One phone, one secret word, and one of you does not have it.
Imposter Circle is a party game for a table, not a lobby. The phone goes round once and everybody holds their card to read it in private. The crew sees the word. The imposter sees a blank card.
Then you talk. One clue each, going round, and every clue you give is also a clue you hand to the imposter. Say too little and the table turns on you. Say too much and you have just told the person you were trying to catch what the word is. When everyone has had enough, you vote.
FIVE WAYS TO PLAY
Classic. Everyone gets the word. The imposter gets nothing and knows it.
Word Wolf. Everyone gets a word, one of them is wrong, and no card says who is who. You find out when the clues stop lining up.
Undercover. The imposter gets a near miss and is told so. Easier to bluff, harder to catch.
Only one knows. One player has the word. Everybody else is hunting them.
Spy. A location instead of a word, and everyone at it has a role. The spy has neither and works out where they are from the list on screen.
WHAT IS IN IT
1,043 words in 20 categories, plus 36 locations for Spy mode. Write your own list too, for the names and inside jokes only your table finds funny.
Nobody is the imposter four rounds running. The deal leans towards whoever has been hunted least, without turning into a rota you can read off the seating order.
The same word does not come up twice in an evening.
Scores if you want them, a discussion timer if you want that, and neither if you do not.
Every card looks identical from across the table. Same back, same size, and no colour anywhere that gives a role away.
Written in English and German. Neither one is a translation of the other.
NO ADS. NO ACCOUNT. NO SIGN-UP.
The whole game is free: every word, every category, every mode, every table size. There is nothing to register for and nothing to watch between rounds. The game itself never goes online, so nothing you type into it leaves the phone. The one part that can reach the network is Google Play billing, which is how the Pro unlock gets checked.
Imposter Circle Pro is a one-off purchase for people who play a lot. It gives you unlimited word lists of your own, several saved tables to switch between, more than five categories mixed into one round, and a light or dark theme that ignores the system setting. Pro lifts limits. It never puts a word, a category or a mode behind a paywall.
Three players is enough to start. Twenty-four fit, though by then the phone takes a while to get round.
Pass one phone round the table and find the imposter. 3 to 24 players, no ads.