KILLER INN

waiting time is too long. way worst then DBD and other similar games.
worst purchase i ever done.

I'm probably playing this with friends in a few days, so we'll see if I change my tune then.

But wow, did this just feel like the world's worst battle royale, with hidden identity elements that just make the game worse. At least in solo queue.

So full disclosure, I hate battle royales. And being placed into a map and then expected to go scavenge for guns with RNG being the main deciding factor on if you get a good one does rub me the wrong way like a battle royale does - except it also takes a long time to earn the money or quest tokens to acquire a gun - or longer, if you're also picking up items to survive one-shot kill tools.

The clue system looks like it'd be fun, but it doesn't feel like games last long enough for the system to do what it seems to be intended to do most of the time. Maybe that's a skill issue, maybe it'll be different when I'm not solo queueing and thus can trust *someone* when I'm a lamb.

I might change this review, but first experiences? Not flattering.

game has such a good premise but unfortunately dropped the ball, bought the game hoping to get an amongus style game with clue elements but its literally just wolves rushing to get a gun the just gunning people down doing quests. none of the elements that make the game cool matter. that and the load times are horrendous. i have a ryzen 9 and 3070 and its like 3 minutes for the game to first boot up and about a minute to fully load into the game and then when i load in im only gettin 15 fps. theres also no one playing the game i waited in que for about 10 minutes before getting a game. im sure with ground rules custom games are fun but public lobbies are so chaotic that unless you become wolf youre gonna die in less then a minute of starting the game.

Extremely disappointed. I played both the closed and open betas and absolutely loved the game, but the Early Access (EA) launch is a massive letdown.

Aggressive Monetization: 90% of the characters are now paywalled. It costs $10 just to unlock one character the same price as the game itself. Everything feels designed to force a purchase or subject you to an immense, unreasonable grind. Maybe excusable for a f2p game, but not a payed game.

Matchmaking: Expect to wait 5+ minutes just for a casual match.

Performance: Loading times are horrendous, even on a high-end, "beefy" PC build.

It’s sad to see a game with so much potential ruined by greed and poor optimization.

get the game after reviews are tellling you the connection issues are solved, this company shouldnt have server issues considering they have games like final fantasy online

Game has very obvious flaws that are still around in early access.

Solos playing vs pre-made teams is unfair. Premade teams get "wolf" role way more often due to a role check bug I am guessing with each party member. (if one person gets it they all do as you cannot have a split team).
Solution (solos only mode)

Region lock is required as it is not fun to play vs asia region players lagging and teleporting around the map. Cannot communicate with these players either if they are on your team.

Most other issues will be resolved with time. The above two have to be resolved right away for this game to stop the negative feedback.

Played 3 matches not a single person spoke or did any social deduction. If you are looking for a social deduction game this is not it.

games like this i really wish it was region locked, Asians play on us servers more then people who know English. It's a deception game, what the point if no one communicates? : /

actually pretty fun mafia/werewolf kind of game. neither role seems super op. very worth for the price honestly.

Massive Server Lag, Server instability, Rubber-banding, invisible walls when going through door where two players block each other off and server rubber-bands you back, mainly a lot of server issues, even if playing in your region. Game overall seems fun in concept but the lag issues are insanely frustrating.

This Game Has Alot Of Potental But I CAN'T UNDERSTAND ANYONE Every Match I was in I Would get Killed for speaking ENGLISH cause everyone else spoke another language and before you all say about server i am set to US EAST AND YET STILL GETTING PEOPLE WHO I CANT UNDERSTAND, if i didnt have to worry about that then i would like the game but the game to me turns into 1 against all since i have to solve everything myself since i cant understand people and then if i try they murder me and most of the time THEIR LAMBS NOT WOLVES.

Fantastic social deduction game that actually has mechanics for finding the killers instead of just witnessing a killing and convincing everyone else. In addition you do not have to vote a killer out, once you know someone is guilty you gear up and hunt them down yourself. The entire game is built so well that the detective work can be done without any voice chat between players, though it is much more fun when everyone talks. Played every beta and can not get enough.

I've only played the tutorial, so my opinions may be horribly wrong.
However I am not very excited to play this based on the first impressions.

First off, the game's UI even in the menu is absolutely horrific, it's just so unnecessarily obtrusive and inconsistent.

The settings menu is a bit weird, especially with the part where "Post FX" is all categorized into one single setting.

The battlepass UI (why is there a battle pass in EA?) is even worse, it's literally just yellow and blue squares with a very bad res image slapped on top of it.

But let's forget about the menu and move to the game;

The first thing you are met with is an absolutely INCONSISTENT UI, and again it's just obtrusive and very oversized and "overdetailed"

I can see the style they were going for, but this execution is horrible.
The in-game HUD uses like 7 different fonts;
- The timer uses a different font
- The wolf/lamb count uses a different font
- Character names use a different font
- Player names use a different font
- Text in the 3d world also uses a different font

This game's UI is literally just all over the place and it's an eyesore to look at.
But UI aside, the gameplay element is not very "murder mystery"

The game displays the possible "wolves" whenever you find a clue, the more clues you find, the more the game tells you who the wolf is.

This is... dumb? The whole point of a murder mystery is to put your detective skills to the test, this game just straight up pushes you to the finish line.

The tutorial has you take 2 quests, at the end of the second quest, the game spirals into the "find clues and kill wolf" element.
The transition is very... "sudden", I can see that they were trying to make it chaotic, but you never complete the second quest.

For a tutorial, it's extremely barebones too.
Yeah, go here and take some quests and then complete them for gold
You might be able to connect the dots and come to a conclusio nthat gold can be used to buy and upgrade your things, but the game never tells you what gold is actually useful for, and if it's mandatory.

Oh yeah, you found a clue? Go get a gun from here and shoot the wolf, then go upgrade your gun and kill some flying ball called a "Guardian".
Afterwards, get a golden key and use it to unlock some gate that wants you to raise an anchor to escape the inn.

The entire tutorial is very fast and sudden, without actually elaborating on what is happening.
I wouldn't call this game bad, it's early access afterall.

This game definitely has potential, but in its current state I wouldn't really recommend it.

This game is REALLY fun with the right group of friends. Combination of Cluedo/Among Us. W Gaslighting

A battlepass at this stage in the game might just be the most scummiest, garbage business practice I have seen in the past 10 years of gaming.

Refunded.

FEELS LIKE COD THEN A MURDER MYSTERY

So the game have alot of balancing issues that they haven't fix from the beta for starters the guns in this game is too overpowered and you get 1 to 2 tapped by a revolver, everyone is just running around gunning people down as wolfs in seconds and you don't get nearly enough gold from quest to get what you want so you run around the map for 7 minutes trying too if you don't die within the first 2 minutes in the game from a boxer 1 hitting or some other insta death stuff.

Game is fun tho if u can ignore those few issues

Falls too far away from the Werewolf genre, Half the fun of TTT was people yelling at each other and trying to deduce who the traitors were, people would stay grouped up to some extent to stay safe from the killeers, In the games ive played theres been nobody with a mic, everyone just sprints around trying to do quests and murder each other. There have been multiple situations where I saw someone doing something shady, attempted to talk to them in which they dont respond. for 24 player games you need more than 300 people playing, and at that you need people who actually communicate otherwise its a mid shooter at best. with all that though I mean its 8 bucks and has good bones, not much to give it a shot I suppose.

The game is in early access. There are going to be problems. The devs are very responsive to the community. If you encounter problems there are channels for you as a player to interact with the devs. People complaining are overreacting and need patience.

That being said, the game is well designed. Killer inn has a very nice atmosphere. From the music to the graphic visuals and the map itself, the game feels alive. Killer inn’s gameplay is also good. There is a learning curve but once you are familiar with the games mechanics, it is a lot of fun. The game is a 3rd person shooter with murder mystery elements, allowing for a lot of skill expression. You can also play the game casually too. Overall I think killer inn is fun and has a lot of potential.

After several rounds, I do agree that while the base Werewolf concept is not new, this game does something interesting with it, in the form of clues. The items are interesting in their variety, but overall there are 2 main issues with the game to me:

1. The game is way too fast. Waaaaay too fast. And in a sense, way too dense, which is compounded by the speed. In 20 seconds after the game starts, you can have 8 items, people running wild, it's very hectic. And that chaos COULD add to an atmosphere of tension when you don't know who is who, the way these social deception games typically do, but it detracts from the experience. There isn't any time to think or assess, because you need to constantly be sprinting to get to the next quest or body or item. The speed and density of the game also detracts from the weight of anything happening in the game. Items don't have weight because there are SO many every few feet, tons of vendors every few feet etc. As an example, If the run speed was dramatically decreased, footsteps would be more of an interesting mechanic, to be counteracted by the cat charm, which would be a rare find or expensive to buy, instead of finding 3 in the first minute every game. Likewise, the 'safe' zones being so plentiful makes their weight less significant too. It is exceedingly rare to have that telltale moment in a social deception game where you wonder "Is this player suspicious? They match one of the clues, but maybe they're not" when the vast majority of the time, interactions boil down to someone who wasn't near you sprints around the corner by chance, and twitch blasts you with a shotgun without breaking their stride. There just is not enough time or forced player interaction to give player actions weight, and way too much speed for players to develop ANY level of identity with each other.

2. The optimization is just not there. Part of this is the nature of the system and the animations. Jumping feels clunky, the stark shift to slowly opening a door when you were just sprinting at 50 mph is clunky, the interactions between players feels clunky, aiming is clunky, when you shoot a drone and the marker appears a full second after firing to register the shot. And this is exacerbated by the second part which is servers defaulting to automatic, and causing queues of mixed players by location. Every single game I tried had multiple players hovering in place only to warp around, players to die before the shots actually registered, and for the whole match to just feel rushed and clunky.

I genuinely believe the game has merit. The concept of clues, and being able to identify killers via their lack of cleanup is a good mechanic; as is the collective goal to gather the keys and force combat to get them, masking sounds and movements; but I think the game has a lot of work and adjustment that needs to be made before it's a solid recommend.

This game definitely has potential, took me a little bit to understand as there is a learning curve but once you get the gist, it's super fun. There's bound to be issues in a EA game but the devs have been listening and communicating on discord which is promising to see. It's something different and I'm happy to be playing!

game is cool, concept is cool, its like a new take on TTT. the problem is regions arent restricted due to not many players so you get people warping all over the place. 400+ concurrent is fine if it was restricted I wouldnt mind waiting in queue for awhile or having a server browser system, Ive played many low pop. games in the past, but its just not fun when u get people with 200+ ping warping all over, even if u select US only servers you still get people from Japan that chose automatic, so half or more of the players warp everywhere making it not as enjoyable. If only it was f2p or had restricted servers with a server browser :(