Secret Hitler is a dramatic game of political intrigue and betrayal set in 1930’s Germany. Players are secretly divided into two teams – liberals and fascists. Known only to each other, the fascists coordinate to sow distrust and install their cold-blooded leader. The liberals must find and stop the Secret Hitler before it’s too late.
Secret Hitler is a dramatic game of political intrigue and betrayal set in 1930’s Germany. Players are secretly divided into two teams – liberals and fascists. Known only to each other, the fascists coordinate to sow distrust and install their cold-blooded leader. The liberals must find and stop the Secret Hitler before it’s too late. Secret Hitler introduces new mechanics to the hidden-identity game genre. The first is the element of randomness. When laws are passed, the President draws three policies, passes two to the Chancellor, and the Chancellor enacts one. Only the enacted policy is revealed, so players have to rely on the President and Chancellor’s word to know what got discarded. The deck has a known initial composition (11 Fascist policies, 6 Liberal policies), and players can roughly track deck contents based on what the President and Chancellor report, though someone might have lied about what was discarded. That means players can form reasonable expectations and plan around probability, but they can also manipulate future probabilities and expectations in a way that benefits their team. The second new mechanic is the “Hitler” identity: If Hitler is elected as Chancellor after the third fascist policy has already been enacted, the game ends immediately and the fascists win. This means Hitler will spend most of the game playing as a liberal to gain players’ trust. Once the third fascist policy is enacted, anyone who has helped the group becomes immediately suspect; if the liberals make a wrong move at this point, they lose immediately. This creates incredible moments of tension and relief in the game.
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This is an awesome game. Great for groups This is an awesome game. Great for groups, easy to pickup and tons of fun. I have taught this game to a few groups, and I have never played less than 3or4 rounds. This is one of those games that guarantees new players will have that “oh I see” moment and then beg to play another round because they “know how to win this time”. Part of the fun comes from the conversations after the game itself where we are all talking about why we made the decisions we did, and how we could’ve…
Such a fun game where you get to lie to friends and … Such a fun game where you get to lie to friends and family. Played with girlfriends family and it was a great ice breaker even though her Dad killed me. To be fair, I was a fascist.
The fans at Kickstarter made this game happen, and I would like to personally thank each and every one of them. Wow. Great game of political intrigue. My first run-through was with 5 players, and though it seemed complicated at first, we all quickly realized that there was nothing tricky about the rules themselves. However, figuring out who Hitler is can be quite tricky. This is a “werewolf” style game, where one player is Hitler, who plays on the fascist team. The other players are either all liberals or fascists. Each side can achieve one of two win conditions to secure a victory. The fascists…