![house party house party](https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/611790/ss_fd2a5f3ef49b620465998e015df6c351e3d9bd77.1920x1080.jpg)
It’s a good question, and it might be down to the fact that on mobile, you can use the app to play games with one another such as Heads Up!, trivia games, and one where everyone in the call has to copy a dance routine. “Why is everybody downloading house party like facetime isn’t there…” jokingly asks one Twitter user in London. For those who remember, it’s basically this generation’s Chatroulette (albeit with more pals and fewer randoms). “Er, this is Simone everyone,” I offered, by way of polite introduction, now understanding the joy of Houseparty: that you can crash anyone else’s calls, uninvited. It felt intimate, but chaotic as faces and voices disappeared when the wifi signal weakened – and especially when one of my colleagues, who had never met any of the friends I was calling, randomly jumped into the chat. One of them was crying, another was ploughing through a bottle of wine in her dressing gown, and a third had a ‘romantic visitor’ wandering in and out of shot. Suddenly, I was in a virtual ‘room’ with five of my closest friends. But when I downloaded it on Friday night, I hadn’t seen anyone except my housemate for a week.
![house party house party](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYzdkMDRkZjktMDFiYS00ZDNjLThhMmEtMWUyODEyMzUwMzllXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTQxNzMzNDI@._V1_.jpg)
Describing itself as a “face-to-face social network”, it’s a video-chatting app similar to Zoom and FaceTime that lets you have an online party with up to eight people. The first time I logged into Houseparty, I was instantly overwhelmed.