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NextSeat
Game night, no Wi-Fi required.

Play games against the friends sitting right next to you - connected over your own local network, with no internet needed. Just open the app, gather round, and play.

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NextSeat game picker showing chess, checkers, skirmish and more
NextSeat home screen with Host lobby and Join lobby
A game of chess in progress in NextSeat

Made for playing together, in person

Everything happens on your devices and your local network - nothing in between.

No internet needed

NextSeat connects players directly over your local network, so you can play anywhere - even with no signal at all.

Face-to-face fun

Designed for the people in the room with you. Pass-and-play simplicity, with up to four players in many games.

Android & iOS

Everyone can join from whatever phone they have - NextSeat plays nicely across Android and iOS together.

Drop back in

Lost connection or backgrounded the app? NextSeat reconnects you to your game automatically.

Built-in chat

Send messages to the table without leaving the game - handy for trash talk and rematches alike.

Leaderboards

Results are tracked across the session, so the lobby always shows recent games and who's on top.

NextSeat lobby with five players gathered and a game ready to start
One lobby, everyone in

Gather the table in seconds

One person hosts, everyone else joins from their own phone over the same network. See who's in, pick a game, set the player count and hit start - no accounts, no codes to type out, no waiting on a server.

In-app chat between players in a NextSeat lobby
Talk across the table

Built-in chat for every lobby

Line up the next match, call your rematch or just talk trash - chat lives right alongside the lobby and the game, so the banter never has to stop.

A growing library of games

From quick classics to chaotic party games - with more on the way.

One game, every phone

NextSeat plays nicely across Android and iOS together - so it doesn't matter what anyone at the table is carrying.

Wordseat running on an Android phone
Android
Wordseat running on an iPhone
iOS