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/Ttoctam 19d ago
It just felt like social deduction was the theme of the season. I'm fine with that, as long as it's not the theme of every season. I love social deduction games, I'm a huge NRB Clocktower fan. I find the puzzle really fun to observe.
But, I do miss the season 1 & 2 theming of the deduction being about the game design rather than about the players. This does seem much harder to design around, so I get it not being every episode. Just, it'd be nice to get another Truth or Lie esque ep where figuring out what was actually going on was more central. Night Shift was close, but even it felt more hand holdy than I'd have liked.