Demon Bluff is a single-player spin on social deduction games like Werewolf and Mafia, and was one of the most popular demos in the most recent Steam Next Fest. It comes in a familiar roguelike-deckbuilder shaped package, and promises all the lies and scheming of classic multiplayer experiences.
This spooky village is filled with people performing all sorts of different roles and tasks, from baker to hunter to witch, and hiding amongst them are demons masquerading as just another innocent villager. If you've played any of the many variants of the social game Werewolf in your day, wolves hiding among the sheep and striking under cover of night, all of this will sound familiar. Usually in social deduction games each player is assigned one role (you might be a villager, or might secretly be a werewolf who needs to lie and stay hidden) but this single-player videogame adaptation works a bit differently.
Rather than relying mostly on social cues and behavior like the tabletop equivalents, Demon Bluff operates with a bit more logic and deduction: each character in the village will feed you information, things like "one of my two neighbors is evil" or some might even have abilities that let you pick specific cards you want information on. Using this drip feed of facts and peeling back the layers, you're eventually aiming to uncover and kill every demon who's infiltrated your little town. The catch, of course, is that some of these "facts" are lies uttered by those very same demons...
The free demo for Demon Bluff got a lot of attention during Steam's June Next Fest, aided by the backing of some popular streaming/YouTube personalities who are involved with publishing the game. You can try it for free on Steam now or wishlist the game to get notified about updates to its 2026 release window.
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