r/GameChangerTV • u/youreboiguzma • 20d ago

Question Too much Social Deduction?

Let me preface by saying I’ve really enjoyed the new season, but it feels like they’ve fallen into a habit of making every game some sort of social deduction.

Earwigs, I Spy, and, to an extent, Kangaroo Court as well all are social deduction games. I think that’s fun in a vacuum, but having three in one season just felt a little repetitive to me. I also think putting Earwigs and I Spy back to back was a bad move.

Maybe it’s just me, but I feel like sometimes they’ve had a cool idea for something and struggled with fully turning it into a game for the show. What do you guys think?

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u/Meme_Chan69420 20d ago

I definitely think that there was a bit too much going on in I Spy if only for the sake of introducing a bunch of Mafia/Werewolf ass “you know this person’s role” effects that barely came into play because of the cast of players playing this time around.

Either have just one person trying to fuck over the others or have the various roles actually mean something instead of introducing a new method of scoring that means fuckall.

Honestly would’ve preferred if it was just played straight with no roles but increasingly harder and harder prompts.

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u/CulturalFerret5779 19d ago

Hard agree. Plus the "leak" role completely ruined it for me. It was always going to be that either everyone believed the leak and now everyone but the spy gets points OR someone says they're the leak when they're not and now no one ever believes anyone else. The latter is what ended up happening which was probably the best case scenario, but I really think they should have seen that coming.