Getting started
Host your first AnimaOS game in about three minutes — no downloads, just a screen and some phones.
Open AnimaOS on the big screen
Point the TV, laptop or tablet you’re playing on to AnimaOS and tap Host. That’s the Stage — it’s where the action lives: game boards, prompts, scores, all of it. No install, no login wall — any modern browser works.
Get your room code
Hosting spins up a 4-letter room code (something like PNCH) and a QR code right on the Stage. Pick the room’s language too — English or Romanian — while you’re at it; it decides what everyone sees.
Get everyone in
Players open AnimaOS on their own phones and either scan the QR code or type in the 4-letter code. The second a phone joins, it becomes that player’s controller — no separate app, no account required. AnimaOS works for 2 to 8 players depending on the game, so grab as many friends as you have chairs (or Wi-Fi bars).
Pick a game and go
Back on the Stage, browse the 25 games and pick one that fits your group and your mood — quick chaos, slower deduction, drawing, trivia, whatever you’re in the mood for tonight. Hit start, and the Stage walks everyone through it round by round while phones handle the taps, swipes and votes.
Three minutes, start to finish
Screen up, code shared, phones in, game picked — that’s the whole ritual. Everything else is just playing.
🛋️ Written from the couch, phone in hand. Spot a mistake? Tell us.