Black Mirror Season 7 is now streaming on Netflix, and it’s darker, weirder, and more emotionally ruinous than ever. Which is exactly why you should absolutely turn it into a Black Mirror Drinking Game. Season 7 brings us six fresh, soul-shattering episodes, each one designed to make you question your relationships, your phone, and maybe even your last Amazon purchase.
If you enjoyed the 2024 Netflix Drinking Game roundup, you’ll love this one tailored specifically for Black Mirror’s latest descent into digital doom. Whether you’re hosting a watch party or crying alone into your Thronglet Tonic, this guide will help you laugh through the existential dread.
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Why Black Mirror Season 7 Deserves Its Own Drinking Game
Black Mirror Season 7 isn’t just good. It’s perfectly engineered chaos—featuring AI mind-melds, retro games gone murderously rogue, and a sequel to USS Callister that nobody asked for but everyone needed. It’s dramatic, it’s clever, and yes, it’s emotionally damaging.
Which makes it ideal for a communal trauma-bonding session with drinks. If ever there was a show that screamed, “You’ll need a shot after that ending,” it’s this one.
And the internet agrees. Reddit threads are overflowing with fan-made rules like “Drink when someone loses faith in humanity” and “Shot every time your jaw drops.” TikTok’s already inventing “Common People Challenge” montages. The time is ripe to formalize this chaos.
Quick Recap of All Black Mirror Season 7 Episodes
Before we dive into rules, here’s your Season 7 cheat sheet.
1. Common People – A woman pays a subscription for backup brain function. Naturally, the Wi-Fi goes out. Dark, commercialized, and terrifyingly relatable.
2. Bête Noire – Childhood bullying, snack food R&D, and parallel timelines. Basically “Mean Girls” meets multiverse horror.
3. Hotel Reverie – Hollywood star plugs into AI software to live inside an old film, falls in love, and possibly gets trapped in a hallucinated romance loop. Sci-fi meets sapphic drama.
4. Plaything – A killer mystery tied to a cursed ’90s game with talking blobs called Thronglets. Throwback vibes with modern paranoia.
5. Eulogy – A man uses AI to step inside photos of his dead ex. Paul Giamatti delivers tears. You deliver tequila.
6. USS Callister: Into Infinity – The VR crew returns for a digital space rebellion, complete with MMO scams and clone conspiracies.
Drinking Game Rules That Apply to Black Mirror Season 7
Apply these rules universally. You’ll be drunk by Episode 2.
- Sip every time someone says “upload,” “cloud,” or “stream.”
- Take a shot when the tone flips from comedy to soul-punch.
- Sip if you mutter “What the hell is going on?”
- Drink when someone does something clearly dumb in a futuristic way.
- Two sips if someone breaks the fourth wall.
- Finish your drink if the ending ruins your night.
- Bonus shot if you spot a returning actor or Easter egg from another season.
- Group shot if the tech in the episode already exists and you regret using it.
Custom Black Mirror Drinking Rules for Each Episode
Let’s break it down episode by episode. It’s only fair.
Common People
- Sip when an ad pops up in someone’s brain.
- Shot if Amanda glitches out mid-conversation.
- Two sips when Rivermind offers an “upgrade.”
- Drink when the medical ethics disappear faster than the Wi-Fi.
- Chug if this episode makes you cancel your streaming subscription.
Bête Noire
- Sip when someone eats candy like it’s a threat.
- Two sips if timelines start to contradict themselves.
- Drink when Maria accuses Verity of gaslighting.
- Shot if someone says “milkmaid” and it somehow feels like a slur.
- Finish your drink when you’re not sure what’s real anymore.
Hotel Reverie
- Sip when Brandy references old movies.
- Shot when AI identity confusion hits.
- Sip if you’re low-key into the virtual romance.
- Drink if the line between film and reality blurs (again).
- Finish your drink if you’re more confused than emotional.
Plaything
- Sip when a Thronglet speaks in gibberish.
- Shot when someone dies in-game.
- Two sips if Capaldi’s character mentions his younger self.
- Drink if the ’90s graphics give you secondhand nostalgia.
- Chug when the video game gets… murdery.
Eulogy
- Sip when a new photo is entered.
- Drink every time Phillip breaks down or stares too long.
- Shot when you tear up unexpectedly.
- Two sips if the AI says something profound about memory.
- Chug your drink if you text an ex after watching.
USS Callister: Into Infinity
- Sip every time someone yells “Captain!”
- Drink when Nanette leads a rebellion.
- Shot if someone mentions Daly.
- Two sips if there’s a twist about clone rights.
- Finish your drink when space morality makes more sense than real life.
Black Mirror S7 Superfan Challenge: 10 Dares for the Brave
So you’ve sipped through Common People, cried during Eulogy, and translated Thronglet gibberish like a champ. But are you truly a Black Mirror superfan—or just a digital imposter with decent alcohol tolerance?
Introducing the Black Mirror S7 Superfan Challenge: ten bold, bizarre, and on-theme dares to test your devotion. Perfect for party intermissions, shot penalties, or just chaos between episodes.
1. Speak Like an AI
For the next 5 minutes, you must speak only in robotic monotone. Bonus points if you glitch mid-sentence. If you break character, you drink.
2. Rivermind Sales Pitch
Improv a 30-second commercial for an absurd brain-based subscription service. Make it dark, make it dystopian, make it $39.99/month (plus soul tax).
3. Upload Regret Confession
Pretend you’ve uploaded your consciousness and now deeply regret it. Give a dramatic monologue about what you’re missing—pizza, hugs, live birds, whatever. The more ridiculous, the better.
4. Simulate Yourself
Pick someone at the party and act like their digital clone for 3 minutes. Mimic their voice, habits, and existential despair.
5. Black Mirror Episode in 6 Words
Summarize any Black Mirror episode in exactly six words. Example: “Tech good. Then bad. Now dead.”
6. VR Walk of Shame
Put on a blindfold or sunglasses and walk slowly across the room like you’re stuck in a corrupted VR simulation. Bump into anything? Take a shot.
7. Eulogy Toast for Your Smartphone
Stand up and give a heartfelt eulogy for your phone. Address it by name. Mention a tragic app. Pour one out (symbolically).
8. Dystopian Outfit Challenge
You have 2 minutes to create a future-sci-fi outfit from whatever’s in the room.
Best outfit wins immunity from the next dare. Worst must post a selfie.
9. The Algorithm Decides
Ask ChatGPT, Siri, or Google Assistant for a random number between 1–10. That number = how many sips you must take. Blame the algorithm.
10. Charlie Brooker Summoning Ritual
With absolute seriousness, attempt to summon the spirit of Charlie Brooker. Light a fake candle, chant “Satire is truth” three times, and explain your darkest tech fear to the room.
Alternate Variations: Black Mirror Drinking Game Goes Rogue
Let’s turn the chaos of Black Mirror Season 7 into something truly unhinged—in the best way. These aren’t just drinking rules. These are mini-experiences designed to make your Black Mirror party unforgettable (or completely blurry—whichever comes first).
1. Upload or Chug Challenge
Inspired by Hotel Reverie & Common People
Every time someone in the episode agrees to use some kind of tech that messes with their brain or memory:
- Vote: Would you opt in or opt out?
- Majority wins: If you choose Upload, you sip. If you choose Opt Out, you chug—because you’re resisting progress, baby.
Optional prop: Bring a fake VR headset to wear for the rest of the episode if you voted “upload.”
2. Thronglet Translator Mini-Game
Inspired by Plaything
Every time a Thronglet speaks in gibberish, one person in the group must “translate” what it said using total improv.
- If it makes the group laugh = take a victory sip
- If it’s cringe or makes no sense = you drink, and someone else takes over as Thronglet Interpreter
Bonus Rule: Use a squeaky voice while interpreting. You must commit.
3. “Ad Break” Ruin-the-Moment Rule
Inspired by Common People
Any time a dramatic moment happens, someone yells “ADVERTISEMENT!” and plays a 10-second fake ad (either from YouTube or one they made up on the spot).
- The group must chug while enduring the interruption.
Best ad gets crowned “Rivermind’s Chief Marketing Officer” and is allowed to skip one drink later.
4. Alternate Timeline Roulette
Inspired by Bête Noire
At the start of each episode, write 3 wild alternate realities on slips of paper and put them in a bowl (e.g. “Everyone speaks only in emojis,” “Gravity randomly stops working,” “The characters are actually in The Sims”).
Every twist or new scene? Someone pulls a slip. For the next 3 minutes, you must watch the show as if that reality is true.
- If anyone breaks character: drink
- If you manage to make the new reality make sense: nominate someone else to drink
5. VR Pirate Court
Inspired by USS Callister: Into Infinity
Choose one person to be “Captain Daly” (with a mustache or a bathrobe as costume).
- They’re the judge for the episode.
- If anyone misquotes a character, checks their phone, or misidentifies a plot twist, the captain sends them to Digital Jail: where they must sit 6 feet away and drink alone for 2 minutes.
They can escape Digital Jail early by performing a dramatic monologue from any Black Mirror episode.
6. Eulogy Toast Game
Inspired by Eulogy
At the end of every episode, each person must raise their glass and make a 1-line eulogy for:
- A character who suffered most
- Their own emotional stability
- The future of humanity
Best toast = take a sip like a classy funeral guest
Worst toast = drink the whole glass because your heart’s broken and your writing’s worse
Themed Cocktails & Snack Ideas for Each Episode
Go beyond beer. Match your beverage to your breakdown.
- Neural Net Punch (Common People) – Vodka + whatever’s cheapest, just like Rivermind plans.
- SnackLab Sangria (Bête Noire) – Red wine and jelly beans. Don’t ask.
- Redream Rum Runner (Hotel Reverie) – Gin, bitters, nostalgia.
- Thronglet Tonic (Plaything) – Bright yellow cocktail with citrus. Garnish with gummy worms.
- Memory Lane Mule (Eulogy) – Ginger beer and emotional regret.
- Space Pirate Mojito (USS Callister) – Add edible glitter. Because it’s space.
Snacks: Neon chips, chocolate shaped like data chips, or just depression donuts.
Final Thoughts: Play Responsibly in the Dystopia
If you are a fan of dystopian-themed drinking game, Black Mirror wants to haunt your dreams, but now it can also wreck your liver. Whether you’re sipping through Plaything or pounding shots during Common People, this game turns misery into mayhem. And let’s be real—Brooker would probably approve.
Just remember: if you’re still emotionally stable after six episodes and 12 shots, you’re either lying or already a simulation.