About

A small, weird, beautiful network.

Made in the Kingdom of Bahrain.

What Shabaka is

Shabaka — شبكة, Arabic for network — is a web-based party word game inspired by Codenames. Two teams compete to identify their secret words on a shared board using single-word clues from their spymasters. First team to find all of theirs wins. Pick the assassin, and you lose instantly.

Why we built it

We grew up arguing about word meanings around majlis tables and on long road trips. We wanted something that captured that energy — fast, social, a little chaotic — and worked just as well in English as in Arabic, on any device, with no app store in the way.

Who it's for

Friends. Families. Co-workers who actually like each other. Anyone who's ever insisted "that's totally what I meant by 'desert: three'" while their team groans.

Behind the brand

Shabaka's identity — cream paper, ink outlines, hand-drawn doodles, browser-window cards — is a love letter to the early web. Pull up a chair to a screen. That feeling.

Get in touch

Questions, feedback, weird word ideas: play@gotoyio.com.

Operated by Go Toyio Toys Design & Consulting, Single Person Company, CR 136820-1, registered at Office 102, Building 716, Road 3513, Block 435, Jeblet Hebshi, Kingdom of Bahrain.