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Whowolf

Player guide

Werewolf at the table, everyone on their own phone, and the app tells the story. Here is everything you need for your first round: short, honest and free of tech talk, unless you want it.

  • 3–20players, best from 5
  • 1device per person
  • 0accounts, ads, trackers

Whowolf is an early test version: playable and encrypted, but may still be rough around the edges.

A round in one minute

  1. Someone opens a room. One phone taps “Open a room” and becomes the host. It plays along like everyone else.
  2. Everyone else joins. They tap “Join a room” and then the room that shows up there, or scan the QR code on the host’s screen.
  3. Everyone picks a figure. It is only how you look at the table and says nothing about your role.
  4. Roles are dealt in secret. Everyone looks at their own phone alone: village or werewolf?
  5. At night, everyone taps. The werewolves pick a victim, the seer looks into someone, everyone else counts sheep. From the outside, it all looks the same.
  6. By day you talk, then you vote. You argue at the table, the app counts. This goes on until the village has found every werewolf or the werewolves have taken over.

The full walkthrough is in How to play.

Chapters

  1. 1What is Whowolf?Whowolf is a werewolf party game where everyone sits together, plays on their own phone, and the app is the narrator.
  2. 2How to playA round of Whowolf step by step: open a room, join, pick a figure, see your role, night, morning, day and the vote.
  3. 3RolesThe roles in Whowolf: villager, werewolf and seer are in the game now; more roles and Whowolf’s own roles are planned.
  4. 4What you needWhat you need for a round of Whowolf: 3 to 20 people, one device each, the same Wi-Fi or your own server, and the app.
  5. 5Safety & privacyWhy Whowolf needs no account, tracking or ads, why nobody sees more than they should, and what the test version is still missing.
  6. 6How the app worksHow Whowolf works, in plain words: one phone is the host, the others connect over Wi-Fi, and your own server can bring in remote players.
  7. 7Where it comes fromWhowolf is an open-source project under the Apache 2.0 licence: developed in the open, with its own figures and texts, without ads, trackers or accounts.