Description

Gameplay Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuBmikjCgjI

Who among you can see through the lies? Who is capable of getting away with murder?

In the game, players take on the roles of investigators attempting to solve a murder case – but there’s a twist. The killer is one of the investigators! Each player’s role and team are randomly assigned at the start of play and include the unique roles of Forensic Scientist, Witness, Investigator, Murderer, or Accomplice. While the Investigators attempt to deduce the truth, the murderer’s team must deceive and mislead. This is a battle of wits!

In Deception, the Forensic Scientist has the solution but can only express the clues using special scene tiles while the investigators (and the murderer) attempt to interpret the evidence. In order to succeed, the investigators must not only deduce the truth from the clues of the Forensic Scientist, they must also see through the misdirection being injected into the equation by the Murderer and Accomplice!

Find out who among you can cut through deception to find the truth and who is capable of getting away with murder!

Contents:

12 Role Cards

200 Clue Cards

90 Means Cards

6 Wooden Markers

11 Badge Tokens

32 Scene Tiles

4-12 players

Ages 12+

30-45 minutes play time

20 minutes play time

290 45x68mm cards

12 59x92mm cards

Observations

– Incorporates the discussion found in Mysterium & with the lying of traitor roles in Avalon or One Night Ultimate Werewolf

– Unstructured gameplay forces players to be vocal

– Players assigned the Murderer and Forensic Scientist roles must be ready for the greater focus required compared to the vanilla Detective role

– Murderer player may struggle in smaller player count games where there are fewer cards available to divert suspicion

Alternative games

– Obscurio, plays exactly like Deception with surrealist art cards

– Mysterium, a purely cooperative experience with surrealist art cards

– One Night Ultimate Werewolf, a 5-10 minute catch the liars experience

– Dark Moon, a structured 60-80 minute catch the lairs experience