After being punished for making a mistake in a social deduction game, I have completely lost confidence in this game’s developers and their understanding of the genre.
A social deduction game is built on uncertainty. Players are expected to lie, deceive, manipulate, accuse innocent people, and make difficult decisions with incomplete information. Mistakes are not an exception—they are a fundamental part of the experience.
Yet this game punishes players for doing exactly what the genre requires them to do.
I was banned for shooting the wrong villager.
Think about how absurd that sounds.
The entire purpose of the role is to make a judgment call without knowing the truth. If every decision had to be correct, there would be no deduction, no tension, and no gameplay.
This punishment system demonstrates a shocking lack of understanding of basic game design principles. It actively discourages participation in the very mechanics the game is built around.
At this point, I can no longer recommend this game to anyone.
I will be sharing my experience and leaving negative reviews on every platform where this game is available, including Steam, the App Store, Google Play, and any other review platform that allows users to provide feedback.
Not because I lost a match.
Not because I made a mistake.
But because the developers chose to punish players for engaging with the core gameplay loop exactly as intended.
There are countless social deduction games on the market that understand a simple fact: players are human, and humans make mistakes.
This game apparently expects players to be omniscient.
Until the developers address this fundamentally flawed punishment system, I cannot in good faith recommend this game to anyone.
A game that punishes players for being deceived in a game about deception is not merely frustrating.
It is a failure of design.
