Dubbing games like The Choicer Voicer

Four games with the same instinct behind them and four different answers to the question that actually decides which one suits you: where does the video come from, and who is in the room?

The thing they differ on

Every dubbing game hands you a scene with the voices missing. What separates them is where that scene comes from — the game supplies it, the community supplies it, or you do — and that choice determines everything else about how one feels to play.

A game that supplies its own scenes starts in ten seconds and gives everybody the same material. A game built on community packs takes a download before you play and then never runs out. A game that takes your own video starts with the clip everybody in the room already has a joke about, and asks you to have one ready.

Side by side

Which one you actually want

• Stay with The Choicer Voicer if

  everybody is in the same room, you like the idea of a library that keeps growing because people keep making things for it, and you do not mind a download before an evening starts.

• Try Voxalike if

  you want the pack-based game without the install, or you already have packs and a laptop is all that is available.

• Buy What The Dub if

  you want to press one button and have a scene appear, with no packs to find, no formats to convert, and a console in the living room to play it on.

• Use PartyDub if

  the people you want to play with are not in the house, or the funniest possible clip is one you already have on your phone. It is free, it runs in a browser, and it is made by the same person who runs this site — said plainly, because a recommendation with an interest behind it should carry the interest with it.

The disclosure, in full

This site is run by the person who makes PartyDub. That is why PartyDub is in the table and why it has a button on every page here. It is also why the table above states what the other three do better rather than what they do worse — a comparison that only flatters its author is one nobody should trust, and you can check every row of it against each game's own page in about five minutes.