Planner · four answers

Tell the planner who is coming tonight.

The planner ranks the five games for one evening. It checks whether your crew fills a team, which mode fits the time, whether the game runs on your devices and whether its age rating suits the youngest player.

Three friends on a sofa laughing over game controllers, one holding a trophy
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How many of you
Time you have
Youngest player
Most of you play on

    Rules

    How the ranking works

    1. Does your crew fill a team?

    Two points when your group fills a team exactly, one when strangers fill the rest or the group has to split. Some games have their own rules: a Brawl Stars friendly room takes six, a Pokémon UNITE Custom Battle takes up to ten, and THE FINALS sends four or five to its 5v5 modes.

    2. Does a mode fit the time?

    Two points when a mode ends inside your time, one when it might. The line counts how many matches fit: a 20-minute slot holds about six Brawl Stars matches, and a 45-minute slot about four UNITE battles.

    3. Does it run on your devices?

    One point when the game runs on the device most of you use. A game that does not run there loses two points and says so. 'A mix' favours the two games that run on phones, Switch, PlayStation, Xbox and PC.

    4. Does the age rating fit the youngest player?

    A game rated above the youngest player's age band drops down the list and the line says why. The ratings are PEGI, or PEGI through IARC on storefronts where pegi.info has no entry. Ties go to the lower rating, then to the shorter match.