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• is no longer considered manipulation.

• Hex is a complicated keyword that is going to add a bit of "fluff" to the game. It causes a player's abilities to fail (target is successful, they just have no effect), causes their passives to disable, and if they were to learn information because of their role the information will be wrong.

• Multiple instances of a damage over time keyword no longer stack, but different damage over time keywords do still stack.

• So a player can only ever be "bleeding", not "bleeding 3 times".

• But a player can be "bleeding, ignited and poisoned" all at the same time. (Yikes)

• Exposed is now triggered by getting at least 1 vote during the Execution vote, instead of being accused in the accusation vote.

• Slightly increased the length of the discussion phase to accommodate the shift toward social deduction instead of ability use.

• Slightly reduced the length of the Action phase so that nights are a bit quicker.

The Starter set has been removed. Standard is receiving huge changes to make it more approachable, and thus there isn't much need for a cut down simplified version of it.

Standard is seeing significant changes across the entire roster. Starting with roles that we are saying goodbye to.

• Arsonist - The Arsonist and Fire Dragon are fighting for the same spot in the Standard set, and the Fire Dragon won!

• Chronomancer - The Chronomancer is a great example of a role that is not suited for the Standard set. Standard is meant to be a sleek set of well defined roles to act as a base, which then allows other sets to explore crazy and complex ideas.

• Council Elder - The council Elder is a complicated role, perhaps too complicated for Standard. She also steps on the toes of the Judge. She'll find a new place to shine in another set.

• Cthulhu - This one breaks my heart, but feels needed. Cthulhu makes for some very funny moments, but doesn't add much to the game in terms of social deduction. I think that he will be much happier in another set, just not Standard.

• Cupid - Cupid doesn't add anything in terms of claim-ability to the game. Although he will likely return in another set.

• Death - Another role I bet you thought wouldn't be on this list! Death isn't getting completely nuked, rather the Elder Dragon is going to take on Death's abilities as he fits the Standard set's theming better.

• Ember Wolf - The Ember Wolf was only created to give the Werewolves a way to ignite. Why? This served no purpose and was just bloat.

• Ember Archer - Town has too many ways to eliminate targets, the need to rely more on voting. The Ember Archer was too easy to confirm has they could just ignite whoever they liked.

• Fallen Star - After 6 different reworks, I think it may be time to admit that the Fallen Star needs some time away to discover who he is and what he wants in life.

• Frost Wolf - Making everyone frail only takes away from the social deduction aspect of the game. Global warming has destroyed too much of the Frost Wolf's habitat for him to be around anymore.

• Herbalist - The herbalist does a lot, and provides Town with 2 things they don't need. Heals - we already have several roles that heal, and Poison, a mechanic that Town probably shouldn't have.

• Janitor - The Janitor didn't fit thematically, and didn't provide much to the game. An easy role to cut as I can't remember the last time I saw him used.

• Locksmith - The Locksmith was too similar to the Party Animal. With the changes to the horror he simply doesn't fit in. Time to lock him up.

• Old Man - This one you may be surprised by as he was used a lot in games. Not only does the Old Man not fit thematically, but his shotgun blast automatically confirms his role. He'll make a return somewhere else, but standard is no longer his home.

• Pack Wolf - The copy of the peasant, a basic role with an incredibly basic ability that doesn't add anything of value to the game.

• Peasant - I feel like this one doesn't need much explaining. Everyone who got the peasant was disappointed to play it, and it didn't add anything of value. He will reappear in a "Werewolf Classic" set in the future, but for now he's going back to the mines.

• Poison Drake - I swear everyone kind of just forgets this role exists. We've got enough dragons, the Poison Drake can go back to eternal slumber.

• Psychopath - The Psychopath and Guardian Angel are too similar to exist in the same set. Psychopath will fit in much better in the Dark set anyways!

• Serial Killer - An incredibly interesting role, but he struggles to fit into a world that Cannibal exists in. He'll find a new home in the Dark set.

• Treant - A role that is very cool thematically, but has always lacked any real identity in terms of mechanics. The Treant will find a new home in another set.

• Traveller - The Traveller travelled a bit far, and is now trying to find his way back.

• Skeletal Wolf - The Skeletal Wolf has always struggled to be relevant as the Werewolves having access to any kind of frailty is kind of nuts. o7 bony guy.

• Werewolf Herbalist - Similar to the removal of the Herbalist, the Werewolves simply do not need a way to Heal - a very "Town" mechanic, or Poison - giving them too much killing power.

• Zombie - The Zombie is the role Evil most likely of making a return to the Standard set, stay tuned!

A new not so friendly face appears!

• Intimidate is now passive, and now triggers when another Werewolf dies.

• Maximum mana increased from 90 to 120.

• Polymorph mana cost increased from 60 to 90.

• Obliterate mana cost increased from 90 to 120.

• Obliterate is now guaranteed.

• Now only Haemorrhages 1 player instead of 2.

• Maximum Blood Charges reduce from 3 to 1.

• Blood Charges gain reduced from 2 to 1 each night.

• Corpse Explosion Blood cost reduced from 2 to 1.

• Transfuse now protects the Blood Mage instead of healing him.

• No longer has permanent defense.

• Now gains protection on nights that he successfully eats a player.

• Can no longer protect.

• No longer causes his targets to bleed if at least one is a Werewolf, now just learns if at least one is a Werewolf.

• No longer asks the moderator a question from a pre-selected list of questions.

• Now learns the types of abilities affecting another player. (protection, elimination, investigation, manipulation)

• Can no longer bribe players.

• Assumes the role of the Evil they are meeting with if the Evil is executed.

• No longer redirects from a "sender" to a "receiver"

• Now swaps the targets affecting two players.

• Now only wins if they die during the day.

• No longer transforms players into sheep when recruiting them.

• Now changes the players factions to Neutral when recruiting them.

• The cult now win when they outnumber other players.

• No longer passively heals.

• Now heals when he attacks a player.

• No longer has permanent defense.

• No longer converts to Lesser Evil if he survives an attack.

• No longer protects a player, attacking anyone who attacks them.

• Now incinerates a player on death.

• No longer causes all Dragons to meet at night.

• No longer attacks or protects depending on his target's faction.

• Now strikes a player with an unstoppable attack each night.

• Now gains divine protection the first time he is fated to die.

• Is no longer untargetable.

• Famine now attacks each of his neighbours if they are Town, instead of just attacking the two closest Town players.

• No longer has mana as a resource.

• Fireball no longer costs mana.

• Fireball is now a regular attack instead of an unstoppable attack.

• No longer makes a player frail each night.

• No longer learns a player's role, rather the Frost Drake asks if a player is a certain role and learns if they are correct or not.

• Is now classed as Manipulation instead of protection.

• No longer protects players, leaving them frail on the following night.

• No longer attacks.

• Now freezes a player solid, making them frail and miss all of their abilities during the night.

• No longer has permanent defense.

• Now classed as Manipulation instead of Elimination.

• Now reveals a player on death instead of attacking them.

• Now classed as Investigation instead of protection

• No longer protects a player each night.

• Now keeps watch over 2 players. If either are struck with an attack, the Guard dog will learn of two players. One is the attacker, and one is completely innocent.

• Now gains divine protection if executed.

• Now only chooses 1 player to protect.

• Now shares the fate of the player they are protecting.

• Now wins if the player they vowed to protect survives until the end of the game, regardless of who wins.

• Is no longer permanently exposed.

• Now exposes herself when she uses her ability.

• Now starts with 20 mana instead of 0.

• Mana gained per night reduced from 40 to 20.

• No longer makes a player untargetable.

• Now hexes a player each night.

• Limited to being able to hex each player once per game.

• Execute now has 1 charge.

• No longer attacks a player that voted to execute him.

• Unstoppable attack is now guaranteed.

• Is no longer permanently exposed.

• Now perishes if he decrees a player as the wrong role.

• Can now only expose a player once per game.

• Divine protection no longer has charges, but can only be given to each player once per game.

• Is now classed as Manipulation instead of Investigation.

• Now gives all players the chance to share final words whilst she is alive.

• Now compares players factions instead of capabilities. (Throwback!)

• No longer has an ultimate, allowing her to meet with who targets her.

• Amount of players protected reduced from 2 to 1.

• No longer makes herself frail when protecting.

• Now also hexes the player she protects.

• Can now only steal pants from his Neighbours.

• Now learns how many capabilities his neighbours share, instead of learning which capabilities they share.

• Royal invitation only invites a player to the Royal court for the night, instead of allowing them to permanently join the Royals.

• Royal invitation no longer fails on players that aren't town.

• No longer bleeds a player each night.

• Now personally escorts a player, making their targets guaranteed and leaving anyone who targets them bleeding.

• No longer chooses a capability, and 3 players, then learning how many of them are capable of their chosen capability.

• Now learns how many of her targets are capable of elimination.

• No longer has an ultimate allowing her to redirect all Werewolf attacks to herself.

• Now protects 2 players each night.

• Now perishes after 2 successful protections.

• No longer perishes if no one is executed on the first day.

• No longer transforms if they survive day 1.

• Now causes Werewolf attacks to be unstoppable on nights following days with a successful execution.

• Is now classed as Manipulation instead of protection.

• No longer protects her targets.

• No longer has permanent defense and is no longer permanently exposed.

• No longer redirects all abilities from a player to himself.

• Now redirects attacks from 3 players to himself each night.

• Is now protected from all attacks redirected to him, but frail to attacks directly on him.

• No longer has permanent defense.

• No longer has permanent defense.

• No longer assimilates 3 players on the first night.

• No longer attacks players.

• Now assimilates 1 player each night, and protects them on the night that they are assimilated.

• Assimilation is now guaranteed.

• Now has a resource, Anguish.

• Gains 1 Anguish per night, up to a maximum of 1.

• Torment has been split into 2 abilities, Pain and Pleasure.

• Pain costs 1 Anguish and causes a player to miss.

• Pleasure costs 1 Anguish and enhances a player.

• Both Pain and Pleasure can only be used on each player once per game.

• Now also passively causes roles not to be revealed on death.

• No longer heals himself.

• No longer bleeds himself when bleeding a player.

• No longer converts to a Werewolf if they survive an accusation.

• Is now always protected from Werewolf attacks, and converts to a Werewolf if attacked by the Werewolves.

• No longer learns the role of a player during the night.

• Now learns all of the information learned by Town players each night.

• No longer learns when they are investigated.

• Now classed as Elimination instead of Manipulation.

• No longer transforms if they survive an accusation.

• Now provides with an additional attack on the night after your death.

I bet you thought you'd never see this change! Most social deduction games (especially ones with powerful abilities and voice chat) stick to a smaller player count for a lot of reasons. A 16 player lobby is too chaotic, and makes games last too long. I've always said that 12 is the best amount of players to play with, and now it's the standard!

• Werewolf player count changed from 16 to 12.

This is a huge change behind the scenes, and has meant having to rebuild steam integration from scratch, so expect some bugs!

• Upgraded from Unreal Engine 5.3 to Unreal Engine 5.8

• Upgraded the render pipeline to render with increased clarity.

• Adjusted to 12 houses.

• Slightly reduced the size of the main play area.

• Added ground clutter and plans to the main play area.

• Added more "stuff" to the market, making it feel slightly more lived in.

• Restricted access to the spin the bottle area to ghosts only.

• Adjusted to 12 houses.

• Heavily reworked the size of the main play area, making it much smaller.

• Adjusted both sides of the map to be "closer" to match the now smaller main play area.

• Restricted access to the area across the water to ghosts only.

The Egypt map is getting a rework to make it more distinct from the map it was based on, Kingsreach.

• Temporarily removed.

Most games should be significantly shorter now because of the game maxing out at 12 players, which allows for days and nights to be slightly longer.

• Day Discussion extended by 2 seconds per alive player.

• Night Action phase extended by 30 seconds.

Standard

The judge is too easy to ignore by simply adding him to the list of accused players each day. This change forces the Town to interact with him in a meaningful way.

• Can no longer be accused or converted.

• Executions made by the Judge are now unstoppable.

• Player profile, character customization, and saved character sets save files are no longer encrypted. The encryption was to prevent people from manually editing save files to change their titles or customization to assets that they did not own.

• A new system that checks ownership of items when save files are loaded has been implemented as a replacement.

• An unfortunate side effect of this is that your current save files are now a fumbled mess. Your selected titles and profile colour will be reset when you open the game.

• I have made a temporary change to character customization and saved sets to read encrypted files but to then save them as unencrypted. Important: Please change your character in some way, and save a new set. This will fix and future-proof your save files

• Added "Appear" as a keyword. Appear is used by quite a lot of roles already, it's now searchable and consistent.

• Added "Guarantee" as a keyword. This one is more niche, but is now defined as "Prevent any manipulations from affecting an ability or target."

• You can no longer see Private lobbies.

• You can now only see Friends lobbies if you are friends with the lobby host.

• One of the squirrels has moved across the water and has moved in to a tree near the cave. Please understand that they both still love you very much, but they have decided they can no longer live in the same oak tree. They will now be occupying separate sides of the map. This is a mutual decision and has nothing to do with how many times you chased them.

• Implemented a system that allows for day-active abilities to display to specific players instead of all players.

• Upgraded the role resource system to allow for resource gain growth, allowing for the amount of resources gained per night to increase as the game progresses.

• Titles and colours earned through achievements are no longer received as items on steam. The game now evaluates your achievements when deciding which titles and colours you have instead. *Any titles or colours earned before this will be removed from your inventory the next time you open the game

Dark Set

Removed

Slight Change

• Now assumes their target's role AND faction. (I'm still mad about this Timmy)

Rework

• Ability replace with the ability of the Assassin.

• Fixed a bug causing hosts to not be able to open a house's control panel by clicking 'use' on their role card.

• Fixed a bug causing player notes to appear on top of the host role selection screen, blocking several buttons.

• Fixed the Bard's "Spectacle" achievement being impossible to get after the bard rework.

• Fixed a bug causing you to not receive the "Werewolf Attack" Achievement for killing a player with the Werewolf attack.

• Added a music player to all houses, allowing you to listen to music during the night.

• The currently music selection is very small, as it is mostly there for testing. Features and music selection will be expanded with community created tracks in the future <3.

• Added squirrels!

• Added deer!

• Added green hair <3

• Aligned house exit locations so that you are facing your podium when exiting your house.

• Opened a door upstairs leading to a new room and balcony.

• New keyword - Enhance, allowing a player to use an ability an additional time during the night.

• Painted the study red!

• Added some plants upstairs and to the entrance.

• Added a rock.

• Opened up a new room on the ground floor.

• Adjusted the basement parkour to be slightly easier.

• Added a reward for finishing the basement parkour!

• Added a spin the bottle mini-game.

• Your character now occludes other player's nametags.

• Ghosts now occlude other player's nametags.

• Improved the way that nametags animate when a player is talking.

• Slightly reduced sprint speed.

• Aligned the footstep timer to match the speed at which you walk/run.

• Adjusted the run animation to be less bouncy.

• Adjusted the mouth animation to be more bouncy!

• Adjusted the aim offset, causing characters to lean slightly more when looking up and down.

• The ghost overlay on your character now disables when previewing items in the store.

• Fixed the Elder Dragon's grammar. (Thanks Mango <3)

• Fixed the "Flip a Coin" feature sometimes only showing up for the player that used it.

• Fixed the Clairvoyant's wording after being threatened with a metal pipe. (Thanks Toki)

• Fixed a bug causing your mouth to not animate when talking on your local client.

• Removed the camera lag on the third person camera.

• Reverted the third person field of view back to it's original value.

Standard

New

This change aims to add counterplay and visibility to the Alpha Wolf. Currently there is no way to know that a player's faction may have changed until the Alpha Wolf dies, which is often too late.

• Conversion now replaces the Werewolf attack instead of being a separate targeted ability.

• Conversion no longer requires the player to be Town.

The bard archetype is a core part of so many fantasy worlds, but for us they are a rarely used hyper-specific mess of a role. This new bard simplifies their abilities so that they can become a staple Town Manipulation role. This initial rework is only the start, as there may be space in the future for the bard to give charges to abilities or resources.

• Ultimate removed.

• Is now permanently frail.

• Now enhances a player each night.

• Players cannot be enhanced on consecutive nights.

Rework

• Now speeds up time for a single player during discussion, instead of the entire Town.

• Can now speed up time every day.

• Speeding up time no longer causes the Chronomancer to perish.

Rework

• Bribe now has 1 charge.

• Bribe no longer redirects abilities used to the Evil you are meeting with.

• Bribe now offers a player the choice to convert a player to Lesser Evil if they accept.

Rework

• Now has permanent defense.

• Now converts to a Lesser Evil if attacked.

• No longer ignites players.

• Now attacks any players that attack the player he is protecting.

Removed from the game.

Adjusted

• Now redirects all abilities, instead of just attacks.

Rework

• Torment no longer redirects abilities used by a player onto the Tormentor.

• If Torment is used on a Town player, it now causes that player's night actions to miss.

• If Torment is used on a player that is not Town, it enhances them for the night.

Rework

• No longer has health as a resource.

• Now selects 3 players to be part of the blob at the start of the game, instead of adding players slowly each night.

• Now attacks a player each night.

• Added Hedges to the fences at spawn to obscure vision and encourage eavesdropping.

• Added some details to the ceilings of the side rooms.

• Fixed a lighting issue causing some role cards to appear darker than others.

• Added a texture to the coloured walls in the castle.

• Painted the kitchen purple!

• Painted the bedroom green!

• Adjusted voice chat so that voices carry for further.

• Adjusted nametags so that it is more obvious when other players are speaking.

• Changed your audio listening point to always be where your character's head is, instead of where your camera is.

• Fixed a bug causing the resolution scale to become lower than intended when adjusting overall scalability option.