Joining and creating villages

Casual and ranked games

Casual villages have 6–20 players with roles and timers set per village.

Ranked games match players automatically in a 9-player or 11-player game. Their rules are on the Ranked games page, and Rules at a glance compares the two.

Check the settings first

The conversation mode is text chat or voice chat. Voice chat villages have text chat too, unless the village is set to no text chat.

Anonymity, leaving after elimination, role reveals to eliminated players, howling, spectating and whether the village is unlisted differ by village. Check Village settings before you join.

In an anonymous village, players get a surname as a pseudonym instead of their names, and keep it after the game.

With howling on, when werewolves talk at night, everyone else hears a howl.

In a public village, anyone who opens its page can read the log after the game. In an unlisted village, only the players and spectators can.

Settings cannot change after the game starts.

Creating a village explains each field on the village form.

Rank limits and tags

Some villages limit which ranks can take a seat (Beginner, and Iron to Grandmaster). Anyone can still watch. The host can always sit.

Villages may carry tags such as Beginners welcome or Slow-paced. You can filter the village list by tag.

Villages with a GM

In some villages the creator acts as GM. The GM takes no seat and runs the game seeing everyone's roles and actions.

In a GM village, the GM moves the game to the next phase. Players see "Waiting for the GM" instead of a timer. If the GM stays disconnected for 60 seconds, the game moves on by the set timers.

Inviting, waiting and rematches

Share a village link; joining still requires registration and sign-in. Navigating away while waiting does not leave the village, and a return link remains available. Leave explicitly inside the village. Each village hosts one game; a rematch creates a new village with the same settings. Unlisted villages are not in the village list. Anyone with the village's link can enter, and so can people a mutual follow invites in the app.

The village list shows villages in your display language. A village's language is its creator's display language and stays fixed. To see villages in other languages, pick one under Language in Find villages.

Before the game starts, the host can remove a player. Removed players cannot come back until the village closes.

Spectating

Spectators in eligible casual villages can view public information.

They cannot speak, vote, use abilities, raise a hand or react.

You can watch one village at a time. Ranked games cannot be watched.

Players who left after elimination, or who left the game, can come back as spectators where watching is allowed. They do not get their seat back and see only what other spectators see.