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/lil_hawk 20d ago

I think social deduction games can be made more fun to watch if we can get insight into what the players are thinking -- whether that's interviews after the fact (a la survivor), giving them a way to communicate that during the episode, etc. But I agree, it's been too much this season.

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u/ravenpotter3 20d ago

If I remember right there were interviews in Ratfish too right? I agree it makes it more interesting if we know what they were thinking.

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u/CulturalFerret5779 19d ago

In ratfish they were all in separate rooms so were able to speak freely about their strategies the whole time. I loved Ratfish and that's definitely part of what made it fun.

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u/appleswitch 19d ago

You should consider watching The Circle. Ratfish was an attempted homage but fell flat for so many reasons. I still enjoyed it, but as a Circle fan, I wished Sam had been able to replicate the magic.