Verdictris — Courtroom Bluffing with Hidden Roles & Dice

A free noir social-deduction game · Play in your browser, on Android, or iOS

Verdictris is a free browser game of courtroom bluffing, hidden roles, dice-contested actions, and public trials. Study the city before you enter it: every player is dealt a secret role and alignment, takes actions across day and night cycles, and tries to swing public trials toward their faction. Play solo against AI opponents or compete against real people in synchronized multiplayer.

How to play — quick rules

Hidden roles & factions. You are secretly aligned with the Common Good, a Neutral agenda, or the Underworld. Your role decides your win condition, passive ability, and starting gear.
Day and night cycles. Each cycle you choose an action — investigate, protect, attack, or work the city — and many actions are resolved as dice contests rather than guaranteed outcomes.
Dice-contested actions. Outcomes (hit, miss, graze, prevented) are rolled, so attacks, defenses, and counter-fire all carry risk and reward.
Crime map, black market & case files. Explore districts and taverns for anonymous leads, bid in a sealed black-market auction for weapons and tools, and build forensic profiles of suspects.
Public trials. Nominate suspects, argue the case in courtroom chat, weigh the evidence, then vote to convict or acquit. Pleas can detain, lawyers can stay judgment, and a guilty verdict can execute.
Win by completing your faction's job — building trust and removing dangerous actors as Good, timing your pivots as Neutral, or sowing doubt and misdirection as the Underworld.

Roles & factions

Common Good seats usually win by building trust, preserving readable allies, and using trials to remove dangerous actors before the room loses control.

Neutral seats succeed by reading momentum and timing pivots. They often need leverage, patience, and a willingness to profit from overreactions on both sides.

Underworld seats press chaos, doubt, and misdirection. Their strongest turns come from making a bad vote, a weak roll, or a false lead snowball into public confusion.

Competitive scoring

The multiplayer leaderboard rewards complete play, not just survival or flashy aggression. Scores blend placement, objective execution, activity volume, action efficiency, tactical impact, precision, versatility, survival, resource control, and discipline — so finishing your faction job cleanly and staying active each cycle outperforms panicked or wasteful turns.

Strategy in brief

Verdictris rewards complete, disciplined play over flashy aggression. Good seats win by building a trusted, readable bloc and using trials to remove dangerous actors. Neutral seats bank leverage and time their pivots to profit when one side overreaches. The Underworld wins on doubt and misdirection, letting bad votes and weak rolls snowball. Most actions resolve as opposed dice contests with outcome tiers, so stack the modifiers you control — stance, position, profession, and gear — before you commit, and remember that defenders can return fire.

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