Fear Surrounds
Very fun, but if you’re an English player, use your phone for Google Translate, because global servers are empty. Only Chinese players are on the game. Even with the language barrier, this is a fun game which is always suspenseful but fun. I wish there was a better English tutorial because I am clueless about the rules of the game.
The graphics are outdated, but they work very well. I prefer them being low quality. It adds that 2000s PS1/PS2 horror feel to it. The only thing I dislike is the blinding whiteness when you look at another player with a flashlight, and the goofy animations. Other than that, this game is well worth the price and I encourage anyone to try it.
– Real player with 23.1 hrs in game
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so far for most of my play time is finding a match and when I do the time it takes for people to talk for 2 minutes or 120 seconds is long and I think I get the idea of why but feels like you might as well leave to do something especially on your phone. I think of games like among us with how it is not that long since if you have 13 players you will be waiting until 26 mins (2 minutes for each player to speak) to vote. So far after this I can’t seem to find any matches for global and only on arena and when I try to find a match people just level requirement to join. So far from my experience I can’t recommend this game even through it didn’t cost much to buy. Something needs to be done to encourage more player growth I am not sure what they can do. but I do see potential for this game. just doesn’t seem to be doing that well where I can recommend anyone playing this game. After playing more I got kicked out of a match that is not good for a only multiplayer anyone who has played rainbow six siege back during the vote to kick wars know this is not a good idea since out group and in groups occur and people can ruin a match the fun for you when especially your in church in the game. I can only play in foreign lobby so I can not participate in discussion during the church due to language barrier. This is not fun and good for foreigners or anyone trying to play the game neither is recommonding discord a solution since I can’t get successful for it on another game.
– Real player with 12.2 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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Enemy On Board
This is my new favourite game. Currently I have over 500+ hours on this game so I can give my review with some experience.
PROS:
1. Game is short, can finish a game between 2-10 minutes.
2. There is a lot of social deception in this game. Similar to other games like Avalon, Secret Hitler, Among Us, Project Winter, you will need to work together to win as crew.
3. This is an Early Access game, and the developers are adding new content all the time.
4. There is a high skill cap in both reading people and combat in the game.
– Real player with 633.8 hrs in game
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Before I say anything else I want to make it clear, I wanted to test the new controls out before leaving a review for it, that’s why I made a different review for the old patch.
Before the WASD update review: I liked the game with its unique movement system in the genre, the game had it’s own charm in that it wasn’t just mindless combat or just heres some randoms figure out who the non innocent are then vote them out. Crew could actually fight back against aliens and while there was moments where the crew or my partner were counting on me to 1v2 or 1v4 I managed to overcome it and feel good in my accomplishment. Overall it was 9/10 for me, fun, interactive and unique in the genre.
– Real player with 323.6 hrs in game
In Silence
Just a terrible game.
Playing as the monster is one of the most boring things I’ve ever done. You wander around waiting for something to pop up on your radar but nothing ever does, and you end up just chasing crows the whole game or randomly stumbling upon a survivor who also has no idea what’s going on, and I don’t mean “has no idea what’s going on” because my group and I don’t know how to play the game, we do, but it’s because the whole premise of “being silent” is flawed. If I don’t want to be found, all I have to do is crouch everywhere I go. This is incredibly slow and boring but I do it because it’s the optimal way to play. If I stand up and walk then the monster knows where I am on their radar and I get found. Now you COULD change the settings so that walking doesn’t make any sounds, but when you do that you give the monster even less things to do. So, if you play as the monster, prepare to walk around doing nothing until someone slips up by stepping on a squeaky toy or someone gets impatient and decides to run. If you play as survivor, your gameplay will be crouching around in the grass making it from one house to another, hoping that it hasn’t been cleared by your team already. Most of the time you’ll check houses that you yourself has already checked, because while the monster has extremely poor vision, they can easily spot out flashlights, so using one is a death sentence. Basically if you get tired of crouching around for 10 minutes and have only found 1 tire and decide to turn on your flashlight to find where the escape vehicle is because the darkness makes you lose all sense of direction… you lose. Any settings you choose to try to make it more fun for the monster ends up making it infinitely more unfair for the survivors. There is no counterplay when the monster finds you.
– Real player with 12.5 hrs in game
New update made me stay stuck in an eternal loading screen when I boot it up. So yes the new update is very good if you’re wondering.
– Real player with 10.9 hrs in game
Coveneth
this game has potential but there are many bugs on it still till the bugs can be fix probably will be more playable but other than that I did enjoyed it very much with few other of my friends :)
– Real player with 3.1 hrs in game
Hope Despair Chaos
This is the greatest game ever created nothing compairs
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game
REAL GAME POGCHAMP !
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game
Hunt: The Unknown Quarry
I’m thoroughly enjoying this game. It’s a great alternative to Cluedo, but slightly more challenging and in-depth, in my opinion. It may take a few games to get to grips with the mechanics, cards and options available, but it won’t be long before you find yourself either being targeted/preyed upon or interrogating/attacking other players. It’s a dog-eat-dog type of survival game, where everyone’s out for themselves including the monster. The theme and daunting background music enhance the game, making you feel slightly uneasy (like prey), not knowing for sure who, what or where the monster is, unless they reveal themselves. Also, playing as the monster is an additional challenge, which requires an alternative strategic approach. You’ll soon find you can’t just go around munching on fellow opponents in broad daylight, but have to maintain a far more stealthy disposition. I felt the game was fairly balanced well, particularly if playing the monster against AI opponents (for mediocre players). However, I haven’t had the chance to properly play any friends online yet, so can’t say if this will be the case against live players, who I think will be a little more savvy. In any case, I believe this could only enhance the game further, making self-preservation more challenging. I’ve seen other comments related to lack of online activity (no one to play with) and about playing for free. For me personally, it’s no big deal, never felt the real need to be able to play strangers online. I took a gamble, bought the game and tested inviting a friend to play (for free), which worked fine, no issues. I was sceptical at first after reading some comments, but am extremely pleased to say how glad I am that I made this purchase. I can’t recommend ‘Hunt…’ highly enough, for those who love Cluedo, Mystery of the Abbey (tabletop games), but then maybe I’m just extremely optimistic and easily pleased.
– Real player with 30.6 hrs in game
Okay I love this game. Like a lot it mixes a lot of elements I like. It has a huge learning curve as many said which I think could be cut down like if you had a sheet or a tab to check what monsters did what that would be cool. Other than that the people complaining about assholes in chats and that didn’t group play I bet, its would be much easier playing with just friends than random people
Over all I don’t make a lot of reviews but i love this game so fucking much I’m leaving a review.
– Real player with 20.1 hrs in game
Dread Hunger
PROS:
Addictive
Great unique art style
Polished mechanics despite being in early access
Immersive level design
Kind and caring community (great for making new friends)
Developers listen to the community
Every match is different from the last
CONS:
Limited tools to deal with trolls and grifers creating scenarios where people will rejoin after being kicked (occasional griefer/troll)
Deception tools are very easy to counter when with an experienced crew making it a choir to play as a thrall encouraging a PvP style of play
– Real player with 686.6 hrs in game
I do wish there was a yes and no option to recommend. If you have 7 other friends with you then yeah I would recommend this to you. If not then enter at you’re own risk of some pretty toxic people. Meta gaming. ect. Not all the time but a good majority. You may say well just kick them but they can keep joining back. there is no ban option and the few good group of people out here had to make a list of griefers and toxic people to avoid and kick because the devs have not given us the tools to do so in lobby and all. I say once you get kick it should be you can not join back that lobby. There is not much good communication between the community and the devs since they mainly care about the few streamers who play there game. Which I see from a company money making point of view can be good. Keep the streamers happy and into the game to keep streaming there game and possibly get more buyers. But it sucks for the rest of us who have to put up with all the glitches still in the game and getting bad responses from the devs. They balance the game around potential griefers instead of outright dealing with the griefers/ giving hosts the tools to deal with them. Wile focusing on other thing’s instead of this big issue the game is currently having. Anyone will hate having thrall and to have some Meta gaming people ruin that by giving info from the game through discord instead of through the game like it should be. I’m danm well sure I have had this happen with Streamers and I have had other say they had this issue as well and problems with some streamers on here doing these kind of thing. Having very little ways to combat this ourselfs as players even if we have video proof nothing get’s done about it and that’s why I can’t support this game till this issue is resolved which I really hate. I really enjoyed playing this game and still do when it’s friends.
– Real player with 378.8 hrs in game
Unfortunate Spacemen
This game has everything a among us player wants plus sooooooo much more.
First of all this game is free and I mean free not loot boxs or pay to win mechanics, there are somewhat overpriced cosmetics but they are purely cosmetic and ad no gameplay advantage.
There is a story mode which is not bad, a survival mode that’s pretty meh, and shapeshifter the reason everyone plays without going into a long wall of text One of you is a monster and everyone’s name is hidden as a color. Instead of scaresolution for example you see blue the monster looks human until he transforms and the twist he can change color.
– Real player with 117.5 hrs in game
Unfortunate spacemen is where you play as one of many unfortunate spacemen/women stuck on a station with a shapeshifting monster that’s out to screw you over one way or another. (there are other gamemodes, however the game and this review will revolve mostly around the shapeshifter gamemode)
Pros:
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Very large amount of replayability, it has a justifiable amount of maps and weapons that show up in random spots, as do the objectives.
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Fantastic OST, the recently added menu music is something I can’t help but jam out to (I miss the old music though :( )
– Real player with 113.0 hrs in game
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