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How to play Monopoly on a PC or laptop
The ways to play a Monopoly-style game on a computer: licensed editions on PC storefronts, mobile games on PC, and free browser games with nothing to install.
Play in the browserThree routes onto a computer
| Route | Cost | Install | Plays with phone users? |
|---|---|---|---|
| A licensed edition from a PC storefront | Paid | Yes, through the store's launcher | Depends on the edition |
| A mobile game on a PC | Whatever the mobile game costs | Only where the publisher offers a PC or web version | Usually, within that game |
| A browser game | Free for most in the genre | No | Yes, in the same room |
Licensed editions
Licensed Monopoly games have been released on PC storefronts such as Steam and Ubisoft's own store, as well as on consoles. Which edition is current, what it costs and whether it supports online play with friends changes with each release, so the store page for the edition in front of you is the thing to read. Everyone in your group needs a copy on a supported platform.
Monopoly GO on a computer
Monopoly GO is designed as a phone game. Whether its publisher offers a way to play on a computer, and in which regions, is something only the publisher's own site can tell you reliably. Third-party emulators exist, but running a phone game through one is at your own risk and outside what the publisher supports.
A browser game: nothing to install
A browser property game runs in Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari on Windows, macOS, Linux or a Chromebook, with no download and no administrator rights needed. That makes it the only route that works on a school or work laptop where you cannot install software, and the only one where the person on a laptop and the person on a phone sit at the same table without either buying anything. Kiraya is one: press Play, type a name and you are in.
If the board loads but nothing moves
Some school and workplace networks allow web pages but block the live connection a multiplayer game uses, and the result is a board that appears and then never updates. Nothing in the game can work around a network that blocks it; trying another network confirms it in a minute.