Sinister Games

Sinister Games is a social deduction game set in BrainNet, a virtual space where people control virtual bodies with their minds. Eight players enter an abandoned asylum to complete tasks, uncover the game's secrets and identify two hackers hidden among them. The hackers secretly assassinate players, while the others must find and vote out the King hacker before everyone is killed.

The story of BrainNet

A hacker group called MindHackers takes control of players' brains in BrainNet and forces them to take part in Sinister Games. Players face dangerous levels, tasks and puzzles under time pressure; failure means their minds will be enslaved forever. MindHackers also create AI that impersonate players as moles, obstructing objectives and sometimes destroying players' consciousness.

Four people are drawn into the game for different reasons: a Chinese hacker, a Japanese scientist, an American military soldier and a Korean AI engineer. They cooperate to escape and discover that MindHackers intend to use BrainNet to control people worldwide. As they progress, each learns that their role is more complicated than it first appeared: the Chinese hacker is a MindHackers member whom the group controlled before targeting players' brains; the scientist discovers that BrainNet simulates the real world and is being used to test MindHackers' global control plan; the soldier is part of a military experiment testing MindHackers' weapon system; and the engineer is an AI created to stop players escaping. Once they realize they are MindHackers' experiments, the four rebel and combine their skills to destroy the plan.

Tasks and deduction

The system assigns tasks to players, and completing them earns rewards. You can spend rewards on protective items from a vending machine. An asylum terminal called the Core reveals the game's secrets: complete tasks or submit items to decipher its code and find the hackers.

One of the two hackers is the King, whom the players must identify and vote out to win. The hackers can secretly assassinate players; if they assassinate everyone, they win.