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Never Have I Ever

A confession goes up, the room divides — no points, no winners

Category: Party · Players: free-for-all · Status: Beta

Never Have I Ever is in beta — details may change.

A confession appears on screen — “never have I ever ghosted someone” — and everyone votes. Type !have or !never and your avatar lands on that side of the stage, live, with the whole room watching the split form. There is no score and nobody wins: the split is the game, and the closest thing to a prize is a role on the end card.

The streamer plays too, through the host-say composer, and their avatar lands on a side like anyone else’s.

Gameplay

1
Vote

Type !have or !never (bare have / never works). No !join needed — voting enters you, and you can switch sides until the reveal. The walk across the stage is half the fun.

2
The reveal

The host closes the vote — or the optional vote timer does. The split settles, and the round gets its one line of editorial — “only 4 of 61 have…” — with the minority named on stage.

3
The hot seat

After the reveal, one voter is invited to elaborate: their chat messages appear on stage as the story. They can type !pass to decline instantly. Everyone else can type same to back them up, and likes add seconds to their clock.

The seat goes to someone who voted HAVE — that’s where the story is; a NEVER can only elaborate on not doing something. The exception is when NEVER is the rare side: “only 3 of 61 have never seen it, and you’re one of them” is a story in its own right, so a NEVER that small gets the seat instead. A round where nobody voted HAVE gets no seat at all.

The quoted words

Prompts use house code for anything a live stage shouldn’t say outright, and the code is always in quotes, styled so the wink is visible:

CodeRegister
“gotten busy”the classic subject
“spicy water” · “overserved”the night-out deck
“birthday suit”the swimwear-optional cluster
“body count” · “sneaky link”already the platform’s own words

The room decodes these instantly — that’s the joke working. Prompts about things the code can’t carry aren’t in the deck at all.

Configuration

OptionValuesDefault
ThemeMixed, Terminally Online, Love & Situationships, Chaos & Shame, Friendship Crimes, Main Character Moments, Adulting, Inner Child, Night Out, After DarkMixed
Prompts3–25 per session10
Spicy promptson / offOff
Vote timer10–300 seconds, blank = host-pacedOff
Hot seatevery round / lopsided splits / neverEvery round
Hot-seat giftone gift that buys the pickHand Heart

Spicy prompts. The After Dark deck — flirtier material, written entirely in the house code. Off by default; picking the After Dark theme without this toggle draws from the safe deck instead.

Hot-seat gift. Sending the configured gift lets the gifter choose who takes the seat: they send it, then @mention any voter in chat — themselves included. The pick buys the ask, never the answer; !pass always works.

Layout

Labeled layout of the Never Have I Ever play surface
Never Have I Ever — play surface
  1. Marquee — game title and how-to hint.
  2. Prompt band — the confession, with quoted code words styled; the editorial line lands here at reveal.
  3. The floor — HAVE left, NEVER right, every voter’s avatar scattered on their side. Switching sides walks the avatar across the divider.
  4. Hot seat — the spotlight card: the storyteller, their messages as bubbles, the “same” counter, and a countdown that likes can extend.
  5. Filmstrip — the night so far, one mini split per round.

The game moves through Lobby → Voting → Revealed → Hot seat → Finished.

Roles, not ranks

At the end the room gets its portrait instead of a scoreboard:

RoleEarned by
😈 The Menacemost HAVEs of the night
😇 The Saintmost NEVERs
📖 Open Bookthe most testimony from the hot seat
🔮 Knows You Bestmatched the streamer’s own votes most often

Achievements

BadgeEarned by
First Confessionyour first HAVE of a session
Rare Breedlanding in a minority of 10% or less
Open Bookgiving testimony from the hot seat
House Dividedbeing part of a perfect 50/50 split
Perfect Attendancevoting in every round of a session

There is no 50-wins avatar motif for this game — it has no wins to count, which is the point.