A Free Hitster Alternative
Hitster is a blast. But it’s a box you buy, an app you install, and one deck for the table. Rewind Partyis the same core idea — guess the year, build the timeline — except it’s free, it’s in your browser, and everyone plays from their own phone.
Same game you love
A song plays. You don’t see the year — you just hear it and decide where it lands. Drag the card onto your timeline between the years you’ve already placed. Older or newer than that 2007 track? Get it right and it locks in. Get it wrong and the table lets you know. First to ten songs in the right order wins.
What’s different
- You buy a box of cards→Free, nothing to buy
- Needs the Hitster app to scan & play→Runs in any browser — no app to install
- One physical deck, one room→Share a 4-letter code, friends join on their own phones
- Spotify account to hear the songs→No account — songs just play
Start in about 20 seconds
One person taps Create Room and reads out the 4-letter code. Everyone else types it on rewindparty.fun and they’re in — no download, no sign-up. Want the full rundown first? Here’s how to play.
Free forever · No app · Made by Mixtape Games
Common questions
- Is there a free version of Hitster?
- Hitster itself is a boxed product you buy, so there is no free version of it. Rewind Party is a free browser game built on the same idea — place songs on a timeline by release year — with nothing to buy, install or sign into.
- Do I need the Hitster app or Spotify to play Rewind Party?
- Neither. Rewind Party plays its own clips in the browser. There is no companion app to install and no Spotify or other music account to connect.
- How is Rewind Party different from Hitster?
- Hitster uses a physical deck of QR cards, its own scanning app and a Spotify account, and one deck serves one table. Rewind Party runs in any browser, deals its own songs, and lets up to ten people join from their own phones with a 4-letter room code.
- Can we play with more than one deck of songs?
- Yes. There are three decks — a Greatest Hits set, a second set of hits that peaked just outside the top ten, and a country set — and you can also narrow any of them to a single decade.