How to play Village at Night with Gather
Village at Night is for 5 to 12 people and needs a game table, because the TV runs the game. Everything secret – your role, your night choice, your vote – happens on your own phone.
Choose the game and open a room
On the Apple TV, iPad or Mac, select “Village at Night”, then “Open a room”. There are no computer players here – everyone plays on their own phone.
Join and start
Everyone joins and taps “Ready”. Once at least five have joined, someone taps “Start game” on the TV or a phone.
Check your role in secret
Press and hold the card on your phone to see your role, then tap “Got it”. If the TV is waiting too long for someone, it can move on with “Start without those waiting”.
Act at night
The TV announces who wakes up. Wolves tap their prey, the seer picks someone to check, the healer someone to protect. If you’re asleep, tap someone anyway – that way nobody can tell who has nothing to do.
Discuss by day
In the morning, the TV announces what happened. You discuss, and anyone who’s finished taps “Done discussing”. On the TV, “Go to vote” moves things on early.
Vote in secret
Your phone shows “Who should go?”. Tap a person or “Abstain”; you can change your vote until everyone has voted. The TV then shows the result.
The end and a new game
If the hunter is out, they pick on their phone who goes with them. Once there’s a winner, the TV reveals all roles; “Play again” takes you back to the waiting room.
TV and phone
The TV is the narrator: it shows night or day, announces which role is acting at night, reveals the victims in the morning and counts how many are done or have voted. “Continue” skips an announcement. It only shows a role when someone is out or the game ends.
Once you’re out, your phone shows every role, and you mustn’t give anything away. Hold your phone so nobody can read along – especially when checking your role and at night.