Hidden Roles

Hidden Roles is a board game mechanism focusing on its core action pattern. Examples: a-fake-artist-goes-to-new-york, bang-the-dice-game, battlestar-galactica-the-board-game.

Nemesis: Retaliation is a board game featuring cooperative-game, dice-rolling, hidden-roles. Playtime is around 120–180 for 1–5 players with exploration, fighting elements.

Nemesis: Retaliation

Stationfall is an interactive fiction game written by Steve Meretzky and released by Infocom in 1987. It was published for the Commodore 64, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari 8-bit computers, Atari ST, and MS-DOS. The game is a sequel to Planetfall, one of Infocom's most popula

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Stationfall

Blood on the Clocktower is a social deduction game created by Steven Medway and published by The Pandemonium Institute. The game was released in board game format in 2022, first via Kickstarter. The game can also be played online via a mobile app, and via Discord communities. Gam

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Blood on the Clocktower

Feed the Kraken is a hidden role deduction board game where players command a ship and attempt to guide it toward various locations. Each player is a member of one of three asymmetric factions, each with its own preferred destination.

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Feed the Kraken

Nemesis: Lockdown is a board game featuring campaign-battle-card-driven, cooperative-game, dice-rolling. Playtime is around 90–180 for 1–5 players with adventure, exploration elements.

Nemesis: Lockdown

Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game is a board game created by Corey Konieczka and first published by Fantasy Flight Games in 2008 based on the 2004 Battlestar Galactica series.
Players take the roles of characters from the series, trying to guide the Galactica and its fleet to

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Unfathomable

In ancient Greek religion and myth, Nemesis, also called Rhamnousia, was the goddess who personified retribution for the sin of hubris: arrogance before the gods.

Nemesis

Werewords is a board game for 4 to 10 players designed by Ted Alspach and published by Bézier Games in 2017. Players guess a secret word by asking questions. There are different roles randomly assigned at the start of play. Villagers try to find out the magic word before the time

Werewords

Secret Hitler is a hidden identity social deduction party game developed by Goat, Wolf, & Cabbage LLC, manufactured by Breaking Games and distributed by Blackbox. The board game was designed by Max Temkin, Mike Boxleiter and Tommy Maranges, with artwork created by Mackenzie Schub

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Secret Hitler

One Night Ultimate Werewolf: Daybreak is a board game featuring hidden-roles, role-playing, roles-with-asymmetric-information. Playtime is around 10 for 3–10 players with bluffing, card-game elements.

One Night Ultimate Werewolf: Daybreak

Deception: Murder in Hong Kong is a board game for 4 to 12 players designed by Tobey Ho and published by Grey Fox games in 2015. Set as a detective investigation scene, in Deception players find themselves in a scenario of intrigue and murder, deduction and deception. Players tak

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Deception: Murder in Hong Kong

Legendary Encounters: An Alien Deck Building Game is a board game featuring cooperative-game, deck-bag-and-pool-building, delayed-purchase. Playtime is around 30–60 for 1–5 players with card-game, fighting elements.

Legendary Encounters: An Alien Deck Building Game

Ultimate Werewolf is a card game designed by Ted Alspach and published by Bézier Games. It is based on the social deduction game, Werewolf, which is Andrew Plotkin's reinvention of Dimitry Davidoff's 1987 game, Mafia. The Werewolf game appeared in many forms before Bézier Games p

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One Night Ultimate Werewolf

BANG! The Dice Game is a board game featuring dice-rolling, hidden-roles, player-elimination. Playtime is around 15 for 3–8 players with american-west, bluffing elements.

BANG! The Dice Game

A coup d'état, or simply a coup, is typically an illegal and overt attempt by a military organization or other government elites to unseat an incumbent person or leadership. A self-coup is said to take place when a leader, having come to power through legal means, tries to stay i

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Coup

Lords of Waterdeep is a German-style board game designed by Peter Lee and Rodney Thompson and published by Wizards of the Coast in 2012. The game is set in Waterdeep, a fictional city in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. Players t

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Lords of Waterdeep

The Resistance is a social role-playing card-based social deduction party game. The game's premise involves a war between government and resistance groups, and players are assigned various roles related to these groups. A King Arthur themed-variant with additional roles is market

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The Resistance: Avalon

A Fake Artist Goes to New York is a board game featuring hidden-roles, line-drawing, targeted-clues. Playtime is around 20 for 5–10 players with bluffing, deduction elements.

A Fake Artist Goes to New York

Discworld: Ankh Morpork is a board game set in the largest city-state in Terry Pratchett's Discworld. Designed by Martin Wallace and Treefrog Games, the game revolves around the playing of cards and placing minions onto the board. Each player attempts to meet the win condition fo

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Discworld: Ankh-Morpork

The Resistance may refer to a resistance movement. It may also refer to:

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