The online board game where you actually negotiate

The roll is not the game

In a property-trading game the dice decide where you land, and almost everything that decides who wins happens between turns: who sells the last deed in a colour set, for how much, and what they ask for in return. Most online versions treat trading as a menu you rarely open. Kiraya treats it as the main event.

How a deal works

• Pick a player and build an offer from both sides: your cash and deeds, their cash and deeds, in any combination.
• They can accept it, decline it, or send back a counteroffer with different terms. Counters can go back and forth.
• Nothing moves until somebody accepts, and the server checks that both sides can still afford it at that moment.
• Deeds in a colour group with buildings on it must be cleared before they can change hands, so a developed set cannot be traded out from under its buildings.

Bots bargain too

A bot is not just a dice roller filling a seat. Bots weigh every offer by how close it brings each side to a complete set, not by printed price, and the harder levels value blocking you as much as helping themselves. The Expert bot will refuse any deal that hands you the last property in your set, however much cash comes with it. That makes a bot table a real place to practise valuing a trade.

Passing is a move as well

With auctions on, which is the standard table, declining to buy a property puts it up for bids from everyone. Walking away from a cheap deed in a group somebody is collecting can hand them the set at a price they choose, and bidding purely to make the eventual winner pay properly is a legitimate tactic.

Who it suits

Groups who enjoy the arguing: two to eight players, with any seats you cannot fill taken by bots. It is free, runs in a browser on a phone or a laptop, and needs no account, so the only setup is sending a link. A round limit means the game finishes in an evening with a winner rather than dissolving at midnight.