Mindnight is a fun social deduction game with friends. It's incredibly simple, but can lead to interesting social moments. It's structurally quite similar to Secret Hitler where multiple policies have to be enacted for either team to win, which to a certain extent works against this game. Mindnight is incredibly mechanically simple, but that also means that in comparison to other social deduction games it doesn't offer as much to go on when making decisions. As a result, the first voting round almost always plays out the same, and as a result games take awhile to get going, where as other social deduction games get to the scheming and accusation much faster. It's a solid time, but I would definitely choose a social deduction games that is slightly more mechanically dense with a few more things going on over this.

The UI is also not entirely ideal. The game opens with a tutorial movie which works but feels a bit odd, and the UI feels cluttered with a mictrotransaction store and oddness in the server setup. A decent amount of the playtime I have in this game was spent not realizing that the host had to press a button, even though everyone had readied, or it took awhile to learn how to equip a skin, and overall the UI felt a bit lacking. Functional, but with enough small hiccups to be noticeable. However this is worth checking out with some friends for a night.

Reviewed on Oct 15, 2023


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