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Browser Games Like Among Us: 8 Social Deduction Sites That Still Work

Among Us never shipped an official browser version, and most of the 2020-21 clone wave is gone — but eight social deduction games still load free in a tab. Wolvesville is the top pick: the most actively developed survivor, with hundreds of Werewolf role variants and custom lobbies shared across its browser and mobile apps. Betrayal.io keeps the true tasks-and-impostors formula alive, netgames.io and Spyfall deal hidden roles over room links, ProAvalon runs full Resistance: Avalon, and mafia.gg and EpicMafia carry classic text Mafia. Codenames Online rounds it out. All eight were confirmed loading by our automated check on July 8, 2026; hand-replays in progress.

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At a glance

Quick comparison of every game on this list
GameScoreHow it differsFree?Load timeChecked
WolvesvilleUnscoredWerewolf rather than tasks-and-impostors — and still actively developed, unlike most of this niche.Free0.2 sAuto-checkedJul 8, 2026
Betrayal.ioUnscoredThe direct Among Us formula — tasks, impostors, votes — with no download at all.Free0.3 sAuto-checkedJul 8, 2026
netgames.ioUnscoredNot one game but a free toolkit of five-plus deduction classics played via room links.Free2.0 sAuto-checkedJul 8, 2026
Spyfall (spyfall.app)UnscoredDeduction through conversation — no map, no tasks, just questions and one liar.Free1.0 sAuto-checkedJul 8, 2026
ProAvalonUnscoredFull Resistance: Avalon with hidden roles and mission votes, run by its community.Free0.5 sAuto-checkedJul 8, 2026
mafia.ggUnscoredClassic text Mafia in a fast modern interface — quick games over deep setups.Free0.6 sAuto-checkedJul 8, 2026
EpicMafiaUnscoredThe deep-cut veteran Mafia site — hundreds of roles, free account required.Free0.3 sAuto-checkedJul 8, 2026
Codenames OnlineUnscoredTeam word-deduction with public roles — the official board game, free in a room link.Free0.2 sAuto-checkedJul 8, 2026

The picks, ranked

  1. Wolvesville

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    Werewolf rather than tasks-and-impostors — and still actively developed, unlike most of this niche.

    Wolvesville (formerly Werewolf Online) is the biggest actively developed Werewolf/Mafia game that still runs fully in a browser tab, sharing servers with its iOS and Android apps. Villagers vote by day, werewolves eliminate by night, and hundreds of role variations plus custom lobbies keep setups fresh; ranked seasons and cosmetics give it the live-game treatment most of this genre lost after 2021. Free to play with optional cosmetic purchases — the deduction itself is never paywalled.

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  2. Betrayal.io

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    The direct Among Us formula — tasks, impostors, votes — with no download at all.

    Betrayal.io is the closest thing to Among Us that ever ran natively in a browser: crewmates complete tasks around a top-down map while hidden betrayers sabotage and eliminate them, with emergency meetings and votes in between. It rode the 2020 social-deduction wave and, unlike most of that wave, its site still loads today. An honest caveat: our automated check confirms the page is up, not how full the public lobbies are — the safest way to play in 2026 is a private room with your own group.

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  3. netgames.io

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    Not one game but a free toolkit of five-plus deduction classics played via room links.

    netgames.io is a free, open-source collection of social deduction and party games designed to be played on the phones or browsers of people in the same room or voice call: Spyfall, Avalon, One Night Werewolf, Codewords and Secret Dictator (a Secret Hitler-style game) among them. No accounts, no downloads — one player starts a room, everyone joins with a link, and the site deals the hidden roles that would normally require cards. It is the reliable fallback now that many standalone deduction sites have died.

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  4. Spyfall (spyfall.app)

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    Deduction through conversation — no map, no tasks, just questions and one liar.

    Spyfall.app is a free online implementation of the party deduction classic: every player secretly sees the same location except one — the spy — and the group interrogates each other with questions vague enough not to hand the spy the answer. The site handles rooms, role dealing and timers; the accusations happen over your own voice chat or around a table. No account, no download, just a room link — a format that has aged far better than the 2020 Among Us clones.

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  5. ProAvalon

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    Full Resistance: Avalon with hidden roles and mission votes, run by its community.

    ProAvalon is a free, community-run online home for The Resistance: Avalon — the hidden-role game where evil players know each other, Merlin knows them all, and everyone argues about who to send on missions. The site runs full lobbies with the classic roles (Merlin, Percival, Assassin, Morgana) and mission voting, in the browser with a free account. It is a small dedicated community rather than a matchmaking machine, which is true of everything left in this genre — but Avalon with strangers who know the game well is the best version of Avalon.

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  6. mafia.gg

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    Classic text Mafia in a fast modern interface — quick games over deep setups.

    mafia.gg is a lightweight, modern take on browser Mafia: day-night cycles, role reveals and lynch votes in a clean text-first interface, without the two decades of accumulated UI of the older Mafia sites. Games run in shared lobbies and finish quickly, which suits a genre that lives or dies on getting a table together. Free to play in the browser; like every small deduction community in 2026, peak-hour lobbies are where the games actually fill.

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  7. EpicMafia

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    The deep-cut veteran Mafia site — hundreds of roles, free account required.

    EpicMafia is one of the oldest browser Mafia communities on the web, running since the late 2000s with hundreds of roles and user-built setups that veterans still consider the deepest version of forum-style Mafia. It is free, but note that the site now sends visitors straight to a sign-in page — a free account is required before you can join a lobby, and the player base is a small, intense community rather than a crowd of drop-in strangers. Expect culture, not matchmaking.

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  8. Codenames Online

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    Team word-deduction with public roles — the official board game, free in a room link.

    Codenames Online is the official free browser version of Vlaada Chvatil's board game, run by its publisher Czech Games Edition. Two teams face a grid of 25 words; each spymaster gives one-word clues to steer teammates toward their agents and away from the assassin. It is not a hidden-role game — everyone's allegiance is public — but it fills the same slot: a free room link, your own voice chat, and a group talking itself into and out of terrible decisions. No account or download needed.

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Frequently asked questions

Can I play Among Us itself in a browser?

No. Among Us is a paid PC download and a free mobile app; Innersloth has never released an official browser version. Everything on this list is a browser-native alternative, not the real thing.

What happened to all the browser Among Us clones?

The 2020-21 wave died hard. Most imitators shut down or rotted when the trend passed, and some big names in browser deduction are now gone or unverifiable — secrethitler.io, for example, hides behind a bot wall our checker cannot pass, so we will not list it as verified. This page only carries sites we actually observed loading.

Are the lobbies on these games still populated?

Honestly: an HTTP check proves a site is up, not that strangers are waiting inside. Wolvesville shares one player pool across browser and mobile, so it fills reliably. For the smaller communities — mafia.gg, EpicMafia, ProAvalon, Betrayal.io — expect peak-hour play or bring your own group; most support private rooms.

Do any of these require an account?

Wolvesville, Betrayal.io, netgames.io, Spyfall and Codenames Online can be played without registering. EpicMafia sends visitors straight to a sign-in page, and ProAvalon also requires a free account — both remain free to play.

Is Codenames really a social deduction game?

Strictly, no — roles are public and nobody is lying. We include it because it serves the same purpose: a free browser game that turns a voice call into an argument. If you want hidden roles specifically, start with Wolvesville, ProAvalon or netgames.io.