A social deduction game run by a Storyteller, designed for 5-20 players. Each player gets a character token with a unique ability — some are good Townsfolk, some are evil Minions, and one is the Demon trying to kill the town. During the night phase, the Storyteller taps players on the shoulder to use their abilities: the Empath learns how many of their neighbours are evil, the Ravenkeeper gets to check one player when they die, the Poisoner secretly invalidates someone's information. During the day, the town talks, accuses, and votes to execute someone. What separates it from Werewolf: dead players still participate. They can talk, argue, and vote (once). This single rule change fixes the biggest complaint about social deduction — nobody sits out for 45 minutes. The Storyteller isn't neutral. They tweak the game in real time, deciding how abilities interact and keeping things interesting. A good Storyteller makes the game feel like a story arc with rising tension. A bad Storyteller makes it feel arbitrary. There are three difficulty tiers of character scripts. Trouble Brewing is for new groups. Sects & Violets adds poisoned information and confusion. Bad Moon Rising is about damage prevention and healing. Each plays very differently. It's an event game, not a filler. Expect 60-90 minutes per game, plus 15 minutes of setup and explanation. But with the right group, it's the best large-group deduction game that exists.

A party game played over three rounds with the same set of name cards. In round one, you can say anything you want to get your team to guess the name (like Taboo without restrictions). In round two, you can only say one word. In round three, you can only act it out silently. The key mechanic: you use the same cards all three rounds. So by round three, your team has heard every name at least once. The game shifts from "describe a thing you might not know" to "act out a shared inside joke that only exists because of the last 15 minutes". Round three is where the game peaks. Someone mimes three seconds of something incomprehensible, and their team yells the answer instantly because of a joke from round one. The table is in hysterics. It works because the group has built a private vocabulary over the course of the game. Before playing, everyone drafts the card pool. Each player gets dealt cards and keeps the ones they like, discarding the rest. This means nobody gets stuck with a name they've never heard of — which is a small design choice that fixes a major problem with similar games. Plays 4-16+ in teams. The more people, the louder it gets. There's no upper limit if you're happy splitting into larger teams. It works well as an evening centrepiece — games run 30-45 minutes and usually get an immediate "again".

Three cards are flipped each turn. Every card shows a number and an action. All players simultaneously choose one of the three combinations and write it on their personal suburb map — a set of three streets where you're placing houses in ascending order. The numbers go onto houses. The actions let you build pools, parks, fences (to zone estates), or duplicate numbers. You're trying to fill streets, build specific estate configurations, and hit city plan bonus goals before other players do. Because everyone works from the same three cards, the game plays in exactly the same time whether there are 2 players or 50. There are no turns. No waiting. Everyone picks, writes, and moves on. The decisions are interesting without being stressful. You're balancing short-term opportunities against long-term street layout. Put a 7 too early on a street and you've blocked half the future options. But if nobody else has scored that city plan yet, maybe it's worth the risk. No direct interaction. You can't affect anyone else's board. Some groups see this as a feature — there's no blocking, no "take that", just parallel puzzle-solving. Others might find it too solitary. It works best in groups where people are comfortable chatting while playing. It's a "flip and write" game with a 1950s American suburb theme. The aesthetic is clean and retro. Dry-erase sheets mean infinite replays. There are also expansion packs that swap the theme (Vegas, Easter Island) and add new mechanics.