Viral Hunters

Viral Hunters is a social deduction game for two friends, set in a dangerous facility. You search for a way to survive and escape while trying to determine whether the other player is an ally or a hunter in disguise. The search begins cooperatively, but the discovery of the vaccines can turn the facility into a contest between humans and a monster.

Search the facility

You work together to search the facility for two vaccines and unlock key access. Only one is the Cure Vaccine, which can neutralize your innate lethal disease; the other may be a Mutation Vaccine or an ineffective placebo. Vaccine tags scattered around the map can be secretly changed by any player, making it harder to identify what each vaccine contains.

Inject and escape

Once the two vaccines are put into the injectors, two players are injected simultaneously. Whoever receives the Mutation Vaccine transforms into a powerful monster and must hunt down every human. Players injected with the Cure Vaccine can go directly to the extraction point, while those given the placebo must evade the Mutant, find the only newly spawned Cure Vaccine on the map and escape with it.

The final confrontation

After the players’ identities are revealed, cooperation gives way to asymmetric combat. Humans use the terrain to outmaneuver the Mutant and complete their objectives; the Mutant uses its power and guile to stop anyone from leaving. The game uses one map, with different abilities and goals for the Mutant and the Survivors.

The match moves through cooperative searching, identity reveal and a deadly chase. Deception, reading expressions and improvised performances among friends are part of the social deduction, and the altered vaccine tags can cast doubt on every identification.