Ritual Night Reviews

Ritual Night is a captivating blend of mystery, horror, and puzzle-solving, set in a beautifully atmospheric, gothic world. The game excels in storytelling, drawing players into a dark narrative filled with ancient rituals and morally complex choices.

This is a fun diversion that is surprisingly polished and with a few tweaks that extend the genre and keep everyone engaged through the full playtime. If I had one criticism from our first session it would be a translation that is a tiny bit rough around the edges, the game suffers from some vaguely worded rules that "firm up" with a little play time. I look forward to seeing this title develop, it is worthy of attention if you are a fan of the genre. Oh, and the Cutethulhus are cute.

RItual Night is one of the most inventive and well thought out of the Among Us clones (at least, that I've looked at). It's definitely "a game like that one" but what it does different does a lot to really strengthen the play experience. Notably: Rather than just going until a body is found or someone calls a meeting, the game goes in rounds with everyone meeting up at the conclusion of a round. All tasks grant items that contribute to a ritual attempted at the meetup at the end of a round. The goal isn't to complete tasks just to complete tasks, but to get the right items to successfully complete the ritual. Death is neither permanent nor overly debilitating. Players can resurrect each other, with death just preventing you from completing tasks. (And possibly locking you out of the meet up -- but only for that round!) There's a host of NPC monsters milling about that make it much harder to spot a disguised impostor (humans in this game). This puts the focus on impostors (humans) sabotaging and stealing from other players, rather than just killing them. All this adds up to a game where the social aspect is much more interwoven with the gameplay -- you need to communicate to find which tasks give the right items! -- rather than having each aspect be kind of separated. Beyond that, this is a game where things stay competitive even with smaller groups. Games of 6+ players may be optimal, but I've played 3 monster/2 human games and had a good time. That's a major step up from Among Us proper, which really needs 6 players at a minimum but ideally involves a crowd of 8 or 10. Minor complaints: Voice chat in meetings is a little soft. Voice chat in the lobby should probably not be proximity based.

Great option for a game night. The lack of player deaths keeps a lot of discord in the group as people can talk and discuss throughout the game. Game length is good, easy to keep playing as theres no downtime. The art style and mini-games also have a lot of charm. The radio's voice affect is also very fun, especially with a radio being accessible while players are in jail.

Game is really fun,especially since you don't spend a lot of time downed if you're KO'd. My favorite part is the cute little sounds the monsters make and the soundtrack. I want to put them in my pocket

Very fun social deception game. Enjoy with friends or join a lobby. Either way it's a great time. Love the mini games on the barrels. Would definitely recommend.

I ended up liking this more than among us! If you get voted out in the beginning, you just get put in jail and people will come break you out LMAO and the first time I was a human, I lied my way out of it (even though I got caught haha) and it felt SO good LOL The stress was crazy trying not to get caught but so worth it haha I ended up playing for longer than I meant to by about 3 hours! Definitely recommend bringing your friends along to play :) Oh, special shout out to the artist(s) and sound effects people! It was so cute and funny. I loved discovering little new things. :)

Game is surprisingly polished, It has bit of humor and I really like art style. For me it is a bit of shame that so polished game just goes unnoticed. It feels like really fun game to play with friends, but it feels like 4 players in a game is bit too low. If you have group of friends and it is on sale then don't hesitate, just try it out. It's basically a steal at this point.

Now this is a real treat for those of us who love a good social-deduction, mafia-esque experience. And the key thing is there are no deaths until the very end. We have two key additions to the classic formula - the need to bring together items to craft a win as the innocents, along with all the fangled ways you could think of to sabotage the item collection. And then, we have a feature to jail people who we want to get out of our way - be in innocent, or the guilty. A really fun way to keep the interrogations going, or to hear all the sob stories on the map's loudspeakers, as opposed to the defaulted proximity voice chat enabled. It's made by a small fledgling studio and the comic sans and textures can either be an endearing easter egg to you, or some corners cut. But I fully intend this to be an evening driver for socials for a long while.

Dead game. I looked at the steam numbers and thought "Hm, maybe people are mainly playing on phones/whatever" but no. Apperently, literally no one plays this game. Did not see a single person online. Don't buy.