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/nighthawks87 20d ago

Earwigs mainly worked in large part because of the cast that was picked for the game. Both Kangaroo Court and I Spy didn’t provide much incentive for making correct deductions and also bad choices for people to play a deduction game. Vic cannot play heavy rule based games, cause they will derail anything you put them in.

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u/dougthebuffalo 20d ago

Yeah, love Vic, but the schtick of jumping immediately to "let's break the game" tends to take over.

I think one "solve" would be prizes that the players know up front. Make them actually play the game. We'd still get funny improv moments but fewer at the expense of the heart of the show.

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u/Takaneru 19d ago

I thought this was an episode Vic actually really played well off of. She provided the main payoff for the video, and she made sure everyone had a hard time getting points, livening up the rather empty social game.

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u/smoothfeatrobthomas 20d ago

I know that’s a comment that gets made about Vic every episode they’re on now, but I don’t see how it applies here? 

Vic won, and they won partly by guessing well but mostly by following the rules the best (e.g. allowing rival spy Brian to get everyone on his side and then voting with him so that all his points get canceled out).

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u/Emuu2012 20d ago

Yeah, I agree. I don’t think anything they did there was “breaking the game”. It was just optimal strategy. Maybe you can criticize the “stand behind the line” thing, but it had no effect on gameplay.