The game where you dub over scenes

A game where you dub over scenes is called a dubbing game. You are given a video clip with its dialogue removed, you perform the lines yourself over the original timing, and then everybody watches the results back. Four of them exist: PartyDub, Voxalike, The Choicer Voicer and What The Dub?!. Two are free and run in a browser; two are paid downloads.

That is the answer to the question as asked. The rest of this is the part that actually decides which one you should open, and it is not price and not platform.

The one thing that separates them

Where the video comes from. Everything else about these games — how they score, whether there is a vote, whether it runs in a tab — follows from that one decision, and it is the thing nobody puts on their store page.

A game that supplies its own scenes is quicker to start and identical for everybody who plays it. A game that takes a video you already have is slower to start and is about your material — the clip your group has been quoting all week, the thing somebody posted in the chat this morning. Both are legitimate. They are just not the same evening.

Dubbing over a scene is not writing over one

Worth separating, because both get described as dubbing and they are different games. In a dubbing game proper you perform to the original timing: a character opens their mouth at four seconds and your line goes in that gap, so the whole skill is landing on the beat with a voice that has no business being there.

What The Dub?! does the other thing — it cuts the dialogue out and you TYPE the replacement, which a machine then reads aloud. That is a writing game with a video attached, and it is very good, but if you came here wanting to do the voice yourself it is not the one.

Which one to open

• —You have a clip in mind, and people to play it with: PartyDub. It is free, it is a browser tab, and the video goes straight from your device to the other players.
• —You want a scene handed to you and no decisions: Voxalike, which is free and plays prepared packs, or PartyDub's public library, which is the same idea inside the first one.
• —You want the judged-impression version, on a desktop, with scores out of ten: The Choicer Voicer, from yeahmaybe.itch.io and nowhere else.
• —You want a finished commercial product with its own footage and a writing twist: What The Dub?!.

Starting one in thirty seconds

For the browser ones there is genuinely nothing to it. Open a room, read the six-character code out to whoever you are playing with, pick a scene, and go. No install, no account for the people joining, and no setup beyond finding a clip — and if nobody has one, the library is full of scenes other players have already timed.

The genre has been around longer than the current wave of it — the judged-impression format goes back to a Mario Party minigame in 2013 — but it only became something you could do with friends in a browser this year. That is most of why nobody agrees on what to call it yet.