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Social Deduction with an AI Player

One player in a werewolf-style game is secretly an AI.

Intermediate16h2–3 people18/20 fit
TL;DR

Build Social Deduction with an AI Player for party game groups in ~16h with 2–3 people. Stack: LLM + Socket.IO + Next.js.

Why it wins: Turing-test fun.

Build flow

01 · Problem
Social deduction games need many players.
02 · Solution
The AI plays a role, chats and votes with consistent strategy while humans try to detect it.
03 · Build
  1. 1Build game rules
  2. 2Give AI a strategy
  3. 3Sync chat
  4. 4Reveal
04 · Demo
Play a round and reveal the AI.

MVP checklist

  • AI player
  • Chat rounds
  • Voting
  • Reveal

Tech stack

TechRole
LLMLanguage model
Socket.IORealtime multiplayer
Next.jsFrontend + API routes

Reference repos

Open-source projects you can build on. Links checked 2026-10-31.

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