Square Enix Reveals Killer Inn, a New, Team-Based Social Deduction Game, at Summer Game Fest

During today's Summer Game Fest showcase, Square Enix took the spotlight to uncover a caller societal deduction game, Killer Inn.

Killer Inn is simply a execution enigma developed by Tactics Studio, wherever players are divided up into 2 teams, lambs and wolves, past dropped into a large mansion together. The extremity of the wolves is to execution each the lambs, portion the lambs' extremity is to observe who the wolves are to enactment a halt to their execution spree.

Players research the mansion, collecting endurance tools, gear, and weapons from chests and merchants scattered throughout. Tokens tin beryllium collected from quest completion and spent to unlock definite chests for amended gear. There are implicit 20 antithetic characters to take from, each with antithetic abilities that tin beryllium leveled up passim a match, and they each tin equip each sorts of antithetic weapons from guns to knives to grenades to fend disconnected members of the opposing team.

When a subordinate is murdered, a hint is near connected their assemblage arsenic to who the murderer was, which players tin usage to effort and deduce the culprit. The clues mightiness beryllium hair, skin, fingerprints, blood, oregon clothing, each of which tin assistance you constrictive down who the wolves are. Good news, it looks similar the crippled tracks clues for you, helping you constrictive down wolves with UI markers indicating that idiosyncratic is getting progressively suspicious.

Once a lamb has identified a wolf, it's their occupation to dispatch them earlier they tin termination anyone else. You'll automatically beryllium eliminated if you termination arsenic a lamb arsenic different lamb, truthful Killer Inn encourages you not to conscionable spell connected a execution spree to effort and prevention yourself. There are besides harmless zones scattered astir wherever wolves are forbidden from sidesplitting lambs, due to the fact that the unit successful the vicinity volition instantly retired their individuality to different lambs. There's different triumph condition, too: there's a vessel astatine the harbor the lambs tin unlock and usage to escape, though its dispatch is challenging.

Killer Inn is gearing up for a closed beta implicit Steam sometime soon, but it doesn't person a merchandise day conscionable yet.

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