Demon Bluff

As a BoTC player I love this game! Can't wait for more characters to be added and for this to come out on steam. Question for uzabiart: is every round always "solvable" 100% sure, or is it possible that some setups could require educated guessing/one mistake?

My Clocktower group has had a lot of fun with this game since one of its members found and sent it our way!! I love this take on "single-player" BOTC-style deduction, and everything about the stylization is just gorgeous. Just wanted to give a heads-up: I was interested in checking out your Discord community, but unfortunately it seems that both the in-game link and the links on the itch page are currently expired :(

After playing your game a few more times, I’ve come up with two more major suggestions.

First, this concerns all mechanics that use the word "adjacent" or similar concepts. I think it would be better if these mechanics worked in a consistent and intuitive way everywhere. To achieve this, all such mechanics could follow the format: "Attempt to perform an action on adjacent characters." This way, if an action cannot be performed on a character (e.g., corrupting or curing), it simply won’t happen. I also believe this won’t break the balance. Let’s look at some examples.

First, our famous Pooka. Suppose she tries to poison adjacent characters—if those characters are evil, they won’t actually be poisoned, but the player will perceive their lies as poisoning, which could add extra confusion. Another example involves the Alchemist. He might attempt to cure an adjacent evil, and the evil's lies could similarly mislead the player.

The key takeaway is that all such mechanics should work in a similar way, making the game much clearer overall.

Second, the health system. I feel that being able to kill one villager per level with no consequences is a very big advantage. Situations often come down to 50/50 chances, and having one "safe" kill can be a huge deciding factor. Perhaps the health system could be changed to 1 health pool for the entire run, but with enough health for 3-4 safe kills. Additionally, the more health you have left by the end of the run (if it’s turn-limited), the more points you earn. This makes every kill an important and meaningful decision. The cost of mistakes becomes higher, raising the stakes and tension.

Other than that, I still absolutely love playing your game—it’s incredibly interesting and engaging! Wishing you further progress and a speedy release on Steam!

Role ideas :)

Mutant (Outcast): Dies if any suspicion is placed on it (a corrupted Judge says the Mutant is lying, a Fortune Teller gets an evil ping on it, etc)

Barber (Outcast): When revealed, all the unrevealed characters have their roles shuffled.

Crone (Outcast): The last character can't be revealed. You can kill the Crone to remove its ability, but it will sacrifice some of your health. (Sort of a good-aligned Witch)

i love the concept for this! wondering if you could add color to the text of the character in the call out above the cards? like make "doppelgänger" yellow and "baa" red. i can't remember all the characters yet and it would help distinguish the info so i don't have to keep checking the deck list.

also don't know if it's a bug or intentional but I had a jester say it found 3 evil characters in a game with 2 evil characters... suspicious lol

What's the difference between "On Start" (Doppelgänger) and "Game Start" (Poisoner and Counsellor)?

How is the mutant going to work?

I see it in a gif under the game but I'm curious

just checked new patch. I very like your game. But i think it was okay to pooka be so powerfull. I mean, if there are only 1 demon (and it is pooka) it is okay.Demons are like bosses, or smth. It must be powerfull mb. Also ty for new jester! He is more useful. For druid is good update too. Ty to make info about drunk clear. But may be it is good to stay "my info is random".
New slayer, btw, super cool. I think, he is just a little bit imbalanced. May be if he corrupted or lying, he will kill vilagers. One thing i just wanted to say is don't be affraid to make game hard. Just try to make every card usefull, so the players tried to analyse every info to find every sungle lie. Yesterday i found 4 evils with 1 old pooka, and that was amazing feelings. Also deckbulding mode is super cool. I'm so into your game. I want to plaay it more. 

if you can add a way to flag people as safe and make it so if you hover someone it highlights who they are referring to please do so because I have the memory of a goldfish and i mess up often when looking for someone. thanks!

I enoyed the game a lot. A nice way of making the mechanics of a social deduction game work for singleplayer.

My main issue is that difficulty seems swingy. Even for the same ascension level. I feel its mostly because poisoned (or equivalent) shifts the scales too much. One game I had 7 out of 10 chars lying due to 3 evil, 1 drunk and 3 poisoned. Specially when combined with the multitude of non binary answers made getting the evil guys a shoit in the dark. However other games of the same ascension can be relativelly easy.

I had fun with this one - good job!

Some thoughts:

• The Confessor and the Puppeteer don't seem to work with each-other? My understanding is that the Puppeteer makes the villager next to them into an evil (but truthful) version of that role, while the Confessor specifically says that they always tell the truth. However, I've only ever seen a Puppet Confessor lie - shouldn't they say "I'm evil" or something to that effect?
• How is the Baron supposed to work? Does it just change an adjacent Villager into an Outcast version of that card (meaning that an Alchemist can't cure them of poison) or does it transform them into a specific Outcast (so suddenly you have to worry about there randomly being a Saint or Wretch to mess with your plans)?
• Similarly, how is the Baker supposed to work? Is it guaranteed (so if I flip over one Baker I know that either the Baker is evil OR that all of the following cards are evil) or is there a chance that it won't do anything? I only ask because every single time I got the Baker I only ended up flipping one Baker.
• It'd be nice if Knights said something like "I can't die", if only because it'd make the fact that you can kill poisoned Knights a little more obvious.
• It'd be really nice if cards that poison other cards included some reminder of what poison does.
• I think it'd be cool if Evil cards reacted to being discovered by changing their original clue to some variation of "darn, you caught me!".
• I'd love to see some incentive to not flip over every card.

Mediums can call out drunks, not sure if that's intentional

When is it going to be on steam?

This is one of my faves! Is there a way to reset progress?

This game is honestly my favorite I have seen on itch thus far. I do have a question. Say I activate a bluffing jester's ability. I select three cards at random. If the jester says one of them is evil, and is bluffing, then are two of them evil? Or is the number the jester chooses random?

Great game with great art, can't wait to see where it goes in the future.

This is really fun!  Have you considered allowing the player to add marks next to a character (like definitely good) to help keep track of their logic?

Is drunk considered poisoned?

Maybe you've heard of One Night Ultimate Werewolf; it's my favorite board game ever. The thing is, it requires a group of people, and it can be hard to find one... I really love how this is essentially a singleplayer version of ONUW! The social deduction mechanics work perfectly as logic puzzles, and it's just a super fun game to play. The art is great as well, feels really original and cool. I really look forward to the full thing, and thank you for making this (intentional or not) singleplayer adaptation of social deduction!

I don't get this situation, especially the Poisoned Drunk and #1 and #4 saying he is telling the truth. Both of them should be lying about this, but he is actually telling the truth right? He did not cure anyone.

Yeah, sorry, but it just becomes pure guesswork by like ascention 10, when half the board is evil and the other is poisoned there is no way to logic anything properly

I would just like to say this now, PERFECT game, its a rly good game just because it gets you working the mind and making all the links, Thank you So much for making this game Uzabiart

Can someone explain why knitter said there are 2 pairs when there was only one pair? Does the knitter see a triplet as two pairs?

Druid's ability and text needs to be reconciled (2 or 3 chars?) and also it should probably say what happens if both are outsiders.  

Poisoned knights should claim they *can* die but be invincible, no?

Neat that evils can hide as outsiders now; makes saint's ability matter.

Really fun game! I'm not sure if you've already fixed this in the Steam version, but the Druid's ability text says "Outsiders" instead of "Outcasts"

Good luck with the game :D I'm looking forward to its full release.

it seems oracle dosent detect wretch as an evil minion

Can someone tell me why Judge lied in this round?