Your role reminder
Your role chip remains in the top bar during the active match. Open it whenever you need your role, team, ability text, or a route into the full role manual; doing so does not reveal it to anyone else.
How a round of Werewolf works
- Join or create a lobby. Invite friends with a code, or join a public game already forming.
- Receive your role. Roles are assigned secretly. Werewolves know each other. The village does not.
- Survive the night. Werewolves silently claim their victim. Special roles act in secret.
- Deliberate by day. The village debates who to accuse. Vote to eliminate the suspected monster.
- Win the village. The village wins when all werewolves are eliminated. The wolves win if they outnumber the villagers.
Playing on Gallows Road
Gallows Road guides each player through the same hidden-identity game while keeping private information private. Your role chip in the top bar safely reopens your role and full manual at any time; the tools below help you read the table, communicate with the right audience, and return to your seat if your connection drops.
Suspicion markers
Mark another player as Suspect, Trust, or Unmarked from the roster. These notes are visible only to you and carry into the voting surface to support your decision; they never count as a submitted vote.
Try it — a sandbox
Tap a villager to cycle your private mark: Suspect → Trust → Unmarked.
On your voting ballot
Mark a villager above and your note appears here too.
This example is a sandbox. Nothing you do here reaches a real game.
Chat audiences
Public chat reaches everyone at the table. Pack chat is restricted to eligible werewolves, and graveyard chat stays among eliminated players. Each chat panel shows its audience before you send.
Try it — a sandbox
Pick an audience and watch who can read the same message.
Heard by every soul alive
You
I saw someone slip past the mill at midnight…
- WillemVillagerCan read it
- TildaVillagerCan read it
- MeretWerewolfCan read it
- JorunDeadCan read it
Heard by every soul alive
This example is a sandbox. Nothing you do here reaches a real game.
Voting
Select a valid player to prepare your ballot, clear the selection if you change your mind, and use the confirmation action to submit. Only confirmation sends the vote. Once the game accepts a final vote, it cannot be changed for that verdict.
Try it — a sandbox
Choose a target to prepare your ballot, clear it if you change your mind — only confirming casts the vote.
Your ballot
No target chosen yet.
This example is a sandbox. Nothing you do here reaches a real game.
Night recap
At dawn, the chronicle reports what the whole table is allowed to know. Some events are deliberately private or hidden, so the public recap may not explain every action that occurred during the night.
Private results meant only for you remain in your vision history. Reopen that history later instead of relying on memory; other players do not gain access when you view it.
Graveyard participation
Eliminated players keep their seat and may follow the living game. They can talk in the graveyard without revealing that conversation to living players, and they automatically return with their seat when the host deals the next round.
Seat reconnection and leaving
A dropped connection automatically tries to reconnect you to the same seat. Explicitly choosing Leave releases that seat, so use Leave only when you mean to exit the table.
The roles
The Village
Win by uncovering and eliminating every werewolf. Most of these roles wake at night with a power to protect, investigate, or disrupt.
Villager
No power but the vote.
You wield no special power — only your voice and your vote.
By day, debate, accuse, and persuade. Read the table, press the suspicious, and shield the trusted. The village lives or dies on the strength of its reasoning.
Elder
Survives the wolves' first bite.
You are an ordinary villager with one stubborn advantage: the first time the werewolves attack you, you survive the night unharmed.
That toughness only blunts the wolves, and only once. A second night attack kills you — and the village vote, the Witch's poison, or a Hunter's shot can still cut you down at any time.
Seer
Eyes that pierce the dark.
Each night, secretly choose one player and learn their true allegiance — villager or werewolf.
Your sight is the village's sharpest weapon, but revealing it paints a target on your back. Steer the vote without exposing yourself too soon.
Apprentice Seer
Heir to the second sight.
You begin as an ordinary villager, your gift dormant.
The night after the Seer dies, you inherit their sight — and from then on you wake each night to learn one player's true allegiance. Until then, stay hidden and stay alive.
Doctor
A steady hand against the wolves.
A wolf's bite cannot be cured once it lands — it can only be prevented. Each night you prepare a single dose of antitoxin and inject it into one player, before you know whom the wolves will hunt. If they come for your patient, the serum holds the venom at bay and they live to see morning.
The dose wears off by dawn, so you must choose anew each night — and you cannot treat the same person two nights running.
Witch
Two potions. One life, one death.
You hold two single-use potions: one of healing and one of poison.
Each night you learn who the wolves attacked and may spend the heal to save them. The poison lets you secretly kill any player. Each potion works only once all game — spend them well.
Orator
A voice the village will follow.
While you stay hidden, your vote counts as one, like everyone else's.
Once per game you may reveal yourself publicly; from then on your vote carries extra weight. Time the reveal to swing a crucial verdict — it cannot be taken back.
Cupid
Bind two hearts before the first night.
On the first night, choose two players to become lovers.
If either lover dies, the other dies of grief. And if the two belong to opposing factions, they abandon their old teams: they can now only win together, as the last pair left alive.
Hunter
A final shot from beyond the grave.
You play as an ordinary villager — until you die.
The instant you are eliminated, whether by the village's vote or the wolves' jaws, you immediately take one player down with you. Choose your final shot well.
Lycan
A villager cursed to read as a wolf.
You are a true villager and win with the village.
But your blood is cursed: every Seer who reads you sees a werewolf. Expect to be accused — and be ready to talk your way off the gallows.
The Werewolves
Win by devouring the village until you equal their numbers. You know your packmates; by day you must hide among the innocent.
Werewolf
Hunter of the village.
Each night, you and your pack secretly agree on one victim to devour.
You know who your fellow wolves are; the village does not. By day you must blend in — lie, deflect, and steer the vote away from the pack.
Wolf Cub
The pack's youngest fang.
You hunt with the pack like any werewolf.
But if you are killed, the wolves turn rabid: the following night they may claim two victims instead of one. Your death is the pack's fury.
Independent
These roles answer to no team. Each chases its own victory condition and can win alone, no matter who else falls.
Tanner
Win by being hated.
You belong to no team and hold no power.
You win the instant the village votes you out — and only then. Court suspicion, act guilty, and bait the village into hanging you before they find the real monsters.
Pied Piper
A tune that empties the village.
Each night, you charm up to two players.
You win alone the moment every living player outside your faction has fallen under your spell. You are neither village nor wolf — let the two sides thin each other while your tune spreads.
How to win
- The Village wins
- …when the last werewolf is eliminated. As long as a single wolf still breathes, the hunt goes on.
- The Werewolves win
- …when they equal or outnumber the surviving villagers. From that point the village can no longer out-vote the pack.
- An independent wins
- The Tanner wins if the village votes them out. Cross-faction lovers win as the last two alive. The Pied Piper wins once every other survivor is charmed.