Games like The Traitors – Get your murderous fix with video & board games

11.01.2024 - 18:41 / radiotimes.com

If you’ve been feeling dramatic every time you pull on a hooded garment… if you’ve been distrusting every person across a table from you… if you’ve been slagging people off behind their backs (more than usual)… then you, dear reader, have got The Traitors fever.

One way to scratch your murderous itch is to try out one of the many video games and board games that have similar vibes to The Traitors. Heck, if you don’t have the patience for that, just gather some mates around and play a good old-fashioned game of Wink Murder. Just give one of them a natty jacket and a polo-neck, and tell them to play the role of Claudia Winkleman.

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But if you want a game with slightly more going on that just half-blinking at people whilst trying not to giggle, read on as we dive into the wide world of games that are like The Traitors.

If you’re looking for a game like The Traitors, what you’re really looking for is some sort of ‘social deduction’ game with a multiplayer element. Basically, anything that can give you those roundtable thrills as you try to work out who’s on your side, who isn’t, and how to bend the other players to your way of thinking.

Thankfully, this is a fairly recurrent trope in both video games and board games, and we have a sneaky suspicion that the producers (and the contestants) on The Traitors have probably played a bunch of these games themselves. Pit your wits against any of the below and you’ll be having Traitors-style fun just as soon as you’ve worked out the rules!

OK, let's start with an obvious one. You won't find a game that's quite as much like The Traitors as this, the official tie-in board game!

Designed for four to six players, the game splits you into teams (Traitors and Faithfuls, of course), with missions, murders, voting and banishments aplenty.

Of course, as it's designed to be played in one night rather than multiple weeks of telly, things are sped up a bit! Hooded robes sold separately.

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Mention The Traitors to a young person and they may well reply, 'Is that the show that's basically just Among Us?' No word of a lie, a cousin of mine said exactly that the other week. And yes, to gamers who've played many rounds of Among Us, the set-up of The Traitors will seem very familiar.

In Among Us, most players are 'Crewmates' working together to do little jobs around a spaceship. Among them, however, are the 'Imposters', who are trying to sabotage everything and kill the Crewmates. Players even vote to try and unmask the Imposters. Unlike The Traitors, any Imposters that are found are ejected into deep space.

Among Us is out now on PC, PS4, PS5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, iPhone and Android — and the mobile version is