A free browser mafia MMO set in Prohibition America, 1931

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You start as a Stranger in Chicago with five hundred dollars and a bad reputation. Rob businesses, steal cars, run booze across nine states, join a Family, take a seat at the poker table and work your way up to Legendary Don — if nobody whacks you first. Death here is permanent.

Free, and nothing is for sale — there is no way to buy an advantage. Plays in any browser, or install it as an app. Nothing is reserved until you begin. How it works · Watch the opening

160Gangsters alive
109Online now
26Whacked today
$1,504,292,742In play
A gangster with a Thompson outside a speakeasy at night, in the rain
The trailer · five acts, 1920–1933

What you actually do

A gangster slipping out of a Chicago storefront at night with the till

Crimes & Auto Theft

Ninety-second crimes at local businesses, four theft spots from the slums to the five-star hotel. Fail and you sit in jail — unless someone busts you out.
Crates of bootleg whisky being loaded into a truck by lantern light

Bootlegging

Nine kinds of booze, nine states, prices that move every fifteen minutes. Buy low in Louisiana, sell high in New York, dodge the station deputies.
A mafia Family seated round a table in a back room, the Boss at its head

A Family

Found one at Gangster or join one: Boss, Council, Lieutenants, Soldiers, a shared Treasury, and a war rule that says you cannot reach the top until the layer below it is gone.
A 1930s casino floor: roulette wheel, chips and gangsters at the tables

The Casino

Roulette, blackjack, craps, faro, keno, slots and the race track — every table a property owned by a player, or by the house until somebody takes it.
Gangsters playing Texas hold 'em round a felt table under a hanging lamp

Poker against people

No-limit Texas Hold'em and Seven-Card Stud at tables in your city, played against other gangsters — plus scheduled tournaments for the ones who want a trophy.
A hitman with a Thompson gun waiting in a rain-soaked alley

Investigators & the hitlist

Pay an agency to find a rival, travel to their state, and empty a Thompson into them. Bounties on the hitlist can be public or anonymous, and they pay on the kill.

Why it is not the other one

Every roll is checkable

No hidden dice. You are shown the hash of the server seed before you play, you choose your own client seed, and afterwards you can recompute the exact numbers the game used.

Check a roll yourself

A painted world

Not a wall of gray tables. Every gun, car, bottle, street and face is painted, and the game has an opening film and a monthly Chronicle that writes down what the players did.

Read the Chronicle

Nine states, one life

Illinois to Nevada, twenty cities, prices and police that differ by state. When you are killed you stay killed: the grave is public and the next character starts from nothing.

See who died

What it looks like

  • A gangster’s home screen on a computer: rank, cash, cooldowns and the wire
  • The same home screen on a phone
  • The Wire on a computer: whacks, promotions and takeovers by the day
  • The Wire on a phone

Latest from the wireAll news

Today 8 items

03:52 PMPromotionLegstheFish was promoted to Street Hand!
03:44 PMWhackNowak58 was whacked in CO.
03:11 PMPromotionCalgaryCowboy was promoted to Respectable Boss!
03:09 PMPromotionLeftyBoomBoom was promoted to Boss!
03:09 PMPromotionDaan_Ajax was promoted to Gangster!
03:07 PMPromotionFingersBananas was promoted to Pee Wee!
02:39 PMWhackBoomhauer was whacked in MI.
02:26 PMPromotionJoeyMadDog was promoted to Hitman!

Leading FamiliesTop gangsters

  1. 1.Sclafani FamilyEstablished Family12 members
  2. 2.Moretti SocietyYoung Family7 members
  3. 3.Red Hook CombineYoung Family7 members
  4. 4.Northstar OutfitYoung Family7 members
  5. 5.The Velvet HandYoung Family7 members
Ranked by headcount. Join one after you register, or found your own once you make Street Hand.

Pick a name and a face

Free, no purchases, no app store needed. Nothing is reserved until you begin, and you can read every rule before you do. In the spirit of the classic text-based mafia games — with the dice out in the open.