The scene is set for a duplicitously fun time of bluff and double-bluff in front of the TV. They win points if their brief is fulfilled afterwards, everyone votes on who had the hidden agenda and wins points if they guessed correctly. A competitive mode spices this up by secretly assigning one player the hidden agenda of the title - a choice they must try to get past the group. This formalises the way groups of friends have chosen to play games like this for years: talking over consequences, arguing about morality or motivation. Players use their phones to hunt for clues within a scene, clear simple quick-time events, and vote on decisions that affect conversations and branching paths in the storyline. Hidden Agenda has been chosen as the flagship launch title for PlayLink, a wave of accessible, smartphone-controlled party games for PlayStation 4. It turns out that, despite being a purely narrative game, Hidden Agenda is named after a game mechanic - and it's very telling that the title doesn't fit the plot. There are no hidden agendas here - so aside from sounding vaguely thriller-ish, what's in that name? Hidden Agenda The detective is a little volatile and not above suspicion, but we players know from the start that she's genuinely trying to get to the bottom of the case. Two women, a straight-arrow prosecuting attorney and a homicide detective, investigate the crimes. Why is Hidden Agenda called Hidden Agenda? Supermassive Games' follow-up to its horror sleeper Until Dawn is a dark and rain-soaked police procedural about a serial killer called the Trapper who appears to strike again just as the man who confessed to the Trapper's murders awaits execution on death row. Supermassive's dour whodunnit is a poor vehicle for PlayLink's experiment in multiplayer narrative - a woeful mismatch of genre and form.

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