[FragmentShader]

> you have to maintain the ship for the entire duration of the journey. Making sacrifices in power and computing ability to resolve problems that occur throughout the ship.

There's a multiplayer game where you get in a match and play tiny minigames where you fix the issues of the ship, and once you fix them all, you win.

The twist is, there is an assasin among all players, and his goal is to sabotage your ship even more and to kill everyone, without getting caught. So the duration of the journey is only based on how quick you either fix the ship, find the impostor or die.

Wish I could remember the name, it was pretty popular during the pandemic.

[TimSchumann]

I think you're thinking of Among Us.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Among_Us

[FragmentShader]

Yeah! Thanks :)

[daelon]

https://spacestation13.com/ maybe?

[ZeWaka]

Yeah this isn't the right game, but is much closer to a full game based on that idea than among us.

[FrontierProject]

Space Station 13 is a much deeper take on a similar premise.

[remram]

Event[0] is much closer

https://store.steampowered.com/app/470260/Event0/

[0xEF]

Are you thinking of SpaceTeam? We had a ton of fun with this game at a previous job.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sleepingbe...

[0xEF]

Scratch that, I missed a paragraph in OP's post about the assassin. Definitely not SpaceTeam and more likely Among Us.

Give SpaceTeam a try anyway. You have to love a game that bills itself as a "cooperative shouting game."

[rzzzt]

Spaceteam also exists as a physical card game, the mechanics seem to be a bit different from the app (not sure which one of them was released first) but is still lots of fun and shouting.

[rkagerer]

Among Us.

I tried it once and was looking forward to it, but it was just a bunch of kids running around with no coordination whatsoever killing each other. After a few plays I asked Steam for a refund. Maybe I was doing it wrong and should have tried it with friends.

[helboi4]

I've only played among us as in private lobbies with friends to have fun during the pandemic. That's why it was so popular. Would never think to play it online with strangers. There's really not much to it its just about as complex as a simple boardgame. It was just a way to easily socialise with everyone you knew even if they weren't a hardcore gamer during lockdown.

[bombcar]

Online boardgames is a good way to look at it - https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/products/red-november/ and similar for example

[FragmentShader]

I played mostly with friends and it was fun.

When I first got into public lobbies - yeah, everybody was a kid and the first color shouted into the chat would get kicked.

The trick I found was to switch the search language to English as I was in European servers with my native language. That way, I would match with Europeans that manually changed their language to English as well... or just british kids.

Anyways, it got way better, no more "red is sus" and then kicking without proof. But then everyone was too rude. People always got EXTREMELY angry when I found who the impostors were by either using the cameras or just remembering who was with who + kill spots + behaviour. Like, we win the game because I confirmed the users were impostors based on actual proof, then they cuss me and ban me from the lobby!

So, yeah, I kinda not played much in public lobbies for these reasons. But with friends it was fun!

[OkayPhysicist]

Yeah, random lobbies are absolutely unplayable. Lobbies that are coordinated in some public Discord server tend to be a coinflip if they're going to be passable or not. But the game really shines when you have a core group of people to play with that all engage with it in good faith.

Of course, all those groups burnt out on the game after playing way too much of it over the pandemic, so it is what it is.

[michaelmior]

Not the game you were thinking of, but Spaceteam is a very fun game with a related premise. You're flying a ship and the ship is breaking down so you need to activate the right controls to keep it moving.

The ship will tell you what controls need to be activate, but the catch is that each player only has access to a portion of the controls, but will receive instructions for all them. Cue lots of yelling back and forth to try to communicate the appropriate directions :)