# Ultimate Werewolf > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Ultimate_Werewolf > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Ultimate_Werewolf.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_Werewolf > Source revision: 1340647018 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Board game adaptation of the social deduction game Warewolf}} {{italic title}} {{Infobox game | subject_name = Ultimate Werewolf | image_link = Ultimate Werewold board game cover art 2017.png | image_caption = Cover art for the deluxe edition released in 2014 | designer = Ted Alspach | publisher = Bézier Games, Inc. | players = 5 to 75 | ages = 9 & up | setup_time = 5 minutes | playing_time = 15-45 minutes (depending on number of players) | skills = [Bluffing](/source/Deception), [Partnership](/source/Partnership), [Social skills](/source/Social_skills), [Roleplay](/source/Roleplay), [Negotiation](/source/Negotiation), [Deduction](/source/Deductive_reasoning) }} '''''Ultimate Werewolf''''' is a [card game](/source/card_game) designed by [Ted Alspach](/source/Ted_Alspach) and published by [Bézier Games](/source/B%C3%A9zier_Games).{{cite web|title={{sic|nolink=y|reason=error in source|Utlimate}} Werewolf: Ultimate Edition|url=http://www.beziergames.com/utlimate-werewolf.html|publisher=Bézier Games|access-date=2 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100111070906/https://beziergames.com/utlimate-werewolf.html|archive-date=2010-01-11 |url-status=dead}} It is based on the [social deduction game](/source/social_deduction_game), ''[Werewolf](/source/Werewolf_(social_deduction_game))'', which is [Andrew Plotkin](/source/Andrew_Plotkin)'s reinvention of Dimitry Davidoff's 1987 game, ''[Mafia](/source/Mafia_(party_game))''.{{cite news|last=Robertson|first=Margaret|title=Werewolf: How a parlour game became a tech phenomenon|url=https://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2010/03/features/werewolf?page=all|access-date=2 November 2012|newspaper=Wired|date=4 February 2010}}{{cite web|last=Plotkin|first=Andrew|title=Werewolf: A Mind Game|url=https://www.eblong.com/zarf/werewolf.html|access-date=2 November 2012}} The ''[Werewolf](/source/Mafia_(party_game))'' game appeared in many forms before [Bézier Games](/source/B%C3%A9zier_Games) published ''Ultimate Werewolf'' in 2008.{{cite web|title=Ultimate Werewolf: Ultimate Edition|url=https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/38159/ultimate-werewolf-ultimate-edition|publisher=BoardGameGeek|access-date=2 November 2012}} ==Gameplay== ''Ultimate Werewolf'' can be played with 5 to 75 players of all ages. Each player has an agenda: as a villager, hunt down the werewolves; as a werewolf, convince the other villagers that you are innocent, while secretly attacking those same villagers each night. A third major team working to kill off all others are the Vampires, who must kill both werewolves and villagers to win, and other neutral roles are available, each vying to achieve their own goals. Dozens of special roles are available to help both the villagers and the werewolves achieve their goals. The game has 12 unique roles being a set of sixteen fully illustrated cards, a moderator score pad to keep track of games, and a comprehensive game guide. (Sometimes packages come with a free poster.){{Importance inline|date=January 2025}} ==Expansion packs== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *''Ultimate Werewolf: Classic Movie Monsters'' *''Ultimate Werewolf: Night Terrors'' *''Ultimate Werewolf: Artifacts''{{cite web|title=Ultimate Werewolf Artifacts Review|date=18 October 2011|url=https://opinionatedgamers.com/2011/10/18/ultimate-werewolf-artifacts-review/|publisher=The Opinionated Gamers|access-date=2 November 2012}} *''Ultimate Werewolf: Urban Legends'' *''Ultimate Werewolf: Wolfpack'' *''Ultimate Werewolf: Hunting Party'' {{div col end}} ==''One Night Ultimate Werewolf''== ''One Night Ultimate Werewolf'',{{cite web | title=One Night Ultimate Werewolf | url=http://beziergames.com/collections/one-night-ultimate-werewolf | access-date=20 February 2017 }} published by [Bézier Games](/source/B%C3%A9zier_Games), is based on a similar concept to Ultimate Werewolf although the differences are significant enough to change the style and feel of gameplay.{{cite web |title=Ultimate Werewolf Deluxe Edition vs One Night Ultimate Werewolf - Board & Card Games Stack Exchange |url=https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/20448/ultimate-werewolf-deluxe-edition-vs-one-night-ultimate-werewolf/20450#20450 |date=July 17, 2017 }} The most notable difference between the two is that in One Night Ultimate Werewolf gameplay develops over a single "night", with only one round of plot development, voting and elimination.{{cite web | title=A better version of Werewolf | date=28 June 2014 | url=http://boingboing.net/2014/06/27/a-better-version-of-werewolf.html | access-date=20 February 2017}} As such, games are typically time limited to a small number of minutes with players opting to play successive, unrelated games. This approach makes individual games shorter, does not exclude players who are eliminated early in the game (as in Ultimate Werewolf) and often prompts faster paced games.{{cite web | title=Ted Alspach introduces One Night Ultimate Werewolf |website = [YouTube](/source/YouTube)| url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrAH1gNZjO0 | access-date=20 February 2017 }} ''One Night Ultimate Werewolf'' also provides a [smartphone app](/source/smartphone_app) taking the role of the moderator, available on both [iOS](/source/iOS) and [Android](/source/Android_os) platforms.{{cite web | title=One Night App | url=https://beziergames.com/collections/one-night-ultimate-werewolf/products/one-night-ultimate-werewolf-app | access-date=20 March 2017 | archive-date=21 March 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170321092707/https://beziergames.com/collections/one-night-ultimate-werewolf/products/one-night-ultimate-werewolf-app | url-status=dead }} The primary role of the app is to read out the moderator script, relieving the need for one of the players to take this impartial role, as required in Ultimate Werewolf. ===Editions=== Like ''Werewolf'', a number of extension packs exist for ''One Night Ultimate Werewolf''. ''One Night Ultimate Daybreak'', ''One Night Ultimate Vampire'' and two bonus packs comprise [https://solvingme.com/one-night-ultimate-werewolf-roles/ additional character roles] that can be used instead of or in combination with the roles from ''One Night Ultimate Werewolf''. The ''One Night'' smartphone app enables players to include roles from any edition in a single game and adjusts the moderator script accordingly. Bézier games has released more games in the ''One Night Ultimate'' series: ''One Night Ultimate Alien''{{cite web|title=One Night Ultimate Alien - Bezier Games|url=https://beziergames.com/products/one-night-ultimate-alien|date=July 17, 2017 }} and ''One Night Ultimate Super Villains''. A [legacy](/source/legacy_game) version of the game, ''Ultimate Werewolf Legacy'', was published in 2018.{{cite web|last1=Guida|first1=Eddie|title=Bezier Games announces Ultimate Werewolf Legacy|url=http://www.dicetowernews.com/bezier-games-announces-ultimate-werewolf-legacy/30687|website=[Dice Tower](/source/The_Dice_Tower) News|access-date=18 October 2017|date=18 August 2016|archive-date=28 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171028223551/http://www.dicetowernews.com/bezier-games-announces-ultimate-werewolf-legacy/30687|url-status=dead}} ===''One Night'' roles=== There is a general overlap between the roles of ''Ultimate Werewolf'' and ''One Night Ultimate Werewolf''; however, the details of characters vary, largely stemming from the differences between the two games. For example, the Doppelgänger role in ''Ultimate Werewolf'' takes on the role of the character they have chosen only if that character dies. In ''Ultimate Werewolf'', the Doppelgänger can then take action in the subsequent night phases of the game. This is in contrast to the Doppelgänger role of ''One Night Ultimate Werewolf'', which, because of the single-round nature of game, immediately takes on the role of the player they have chosen and behaves as if they were that role during the night phase.{{cite web |title=Doppelgänger One Night Ultimate Strategy |url=http://onenightultimate.com/?p=46 |date=July 17, 2017 }} ==Reception== ''One Night Ultimate Werewolf'' has been well received by critics as a shorter alternative to the original ''Werewolf'' game, that also fixes the problem of player elimination and makes the game more interesting for the villager players.{{cite web |title=One Night Ultimate Werewolf review |url=https://boardgametheories.com/one-night-ultimate-werewolf-review/ |website=Board Game Theories |date=22 July 2020 |access-date=15 October 2020}} The expansions have also been well received for introducing new and interesting player roles.{{cite web |title=One Night Ultimate Werewolf expansions reviewed |url=https://boardgametheories.com/best-one-night-werewolf-expansion/ |website=Board Game Theories |date=25 July 2020 |access-date=15 October 2020}} In a review of ''Ultimate Werewolf'' in ''[Black Gate](/source/Black_Gate_(magazine))'', Andrew Zimmerman Jones said "Will the village kill a werewolf, or will the werewolves fool the villagers into killing an innocent? This continues until either all werewolves are dead, or enough villagers have been killed that they no longer outnumber the werewolves."{{Cite web|url=https://www.blackgate.com/2014/10/16/werewolf/|title = The Hunt is on: Werewolf Game Review and Kickstarter Alert – Black Gate}} The game was nominated for a [BoardGameGeek](/source/BoardGameGeek) Golden Geek Best Party Board Game Award in 2009. ==References== {{Reflist}} == External links == *[http://beziergames.com/collections/all-uw-titles/products/ultimate-werewolf-deluxe-edition ''Ultimate Werewolf: Deluxe Edition''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150417182730/http://beziergames.com/collections/all-uw-titles/products/ultimate-werewolf-deluxe-edition |date=2015-04-17 }} at Bézier Games *[http://beziergames.com/collections/one-night-ultimate-werewolf ''One Night Ultimate Werewolf collection''] at Bézier Games *[https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/38159/ultimate-werewolf-ultimate-edition ''Ultimate Werewolf: Ultimate Edition''] at [BoardGameGeek](/source/BoardGameGeek) Category:Board games introduced in 2008 Category:Mafia (party game) Category:Werewolf games --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Ultimate Werewolf](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_Werewolf) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_Werewolf?action=history)). 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