Bargue

Bargue is an online social-deduction game set in a bar with 12 players, including mafias, customers and neutral roles. You play with 12 friends or join random players, using in-game voice chat to discuss each round and persuade others that you are on the good side. At the end of each round, players vote to throw someone out of the bar.

Roles and objectives

Your role is assigned at the start of the game, and you must play according to it. Customers try to identify the mafia and get them out of the bar, while the mafia aim to dominate it. The neutral role, the thief, tries to reach a target amount of gold before the game ends.

Customer roles include the doctor, detective, rich player, owner of the place and regular customers. Doctors can protect customers from poisoning or use saved money to bring another player back to life. Detectives can spend gold to inspect what was ordered at tables or learn another player's role. Rich players choose who to give money to, including giving it to the doctor to help protect customers. The owner can spend money to eject suspected mafias or sit with someone in the next round to learn whether they are a customer, mafia or thief.

As the thief, you can save gold or try to steal from other players, though whether a theft succeeds is a matter of luck. You can look for rich players and try to sit with them. Mafias can spend gold to poison customers or the thief, and can try to persuade the thief to join them.

Gold and mafia chat

At the start of each game, you receive a certain amount of gold. You can spend it on abilities tied to your role or save it for later rounds; unspent gold accumulates, unless the thief takes it. Mafias can coordinate through a separate mafia chat. The Godfather has the final say on their strategy, and if the Godfather dies, another mafia member takes over the role.

Choosing a language

Before a game begins, you choose the language to play in, since players communicate by voice.