$7.99What The Dub?! Write the dialogue, win the vote
Fill in the missing lines of old films with your own jokes, read aloud by a robot voice, and let the room decide who was funniest.
Is What The Dub?! worth it?
What The Dub?! is worth it if…
- you like party games where the comedy comes from your friends, not from the game
- you want something non-gamers can join in seconds, from a phone, with no tutorial
- you enjoy riffing on bad movies and old public service films
- you stream and want your Twitch chat voting on the dubs
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Write the line, hear the robot say it
A clip plays: a stiff actor in a decades-old film pauses where the dialogue used to be. That gap is yours. You type a replacement on your phone, tablet or computer, and the game's text-to-speech reads it aloud in the scene, deadpan and completely committed. You can also drop in sound effects to sell the moment. Then everyone watches the dubs back and votes, and the highest score at the end wins. The robot voice is a big part of why it works: no matter what you write, it gets delivered with the same flat, serious tone, which is exactly what a 1950s safety film deserves.
Over 600 clips of gloriously bad film
The material does a lot of the work here. The clip library is built from so-bad-they're-good B-movies, woefully outdated public service announcements and bizarre industrial films, over 600 of them, each one full of awkward acting, dramatic stares and editing choices that beg to be mocked. The footage is genuinely old, which is the point: it gives you lines and situations no modern video could. And if you burn through the built-in library, community-made clip packs add hundreds more, so the pool of scenes to ruin keeps growing.
A party game that asks almost nothing of your guests
This is the rare party game where nobody has to learn anything. Up to six players write dubs while twelve more can join as audience members who just vote, so the whole room plays, including people who never touch games. It works for couch gatherings and for remote groups over a call alike, and short rounds make it easy to fill an evening without planning one.
Can you play it solo?
Can you play it solo?
Not really, no. The whole game is built around a group: you write dubs, everyone watches them back and votes for the funniest one, and there is no single-player mode against the game. You need at least one other person, and it gets better with more, up to six players plus twelve audience voters. If you stream, Twitch chat voting lets your viewers fill the audience seats, so even a small group can turn into a full room.
Do you need to speak English to play?
Some English helps. The clips come from old English-language films, so you need to follow the setup to land a good joke. The text-to-speech playback itself supports over 29 languages, so you can write and hear your dubs in many languages, but the source footage and its context are in English.
How does streaming work?
The game ships with streamer-friendly features. Twitch chat voting lets your entire audience vote on the dubs instead of just the people in the room, and built-in moderation and content tools are there to keep trolls from ruining the show. You write your lines from a phone, tablet or computer, so it fits easily into a stream setup.
