This is a subpar party game. For text based games your character count is puny and often got in the way of jokes, even for sentences of reasonable length. Drawing stuff with friends is still fun, but that is true for all party games with drawing components so that doesn't set this apart. Gartic Phone can still be fun, but there are much better options for party games.
I usually avoid drawing games because I'm absolutely terrible at it, doubly so when I'm working with a computer instead of my hands, but occasionally my friends will cajole me into some Gartic Phone and it always reminds me that this game is somehow ten times funnier when you suck at it. Though rounds tend to last too long to keep me from getting burnt out after a game, I very rarely come out of this without laughing to the point of tears.