Play in Your Browser, No Install Needed
"I want to play werewolf, but making everyone install the same app is a pain" — the highest hurdle in online werewolf isn't the rules or the game. It's getting everyone set up. Someone's phone is too old, someone's store account is the wrong region, someone's out of storage. The group is there, and the table still doesn't happen.
MAFIA is a werewolf game you just open in a browser. PC or smartphone, open the URL in the browser you already use and you're at the same table.
Why it matters
- Nothing to install. No store, no storage worries
- PC and phone share one table. Different devices, same room, same game
- One URL invites a friend. Send the room link and they join straight from it
- A 3D room, seats and all. It's a browser game that feels like sitting at a table of avatars
- Voice chat is built in. No separate call app to keep running
From zero to playing
- Open the site and log in (Google, Apple, or X (Twitter) accounts, or register with an email address)
- Join a room from the lobby, or create your own
- To bring friends, send them the room URL — they open it in their browser, that's all
There's nothing to install, but you do need an account (free to create — and the game is free to play).
What the room screen looks like once you're in is covered in Using the Room Screen, and creating a room in Creating a Room and Choosing Player Counts.
Same as an in-person werewolf night — and different
MAFIA's standard mode is turn-based werewolf — the "one speaker at a time" format of in-person werewolf nights, brought online as-is (→ Turn-Based Werewolf Rules and the Daily Flow).
| In-person werewolf | MAFIA | |
|---|---|---|
| Where you gather | One room | Anywhere, in a browser |
| How you speak | One at a time, in turn | One at a time, in turn (the same) |
| The moderator | Someone sits out as game master | The system runs the game — everyone plays |
| Role cards | Dealt face down | Dealt on screen, visible only to you |
| Night handling | "Everyone, close your eyes" | Automatic — pick your action on your own screen |
| Counting votes | By hand | Automatic, with a runoff on ties |
| Interrupting a speech | Up to the table's mood | A real rule — the Interrupt (→ Interrupt) |
The biggest difference: nobody has to be the moderator. In person, someone leaves the table to run the game; in MAFIA the system runs it, so everyone who came gets to play.
On the other hand, eyes and body language don't carry the way they do in person. Your reads come from voices and text.
In exchange, the speaking order and the CO history stay on screen. Being able to scroll back through "who said what, when" is something an in-person table doesn't have.
About devices
- Works in the browser on both PC and smartphone
- The game uses your microphone, so the browser will ask for mic permission the first time
- On smartphones the 3D visuals are lightened for performance (the game itself — and what you can do — is unchanged)
- No sound, or your voice not reaching? See Troubleshooting