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
Assimilate! (A Party Game)
A solid word-based social deduction game that is great for community streamers! I look forward to seeing how the game progresses over time. Awesome and responsive developers. I definitely recommend checking it out!
– Real player with 3.9 hrs in game
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Fun and unique party game that everyone can play, if you like the Jackbox Party Pack games you’ll like this!
– Real player with 1.6 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
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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
Project to Escape
Project to escape is suitable for you to play with friends! This is a multiplayer game with up to 10 players support. In this game, your goal is to escape the area but someone will try to prevent your escape so, be careful!. As for now, we will start with launching the first episode with a unique mechanics that comes with it!
Your goal is to escape from the office by coorporating with other Innocent and your very useful Spy friend so you can escape succesfully or find and execute the Psyco
Features
Teamwork
As an Innocent(bold), Teamwork is the main key to escape. Innocents have to find clues and share them to each other to build your escape plan. There is also money to be found as Innocents for you to buy equipments on Black Market that will spawn on random spot. Then with your escape plan and resources, you will have to find and activate generators required for you to finally escape
Communication
Communication is the key for the Innocents to plan their escape! There are several ways to communicate with other players:
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proximity-based voice chat
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private voice chat radio channels,
Roles :
- Innocent
Your main goal as an Innocents is to escape the area safely. But just like real life, there will always someone to stop you from reaching your goal. In this case, Psycho will be disguised among you as they try to ruin your escape plan. Innocents cannot execute Psycho but with money you can gather, you can buy protection from Psycho’s attack from the Black Market
- Psyco
Your main goal as a Psycho is to prevent any Innocents from escaping the area. Explore the area to find weapons to execute as many Innocents as possible, but you should be careful with your action as Psycho should avoid getting detected because there is a Spy among Innocents who have the ability to execute you!
- Spy
Spy is the important key for the Innocents survival. As a Spy, you can buy a handgun and execute Psycho if detected. But make no mistake, if your detective work concluded with the wrong person as a Psycho, and you shoot that person, the sound that you make by shooting your gun will make a very loud bang and the Psycho can easily spot you and might target you so no one can protect the innocent no more. As they say, with great power, comes great responsibilities!
First Class Trouble
This game’s community became trash the moment they made it cross platform. It was a great community of like minded players 9/10 sessions were very fun, social and generally pleasant but ever since they opened it up to the xbox community it’s just full of toxic players, people teaming and each lobby is nothing but homophobic and racist slurs. I have 135 hours on record but now it’s time to uninstall. What a shame.
– Real player with 135.2 hrs in game
This game is great at its core. It was unfortunately recently ruined by cross-play.
As others have stated, you’ll likely get matched with people with no mic or people who are in a Playstation party together, so you’ll rarely hear people speak. Since it is such a language driven game, you cannot play a proper match without communication.
It’s still fun if you can get a group of 6 together, but the solo or duo queue is incredibly difficult to deal with. If you turn cross-play off, you’ll wait for 20 minutes for a full lobby, whereas before you were in a full lobby within seconds.
– Real player with 83.3 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.
Sweetlads' Werewolf
Sweetlads' Werewolf is a fast paced game of deception based in 16th century England. Werewolves have infiltrated our village and left us isolated in these deep woods. Find out who you can trust and who is more interested in your flesh!
Votes aren’t confirmed until the end so every second counts to state your innocence and share your theories. With quick communication at the heart of our game we support and encourage voice chat. play with up to 24 players online or locally. Please note, the art is still in progress and not reflective of final gameplay
How to Play
Starting the game you will be assigned a random team - good or evil - and a random role.
The game is split into two repeating phases, day and night:
Day
The day begins with who was killed (or spared) last night, along side their last will.
Everyone discusses and votes on whom they think is a werewolf
Night
The night begins with who was hung during the day, along side their last will.
Werewolves vote who to kill and special roles can use their abilities
Roles
Villager - Good - no unique abilities
Seer - Good - Votes at night to reveal someone’s identity
Bodyguard - Good - Votes at night to protect a player
Martyr - Good - Votes at night to die in place of a player if they are attacked
Witness - Good - Votes at night to watch a player that if attacked reveals the killer
Survivor - Good - Can survive one attack only at night
Spy - Good - Can view the evil chat
Werewolf - Evil - Votes at night who to kill and has access to the evil chat
Wizard - Evil - Votes at night to reveal someone’s identity and has access to the evil chat
Traitor - Evil - Has access to the evil chat
How to Win
To win the Good team needs to hang all the Werewolves.
The Evil team wins when they outnumber the good team.
Nightfall
A fun mafia-inspired game to play with a lobby of friends.
The different roles and ability unlocks give way for a TONNE of play styles and strategies.
– Real player with 15.6 hrs in game
An interesting take on the social deception genre, the various equipment unlocks you get from completing quests (or on game start depending on settings), add a lot of depth to the game.
Quests have their own minigame which on completion give you equipment points that allow you to unlock things such as smoke screen, invisiblity or boots of speed.
One of my favourites is the ability to impersonate another player entirely for the round.
I have always enjoyed each game of this I have played, and it is only in early access!
– Real player with 14.0 hrs in game
Among Us
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– Real player with 123.5 hrs in game
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
Peekazoo
The luxury cruise liner Animals Star just set off on its first voyage and all of the animals are having a great time. However, the crewmates have no idea that there is a conspiracy afoot.
The animals invited aboard by the scientists have no idea that they’re about to become guinea pigs for a new experimental serum. The scientists take the first subjects through a tunnel and into the lab, inject them with the serum, and write down their reactions: “Increased physical function, slightly increased intelligence, decreased eye sight, gradual increase in irritability, increased aggression… the first experiment’s failed! The subjects are out of control!” After losing their minds, the subjects break through the observation chamber, kill the scientists, and take over the ship’s remote control and the keys to the tunnel.