Liars Village

Liars Village is a multiplayer social survival game on an island where players gather resources, earn money and work toward their team’s objective. At the start of each game, every player receives a random job, role and house keys. Roles belong to one of two sides: Innocents investigate the Criminals, complete missions and try to escape, while Criminals discreetly eliminate the Innocents.

Successful missions earn mission points for Innocents and help Criminals validate Criminal levels, which unlock resources and benefits. When the Innocents collectively reach 100 mission points, the Rescuer begins building a boat that lets them leave the island. Players also complete job tasks during working hours to earn money, which they can spend on food, weapons and other items.

Roles and objectives

As an Innocent, you investigate suspected Criminals and complete missions while avoiding them. As a Criminal, you conceal your identity and eliminate Innocents; your job can serve as a cover, and you can choose to reveal it or pretend to have a different one.

Players can host games for up to 12 people and configure them with different options and game modes. Games are listed by language, and Village Code lets players quickly join friends. Each game played earns experience toward player levels, while profiles record game information and statistics.

Jobs and skills

Players are assigned jobs at random, with more than ten jobs available. Each job has a sequence of tasks that earns money, and working hours are set each day at midnight. Jobs can help players pursue their role’s objective, support their team or provide a cover story.

The available jobs include:

• Police officer: investigate, analyze fingerprints, check and handcuff players, and imprison them. A bulletproof vest provides resistance to damage.
• Journalist: broadcast live reports on televisions, radios and tablets, send flash news and forecast a player’s job.
• Vigil and prison guard: patrol and monitor players, check them, and use surveillance cameras at the prison, supermarket and police station. Their energy decreases more slowly.
• Locksmith: repair broken locks and gain a bonus when picking or breaking them.
• Lumberjack: cut trees for wood to sell or use in crafting, with one extra unit per harvest and slower endurance loss.
• Hunter: hunt animals for meat to cook or sell; hunger and endurance decrease more slowly.
• Electrician: repair sabotaged meters and pylons or replace badly damaged meters. An application shows a house’s exact electricity use, which can reveal where its occupants are because their tablets charge indoors.
• Hacker: intercept messages, impersonate players, simulate notifications, add a vote to a mayoral candidate or unlock a prison cell.
• Scientist: craft drugs, heal injured players and learn details about dead players, including approximate time of death, damage type and weapon used.
• Miner: collect metal from rocks to sell or use in crafting, with one extra unit per harvest and slower endurance loss.

The jobs also create opportunities for Criminals to deceive others. For example, a Criminal journalist can spread false information, a Criminal police officer can misreport fingerprint results, and a Criminal scientist can hide evidence from a body examination. Criminal hunters can disguise player kills as animal attacks, while Criminal electricians can sabotage power and use electricity readings to locate people in a house.

You can unlock skills during a game to save time, stay discreet or gain other advantages. Skill points come from supermarket purchases and sales, completing job shifts and missions, killing aggressive animals, fulfilling needs, eliminating a player by vote at a meeting, and being elected mayor. The rewards are 1 point per supermarket transaction (once per minute), 5 per completed job shift, 2, 4 or 6 for easy, normal or hard missions, 2 for killing an aggressive animal, 1 for bringing a need to 100%, 1 for eliminating a player by vote, and 5 for election as mayor.

The island

The interactive island has four habitable houses, a police station, a prison, a supermarket and a seaport, as well as rocks, trees and other elements. You can lock house and garage doors, or pick or break locks. House furniture and equipment let you meet your energy, bladder and hunger needs, cook, watch television and craft items; you can also use beds, chairs and toilets. Doorbells alert residents to visitors, and house chests provide storage.

The supermarket sells resources while supplies last and also buys them from players, replenishing its stock with items such as lumberjack-sold wood. Players can trade with each other and set prices for scarce resources, so managing money matters when buying equipment, meeting basic needs and gathering mission supplies. Supermarket guards can watch live island camera feeds and recordings from different times of day.

At the police station, players elect a mayor, and candidates can give speeches. Police officers can use the station’s lockers and equipment, and their tablets provide fingerprint analysis results and information about players’ homes. A mayor can use double votes in emergency meetings, access the police station, supermarket and prison with their keys, see the prison schedule and send flash news. The mayor is elected by players on day 2; a tie is settled randomly among the leading candidates, while no votes result in a random choice from all players. If the mayor is killed or imprisoned, another is chosen at random. Players can also become mayor by unlocking skills or reaching a high Criminal level, and an elected mayor gains 5 skill points.

Police officers can imprison players, and emergency meetings can send the player with the most votes to jail. Prisoners follow a daily schedule with walks and meals during which cell doors open. They can also look for tools in the prison to hook the entrance doors and escape. Hackers can unlock a cell as well.

At the seaport, you can speak with the Rescuer to receive mission rewards, fish for different kinds of fish and board the rescue boat once the Innocents have earned 100 mission points. The island also has a laboratory where scientists make drugs that temporarily boost energy, endurance or hunger, and use medical kits to treat damage. In the hunting area, you can hunt passive, semi-aggressive and aggressive animals for meat to cook or sell.

Communication and equipment

Players use written and proximity voice chat while a game is in progress. Radios let them communicate on a chosen frequency; Criminals receive a random shared frequency at the start of the game so they can identify their allies. Journalists can broadcast to in-game televisions, radios and tablets.

Each player receives a tablet with apps for messages, the island’s planned events and a detailed health status. Some apps are job-specific. In house garages, workbenches let players craft items from a list of available recipes.

The mayor’s election

Players elect a mayor on day 2. In a tie, one of the players with the most votes is chosen at random; if nobody votes, the mayor is selected randomly from all players. A new mayor is selected at random if the incumbent is killed or imprisoned.

The mayor can cast a double vote in emergency meetings, use keys to the police station, supermarket and prison, check the prison’s current schedule and send flash news. Being elected also awards 5 skill points.