Mafia is a game of secrets. A few players are secretly Mafia and try to wipe out the town. Everyone else is the town and tries to find and vote out the Mafia before it is too late. The app deals the roles, narrates the night and counts the votes, so nobody has to sit out as host.

How a round goes

1. Setup. Add every player's name and choose how many of each role. Everyone else becomes a Civilian. Not sure what to pick? Tap “Use a balanced mix” and the app suggests roughly one Mafia-side player for every four. In the Narrator section, choose Original (the recorded voice), Phone voice, or No narrator (read the text on screen).
2. See your role. Pass the phone. Each player taps their name, looks at their role in private, then taps Hide. Mafia players also see who their crew is.
3. Night. Put the phone in the middle. The narrator tells everyone to close their eyes, then wakes each role in turn: Mafia, then Doctor, then Detective. Each role has a set time to tap a name on the phone. Every turn lasts that full time, even if the name is tapped early, and there are no beeps, so nobody can tell from the sound. A “+10s” button gives more time when a player needs it, up to 30 seconds in total; then the turn ends as soon as they choose. The Detective gets 3 more seconds to read the answer.
4. Morning. Everyone opens their eyes. The narrator says who was killed, or that the Doctor saved them.
5. Discussion. Talk, accuse and defend until the timer runs out.
6. Vote. Pass the phone around. Every living player taps their own name, then secretly taps who they want out. The app counts the votes. Once the count is done, the screen moves on by itself and announces who is out.
7. Repeat night and day until one side wins.
8. Keep your place. The game saves itself at the start of each night and day, and the screen stays awake while you play. If the page closes, open the game again and tap Resume on the setup screen. Resuming restarts the current night or day. “Save and leave” in the end-game menu does the same on purpose.

The roles

Table rules

• Players who are out cannot talk. No hints, gestures or faces. They can watch, but they stay silent until the game ends.
• Eyes closed means closed. Only open your eyes when the narrator calls your role.
• The Doctor cannot save the same player two nights in a row. They can save that player again after skipping a night. The app blocks the name for one night.
• The Doctor can save themselves, with the same two-nights rule.
• The Mafia cannot target their own crew. Their names are hidden from the Mafia's list.
• The Detective's answer is private. Psycho Mafia shows up as Mafia.
• If a role is already out, the narrator still calls it and waits the full turn time, just like a live role, so nobody can tell who is gone.
• If time runs out at night, the highlighted name counts. If no name was tapped, that role does nothing.

Voting

• Only living players vote, one vote each, in secret. You cannot vote for yourself, and you can skip.
• The player with the most votes is out. The app shows the totals, not who voted for whom, then moves straight on to the result.
• A tie means a second vote, only between the tied players. If it is still a tie, nobody leaves that day. Voting for a Mafia member scores +1 once per day, even after a tie.
• If a Psycho is voted out, they take one more player with them. If that player is also a Psycho, the chain continues.

Psycho twists

• Psycho Civilian is on the town side. If they are killed by the Mafia or voted out, the narrator announces a Psycho has been killed, and they choose one player to take down with them.
• Psycho Mafia is on the Mafia side and wakes with the Mafia. Only if they are voted out, they choose one player to take down with them.
• Psycho chain: if a Psycho takes down another Psycho, that Psycho takes one more player down too, until the chain ends or the Mafia are all gone.

How to win

• The town wins when every Mafia member, including Psycho Mafia, is out.
• The Mafia wins when there are as many Mafia as town players left alive.