Omerta

Omerta bills itself as a text-based mafia RPG played right in your browser: commit crimes, earn money and experience, and work your way up through a family. It is one of the long-running names in the genre, and its homepage still opens on the current family standings and the number of the round in progress.

VerdictThe old-school mafia entry. Short cooldowns, a rank ladder and families that run the map — sharper and more competitive than Torn, and everyone starts again with each round.

§1 The set-up

You start as an Empty-Suit, the bottom rung of a rank ladder that climbs through titles like Deliveryboy, Picciotto, Shoplifter and Pickpocket. Nearly every action feeds your rank progress. The official user manual is laid out like a city: crimes, car theft, jail and smuggling on one side; the city map, accommodation, the hospital and the market on another; and families — recruitment, creation, businesses on the map — in the middle.

Families are the point. The wiki calls them the core of the mafia structure and says almost everything in the game is shaped by how families organise and plan. Founding one is a late goal with steep requirements, including a senior rank, bodyguards and a proper residence, so most players spend their early rounds working inside someone else's outfit.

§2 How a session runs

A session is a loop of timed attempts. The crimes page shows a success percentage for each option — at the bottom, jobs like robbing a hot-dog stand — and every attempt ends one of three ways: success, a clean escape, or a trip to jail. The manual puts the wait between crimes at about ninety seconds and between car thefts at around five minutes, so active play means returning to the same pages often.

Smuggling adds a trading layer: you buy booze or contraband in one city and sell it in another, with prices changing every half hour and carrying limits tied to your rank. Stolen cars go to a garage, where they can be sold, kept for group crimes or broken down for bullets. It is a game of small, repeated decisions that add up over a round.

§3 Time on the books

Omerta is the most demanding entry in this ledger. Short cooldowns reward sitting with the tab open, and the round structure — the homepage showed round 76.1 when we checked — means progress is measured against a clock and against other players. You can play casually, but you won't keep pace with active families that way.

If you want Omerta without letting it swallow an evening, decide in advance which loop you are playing — crimes, smuggling or family duties — and stop when that loop's goal for the day is done.

§4 Who pays for what

Joining is free: the homepage invites you to join for free, and the disclaimer states that you may play for free. Paid digital goods exist, in-game credits among them, and the disclaimer describes every such purchase as a non-refundable donation to the publisher. Nothing has to be bought to start, and we'd treat credits as strictly optional. The sign-up form asks for a date of birth.

§5 Right desk, wrong desk

§6 Credit and debit

Checked on the publisher's site — October 2026

These points were confirmed on the official site or official wiki on 27 October 2026. Games change; check the publisher's page before you sign up.

• Homepage: text-based mafia RPG played in the browser; join for free.
• Homepage shows the current round and family standings.
• Disclaimer: you may play for free; digital goods, including credits, are non-refundable.
• Official wiki: crimes show success percentages; outcomes include jail.
• Official wiki: families are the core of the game's structure.

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