- May 9, 2021
- evolvedlabs
- 195h median play time
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Untrusted is a multiplayer tactical role playing game with a mystery theme. It was developed by evolvedlabs and was released on May 9, 2021. It received positive reviews from players.
Untrusted is an online multiplayer (10 to 16 players) hacking social deduction game currently in development, inspired by the Werewolf/Mafia genre and similar games. In Untrusted, hackers from the fictional NETSEC group are tasked with hacking a specific server on a computer network. NETSEC members must use their skills and wits to outsmart the undercover AGENTs that will try each night to perfor…
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- Innovative social deduction gameplay with a hacking theme that offers deep and complex role interactions, making each match unique and engaging.
- Strong emphasis on player communication, cooperation, and deception that creates tense and rewarding multiplayer experiences.
- The community is generally friendly and helpful, with an active developer who supports the game and its players, plus the game is free to try on platforms like itch.io.
- Steep learning curve with insufficient tutorials, causing confusion and difficulty for new players to understand roles and mechanics.
- Very small and declining player base, resulting in long wait times or inability to find matches, harming the multiplayer experience.
- Issues with game balance favoring some roles, occasional technical problems like server instability, and some community toxicity that can ruin gameplay for newcomers.
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92 mentions Positive Neutral NegativeThe gameplay of "untrusted" is a complex and deep social deduction experience that emphasizes communication, reasoning, and role-based mechanics over reflexes, featuring nearly 30 unique classes with distinct abilities. While praised for its strategic depth, emergent gameplay, and addictiveness once mastered, it is also criticized for a steep learning curve, clunky mechanics, balance issues, and a sometimes overwhelming amount of text and complexity that can deter new players. Overall, the game offers a fresh and intellectually stimulating take on social deduction, though its accessibility and community dynamics may impact enjoyment.
“Untrusted is a masterclass in social deduction and emergent gameplay.”
“Untrusted’s mechanical depth comes from its large and varied pool of roles, each with distinct abilities that influence information flow and decision-making.”
“The multitude of different classes and the inclusion of neutral classes without good guy/bad guy roles means that the gameplay isn't repetitive, and the game can play out in many different ways, unlike simpler social deduction games that have only a couple of end results.”
“The tutorials are vague and poorly explained, leaving new players lost and overwhelmed before they even understand the basic mechanics.”
“These mechanics are all extremely cut-throat and unforgiving, and most of the time you won't even know what you did wrong.”
“The game is not balanced, not at all, it's an RNG mess that is actually easily solvable behind the complexity; netsec still have many abilities and ways to confirm themselves and to figure out who the agents are, the agents still lack some sort of utility, and it has stayed like this for the entire lifetime of Untrusted. The agents have less kill-power than netsec does and even with a multitude of things removed, like occupation and some investigation, there are still too many abilities that can catch you, follow, doxx, CCTV, interrogate, and even just trying to attempt to fake something is near impossible without luck. The field agent is still arguably the least balanced agent role despite being supported with cover support and doxx being nerfed. Despite this, it's still the easiest role to find; using agent training is useless because the lack of arrest will instantly be pointed out by other players upon using it, arrests can be tracked by follows and there are still many ways to mechanically confirm someone that by process of elimination, the field agent is caught out by night 2. And to rub salt in the wound if the field agent lives, even if you play well, the fact that your agent leader can die in a heartbeat as well due to mostly the same things you could be caught out by, and you have nothing in response for it. Usually in games like these, for example, Throne of Lies would turn the assassin (field agent) into the mastermind (agent leader) if they died early. Untrusted does not; there is no balancing factor for you to fall back on in case things go wrong, and things commonly do. They desperately need a third agent; where is that?”
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Untrusted is a tactical role playing game with mystery theme. Common tags for Untrusted include turn-based, indie, cyberpunk, tabletop, 2d and others.
Untrusted is available on PC, Web Browser, Windows and Linux.
On average players spend around 171 hours playing Untrusted.
Untrusted was released on May 9, 2021.
Untrusted was developed by evolvedlabs.
Untrusted has received positive reviews from players. Most players liked Untrusted for its gameplay but disliked it for its monetization.
Untrusted is a multiplayer game with local co-op support.
Similar games include Throne of Lies: Medieval Politics, MINDNIGHT, Town of Salem 2, Town of Salem, Project Winter and others.