Mafia Wars

Mafia Wars was a multiplayer social network game created by Zynga.

In Mafia Wars the players play as gangsters building their own mafia. The players fight other players online, "rob" other players, and complete jobs, missions, and operations to gain rewards and strength in the endless game. The game is a freemium game, meaning it is free to play normally but players have the option of purchasing premium content and access to customer service.

Mafia Wars was the 2009 Webby Award People's Voice Winner in the Games category.

A sequel, Mafia Wars 2, was released in October 2011 and was shut down on December 30, 2012.

On April 5, 2016 it was announced via Zynga's forums that Mafia Wars would close down on June 6, 2016. Players were informed of this via an in-game message. The game was taken offline shortly past midnight PDT on June 7, 2016.

The game was relaunched on mobile, with revamped mechanics, in selected markets in April 2017. In July 2017, Zynga announced that all future work on the game was cancelled and the game was discontinued.