What is the dubbing game everyone is playing?
You watched thirty seconds of someone re-voicing a film clip, and now you cannot find what it was called.
You saw the clip. Somebody put their own voice over a scene from a film, a cartoon or an anime, the timing was slightly wrong in a way that made it funnier, and either a room of people were laughing or a score came up at the end. Then you searched for it and got more clips of the same thing, and still nobody said the name.
There is a reason that search is hard: it is not one game. Four different things are circulating under the same description, they work differently, and three of them are not the one you are picturing. The good news is that the clip you watched almost certainly tells you which — you just have to know what to look at.
The short answer
- —A game show with judges giving scores out of ten, on a desktop: The Choicer Voicer.
- —A browser tab, a scene you did not choose, and a vertical video at the end: Voxalike.
- —Old, bad, clearly licensed B-movie footage with missing lines: What The Dub?!.
- —A clip the group obviously picked themselves, several people dubbing the same scene, then a vote: PartyDub — ours, so read the last section with that in mind.
The Choicer Voicer
The one most people mean. It is a desktop game show for one to four players in the same room: it plays a line, you imitate it, and computer judges score the impression out of ten. That format is older than it looks — it is a direct descendant of The Choicest Voice, a minigame in Mario Party: Island Tour on the 3DS in 2013, which also used judges and a microphone. It has a Dub Mode that plays community-made video packs, which is where most of the clips you have seen come from.
It is made by YeahMaybe, it is in early access for Windows and Linux, and it costs $5 or more. There is no browser version, no phone version, and no Mac build.
Download it from yeahmaybe.itch.io/the-choicer-voicer and nowhere else. A large number of lookalike domains rank for this game's name, offer “official downloads” and are not run by the developer. The itch.io page is the developer's; if a site is charging you somewhere else, or handing you an .exe from its own server, it is not them.
Voxalike
The newest of the four and the reason this question is being asked so much right now — it opened in August 2026 and went around TikTok almost immediately. It runs in a browser with nothing to install, plays community-made packs, and exports a vertical video at the end, which is exactly why you kept seeing it in a feed. If the clip you watched was portrait-shaped with the scene at the top, it was probably this.
What The Dub?!
The commercial one, from Wide Right Interactive, on Steam and consoles. It supplies its own library of old public-domain and B-movie footage with the dialogue cut out, you write and perform the missing lines, and the room votes on the best version. If the footage looked like a 1950s public information film and nobody in the room chose it, this is the one.
PartyDub
Ours, so treat this section as an advert with facts in it. It runs in a browser, it is free, and the difference is where the video comes from: the host brings a clip they already have rather than picking from a supplied library, everyone in the room dubs the same scene without hearing each other, and then everybody watches all the versions and votes. There is also a ranked mode that scores a performance against the original instead of putting it to a vote.
The tell is the clip itself. If the scene was something specific and current — a show that aired this year, a meme, something the group obviously chose on purpose — it was not a supplied library, and it was probably this.
Telling them apart from one clip
| What you saw | Which one |
|---|---|
| Judges, scores out of ten, one person at a mic | The Choicer Voicer |
| Vertical video, browser, scene nobody picked | Voxalike |
| Grainy old B-movie footage, written punchlines | What The Dub?! |
| A clip the group chose, several dubs, then a vote | PartyDub |
Which one to actually open
If you want the judged impression game and you have a Windows or Linux machine, buy The Choicer Voicer. If you want something free in a tab in the next thirty seconds, Voxalike and PartyDub both do that, and the question between them is whether you want the game to hand you a scene or to dub one you already care about. If you want a polished paid product with its own footage and no setup at all, What The Dub?! is that.
All four are the same joke underneath: your voice, somebody else's face, and the gap between them. There is no wrong one to start with.
Start a room
Free, in a browser, and the other players join with a six-character code — no account, no install. You bring the clip; it never touches our servers.
Open a room