Bad Signal

A social-deduction platformer for 4 to 8 players. Steer one shared robot to the exit. Trust no one.

A single robot has to reach the exit door of a 2D grid level, but nobody drives it directly. Each round, every player secretly submits one move, and the moves play out in a random order on the shared screen. One or two players are secretly hackers, steering the run into pits, spikes, and projectiles to drain the round budget before the team reaches the door.

The PC shows the world. Players join in seconds from their phones by scanning a QR code, with nothing to install.

How it plays

• Everyone moves, no one is in control. You each pick a single move per round and only see your own turn order. The robot's path is the sum of choices nobody fully owns.

• Read the run, not the labels. Evidence is behavior. A mistimed jump into a spike could be a mistake, or it could be sabotage.

• Beat the clock. Every level has a fixed round budget. Wasted moves and avoidable deaths burn it down, and if it hits zero before the door, the hackers win.

Roles

• Hackers sabotage from the shadows, with cooldown abilities to override a player's move, jam a reveal, or plant false evidence.

• Tracers can privately inspect one player's submitted move each round to gather proof.

• Operators keep the run on track and hold a one-time tamper-proof move to defend against the hackers.

Accuse, vote, and gamble

Between rounds the table debates who keeps steering the robot into danger. Vote to disable a suspect for a round, or call a final accusation that wins or loses the game on the spot.

Features

• 4 to 8 players, no extra controllers required

• Instant phone join by QR code, nothing to install

• Hand-crafted levels with pits, spikes, and timed projectiles

• A built-in level editor for making and sharing your own stages