes to…! 舞散桜 Prizes will be awarded in the coming days. Stay tuned for more comp… | — |
| Game update | Introducing quests and badges Happy Spring Festival! 🐍 With this new Year of the Snake we are introducing two exciting feature additions: New Event Space with Quests In celebration of seasonal events you now have the chance to earn exclusive rewards by completing tasks in the game. Quests are purely optional and can be found in the new event space via main menu. Check there for available rewards and your progress on indivi… | — |
| Community | 2025 Spring Festival Competition How do you plan a party for your … hair?!🐍🐍 Metissa had been secretly planning while her snakes were asleep. She really wanted them to feel like this Spring Festival was the beginning of their year. There would be fireworks, many guests and all their favourite foods: Spring Rolls, Dumplings, and some Sugar Pockets. Tomoko, Lyndel, Zoey, and Scarlet even promised to dress up for the occasion!… | — |
| Game update | Update Notes Jan. 21 - Whiteout eraser now returns to previously selected color when deselecting - Changed default minimum trust score for public lobbies from 1 to 2 - Fixed lobby chat having inconsistent positions when sliding in or out during low frame rate situations - You can now use color picker to pick colors from other players’ drawings - Fixed the layer issue when player adding lines in layer 1 - Fixed syst… | 17080043 |
| Community | Community updates Happy new year! At this beginning of 2025, our community has grown bigger and bigger thanks to the support from all of you, which we are so grateful for. Since we have released our trust score and report system in August 2024, we have witnessed a great change on the overall game environment. Meanwhile we also received some feedback about our systems with concerns about a few players’ inappropri… | — |
| Community | Christmas Costume Winner Hii everyone! Thank you all for coming to my Christmas Costume party! I see several Santa costumes and some ... very Halloween-y make-up! That’s clever! Gus, if you need to catch your breath from all that running, just take your time. Thanks everyone for the presents and love you brought to share. Before you dive into drinks and cookies, let’s present the winners of this year’s costume contest!… | — |