Situations is a game where you and your friends (or acquaintances, or classmates, or family, or mortal enemies) construct the situation of a story together, taking turns adding people, events, places, and so on, and then each player writes their own story by interpreting the web of relationships they just created. The player who wrote the best story (by popular vote) wins!
The game has two phases. In the first phase, players have hands of cards: nouns, adjectives, and a few special cards. Each noun card has the noun itself as well as questions that establish relationships to that noun. On a player's turn, there are three possible actions:
They may play a noun (potentially along with adjectives describing it), connecting it through the questions to a noun already on the board
They may add an adjective to an existing noun
They may play a special card
After seven noun cards are on the board, players proceed to the second phase of the game, where they each write a story interpreting the web of nouns and relationships formed by the cards. When the players are done, they read the stories aloud, then vote on a favorite. Whoever wrote that story wins.
—description from the designer