Social deduction game

A social deduction game is a game in which players attempt to uncover each other's hidden role or team allegiance. Commonly, these games are played with teams, with one team being considered "good" and another being "bad", though some games have multiple teams or unique hidden roles for every player. During gameplay, players can use logic and deductive reasoning to try to deduce one another's roles, while other players can bluff to keep players from suspecting them.

Early social deduction games, such as Hoax (1981) and Mafia (1986), were board or card games, and social deduction video games such as Space Station 13 (2003), Town of Salem (2014), and Among Us (2018) began to be created in the 2000s. Both card game and video game social deduction games rose in prominence in the late 2010s.