DICHOTOMY
Play with 4-10 players online to neutralize one or more traitors among the crew members. Exposing the traitors is vital, otherwise the crew will die!
Objective: Complete all tasks or Discover the Traitor!
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The task of the team is to complete all the tasks or find all the traitors.
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We must act quickly, otherwise the enemy will arrange a diversion.
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Track and observe other team members to identify the traitor.
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Instantly collect a vote after the discovery of a body.
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When voting, you must cast your vote to expel the suspect.
Objective: Kill of the crew or Destroy Equipment!
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The task of the traitor, prevent the team from completing tasks or kill all team members.
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Merge with the team, so you won’t be discovered.
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Use the robot assistant to sabotage.
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Break the security system and the room will become a trap.
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Shut down the crew’s vital equipment.
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Use shelters to stay unnoticed.
Features
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Quickly find a game online from the host list.
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In-game text chat.
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Quickly single game with bots.
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Paper Pirates
A great social deduction game to play with friends or family. Lots of fun and easy to pick up no matter what age the players are. The artwork is a delight and it has a huge number of customisation options to make your pirate your own.
There are different game modes which allow you to vary the difficulty - scored games adding that extra challenge with secret objectives; is that player a ghost or are they just a bad human trying to max out their points? The daily voyage is a nice way to try out different modes and you can fill the boat with cute bots if you are playing solo. You can earn achievements to unlock cool hats for your pirates and the events change things up including the option of an audience mode for people who don’t want to play . The audience can vote to influence what events take place. It’s a nice touch that really does make this a very inclusive game. Iteration games has stepped things up a notch with the current Halloween event. Who wouldn’t want to play as a skeleton or pumpkin pirate! Highly recommended.
– Real player with 149.5 hrs in game
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Iteration Games clearly understands the Social Deduction genre very well, and the result is Paper Pirates sidestepping a majority of the problems I find in other similar games.
Paper Pirates succeeds at both being a game that’s simple enough to convince your friends to pick up, yet has enough mechanical depth and just the right pinch of randomness to keep the suspense high all the way until the last treasure falls overboard, or everyone gets home.
Things like traditional mafia/werewolf’s follow the cop strategies, Town of Salem’s vulnerability to mass-claiming, and the rigidity of Secret Hitler’s mechanics in general lead to a highly-optimized “metagame” (a specific strategy that most players familiar with a game employ almost always due to how extremely effective it is) that doesn’t really appeal to everyone, and can be especially grating to newcomers. Not to mention how being voted out in all of the above means you’re forced into the role of spectator for the rest of the game, and the first person eliminated essentially doesn’t get to play at all. Paper Pirates solves this by instead demoting players voted out to the rank of stowaway; you cannot win as the stowaway, but all it takes to escape the dreaded barrel is for another player to go overboard and fill it in your stead. And believe me, plenty of pirates will be getting flung off this paper ship.
– Real player with 19.9 hrs in game
Similo: The Card Game
Fun co-op card game that support both local and online multiplayer!
PROs:
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Awesome illustrations
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Supports cross platform multiplayer
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Great replayability (especially with DLCs)
CONs:
- I want more decks!!!
– Real player with 160.0 hrs in game
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The online option is very limited (only 1v1, no realtime matchmaking), and the local pass-n-play does not offer a blanked out between screen to have time to switch. All in all, I was very disappointed by the limited options for actuall play this game gives.
In addition to these grievances, if someone has bought an expansion (like the historic characters) and sets up a game with it, you cannot play it unless you buy it as well!
And we’ve not even touched upon the interface…
– Real player with 32.0 hrs in game
The Jackbox Party Pack 6
As per usual, this party pack follows the trend of a couple amazing games and a few forgettable ones.
That being said, the good games in this pack are really fucking good.
Trivia Murder Party 2 is an overall improvement from the original. The kill rooms are more unique, the questions are harder, and the race at the end was made just a tad more difficult. Is it better than the first? Up to you, but mostly, yes.
Dictionarium is… boring. It’s a game about words, you make definitions, then you make new words based on the definitions. It’s like a literature nerd’s take on the game Telephone, but it just doesn’t make the cut.
– Real player with 154.0 hrs in game
Yes. Yes. Yes.
The Jackbox Party Pack 6 nails everything perfectly. The perfect trivia game, the perfect word game, the perfect deceit game, the perfect joke game. Everything about this pack is bliss. I’ll go over each game individually.
JOKE BOAT - The joke spewing comedy club, Joke Boat. Good visuals, fun music and host. Only drag to this game is it’s length, but it depends on the crowd you play it with. Overall pretty good and funny.
TRIVIA MURDER PARTY 2 - The long awaited sequel to the long beloved game. This sequel balances out the imperfections of the original by making Killing Rooms easier to survive and more fun to play through. Sometimes I hoped to get a question wrong to play! The music, visuals, style, and feel make this the perfect sequel to a perfect game.
– Real player with 41.3 hrs in game