Dupery

On a sem-whim, I bought Dupery (“A game of Solo Deduction”) from Steam. It’s a puzzle game in the style of Werewolf, but this time it’s Noir and Mafia. You have a grid (initially 3×3, but later bigger) of roles. Some innocent, some evil and quite a few are meddlers (innocent, but not necessarily helpful or truthful). You have to untangle the facts and arrest the evil. Arrest too many innocent people before you finish the case (a series of 5-7 puzzles) and you lose. So far I’ve played 5 hours … the TaoLing has also played. The good: Simple but nice graphics, good theming The puzzles are hard (in fact, for the first several hours I didn’t solve a non-tutorial case) and get harder. Once you’ve solved a few cases at “The Office” then new locations with additional rules are added. (In the Casino you gain and lose chips with each action, which provides clues but also … if you run out of chips you fail. The Docks has hidden people ‘out at sea’ and you have to drive your boat to them to…