Sportsup vs Do or Drink: which one fits you?

Do or Drink is an adult (18+) party drinking game built on a simple rule: do the dare or take a drink. You draw a card, and the content is organized into themed decks. The iOS app is free to download (developer listed as Rayan Aboul Hosn) with in-app purchases: a Premium Bundle at $9.99 that unlocks the available decks, and individual themed decks at $4.99 each.

The themes range from Dirty Deeds and Not Safe For Work to Never Have I Ever, Would You Rather and Bar, alongside formats like Classic, King's Cup and Truth or Drink. On the US App Store the app holds an average of about 4.6 out of 5 from roughly 3,800 ratings, so the format clearly has its fans. There is also a physical Do or Drink card game (350 cards, 175 challenges) sold at retailers such as Amazon if you would rather play without a phone.

If your night is about daring people, playful challenges and good-natured embarrassment, Do or Drink is built for exactly that. It is a social challenge game, not a knowledge game.

Sportsup flips the logic. Instead of drawing a dare, you answer sports questions with three options (1, X or 2). A correct answer scores points, and only a wrong answer triggers a penalty your group sets in advance: a sip, push-ups, a dare, whatever you like. There is no requirement to involve alcohol, and a fully drink-free option works just as well.

Questions span football, hockey, MMA, esports, golf and the Olympics, from the Premier League and the NHL to the world's biggest tournaments. There are thousands of fact-checked questions, and every answer carries a written explanation and a source link, so the debate afterward becomes "ah, that's why" rather than "no, that's wrong." That is the core difference from a pure dare game: in Sportsup you are competing for something, and the person who knows their sport wins. To get a feel for it, try the football quiz.

Sportsup is made in Sweden and fully bilingual, Swedish by default and English for mixed groups. There are no accounts, no logins, no tracking and no ads, and the app works offline after the first load. Each question shows an odds-style multiplier (for example 1.5x or 3x) that is purely a difficulty-and-penalty indicator: higher odds means a harder question and a bigger penalty on a miss. It is not a wager and not betting.

Format: Do or Drink is draw-a-card, do the dare or take a drink. Sportsup is a trivia game where correct answers score and wrong answers earn a group-defined penalty. One is about daring, the other about knowing.

Content: Do or Drink centers on dares and themed decks. Sportsup is one hundred percent sport, with fact-checked questions that also carry an explanation and a source on every answer.

Language: Do or Drink is downloadable on the Swedish App Store but the app is English only, with no localized version of the content. Sportsup is written natively in both English and Swedish. For a mixed group, that matters.

Price and model: Do or Drink is free with in-app purchases (a Premium Bundle and individual decks). Sportsup is free to download with one-time purchases for some packs, no subscriptions and nothing that auto-renews, plus no accounts, no ads and no tracking.

Pick Do or Drink if the night is about bold dares, cheeky challenges and themed decks, and English suits your crowd. It is a well-rated challenge game that does exactly what it promises, and the physical deck is a nice bonus if you want to put the phone away.

Pick Sportsup if you are a group that loves sport and would rather compete on knowledge than perform dares. When the conversation is already about who won the final or how many titles a club has, a sports quiz with scoring and a penalty becomes the natural frame. Sportsup is also bilingual, has no accounts, ads or tracking, and works offline.

Nothing stops you from having both. Plenty of people run a dare game early and switch to a sports quiz at the pre-party once the talk drifts to matches and records. If you want more options in the same genre, we have also rounded up Picolo alternatives.