Fire the Vibecoder! is a hidden-role party game wearing the skin of a corporate layoff platform. It signs your group into a fake professional network, hands everyone a secret job title, and slips a Vibecoder or two onto the team: the people who shipped something untested to prod on a Friday and blamed the tooling. Everyone else just wants to catch them before the sprint ends.
Play it around a table or over a call, because almost all of it is talking. There is one short night where the platform runs its business in the dark, then the standup opens and the accusations start. You defend your own record, you poke holes in everyone else's, and the group slowly decides who looks most like the person torching the codebase. When the clock runs out the team casts a single vote and fires one colleague. Nobody solves it alone. The whole game lives in what people say and how nervously they say it.
The voice is deadpan LinkedIn all the way down: promoted posts from an HR bot, #OpenToWork ribbons on whoever gets managed out, profile headlines like 'VP of Vibes, turning coffee into roadmaps.' A round is quick and a little chaotic, and most groups want another one straight away. It plays fine with people who never touch board games, and it lands hardest on anyone who has lived through a real reorg.
How to play
Step 1
Start or join a workspace
One person taps New game and gets a short code; everyone else types that code with their name to join. It works best over a voice call or around one table, since the game is mostly conversation.
Step 2
Get your secret title
The host picks the role lineup, or hits Auto setup, and starts the round. Tap your own card to see your hidden job title, and keep it to yourself. The Roles panel up top lists everything that could be in play.
Step 3
Get through the night
The platform goes dark for one short after-hours phase while a few roles take their secret turns. Keep your eyes on your own screen. You won't always know what changed by morning, and that's the fun of it.
Step 4
Work the standup
The feed reopens and a timer starts. Make your case, question everyone else's, and try to reason out together who the Vibecoder really is. The host decides how long you get to argue about it.
Step 5
Cast one vote
When time is up the calibration meeting opens. Everyone points at one colleague, or abstains, and the most-nominated person gets fired. It's a single, simultaneous decision, so read the room before you commit.
Step 6
Read the reveal and run it back
The platform shows who everyone actually was, which side won, and posts the fired colleague's cheery layoff announcement. Then someone hits Play again, because one round is never enough.
Play the game. Keep the evidence.
Bluffing, reading people, arguing a case: the report maps who drove the decisions and how the group handled disagreement. Our reporting bot sits in on your video call while you play, and the reports land in your inbox minutes after the game ends. They are built from what your team said in the game, not from a survey.
Recommended for this gameDISC Behavioural Style
DISC-style behavioural read per player (beta).
Key Moments Analysis
The pivotal exchanges of the session, annotated.
Team Dynamics Map
How the group collaborated: interaction patterns, roles and balance.
One rule we don't bend: the report is a mirror for the team, never a dossier for the boss. Sessions are scheduled and opt-in. Powered by Team Building Bot.
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