The Zootopia Russian Roulette game is kind of a bummer to play, but it's fun to watch

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Liar's Bar is a social deception game aimed at Twitch streamers or friend groups who like party games that end with a table of dead Zootopia rejects. It's basically Dogs Playing Poker as a videogame and not really much more than that. Most of the appeal seems to be watching other people play it rather than playing it yourself, and even then I think it's a little too early access to be more than a novelty at this point.

The game dropped earlier this month and has been a hit with a ton of YouTubers and streamers, which seemingly primed it to reach over 100K concurrent Steam players when the latest update released this week. It's since fallen back down to around 15K, but if you do a quick YouTube search for it there are pages of people playing it. After checking it out myself, I can see why it fell off so quickly.

You've played half of Liar's Bar the moment you load it up and see an overhead shot of a poker table sitting in the middle of a bar with dice spilling out of a cup, a loose deck of playing cards, and a revolver lying in a pool of blood dripping onto the wooden floor. Actually controlling the game doesn't reveal much more than the vibe of the menu screen. It's a sleazed up Tabletop Simulator for people who think Russian Roulette is like, so crazy, man.

Even the characters are pretty much the kind of stereotypes you'd expect for something like this. There's a doberman wearing a black tank top and a gold chain, a large rhino man in a Hawaiian shirt, and Jessica Rabbit as an actual rabbit. They each have the suggestion of backstories told through a few comic book panels in a menu, but at the table they speak like animatronics. Liar's Bar uses AI generated voices that sound either literally robotic or devoid of personality. And despite using AI, they don't have a lot to say. Once you've heard the bunny girl, Cupcake, repeat «Honey, I've got tricks, and not just up my sleeve» for the 20th time you'll wish there were actual voice actors giving these animals a