Comparison

ESC vs Mafia Noir

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

ESC

Features
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Spy is a game for a company of 3 or more players, during which each player is assigned the role of a spy or an ordinary player. The goal of the players is to detect spies by asking questions in a circle. The goal of the spies is to find out what all the other players are talking about without giving themselves away.

About

Mafia Noir

This application helps distribute roles for the game Mafia among 5 to 21 players. It includes standard roles like mafia and civilian, as well as unique roles such as journalist, maniac, don mafia, and lover.

Highlights
  • Distributes roles for 5-21 players
  • Includes standard Mafia roles
  • Adds non-standard roles
  • Journalist, maniac, don, lover roles
  • Simple card distribution
Features
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The city falls asleep. The mafia wakes up. Mafia Noir turns your phone into the host of the legendary party game — with a cinematic noir table, masked players and a narrator who never forgets a single step. Gather 5 to 21 friends, pass the phone around and find out who is lying. ◆ NO HOST? NO PROBLEM Put the phone in the middle of the table and let the voice run the night. It wakes every role, lets them act in secret on the screen and announces at dawn who didn't make it. Everyone plays — nobody has to sit out as the host. ◆ OR HOST LIKE A PRO Holding the phone yourself? Every role is in front of you, every line is on the screen, and the app keeps track of the rest: night actions, saves and blocks, nominations, votes, fouls and the winner. ◆ A DEAL NOBODY CAN CRACK Pass the phone, flip your card, remember it, hide it. Every role gets the same sound and the same vibration, so nobody can tell anything by ear. Fully random dealing for any table from 5 to 21 players. ◆ 14 ROLES + YOUR OWN Mafia, Don, sheriff, doctor and civilians — plus lover, journalist, maniac, bodyguard, immortal, hunter, lawyer, werewolf and priest. Got a house role? Add it, and the app deals it too. ◆ A TABLE YOU'LL WANT TO SIT AT A smoky 3D room, a lamp over green cloth, rain on the window, a noir soundtrack and a camera that glides to every speaker. Not a list of buttons — a real game night. ◆ EVERYTHING THE TABLE NEEDS • Speech, defense and last-word timers • Vote counting with ties, defenses and revotes • A night journal for the host • Rules and an illustrated role codex • The game saves itself — pick up where you left off • Fully offline. No ads. No account. No data collected. ◆ FREE AND PRO Free: games with a host, the five classic roles (civilian, mafia, Don, sheriff, doctor) and one narrator voice. Mafia Noir Pro is a one-time purchase — no subscription, ever: no-host games run by voice, all 14 roles plus your own, every narrator voice and Cinema graphics. Languages: English, Ukrainian, German, Polish and Spanish. Narrator voices: English and Ukrainian. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://meluni9.github.io/artingsoft/mafia-noir/privacy/

Screenshots

ESC4 screens
Mafia Noir4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: ESC at every 11 days against Mafia Noir's every 17 months. ESC also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ESC ships an update every 11 days, Mafia Noir every 17 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
ESC versus Mafia Noir: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterESCMafia Noir
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—83.3% of reviews
Number of ratings—4 — better
Update frequencyEvery 11 days — betterEvery 17 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS9.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDmytro StefurakAnna Melnyk

In-app purchases

None

ESC

No in-app purchases

None

Mafia Noir

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ESC free?
ESC is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Mafia Noir free?
Mafia Noir is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ESC or Mafia Noir have ads?
Neither ESC nor Mafia Noir shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ESC or Mafia Noir?
ESC ships an update every 11 days, and Mafia Noir every 17 months. Most recently, ESC was updated on November 3, 2026 and Mafia Noir on November 3, 2026.

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