Deduction games are all about figuring things out before everyone else does. You gather clues, test theories, and hope your logic holds up when it counts. Some have you chasing a hidden opponent, while others are more about reading patterns or people. It can be tense, frustrating, but oddly satisfying when that final guess lands and everything suddenly makes sense.
Some examples of deduction games are LUZ, Little Alchemists and Bomb Busters.
Red Notice: A Million or Prison – Catch Me If You Can
There’s something immediately appealing about a chase where one player knows exactly where they are and the other has to piece it together from whatever information slips through. In Red Notice: A Million or Prison, Angela Farbank is travelling around…
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Fragments: Solara – A Point-and-Click Adventure Made of Cardboard
Do you remember those old point-and-click adventure games where you clicked on pretty much everything, collected a bunch of strange objects and then tried to figure out where on earth you were supposed to use them? Fragments: Solara brought back…
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The Safe – Cracking Codes Without Saying a Word
We’ve played cooperative games where somebody takes charge and starts telling everyone what to do. That’s not going to work in The Safe. You can have a perfectly good idea of where another player should put their card, but you’re…
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Abraca Who? – I Have No Idea Who I Am
A party in a haunted house was probably a bad idea to begin with. Then a ghost puts a curse on everyone and scrambles their identities, which doesn’t exactly improve the evening. In Abraca Who?, everyone can see who you…
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Kinoko Kombat – An Educated Mushroom Guess
Every year, leaders from across the Mushroom Kingdom gather for a tournament, recruit Kinoko from different factions and try to put together the best team. Being individually strong isn’t everything here. What matters is getting the right group of mushroom…
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Jusayo – I’m Pretty Sure You Have One
In most card games, having useful cards in your hand is a good thing. In Jusayo, we’d often rather make somebody else play theirs. You ask another player for a card, watch what comes out of their hand, and try…
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Bombastic – Three in a Row, If You Dare
Every tile in Bombastic is a question mark. Somewhere in the grid are the symbols you’re looking for. Somewhere else is a bomb that’s waiting for somebody to make a bad decision. And the funny thing is, sometimes you know…
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Bavianenberg – Climbing Higher While Keeping Secrets
The battle for Bavianenberg has started, and it’s exactly as chaotic as a mountain full of ambitious baboons sounds. Six colourful baboon clans are trying to climb as high as possible, because the higher they end up, the more points…
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Got Five! – Everyone Sees Your Numbers Except You
There’s something slightly uncomfortable about sitting at a table where everybody can see your numbers except you. That’s basically the whole idea behind Got Five!, and it works better than I expected. Every player has five hidden numbered tiles in…
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Zoology – Guess Who’s Who in the Animal Kingdom
Zoology is one of those games that seems easy to understand at first, but once you start playing, it turns into something a bit different than you expected. The idea is easy enough. The big Encyclopedia Zoologica has basically exploded,…
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