Untrusted
Hello, I’m writing a review for this game since I feel like it is in need of good reviews, and no, I haven’t played for 31 minutes in total, I am a alpha and beta tester, who wants to give this game a good name.
Firstly, I’ll be going over 4 things and rating them, Difficulty, Availability, Replayability and Community, these 4 things make a game good, so of course, first of all
Difficulty:
The game is overwhelming in the first couple of games, getting used to it would be hard if there isn’t an experienced player who is willing to help, I’d say it take around 6 games to actually learn most things going on, and to get a feel for the roles, as you’d most likely get an Agent, a Hacking Netsec, Neutral and so on, however strategy is hard, its social deduction and meaning that the game will definettly rely on your social ability to lie, and make up a good claim which would be hard for the first games, and could still even be harder games onwards, strategies form in your mind, they work and they don’t, overall
– Real player with 360.0 hrs in game
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Untrusted is a Social Deduction game with a hacking theme. The Social Deduction genre has seen a recent resurgence with the success of Among Us. In this game, a hacking group called NETSEC is meeting in an online chat room to coordinate their hack progress through a number of computers and servers in order to hack one specific target node that will win them the game. Every group, however, has been infiltrated by two agents, and a number of independent operators known as Neutrals.
The premise of this game is fantastic, and the lone developer has done some of its implementation well. NETSEC has a variety of skills to verify its own people. The Agents have some ways of blending in with the NETSEC operatives. The fun of the game is not found in the hacking (as there is nothing even closely resembling real hacking), but rather in the fact that you’re actively playing against the minds of the other players as you prove people true or false, or if you’re an agent, you’ll quite possibly find your thrill in lying your way to victory with hastily formed arguments as you place the blame on others. You have to be quick, since there’s not much time before NETSEC has to decide which member of the chat must be sent to their death, and your arguments must be good and to the point.
– Real player with 289.9 hrs in game
Guillotine
You’re in a tavern in the woods, but someone is a necromorph hungry for human meat. Guillotine the necromorph, or get eaten alive.
Guillotine is a multiplayer game of lying and deceit, with a pinch of survival.
It can be played with 4-18 players.
VOICE CHAT:
Proximity based voice chat. Sing at the piano, or scream for help when the necromorph is hunting you.
ROUNDS:
The game round has 3 phases:
Gather - Run around the forest, grabbing food and resources.
Discuss - The fog of death starts to rise up. Time to come back to the tavern, craft equipment and discuss.
Vote - Vote a player to get guillotined.
HUNGER:
Necromorphs have to kill people to satisfy their hunger.
Humans have to find food in the forest. Food growing plants are scattered in the forest, but most of them are located around the giant vines.
MATERIALS:
Materials can be collected around the map. They are used to craft items and upgrade equipment.
ZEPPELIN:
Humans can call a zeppelin by depositing the materials on its call table. Once all the required materials are there, the zeppelin will fly into the tavern’s tower and rescue whoever gets in it. If any player manages to escape alive, it is a human victory.
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Among Us
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– Real player with 123.5 hrs in game
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As someone who has nearly all the achievements and an ironic amount of playtime at the moment of reviewing, I feel as though I am legally obligated to review this game.
I’ll spare you the history lesson here, as you probably know what Among Us is. I’ll just talk about the new update and my experience with it. The new update includes 4 new roles, 3 of them are for Crewmates and the other is for Impostors. Scientist, Engineer, Guardian Angel, and Shapeshifter. The Scientist can access the Vitals from anywhere, and any time. Engineers can vent, just like Impostors. Do note that the abilities of Scientist and Engineer get disabled if the Comms Sabotage occurs. The Guardian Angel is given to you upon being voted out or being killed by an Impostor. It allows you to break the game by shielding Crewmates and disabling an Impostor’s Kill Button for an entire round. The Shapeshifter is an Impostor-Exclusive, and allows you to become any Crewmate that is/was alive during a current round. Anybody from a previous round cannot be shifted into.
– Real player with 77.5 hrs in game
Eville
Betray your friends- and lie your way to victory. In the multiplayer social deduction game Eville you find yourself in a village riddled by a series of murders. Some say it might have been you - or was it? Convince others you’re not a murderer to stay alive!
Inspired by popular social-deduction party games such as Werewolves this is a new take on the concept with realtime gameplay and interaction. Take on the role of a Villager or Conspirator and do your deeds when no one is watching. Place wards to observe other players or tread through the village to visit any house and go on a killing spree. It is your task to communicate with other players and prove your innocence. Use your unique role abilities to your advantage and make sure your team survives.
Devious murders are taking place in the once peaceful village of Eville. Each day the Villagers can decide on suspects and execute them until all evil-doers are found. Each night however the Conspirators gather and decide to murder another innocent Villager until they take over the village. You play as a random role and have no idea who is on your side. Use your abilities and social skills to find out!
Objective: Stay alive and discover the conspirators!
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Win by executing all conspirators
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Call in meetings, vote out and execute the Conspirators
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Find your dead friends and use your abilities and social skills to find out who murdered them
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Brew potions to save yourself, others, or poison people you think are suspicious
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Lift the curses and evil magics brought upon Eville by the Conspirators
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Trade with vendors and acquire items to protect yourself and gather intel on other players
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Use your unique role abilities to observe players, talk to ghosts, see footsteps or place traps in the village
Objective: Deflect accusations and murder the Villagers!
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Win by killing all innocent Villagers
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Get rid of Villagers by sneaking into their home at night and murdering them, or trick Villagers with your deceptive skills
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Wake up at night, steal and deceive the sleeping villagers
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Put evil curses upon the village, securing your win
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Buy trade goods on the black market, giving you unique items such as boots to protect you from traps
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Use the underground to traverse through Eville in secret
In Eville you assume a randomly assigned role for each session. Convince others that you’re on their side to stay alive! Here are some of the available roles:
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Detective - A nimble noble with an exceptional eye for the truth.
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Axe Murderer - A blade master that got off the right path.
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Shape Shifter - No one really knows who she is, and those that do never see her again.
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Ghost Whisperer - A mystic with the ability to communicate with deceased Villagers.
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Slanderer - Never takes the blame for anything. Always tries to frame others.
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Trapper - A lone ranger with a powerful arsenal.
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Seer - Places magical wards and observes other players during the night.
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Mayor - Everyone knows him and everyone pays him.
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Thief - Watch out for this one, or you’ll soon have nothing!
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Guard - A crusader of justice and truth.
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Smuggler - A master of the underground - clearing secret paths directly to a player’s home
More roles will be revealed!
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Real-time 3D gameplay: Interact with players, vendors, NPCs, use items, visit player homes and use your role-specific abilities
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Player Customization: Choose a Skin, Equipment, Accessories, Paintings, Stickers, Emotes, and more
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Game Settings: Set custom rules for your own play session
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Scalable session size: Roles are distributed and balanced automatically based on the number of players in your game
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Rich discord integration (coming soon)
We take the community’s input very seriously. Listening to the feature requests and feedback from our fans is important to us, that’s why fans can have a direct line to us, via our discord community channel; where they’ll be able to discuss the development of Eville with us. Quite often game developers suffer from tunnel-vision, and we’re no exception. Having a springboard to bounce ideas back and forth with, can be quite refreshing. At the end of the day, our goal is to create a fun experience, and having the community’s direct feedback is essential to this process.
Killer: Infected One of Us
I think this game is too incomplete for it to be released. There is a lot of bugs and things missing. I understand why the release happened, to get content on what needs to be added and such. But there is simple things that this game should have stayed in beta testing. Not only do I see many problems, it is also is a pay to play when in 25 minutes of “playing” I cant even stay in a lobby with friends, nor can I actually stay in a game. I do not know why this game was created based off Among Us and yet there are simple things needed that would just make 10x times better release if they did at least one more month of testing and fixing and adding in little details for friends to actually stick together. I am not saying its a bad game, I just think it should have stayed in the incubator just a little longer.
– Real player with 19.1 hrs in game
Hi, I’m a streamer producing content in Turkey. At the same time, I want to produce content related to this game on my Youtube channel called “Barding Games”. I shot my first video with a team of 6 people and we didn’t have any problems. The scenes, tasks, locations are very creative and beautiful, but when it comes to playing with 12 people, some of us entered the game invisible at the beginning of the game and we could only see them with tiny pixels. No matter what we did, we couldn’t solve the problem. (we closed and opened the game, restarted steam, etc.) Another issue, the difficulty of the missions is too much to be discussed. If you insist on playing the game, you solve the tasks after 6-7 games. However, people who are new to the game and trying to observe never understand the tasks and have difficulty continuing the game. The tasks that we spent minutes to do are endless. Even when the infected person is sluggish, we find it difficult to complete tasks. instant monitored streamer of 3000-4000 in Turkey, I saw they were trying to play in twitch.tv; While watching their past broadcasts, I realized that they could not be patient with the second game. Although the game has great potential, it needs immediate change. Please hear our voices and improve the game. We want to play this game.
– Real player with 14.9 hrs in game
Project Winter
if I were Adam and my goal was to create something beautiful, it would be this game
– Real player with 40.0 hrs in game
The best game in the genre, really needs more recognition.
– Real player with 32.3 hrs in game
Republic of Jungle
In Republic of Jungle, 5- 10 players role-play as the advisors of President Puma. His Loyalists try to form commissions to deal with scandals, but a few Leakers among them are trying to sneak into commissions and leak the scandals to Fiona Fox.
**Who do you trust to put on your commission?
How do you convince others you are not a Leaker?**
Running party games can be hard.
Rulebooks, long setups, and your friends' attention deficit doesn’t help.
With Republic of Jungle, you can get games started quickly and let the game handle all the moderation. We make it easy to join, get going, and learn as you play. The guided experience makes the game accessible to players of all skill levels. The novel mechanics add a new depth of skills to master. The continuous action creates a more immersive, intuitive and dynamic social deduction experience.
We make information easy to digest and distribute, so you can focus on making interesting gameplay decisions. This helps new players to learn faster, and helps experienced players to act faster. So, a wide range of people with different skill levels can enjoy the game.
Entertain your friends at your house, play remotely with your online pals, or host a DIY game show for your stream audience. No matter where your community loves to hang out, you can take our game there to have fun. You don’t have to be a player to have fun. The audience portal will let you be a part of the game and enjoy a different flavor of its fun as a viewer.
The best way to learn Republic of Jungle is to gather your friends and jump right in. We have designed the game with simplicity and accessibility in mind, so you can easily learn the game as you play. Don’t start your game night with long setups and reading rulebooks. Jump right in, make small mistakes, and have fun learning. Most players get the rules after finishing one or two games. For more information visit RepublicOfJungle.com
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Win by delivering 3 tasks confidentially, and protect the identity of the Agent (if any) from Leakers
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Vote wisely to keep the Leakers out of the task forces
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Use deductive reasoning based on task results and voting patterns
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Read other players for any suspicious or inconsistent behavior
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Use special power drops to discover or share information
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Guide other Loyalists without giving away sensitive information
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Win by leaking 3 tasks, or discover the identity of the Agent (if any)
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Leak confidential information and frame Loyalists for it
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Convince other Loyalists that you are on their side
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Pay attention to conversations to detect the Agent (if any)
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Coordinate with other Leakers to give minimum information to Loyalists
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Beware of special powers and take advantage of Loyalists mistakes
Do you love social deduction games like Mafia, Werewolf, The Resistance and Secret Hitler? We do too! But we noticed some shortcomings in the genre. They are sometimes hard to set up and inconvenient to play. Some games need too much room or a big table, some require a moderator with godlike precision, some require to close your eyes for minutes, and quite often the game is ruined because someone forgot to do their part correctly or a newbie player asked the wrong question and revealed their secret. We have built Republic of Jungle to address to these issues and distill the fun of social deduction games into a more enjoyable and convenient experience. Inspired by Jackbox Games, we have built a platform where players can use their smartphones (or any device with a browser) to play the game. This way, the game does all the moderation for you, guides the players throughout the game and adds a fun narrative on top. More importantly, we have unique mechanics specific to this platform because they are almost impossible to implement in a traditional tabletop setting.
Wolflord - Werewolf Online
Wolflord has taken up my time as the only social deduction based game that I play to this day.
I started out in this genre making content on other SD games for a long time, and although I put a lot of hours into those games and wanted to enjoy them, various things would continuously turn me away. I can say that Wolflord has never been that way for me.
The game itself has a slightly different format to your more popular SD games, where “copy paste last will’s” is what the game revolves around. However, this game focuses more on actual deduction rather than simply reading out a players' will and determining whether that information is correct based on shared knowledge. Every phase of the game feels important, and compliments the day/night cycle as a whole very well. Roles are very well thought out, and while some are favoured over others, I can say that I never truly feel like I ever get cast as a “useless” or “boring” role with this game.
– Real player with 346.0 hrs in game
Keep in mind this game is still in beta at the time I am writing this, so it is still early and the community is niche, but their Discord is active and a good way to gather games if you’re looking for more games without having to add so many bots. I’m sure as time goes on after getting out of beta, Town of Salem and Throne of Lies players may migrate over here. The game itself is very interesting, you can set your own role list based on the class cards/rules cards so the possibilities are endless, AND it even indicates how balanced between factions the setup is, which you don’t exactly see in Town of Salem custom lobbies. But yes, I do see potential in this game and intend to add it to my social deduction streaming repertoire and look forward to helping build the community. Very much recommended.
– Real player with 326.4 hrs in game
Bitten! Someone has to be a villain
Had a lot of fun backstabbing my friends! :)
– Real player with 15.3 hrs in game
Played Among Us for a long time, but this game is really something fresh!
All players look like you, but some of them may transform into a Zombie and kill everybody else! You have to cooperate to eliminate this Bitten player.
Absolutely love special powers (like fireball or scanner to check who is the traitor).
IT IS ALSO FUN TO PLAY AFTER DEATH! You become a zombie and can recruit other zombies to coordinate your attacks!
Can’t wait for more modes!
10/10 for listening to users
8/10 for gameplay.
– Real player with 7.0 hrs in game
Crafty
truly amazing
– Real player with 1.2 hrs in game