"It's heavily inspired by the parlour game variously known as werewolf or mafia, in which participants use social deduction skills to identify a murderer in their midst. Indeed, the original version of the show, the Dutch series De Verraders, emerged after the first Covid lockdown, during which hundreds of thousands of people had discovered the multiplayer online game Among Us, in which a group of players have to carry out menial tasks on a spaceship while working out which of them is a killer."
"That person was Jade Scott, and I wasn't at all surprised when, quite early on in the series, she revealed she was a keen gamer. Minecraft was my way in, when I was 15, she says. I made loads of friends at school playing that. From this innocent introduction, however, she moved on to darker titles: the first-person shooter Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and the multiplayer battle-arena game Dota. That's where my interest in strategy gaming really kicked in, she says."
The Traitors concluded with a tense finale featuring a cast ranging from guileless extroverts to hyper-observant contestants. Jade Scott stood out for quiet determination amid persistent suspicion and accusations. Scott described a gaming trajectory from Minecraft at 15 to competitive titles such as Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Dota, which fostered strategic thinking. The show draws on social-deduction parlour games like werewolf or mafia and mirrors the surge of Among Us after the first Covid lockdown. Scott also played indie social-deduction games like Project Winter and Dale & Dawson Stationery Supplies that require cooperative tasks while hidden saboteurs work against the group.
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