An online party game of drawing and guessing for up to 16 players with a variety of modes.
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.
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 want characters/skins to represent the time you put into earning them. If we’re going to do this, we want to do it right, i.e. remove cosmetic microtransactions completely, and not overcomplicate things by also retaining the in-game shop.
Note: The shop will be temporarily accessible to players with over 350 Ink for the next 3 months via a dialogue on the main menu. Ink can no longer be purchased; it can only be spent.
Characters are now unlocked by completing in-game challenges. Some of these are trickier than others, some of which you won’t even know the challenge requirements for... good luck hunting!
As you may have noticed… each character now has their own unique epic splash art! Our development queue has been quite heavy as part of this update, so we wanted to take some of the time on the art side of things to help polish up the vibe of this new feature, and explore a bit more of each character’s identity.
You can check a character's unlock condition in their close-up view, which also shows their unlock track!
This update doesn’t stop at just unlocking characters through challenges! We wanted to find more ways to reward players for the time they’ve put into Draw & Guess. Each character can be levelled up to unlock unique rewards, including an Artbook (see below), additional artbook pages, a character skin, and, for those truly dedicated to their favourite character, a brand new character-themed badge to show off.
This update focuses a lot on community, and we want to build a strong foundation for the game to keep growing that sense of community. A big part of this feeling comes from being able to see and interact with players even if you’re not directly in a game together.
Introducing… player profiles! A space you can call your own, share your favourite piece of artwork, and even show off those badges you’ve been collecting.
Profiles are great, but they need something a little… extra, so we’re adding a whole new feature to do just that: Artbooks!
You can think of Artbooks as your own mini portfolios, where you can add up to 9 images per page and then publish them publicly for other players to see both on your profile, as well as in the public gallery.
This new area will let you browse around various Artbooks published by community members. The ability to filter these artbooks by name also opens up the opportunity for running in-game art competitions, both in the form of official and player-run events!
To make communicating with your friends easier while you’re in-game, we’re adding a friends system with direct messaging, custom statuses, a recent player list, and a block list.
Draw & Guess has evolved a lot over the past few years, and we are now at a point where we feel the game's base is in a great place. It was important to us that we focus on creating a solid foundation that feels rewarding, and respectful of players’ time.
Our plan from here is focused on expanding our game modes. In fact, we are already getting started on a brand-new game mode coming later this year.
\ 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
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
Hey everyone! We’re excited to share with you all that Draw & Guess has officially launched on **Android and iOS! **https://drawandguess.com/mobile/
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 all our current game modes, Whisper, Stage, Robot, and Battle Royale, together with brand-new quality-of-life improvements tailored for mobile play.
We’ve also brought a few extra updates along with mobile, including a new referral system that rewards you for getting friends involved.
Join our in-game Launch Party event where you can earn some exclusive prizes just for playing!
**Gem Gala Mei Skin - **Complete 10 rounds of Whisper **Launch Party Badge - **Play 1 round of Battle Royale **Unlock Scarlet - **Complete 10 rounds of Stage
We will also be hosting an Art Competition! For full details, please see the following page: https://drawandguess.com/launch-party-art-contest/
This competition will feature the launch of a **brand-new badge, **which will be awarded exclusively to the top 10 entries during art competitions.
Alongside this update, we are really happy to launch an official Draw & Guess Creator Program - we recognise the creativity and hard work put in by the many content creators that take the time to share their funny moments in Draw & Guess, and we’d like to give back by allowing them to earn a 10% share of any in-game sales made by their viewers! You can find more information here: https://www.nexus.gg/draw-and-guess
Mobile is just the start; we have a ton of huge new features coming early next year, including full player profiles, friends lists, direct messaging, and a huge new feature to share your art with others.
You can also expect brand new game modes throughout 2026, all of which will be delivered in free updates.
We can’t wait to see what you create in Draw & Guess Mobile - download it now on the App Store and Google Play, and start drawing (and guessing)!
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
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
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 (https://drawandguess.com/draw-guess-revamp-out-now/) project.
Since the launch of revamp, we’ve added a trust score system to improve the quality of your matches, a dedicated set of tools for content creators with both integrated Twitch support and content moderation, GIF exports for your games, a battle royale robot game mode, and a ton of improvements to the game itself.
After a ton of time cooking in the oven, we’re sooo stoked to finally share that Draw & Guess will finally be coming to mobile this year!
Pre-Register NOW!
You can pre-register for Draw & Guess: Mobile NOW on iOS and Google Play, with Huawei being available shortly after. For Android users, you can also sign up to be sent a copy of the APK directly if you prefer not to use major stores.
Pre-register here: https://drawandguess.com/mobile/
We will be entering closed beta **this MONTH! **In the coming month, we will be allowing selected testers to generate their own invites, and we’ll also be sharing some in our Discord and QQ groups. This will help us gradually introduce more testers as we approach our full launch later this year.
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
Bugfixes
UI/UX Optimizations
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 individual quests.
Badges Earned some badges through quests? Then showcase them for the world to see! With this update you can choose any of your unlocked badges and add them to your player card in lobby. And if you don’t want to show any, just select “none”. As time goes by more exclusive badges will be added, but make sure to earn seasonal badges when they come as they might not be unlockable after the event ends.
The entire Acureus team wishes you good fortune and prosperity! Happy new year!
The room code should now stay the same when returning from match to lobby
Changes to reconnects:
You can now rejoin an ongoing match via room code if the game crashed
You can now rejoin an ongoing match via room code if you went back to main menu
The host can now extend the wait timer
⚠️ If the timer expires, or the host player cancels waiting, the reconnect attempt will still be blocked, and the player will be removed from the ongoing match permanently! ⚠️
Fixed chat scrolling sensitivity
Now the host’s lobby setting page will not be refreshed by others’ actions in the lobby
Fixed a rare crash when syncing a drawing to players that left
We don’t disable the mute button on players that disconnected during a match anymore
Fix a bug where in rare cases after a reconnect, an old guess was automatically re-submitted in a later round
Fix a bug where a full image could be sent twice when the drawing phase ended, which lead to unnecessary network burden
Avoid sending very large images in full when drawing phase ended, and rely on only syncing all lines while they are drawn
Fixed an issue that the presentation intro could have different orders for different player (so sometimes they did not show the correct intro for the following presentation)
Fix a stuck case when a word match vote was lost due to a disconnect during a later presentation
With today’s update, Draw & Guess adds new interactivity features targeted at Twitch streamers. So far your chat audience could watch you play – now they can play along!
On our brand-new streaming tab (added to lobby settings) choose to let them…
Interactive streaming settings are available for Whisper and Stage modes. ***With streaming activated, Stage does not require a minimum of 2 in-game players anymore, while the 4-player minimum requirement for Whisper still stands.
Combine streaming with our content moderation features, and you’re ready for an epic night (or day) of streaming!