It’s been nearly a decade since designer Chris Hecker announced the subterfuge multiplayer game SpyParty, and it’s been even longer since he first started working on it. In just a week, short of a meteor strike or other cataclysm, SpyParty will finally hit Steam.
Well, technically the April 12 Steam release of SpyParty will be “early access,” but given that it’s 2018 and all video games are in early access, this is close enough to a release for me. On April 12, you’ll be able to buy the game on Steam for money. Here’s the trailer:
In case you’ve missed the past ten years of previews and demos, SpyParty is a one-vs-one game of psychological warfare where one person plays a spy at a party and the second person plays a sniper. The spy must perform a set of tasks—like giving a secret message to a double agent—while blending in with the AI-controlled fellow partygoers.
The sniper, who has a gun and a single bullet, must figure out the identity of the spy and take a shot before time runs out.
Kotaku’s Kirk Hamilton and I played the game at the Game Developers Conference last month, and while it seems best enjoyed by two friends in the same room, we had a very good time. It’s a simple, elegant game that’s easy to pick up and difficult to master.
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5 responses to “After Ten Years, SpyParty Will Finally Be On Steam Next Week”
I really liked the idea when i heard about it a decade ago, but since then warioware on the wii u has already effectively beaten them to the punch.
That’s a great minigame btw.
I thought this game had come and gone, apparently not!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/329070/SpyParty/
10 years in dev and still goes on early access…
Bought and played this last night.
It was a lot of fun and can’t wait to play it again tonight.
playing the beginner mode, it all hinges on the statue swap, its by far the hardest mission to accomplish.
as for the sniper, man without that statue swap, it’s kinda really hard to see anything. very tense.
fun stuff.