If you’ve been watching The Traitors and thinking you’d love to play a similar sort of deception game at home with your friends or family, here are our recommendations for the best traitor board games. The Best Traitor Board games

YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE: 10 Best Deduction Board Games | 10 Best Modular Board Games | 10 Best Western Board Games | 10 Best Hand Management Board GamesDelve into the political drama of Secret Hitler, a game that combines the paranoia of hidden roles with the intensity of a prize pot waiting to be claimed. As fellow players work together, the traitor mechanic adds a twist to the game’s objective, making every decision critical and every alliance suspect. Avalon Hill Betrayal Legacy If you are a board gamer and a fan of the TV show Battlestar Galactica (BSG) you need to own this game. Seriously. Go buy it right now…I’ll wait…Done? Good. It is rare that a board game so perfectly captures the essence of the source material the way BSG does. BSG puts the players in the role of the crew members of Battlestar Galactica. They are attempting to keep galactic and the human fleet alive as the make continuous FTL jumps towards a new home world. Hard choices and easy to learn game play are hallmarks of this great game. Sacrifices will constantly have to be made and the perusing Cylons can be relentless in their quest to wipe out humanity. Lords of Waterdeep makes the list of the best hidden role board games because it is a worker placement game where you do not have all the information needed at hand. This game carries the Dungeons & Dragons brand which speaks volumes to its theme and intensity level. And someone thought it would also make a good card game. Bring the murder for money motivation to game nights everywhere with The Traitors Card Game! Mo Money, Mo Murder?

You are head of a family in an Italian city-state, a city run by a weak and corrupt court. You need to manipulate, bluff and bribe your way to power. Your object is to destroy the influence of all the other families, forcing them into exile. Only one family will survive.There are multiple Haunt phases possible, so you never know what or who will be the one. It’s that suspense of the unknown and the inevitable twist for the second stage that keeps this game highly popular.

Social deduction is the name of the game here. Players have to use their gut, deduction and instinct to try and ferret out the traitors. This make the Resistance a great social game. It can accommodate up to 10 players is is incredible easy to play. A great choice if your group is looking for a more social game than traditional. I should note that The Resistance is clearly inspired by the very old game Werewolf, and is better game in my opinion (which is also why werewolf isn’t on this list). Here are the best video games and board games for when you want to play at sabotage. Lie, sneak, poison, but no matter what — go for the win! 1. One Night Ultimate WerewolfIt would be hard to have a game called Betrayal at House on the Hill without a traitor. Yes, one of you will betray your fellow party members. But which one? At some point during the game (decided by an in game dice roll), the haunt begins. At that point, the players consult a chart to find out which scenario they will be playing and who the traitor is. The traitor has his own book that will explain his job and so do the rest of the players. There are over 50 missions that can come up, ensuring you shouldn’t see the same mission very often. Our family has really enjoyed watching BBC’s The Traitors these past few weeks, with much discussion centred on how the gameplay is very similar to certain deception board games we’ve played. Those two get a couple more turns then if they are both still in the game, it’s time for the Traitor’s Dilemma to decide what they want to do next. Now, if you are one of the final two, you can pop your hoodie up and pretend to huddle in a stone turret a la the BBC. Or you can just take a Faithful and a Betrayal card and decide what you are in your heart; pure or devilish! If you both choose to reveal a Faithful card, you’ll split the collected gold coins from the pot thus far. If only you choose betrayal, you get everything. If you both choose Betrayal, everything in the shared hoard is lost! Then a new round begins with all players resurrected. Whoever has the most gold coins at the end of the final round is the winner! Final Thoughts

One of the players will be infected and known as the “host”. The host’s job is to try and infect the other players and stop them from destroying the hive. Each player has infection cards (only the host’s are real). When you enter a room with any other player, you have to swap one of your cards. If you encounter the host and he gives you an infection card (and you don’t have a counter card), you become one of the infected. If you are unsure of someone’s loyalty, you can also just blast them in the face with your gun instead of swapping cards. I suppose that becomes a viable option one the paranoia fully sets in. From the second we heard host Alan Cumming's mischievous voiceover, we were hooked on The Traitors. Maybe it was the mystique of its Scottish castle setting, the charms of its alluring host, or the intense vibes around the banishing table. Probably, it's that we love mess, and there's no better mess than that intentionally caused by a traitor dead set on sabotage and subterfuge. Nemesis is the original Alien movie in everything but an official license. But that does not make it any less thematic or frightening. The plot is similar. Your space vessel is infested with alien creatures and it’s your job as a crew to work together. You sneak around the ship, frantically repairing its systems, find a solution in the lab, or combat the alien intruders yourself.

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The Resistance: Avalon pits the forces of good and evil in a battle to control the future of civilization. Up to 10 players can get involved trying to deduce secret identities and ‘out’ the evil ‘Minions of Mordor’ in this fantasy deception game. Deception – Murder in Hong Kong On top of the common victory condition, each player also receives a secret personal objective. These may be harmless or even complementary to the main objective. But not all – some will have you weigh carefully what is more important – your interests or group interests. Then there are those where the only way to win is to turn against the colony at some point. Betrayal is a ton of fun to play. The best part is no one can know who the traitor will be until it happens. That nice little girl you just gave an item to might turn around and use it to stab you in a few turns. The random party member that turns on the rest is an interesting dynamic that adds a lot of tension to the second half of the game. There have been games when the player with the most health and items suddenly turned on the party, much to the chagrin of the rest of the players. With some great components and a play time in under an hour, Betrayal is a great choice for gamers and non-gamers alike. Note: Be sure to get the green box 2nd edition of this game. The first edition had a LOT of typos in the rule book and scenario books. Cooperative board games are one of my favorite genres to play. I enjoy a sense of teamwork and group celebration on a hard earned victory. But sometimes, I just want to be sneaky. While it’s fun to be the bad guy, it’s even more fun for your fellow players to be unaware of your deception. Enter the traitor role. The traitor mechanic hasn’t been as fully embraced as the cooperative game mechanic in board gaming. I’m not sure why, but there are nowhere near as many games with a traitor as there are with fully cooperative mechanics.