The best Werewolf/Mafia games and variants 🐺 2025

The Resistance: Avalon is a standalone game set in the legendary world of King Arthur, combining the mechanics of secret identities and deduction found in The Resistance with a thematic backdrop of Arthurian legend and the struggle between good and evil.

Secret Hitler is a compelling board game set in the tumultuous political landscape of 1930s Germany. This game of deception and deduction requires players to conceal their identities while working towards opposite goals, depending on whether they are liberals or fascists.

Werewords is a fast-paced word-guessing game blended with the intrigue of a hidden role mechanism. In this engaging party game, players work together to guess a secret word, while also navigating the deceit of a werewolf who knows the word but is trying to lead them astray.

One Night Ultimate Werewolf: Daybreak is a standalone expansion to the popular social deduction game One Night Ultimate Werewolf. Designed for 3-7 players, Daybreak offers a quick, engaging experience where everyone gets a hidden role with a special ability. In the span of just one in-game morning, players must deduce who among them is a werewolf, with the game's outcome hinging on uncovering at least one werewolf.

The Resistance is a dynamic party game focused on social deduction, set against the backdrop of a dystopian empire. It's designed for five to ten players and offers a thrilling experience of intrigue and deception.

One Night Ultimate Werewolf is a dynamic and fast-paced game for 3-10 players that brings the excitement and deduction of werewolf stories to your tabletop. This game is all about quick thinking, bluffing, and trying to outsmart your friends.

Players assume roles in a secret role deduction game featuring three asymmetrical factions. While everyone is on the same ship, their goals diverge: loyal sailors aim to navigate safely to shore, pirates want to lead the ship into the Bermuda Triangle, and a crazed cultist seeks to summon their dark ruler, the Kraken. Each round, the ship sails in one of three directions, determined by the captain's often conflicting orders, while the crew engages in discussions and possible mutiny amid their quest for control.

The Werewolves of Miller's Hollow is a captivating social deduction game that takes place in the mysterious village of Miller's Hollow, known for its werewolf curse. Players are secretly assigned roles and must use strategy, bluffing, and teamwork to uncover the werewolves or deceive others.

A fast-paced social deduction game for 4-8 players set in a fantasy world. Players can be either regular dreamers anticipating delicious cheese or the thief attempting to steal it for themselves. Unlike similar games, this one uses combinations of dice faces for its core mechanics, offering countless replayable scenarios.

Ultimate Werewolf: Ultimate Edition brings the classic werewolf mystery to your table, transforming your group into a 16th-century village besieged by werewolves. It's a game of social deduction and deception for 5 to 68 players, where villagers work to uncover the werewolves hiding among them, and werewolves plot to remain undiscovered while they pick off villagers one by one. With over 30 unique roles and 18 different scenarios, this game offers a dynamic and engaging experience for players of all ages and experience levels.

Strange things are happening! Someone is trying to disrupt the agents' joint missions. In this "almost" cooperative trickery game, 3-5 players aim to complete as many missions as possible while the insider gathers information and sabotages the team's efforts.

Players take on new roles in Werwölfe: Klassische Filmmonster, featuring characters like The Blob, Frankenstein's Monster, and Teenage Werewolf. The Blob spreads through the village, winning if it absorbs every player. Frankenstein's Monster gains powers as players die, while Teenage Werewolf's excitement leads him to shout "Werewolf" daily. This expansion is fully compatible with various editions of Ultimate Werewolf.

Shadow Hunters is an intriguing survival board game set in a mysterious forest filled with devils and supernatural beings. Players find themselves as members of one of three factions: Shadows, supernatural creatures of the night; Hunters, humans intent on destroying these beings; and Neutrals, civilians inadvertently caught in this age-old conflict. The game revolves around identity concealment, strategic alliances, and survival.

Ultimate Werewolf is an interactive party game featuring two teams: villagers and werewolves. Villagers must identify the werewolves among them while the werewolves attempt to eliminate villagers discreetly. The game unfolds over a series of day and night phases, with players discussing and voting each day to eliminate suspects, and the werewolves choosing a victim at night.

Lady Werewolf's Revenge is an expansion for Lupus in Tabula, adding new roles and elements to the base game. It includes ten new special characters, a werewolf, two villagers, and various auras, along with items like the Zombie Baron Samedi, Hamlet's skull, and Dr. Jekyll's potion.

Mafia de Cuba sets players in Havana, 1955, where they find themselves among don Alessandro's "faithful" henchmen at a pivotal moment. The game begins as the Godfather leaves his prized cigar box, laden with diamonds hidden beneath a layer of cigars, in the care of his associates while he attends to urgent matters. This box becomes the center of intrigue, as players decide whether to betray the trust placed in them or remain loyal to the mafia's code.

Werewolves haunt the remote village of Tabula. Each night, some villagers transform into werewolves, slaughtering innocent victims to quench their hunger. Surviving villagers gather daily to discuss their dilemma and ultimately lynch one of their own, suspecting him of being a werewolf.

Unbeknownst to the citizens of Shady Grove, USA, a battle is brewing in the shadows. Mighty heroes unite to thwart a wave of malicious supervillains hiding in plain sight. Players take on the role of either heroes or villains, each armed with incredible superpowers, as they race to reveal the treacherous wrongdoers before it's too late.

Ultimate Werewolf Artifacts is the first major expansion for the game, introducing ancient artifacts that advance gameplay. Each player receives an artifact card with a special power, which they can reveal at any time to gain an advantage or impact others. This expansion adds a new layer of strategy with unique combinations of artifacts, making each game experience different.

In 1887, a vampire awakens and seeks to quench his thirst for blood. Brave men and women unite to destroy him while thwarting the plot of his loyal servant, Renfield.

As night falls, vampires descend upon a sleepy little town, slowly turning villagers into more vampires. The villagers have special powers and are eager to eliminate this sinister threat. This fast-paced game for 3-10 players assigns each participant a unique role, such as the wicked vampire or the well-meaning Cupid. The goal is to identify the vampire among them to secure victory. The game can also be combined with other titles in the series.

Players embody villagers to uncover the werewolves among them or take on the role of a werewolf, deceiving villagers while hunting at night. The game includes 25 cards, a character value card, and instructions, along with the need for a paper and pencil. This version supports 6-24 players and features unique characters compared to previous editions.

Neumond is the first expansion, requiring the base game to play. It includes 36 event cards and introduces five new villager roles: the Idiot, the Elder, the Bagpiper, the Scapegoat, and the Rescuer. The expansion also offers nine new variants with playing suggestions, such as playing in the dark while holding a candle to each player’s face, or having werewolves infect civilians instead of eating them.

Accuse and defend your fellow citizens as you hunt down the witches of Salem. Act quickly before a conspiracy turns your own people against you in this dangerous year of 1692.

The third expansion for the game introduces 24 cards featuring 16 new roles and event sequences to challenge werewolf specialists. The two sisters can now be swapped at night, and new characters like an angel or a cavalryman add unique dynamics to the game. Other characters can also bring chaos, as they might assume the roles of others, complicating the villagers' attempts to survive the night.

After the tragedy of the "New Moon," the village lay in ruins. Years later, brave outsiders rebuilt it, inviting homeless adventurers to join them in a new ideal community. As children’s laughter fills the school and lively conversations echo in the tavern, a rumor lingers about the presence of werewolves among them. Players assume roles within this charming village, with some secretly playing as werewolves who hunt during the night, while also adopting various professions.

Just when you thought it was safe to return to the island paradise of Cuba, it's time for a revolution! New characters join the party, each with a secret agenda, and the corrupt lawyer will align with those sharing his interests while revolutionaries can win if accused by the boss. Beware of the fake diamond, which might help you escape with stolen goods, but if you’ve also taken real diamonds, you could still get caught.

Players take on the roles of members from two clans: the brutal warriors of the Beast clan and the graceful members of the Rose clan, along with the human Inquisition if there's an odd number of players. Under secret identities, they aim to capture the opposing clan's Elder or sacrifice themselves for their own. Players must attack, negotiate, and deduce information, revealing ranks or clan affiliations to gain the upper hand, while unique character abilities come into play when revealing ranks. Victory is achieved by capturing the correct Elder of the rival clan, but capturing the wrong one leads to defeat.

The Pact of the Werewolves from the Dark Forest consists of the base game as well as three existing expansions since 2014: New Moon, Characters, and the edition The Community. Players are assigned secret roles in a village plagued by werewolves, ranging from werewolves to townsfolk and special characters like the sheriff and the witch. Gameplay alternates between night and day phases, with werewolves selecting a villager to eliminate at night, followed by discussions and voting among the villagers during the day to identify and eliminate suspected werewolves. Some versions also include promotional cards for Dixit, featuring artwork inspired by the game.

Players are secretly assigned characters belonging to one of three teams: Vampires, Werewolves, or Humans. Vampires and Werewolves aim to destroy each other, while Humans primarily strive to survive. Each turn, players gather information, seek equipment, or interact with others, all while navigating the uncertainties of the game and the risk of mistakenly harming an ally.