Get The Purge Dilemma for PC

The Purge Dilemma is a social deduction game about a Committee whose members try to identify dissidents while avoiding the purges of a paranoid dictator known as the Tyrant. Players take on different roles, observe one another and use investigation, deception and votes to influence the Committee’s decisions.

The Committee

Each Committee member can propose a Commissariat and choose who joins it. The members then vote for or against the proposal. Every rejected Commissariat increases instability; if instability reaches its peak, the dissidents win and the loyalists lose.

Players chosen for a Commissariat receive tasks from the Commissar. Completing those tasks keeps the Tyrant’s paranoia at bay and earns special permits. Commissariat members can also sabotage their assigned tasks, raising the Tyrant’s paranoia, but sabotage is risky and can draw attention to the saboteur.

The Tyrant’s paranoia

As the Tyrant, you watch the players in each Commissariat, record information in a notebook and try to identify the dissidents at the Committee table. You can give Committee members special permits to help uncover dissidents, but giving one to a traitor is a risk. When your paranoia reaches its limit, you must choose victims for a purge; leaving a dissident alive costs you the game.

Prove your loyalty

As a Committee member, you try to convince the others that you are innocent so they will choose you for a Commissariat. Loyalists can use permits given by the Tyrant to gather more information about other members. Dissidents must present a false case for their innocence while secretly sabotaging Commissariat tasks to drive up the Tyrant’s paranoia.