As you’d expect from a social deduction game, Eville thrusts you into a murder-filled village with the task of finding the Conspirator or betraying your friends to achieve victory. If you’re a complete beginner to this type of game, then you’ll likely find a lot of mechanics to be confusing.

Luckily, this guide is here to help you out. Let’s find out how to play Eville effectively and what you can expect from playing the game.

How to Play and Everything You Should Expect | New Player Guide in Eville

There are several key mechanics that you need to keep in mind as you play Eville for the first time. Let’s have a look at what those are.

Know Your Role

Roles are randomly assigned to all players at the start of each game. There are a total of 8 roles available in the game, and each of them has its unique perks and abilities. Conspirators will also receive their role, and they have to do their best to embody that role to avoid suspicion from villagers.

As soon as you’re assigned a role, make sure to read through its description so you can learn to play it effectively. Here, you’ll also learn your role’s unique abilities which are crucial to achieving victory. So far, the available roles in Eville are as follows:

• Trapper
• Detective
• Barbarian
• Seer
• Guard
• Medic
• Mayor
• Ghost Whisperer

Accept and Complete Quests

One unique addition to Eville comes in the form of quests. You can accept and complete quests which is an alternative way of winning the game regardless of your faction. Also, quests aren’t faction-specific, so you can accept and complete them without raising suspicion from other players.

Once the game starts, you will gather alongside other players in the town’s center. You’ll then notice yellow areas pointing toward various directions below your feet. These are indicators that will point you to an NPC with an available quest.

There are a variety of quests available, each having its own set of rewards that will help with your progression.

Pick Up Herbs along the Way

As you roam around the village, you’ll come across herbs that you can gather to craft various types of options via the Herb Witch. Each of these potions will grant various effects and will require various ingredients.

For example, the Potion of Protection will grant you one night of protection from Conspirators. Then there’s the Deadly Poison which you can pour into a villager’s cauldron to, you know, poison them.

Look Up the Map

You can press Tab in order to open the map which details all of the points of interest throughout the village. You can also learn where you currently are, allowing you to navigate the village just in case you get lost. The map will even show you player home locations.

Avoid Suspicion at All Times

This tip is really essential if you’re playing as a Conspirator. Since your goal is to eliminate all of the villagers, you have to make sure that no one will suspect you of being the Conspirator.

Same as the villagers, you will be assigned a role at the start of the game. As such, you want to embody that role perfectly so other players will assume that you’re just one of the villagers. When night falls, you’ll be able to gain access to abilities that will allow you to murder a villager.

You’re only allowed to kill one villager during the day and another one during the night. Luckily, directly killing a villager isn’t the only way to do so. In fact, you can get creative by concocting poison to slowly kill off your targets.

In the event that someone spots you, you can use the underground as your escape route and quickly travel to various parts of the village.

Death is Not the End

In the event that you die, that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s game over for you. Instead, you’ll get sent to the eternal mist where you’ll be playing as a ghost.

While in ghost form, you will have your own set of quests that will count toward your faction points. You can even purchase items using Spirit Tokens to add another layer of gameplay to Eville.