Guilty as Sock! Steam Charts & Stats

I enjoy the premise but totally agree with what most people are saying. The cards system is restrictive and non-sensical. The real potential comes out if you have good cards and are able to create an absurd narrative. However the cards generally favour the prosecutor. In my opinion, remove the cards and have people create their own evidence as they go along. That would mean unlimited options and a constant one-upping of each other. This will make the game timeless and fully adapt to the humour of the group rather than cards the devs thought were funny.

[h2]About The Game[/h2] Guilty As Sock is a mock trial improv game for 3-9 of your favored [strike]enemies[/strike] friends where you get the power to put anyone and anything on trial for any reason you can invent. Depending on the number of players and how serious you want to play, cases can take anywhere between 5 and 50 minutes to complete. I should note here at the beginning that this game isn't like most other games you'll find on Steam - it's more of an improv comedy tool than it is a "game" with winners and losers. Because of that, you need to approach it slightly differently and be ready to be challenged in a few areas. When played well, this is a game where everyone wins, because no one will be able to breathe over all of the laughter. When played poorly, this game will always fall flat and feel like the worst experience ever. You need to bring your A game to something like this for it to work - commit to the bit. [h2]Positives[/h2] [list] [*][b]Its Phoenix Wright: Unhinged[/b] - And that's great. [*][b]Goes beyond basic roles[/b] - While the Judge, Lawyers, and Jury are great roles, they're also the default for a game like this. The Witness, Bailiff, and Reporter roles really help level this game up into something unique. This is especially true for the Reporter, which looks like a throwaway role at first until you realize it's the only role with the ability to interrupt the game with a unique interstitial, line of text, and poorly drawn image. Using that at the right time can truly elevate a scene into something that leaves everyone wheezing or screaming. [*][b]Understands improv requires body language and movement[/b] - The emotes, voice chat, camera motion, and visual tools all lend themselves well to enhancing the scene. While beginning players may rely on reactions from the emote wheel, advanced players can weave emotes pretty easily into their speeches using hotkeys. [*][b]Customized Cards[/b] - Surprised to see this so early, but very appreciative of it. While the default evidence cards are fun, customized evidence is way better because it provides a continually changing pool of topics and toss-ups that keep scenes fresh. [*][b]Variety of cosmetic slots & scenes[/b] - There are a number of areas of the puppet that can be customized and there is already a fair number of options, but this will continue to get better as things roll forward, and there's already a number of fun options to use. Even smaller options, like the ability to choose a face/icon for the defendant, adds to the unexpected. [/list] [h2]Negatives (which may change)[/h2] [list] [*][b]Moderate to high improv difficulty[/b] - GaS is a improv game that doesn't have the time to teach you improv, unfortunately. As someone who's done improv for 20 years, it's a skill you learn and advance over time and you will probably suck at it the first time you try. If you're not comfortable making stuff up on the fly, being silly in front of friends, or going all in, then you will have a hard time with this game. Improv requires you to lean in to a scene and this game is no different. [*][b]Requires large party[/b] - At base, you'll need at least 3-4 friends to get this game to operate. The more the better, as folks can rotate roles and try new things that honestly add a lot of fun to the game. [*][b]No formal rules or format[/b] - I'm putting this in the negatives because I know it's driving other people's negative reviews, but this is honestly a hard call. As someone with a background in improv, I love that Guilty As Sock lets me run the show and doesn't force me into a pre-determined format or time limits. That lets me react and change up my formatting as the judge/showrunner on the fly to follow the fun, which is AWESOME. However, for other people, having no rules is horrifying and difficult to overcome, because it leaves a lot of things very vague. Having a newbie friendly trial mode and the option with a "no rules mode" trial could be a potential solution here. That way new players aren't left in the dark while advanced players still have open reign to do as they please. [*][b]Requires basic legal knowledge[/b] - You don't have to pass a Bar exam, but you should know the general flow of a trial and have a few episodes of Law & Order in your head. Otherwise, some of the game's tools can get lost, like the judge's ability to discard evidence after an objection or calling witnesses and conducting a cross-examination. [*][b]Statistics & Achievements are just hard for this[/b] - While the dev team is clearly trying to make this work, it's just not an easy process. While some of the post-trial stats are funny, a lot of them just don't land because they rely on things like muting, or being rowdy, or vague actions folks forgot about. They're statistics without a lot of true meaning to the case or comedy. Achievements have a tendency to fall into the same trap, though some of these are more successful than others. While an achievement to bonk someone 250 times is fine, an achievement for prosecuting or defending an entire case without evidence cards is actually pretty cool, fun, and difficult to pull of if your group is playing normally. But, these systems seem to have a tendency to miss more than they have a tendency to hit. [/list]

Game is alright. Did I projectile vomit during a court session? I sure did, but that is a part of the experience playing this game. 4.5/5 stars.

Would probably be a good game with friends, but with randoms, it's either extremely edgy or just down right cringe. ps: keep giving me those award points, salty bois :)

It's a good game, the courtrooms are awesome, but the one thing that is terrible, is the people that play it. This is most definitely a game to play with your friends and not in a public lobby.

Had a lot of fun playing this with friends; it's basically 30 minutes of crazy chaotic improv. It's solid for the most part, although I feel like it could benefit from a bit of fine tuning here and there. Here are a few things I'd like to see added/improved; - More cards in the default pack -- this is easily fixed by making your own cards, but it would be fun if there were a lot more options in the base game. It got repetitive after like 3 games. - Tweak the bailiff -- it's a neat concept but not very fun at the moment. It could be interesting if, let's say, they could weight in more on the court or bring up laws that twist the evidence. Right now whoever is in this role kind of ends up twiddling their thumbs a bit, cause silencing people can only be fun for so long.. - Option of two witnesses -- this role ends up being a lot of fun, and could be interesting having two people with this role, maybe upping the number of witnesses from 1 to 2 per side (for a total of 4). - Themed cards & UI based on location -- could be interesting to have card packs based around the different courtrooms, or have the outfits + UI change. Example, in the medieval-esque court room, the journalist would have a crier outfit and a more 'scroll' themed UI, and the judge could be a king. - Allow defendant to be a player and act as a witness -- the trailer led me to believe this was the case, and I was surprised when it was instead an NPC. Could be a fun extra role to fill, or let the witness role also be the defendant. - Make jury vote for verdict -- could be a toggle and even more fun with a larger jury party, but could be interesting to have the option to make the jury's votes count for more. Either they decide the verdict, or work a point system where 1 jury vote = 3 points and the judge = like 5 or whatever, so whoever gets the most points wins. Anyways, overall this is a very fun game and while it's missing a bit of substance for me, it's very good in its current state!!

The game is actually hilarious if u know how to improv. I've had a blast with it even though i've only played with 3 other people. The only downside that I would improve would be the evidence cards, I feel like it would be better if the evidence cards were blank and each person (prosecutor and defendant) got to fill them mid game as the trial goes on. Having pre established decks makes it weird because I could be getting accused of robbery for example, but all the pre established cards from the deck (default or changed by us) could have nothing to do with robbery making it hard to pull something off. It would be better if i could write the evidence as it comes to my mind mid game, this way, the game would be more dinamic and creative. imo. Other than that, awesome game idea. One more thing, let the judge give a sentence (death, years of sentence or even sending the guily to a mental hospital).

Held a trial for Horus Lupercal and almost ended with an innocent verdict. 10/10

first game i got in someone instantly claimed my client was secretly hitlers femboy and i had zero cards to play against it so i just forfeited and let the procacuter take my client to the court where they revealed all of the war crimes

-Joined a random game -Played as Jury -Watched as the Prosecutor and the Defense Fight -Decide to use the notepad to write a yaoi fanfic about them -Judge overheard me ask if the other jury wanted to hear my yaoi story -Suddenly I'm doing an ultra Dramatic reading about two yaoi lawyers -Everyone enjoyed it -Defense wins somehow 10/10 game im gonna be so real I miss those two i wrote fanfic about hope u guys are living it up