Cutthroat

I first noticed this game because it was very similar to a gamejam game me and a couple of friends made for GGJ 2014. If you're interested in it, it's called "Manhattan". I'm not ashamed to say, this game is a lot better than the game we made. This game is what I would call a hidden crowd game. Basically, there is a crowd of non-player characters that look identical to the player characters, and it is the player's task to conduct an objective without being noticed by other players. This is primarily accomplished through careful movement and crowd navigation, in order to decieve opponents into thinking that you are an NPC. In this particular game, the objective is to kill your opponents. This is done through moving up to the suspected player and attacking (by pressing X). This instantly kills them and awards you with one point. This dynamic is made complicated by the different player classes available. At the beginning of each round, players anonymously choose a class, which comes w...

Disclosure of Potential Bias: I know the developers (I grew up two houses down from one of them!) and have seen the game (and played it) since its earliest iteration (all the way back to when the devs would throw a Codefest in the dorms at our uni and we would all hang out: playing games, coding stuff, plus eating hot pockets, chips, and walmart bakery cookies; ah, college life). /waves at Ocumens developers TLDR: Cutthroat has a low barrier to entry (controls are easy), but has a high skill cap (git gud at pattern recognition) and even a metagame (better track the amount of times a warrior Riots, or if a mage has Soul-Swapped yet, and many more things) because the game forces you to be stealthy to be successful. You can play this game with your parents (or, if you're a parent, with your younger kids and your partner) and everyone can have fun within just a few rounds (you learn the controls very quickly). I don't do to well with most party games (local multiplayer pvp games), but I...