10 Games Like Secret Hitler — Apps & Board Games (2026)
Secret Hitler works because of three things: hidden roles that split the table into a blind majority and an informed minority, a policy deck that lets liars hide behind bad luck, and a hidden leader who has to survive in plain sight. Most "similar games" only copy one of the three. This list is sorted by how much of that core each game actually keeps, and it covers both apps and physical board games, because in 2026 you don't necessarily need the box.
1. Service Rat (free mobile app)
Full disclosure: this one is ours. Service Rat is the closest free mobile equivalent of Secret Hitler, with the politics swapped for a corporate-dystopia theme. Workers (the liberals) try to enact five Modernization blueprints; Saboteurs (the fascists) push Sabotage; the Rat is the hidden leader who wins by getting elected Chief Engineer at the wrong moment. Same election cycle, same 6-vs-11 deck bias, same executive powers, and the app deals roles, runs votes, and enforces every rule, so nobody has to moderate. It plays pass-and-play on one phone, over LAN, or online with a room code, and AI bots fill empty seats. If you want the receipts instead of the pitch, the comparison hub goes app by app.
2. The Resistance: Avalon
Avalon is Secret Hitler's closest boxed relative, and many groups argue it came first in spirit: a blind good majority, an informed evil minority, and team votes that slowly expose everyone. Instead of policies, players approve or reject mission teams, and evil players can fail missions anonymously. Merlin knows who the bad guys are but must hint without being identified, because evil wins if they name Merlin at the end. Less table talk about card math, more pure trust reads.
3. Coup
Coup keeps the lying and drops the teams. Each player holds two face-down role cards and may claim any role's ability, truthfully or not; calling a bluff wrong costs you influence. It is fast, vicious, and works at lunch with three people, which Secret Hitler never will. What you lose is the social-deduction layer: there are no factions to deduce, just individual bluffs to call.
4. Blood on the Clocktower
The deepest game on this list. A human Storyteller runs the game, every player gets a unique role, and, crucially, dead players stay at the table, keep talking, and keep voting (once). Information is drip-fed through night abilities, and some of it is deliberately false. It is a bigger commitment than Secret Hitler in price, time, and the need for a skilled Storyteller, but if your group has outgrown policy decks, this is the next mountain.
5. One Night Ultimate Werewolf
One round, one night, one vote. Roles secretly move around during the night phase, so you might not even be the role you started as, and the free companion app narrates so nobody has to close their eyes and moderate. Games take about ten minutes, which makes it the best warm-up or palate cleanser on this list. The trade-off: with one vote and no board state, there is no long con, and the long con is half of Secret Hitler's appeal.
6. Two Rooms and a Boom
The big-party option. Players split into two physical rooms and trade hostages between them each round; the Red team wins if its Bomber ends the game in the same room as the Blue team's President. It shares Secret Hitler's "protect/expose the key player" tension but plays standing up, with whispered alliances in hallways. The only entry here that gets better the more people you add past ten.
7. Deception: Murder in Hong Kong
One player is the murderer, one is the forensic scientist who knows the answer but may only communicate through cryptic clue tiles, and everyone else investigates. The murderer participates in the investigation of their own crime, steering it off course. It is more of a deduction puzzle than an election game, but the "guilty player hiding inside the team" feeling is unmistakably the same muscle.
8. secrethitler.io (browser)
The community-run, open-source browser version of the actual game, rules intact. It is free, runs in any desktop browser, and has public lobbies, so it is the easiest way to play with strangers. The experience is keyboard-and-chat rather than faces-around-a-table, there is no native mobile app, and public-lobby behavior is a coin flip. We wrote a detailed Service Rat vs secrethitler.io breakdown if you are choosing between the two.
9. Wolvesville (mobile app)
The biggest werewolf-style app on mobile, with online matchmaking, a huge roster of roles, and a very active player base. It scratches the hidden-role itch on a commute when nobody you know is online. It is werewolf rather than Secret Hitler, though: night eliminations and role powers instead of elections and a policy deck, plus heavy cosmetic monetization. Our werewolf app comparison covers how the two genres differ.
10. Triple Agent (mobile app)
A slick pass-the-phone spy game: everyone is a Service agent or a VIRUS double agent, the phone gets handed around for secret information peeks, and a single vote ends the round. It nails the one-device party format and games are short enough to run back five times in a row. Like One Night, it trades the multi-round board tension for speed.
Want the app-by-app breakdown? The compare hub puts Service Rat next to secrethitler.io, werewolf apps, and moderator-free Mafia in detail. And if you ended up here trying to remember how the original works, the rules are explained in plain English at Secret Hitler rules, explained simply.
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