13 fun Zoom Team Building Games Your Team Will Love

In today’s remote work world, success isn’t just about hitting deadlines. It’s about building collaboration, engagement, and team morale. One surprisingly effective way to do that is through Zoom team building games.

These virtual activities bring energy to your meetings and help bridge the distance between teammates. As Forbes points out, games and informal interactions can play a powerful role in building trust across distributed teams. We prepare 13 fun Zoom team building games to lift your team spirit. Check them out! 

5-Minute Team Building Activities to Kickstart Your Meetings

Not every team has time for hour-long bonding sessions. Sometimes, all you need is a quick pick-me-up to reset the vibe between meetings. That’s where 5-minute team building activities shine.

Lightning Scavenger Hunt

Set a timer for 30–60 seconds and ask everyone to grab something specific from their home: “Something older than you,” “something with a face on it,” or “Something soft and blue.” Then have 2–3 people show their item and tell a quick story about it. For more variety, check out this guide to what a scavenger hunt is and how to plan one.

Emoji Story Challenge

Ask everyone to write a 3–5 emoji “story” in the Zoom chat. For example, one person types it, the rest guess what happened. It might turn out to be “A dog ran after a car all the way home.” Encourage creativity, and use themes like “Monday moods” or “My weekend.”

Desk Bingo 

Create a bingo card with common or quirky items people might have near their workspace (“a water bottle,” “something yellow,” “sticky notes”). Share the card screen, and let people call out when they spot a row. Tools like My Free Bingo Cards make setup easy.

For a treasure trove of similar activities, explore these 5-minute team building ideas designed for busy teams.

Creative Virtual Games to Play with Coworkers

Whether your team is fully remote or hybrid, everyone’s tired of awkward silences. These virtual games to play with coworkers add spark and spontaneity to your calls.

Zoom Background Challenge:

Set a theme like “Where I’d rather be,” “My spirit animal,” or “The weirdest photo on my phone.” Everyone changes their virtual background accordingly. Then take turns sharing what it is and why. Great for laughs and surprisingly personal insights. 

Kahoot or Quizizz Battles

Use a tool like Kahoot, Quizizz, or one of these great Kahoot alternatives to host trivia rounds. Mix fun categories like “Office Slang,” “Food Around the World,” or “Guess the Meme.” Keep it short: 6–8 questions per round. Use breakout rooms for team play if you’ve got a large group.

Mystery Box Show & Tell

Ask one person per round to bring something off-screen, give three clues (“It’s soft, it smells nice, and it’s older than I am”), and let everyone guess. The suspense is half the fun — the reveals are often hilarious.

Team Building.com has a roundup of tried-and-tested Zoom games. If you’re leading a larger team or planning an all-hands, you’ll also want to browse the office team building ideas for options that scale well across departments and time zones.

Team Building Activities for Small Groups

Smaller teams require a different kind of chemistry: the one that’s more intimate, co-dependent, and trust-based. These team building activities for small groups focused on team building are designed to help you foster deeper connections:

Shared Playlist

Each team member adds two songs to a shared playlist based on a prompt like “songs that make you feel powerful.”

Pass-the-Story Game

One person starts a story with a sentence (“I woke up on a boat in the middle of nowhere…”), then passes it to the next person who adds a line. Keep it moving until the story ends or descends into chaos. Perfect for creative teams! This can get hilariously weird and it reveals how well your team listens.

Virtual Escape Rooms

Split into breakout rooms with 3–6 people and use platforms like Escapely or Enchambered. Work together to solve puzzles within 30 minutes. Add a timer and team score for a fun challenge.

You’ll find more thoughtful ideas tailored to smaller teams in our blog on virtual team building activities for small groups.

Hosting Zoom Team Building Games Like a Pro

Game choice is just one part of the formula, and how you facilitate matters just as much. Here are some tips to keep your session running smoothly:

• Set expectations upfront: Let people know it’s optional (but encouraged), and keep the vibe low-pressure.

• Keep tools minimal: Stick to built-in Zoom features or free platforms that don’t require signups.

• Rotate facilitators: Empower different team members to host — it builds leadership skills and mixes things up.

• Gather Feedback: After a few sessions, ask the team what games they liked, what felt flat, and what they’d want to do again.

Tired of sharing game rules the hard way? Deckle makes it easy. You can create an interactive activity page and simply drop the link in the Zoom chat — no downloads, no logins, no distractions. Everyone joins instantly and plays along in real time.

Make Zoom Games More Fun with Deckle! 

Zoom fatigue is real, but boredom doesn’t have to be. The right Zoom team-building games will get the crew feeling cheerful and connected in no time at all! For a better virtual team building experience, try out our Deckle App. It can help you split the teams, create fun trivia questions using AI, and you can create your own Zoom team challenge using Photo, Q&A, drawing, and many other task types. Try out Deckle now!