ALT Diogo presenting his paper with a slide showing a picture with 3 clinicians and text asking for multidisciplinary dashboards for multidisciplinary care

ALT Digital games often constitute a shared activity where people can spend time together, communicate and socialize. Several commercial titles place social interaction at the center of their design. Prior works have investigated the social outcomes of gaming, and factors that impact the experience. Yet, we lack a comprehensive understanding of how social gaming has been approached and explored before. In this work, we present a systematic review covering 263 publications, gathered in February 2021, that study gaming experiences involving more than one person, with a focus on the social element that emerges among partakers (players and/or spectators). We contribute with a systematized understanding of 1) how the topic is being defned and approached, 2) what facets (mainly in terms of outcomes and determinants of the experience) are being acknowledged and 3) the methodologies leveraged to examine these. Our analysis, based on mixed deductive and inductive coding, reveals relevant gaps.