Overworld Games will release its new social deduction game Leaders of Euphoria: Choose a Better Oppressor, set in the world of Stonemaier Games’ award-winning Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia in Q2.

Leaders of Euphoria is an expanded and upgraded version of Overworld’s own Good Cop Bad Cop game.  In the game, the players are members of secret teams who must determine who their allies and enemies are, then identify the opposing team’s leader and eliminate them before their own leader is eliminated.  Unlike most social deduction style games, eliminated players are not removed from the game, instead creating a third team seeking to eliminate both of the secret teams’ leaders.

The new game is set in the same fictional world as Stonemaier’s Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia, released into distribution last year (see “‘Euphoria:  Build a Better Dystopia’”), under an agreement with Stonemaier.

Two versions of Leaders of Euphoria will be produced.  The standard game includes 56 cards, 4 cardboard ray gun tokens, and 1 interrogator token.  MSRP is $21.99.  A deluxe version includes the same cards, but replaces the cardboard ray guns with large plastic ray guns - standing 3 inches tall - and 8 double-sided player mats designed to make it easier to players to pass cards without revealing them to the other players.  MSRP for the deluxe version is $49.99.

Overworld is funding the production with a Kickstarter campaign which has already doubled its target goal, collecting over $45,000 in pledged support from over 1100 backers, with 18 days remaining.  Backer fulfillment is scheduled for May 2017, with release into the trade to follow.  Retailers can back the campaign for $1 for an opportunitiy to order bulk copies just before the game is shipped.

Some months after the initial released, Overworld plans to publish an Artifact Pack add-on which will include the extra incentives from the Kickstarter.  MSRP has not been announced.

Last month, PSI announced that it had reached a deal to provide sales and fulfillment services for Overworld Games (see “PSI Client Shuffle”).