About Mafia: The Game

Play the classic mystery game! Mafia: The Game is a free online game based on the party game Mafia. It is a great game to play with friends, whether you are crowded around one table or scattered across the world.

Round up five or more friends, open the game on any phone, and in under a minute you are lying to the people you love and voting them to the gallows. No app to install, no account to make, no cost. Just the timeless game of secrets, suspicion, and betrayal, now on the little screen in your pocket.

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What is Mafia?

Mafia is a social deduction party game that has been played for decades, often under the name Werewolf. The idea is simple. A small group of players are secretly the mafia. Everyone else is an innocent townsperson. Each night the mafia quietly choose someone to eliminate. Each day the whole town debates, accuses, and votes to put one suspect on trial. The town wins by rooting out every last member of the mafia. The mafia win by outnumbering the town.

What makes it special is not the rules but the people. Mafia is a game of reading faces, catching lies, defending yourself when the room turns on you, and keeping a straight face while you quietly plot someone's downfall. It is equal parts detective work and theatre.

How to play online

Mafia: The Game keeps the feel of the card game while stripping away the setup. One person starts a game on a laptop or a TV, which becomes the shared host screen. It shows a QR code, a 6-letter room code, the timers, and a dramatic narrator that reads the story out loud. Everyone else joins from their own phone and sees only what their character is allowed to know.

• Open the game and start a room, or join one with a QR code or a 6-letter code.
• Enter your name and you are in. No sign-up, no download.
• At night, the mafia secretly choose a victim while the town sleeps.
• At dawn, the narrator reveals who did not make it through the night.
• By day, everyone argues, accuses, and votes. Suspects stand trial and the town votes guilty or innocent.
• When someone dies, their role is revealed, giving the town clues to work with.

The roles

Beyond the classic mafia and townsfolk, Mafia: The Game includes special roles that change how every round plays out.

• Mafia quietly pick a victim together each night.
• Doctor protects one person each night and can save themselves a limited number of times.
• Detective and other investigators dig for clues about who is who.
• Jester has one strange goal: get themselves voted out.
• Executioner wins by getting one specific townsperson executed.
• Townsfolk have no powers, only their wits and their vote.

Why you will love it

• Completely free to play, with no ads to buy your way past.
• No app and no sign-up. It runs in any modern web browser.
• Play in the same room or online with friends anywhere.
• Up to 15 players, with the mafia count scaling to keep it fair.
• A dramatic narrator, wills, trials, and role reveals that keep every game tense and funny.

Frequently asked questions

Is Mafia: The Game free?

Yes, it is completely free. There is no cost, nothing to buy, and no account to create.

Do I need to download anything?

No. The whole game runs in your web browser. Players join from their phones with a QR code or a 6-letter room code.

How many people can play?

Up to 15 players. It shines with about six or more, and the number of mafia scales with the group.

Can I play with friends who are far away?

Absolutely. Share the room code or a link and anyone can join from their own device, wherever they are.

Is it like Werewolf or Town of Salem?

Yes. Mafia, Werewolf, and Town of Salem are all part of the same family of social deduction games, and this one draws inspiration from all of them.

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