[kwoff]

It's been interesting to see how popular "Among Us" has become. (I guess the problem for me is that, ahem, it's best played with a group of friends...) It does seem to make for a good game on Twitch, since several streamers can play together or with their chats.

"Among Us" seems to be displacing the previous game "Town of Salem". Maybe people like the more real-time aspects? ("Among Us" also seems to inspire more "drama".) They're both in the "social deduction" genre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_deduction_game There's an old game called "Mafia" in the same genre. (I guess "Mafia-like" might be a bit ambiguous as the name of a genre.)

[shadowgovt]

It's a highly social game, bordering on party game, which makes it different from most of my library of go-to games. Some of the most fun I've had is knowing I can't talk myself out of a situation, so go out as fun as I can.

"Purp did it. I was right there and saw 'em."

"Me too. We were both in the room and he just killed red."

"Listen. In my defense... I have this knife..."

[spelunker]

Social deduction games and bluffing games are some of my favorites and usually crowd pleasers - Mafia, all of the versions of Warewolf, all of the versions of Resistance, the list goes on. I've never tried the online versions... guess I'll have to give it a spin.

If you haven't tried "offline" versions of these games they're a blast.

[skykooler]

Another one in this genre is a Garry's Mod gamemode called "Trouble in Terrorist Town", where similarly a minority of the players are traitors and the innocents need to work out who they are before they kill everyone.