Make your Gartic Phone sessions funnier, stranger, and more unpredictable with 10 detailed dark humor prompts. Every prompt includes editable characters, objects, settings, and punchlines, making the pack easy to customize for friends, parties, streams, and online communities.

What This Prompt Pack Does

• Provides 10 ready-to-use dark humor drawing ideas for Gartic Phone.
• Includes editable placeholders for characters, locations, objects, and jokes.
• Helps beginners create funny, visual, and easy-to-understand game prompts.

Tips for Using These Prompts

• Keep the main scene simple enough for players to draw within the available time.
• Replace bracketed details with inside jokes, fictional characters, or familiar locations.
• Avoid references to real tragedies, protected groups, or personal traumatic experiences.

How to Use the Prompts

• Choose one prompt and replace any details shown inside brackets.
• Copy the completed sentence into Gartic Phone when creating the game.
• Encourage players to interpret the scene freely for funnier drawing transformations.

10 Dark Humor Gartic Phone Prompts

Add hilariously twisted energy to your next Gartic Phone session with these dark humor drawing prompts. Each prompt uses fictional, exaggerated situations rather than real tragedies or attacks on specific people.

Replace any text inside [brackets] to customize the characters, setting, object, or punchline.

1. The Grim Reaper’s Customer Service Shift

Prompt:

The Grim Reaper is working at a crowded customer service desk while an angry [ghost/zombie/skeleton] demands a refund for dying too early. The Reaper looks exhausted, holds a “Please Take a Number” sign, and has a line of impatient spirits waiting behind the customer.

Editable details:
Customer: [ghost, zombie, skeleton]
Complaint: [died too early, wrong afterlife, missing wings]
Location: [office, supermarket, airport]

2. A Skeleton Arrives Late to Its Own Funeral

Prompt:

A nervous skeleton runs into its own funeral carrying [flowers/a coffee/a birthday cake] while everyone stares in complete silence. The skeleton checks its watch and says, “Sorry, traffic was deadly.”

Editable details:
Item carried: [flowers, coffee, cake]
Excuse: [traffic, oversleeping, wrong cemetery]
Reaction: [shocked, annoyed, confused]

3. The Haunted House Landlord

Prompt:

A ghost landlord gives a nervous human a tour of a haunted apartment and proudly points out the screaming walls, leaking ceiling, and cursed basement. The ghost says, “Utilities are not included, but nightmares are free.”

Editable details:
Property: [apartment, castle, cabin]
Problem: [screaming walls, moving furniture, cursed mirror]
Free extra: [nightmares, possession, mysterious footsteps]

4. Zombies Hold a Neighborhood Meeting

Prompt:

A group of well-dressed zombies attends a serious neighborhood meeting to complain that the living are making too much noise. One zombie presents a chart titled “[Humans Ruining the Neighborhood]” while another takes notes with a hand that keeps falling off.

Editable details:
Meeting type: [HOA meeting, town hall, office meeting]
Complaint: [noise, bad parking, lack of brains]
Chart title: [editable funny complaint]

5. A Vampire Uses a Blood Bank Loyalty Card

Prompt:

A vampire stands at a blood bank counter holding a loyalty card and asks whether the tenth donation is free. The confused employee points to a sign that says, “No drinking on the premises.”

Editable details:
Reward: [free drink, discount, bonus points]
Location: [blood bank, hospital, pharmacy]
Sign message: [editable warning]

6. The Apocalypse Influencer

Prompt:

During the apocalypse, an overly cheerful influencer films a sponsored video beside a burning city. They hold up a [survival kit/canned meal/gas mask] and say, “Use code DOOM for 20% off before society ends!”

Editable details:
Sponsored product: [survival kit, gas mask, canned food]
Discount code: [DOOM, PANIC, LASTDAY]
Background disaster: [zombies, meteors, aliens]

7. An Alien Returns an Abducted Human

Prompt:

An exhausted alien returns an abducted human to Earth with a receipt that says “Return accepted.” The alien tells another alien, “This one asks too many questions and keeps requesting Wi-Fi.”

Editable details:
Reason for return: [too many questions, bad singing, constant selfies]
Receipt message: [return accepted, defective human, no refund]
Human accessory: [phone, laptop, selfie stick]

8. The Ghost’s Performance Review

Prompt:

A nervous ghost sits through an office performance review while its manager complains, “Your haunting numbers are down, and three families said you were not scary enough.” A chart behind them shows declining screams.

Editable details:
Job: [haunting, possessing, rattling chains]
Complaint: [not scary, always late, too friendly]
Chart label: [monthly screams, fear rating, haunting results]

9. The Cursed Birthday Party

Prompt:

A group of monsters throws a birthday party for an ancient mummy, but nobody knows how many candles to place on the cake. The cake is completely covered in fire while the mummy says, “Just round it down.”

Editable details:
Birthday character: [mummy, vampire, ancient wizard]
Cake message: [Still Alive Somehow, Too Old to Count]
Guest reaction: [panicking, taking photos, calling firefighters]

10. Death Takes a Vacation

Prompt:

The Grim Reaper relaxes on a tropical beach wearing sunglasses while hundreds of missed-call notifications appear on the Reaper’s phone. A skeleton assistant holds a sign saying, “The afterlife is currently experiencing delays.”

Editable details:
Vacation location: [beach, ski resort, theme park]
Phone notification: [999+ missed calls, emergency meeting]
Delay message: [afterlife delayed, death office closed, return Monday]