Good Cop Bad Cop First Impressions

Good Cop Bad Cop is a deduction game that takes place in the real world…

Interesting.

Good Cop Bad Cop is a 52 card hidden identity, deduction game where each player takes on the role of a law enforcement officer in a corrupt district. Players must investigate others to figure out who is on their side, grab one of the 2-3 guns on the table, and shoot the opposing leader to win the game.

Each player gets 3 role cards dealt to them face down…

Get 2 Honest and you’re Honest, 2 Crooked and you’re Crooked… With the exception that if you’re the Agent you’re ALWAYS Honest and if you’re the Kingpin you’re Always Crooked.

Everyone also gets an equipment card. These cards do a lot of different things throughout the game such as the doggo that makes a player drop their gun…

You can take 1 of 4 actions on each turn.

The most used one is to Investigate someone by looking at one of their face-down cards.

You can pick up a new Equipment card as your action for your turn but you have to flip one of your role cards face up. Handy if a few people have already seen it. Or you can flip an Honest one face up to try and prove how Honest you are.

Another action you can take is to grab a gun, at the end of your turn, you can aim your gun at someone.

Then on a future turn, one thing you can do is shoot the person you’re currently pointing at.

If you’re Crooked or Honest, you die and are out of the game. If you’re the Agent or the Kingpin you take a Wound token. A second shot kills you and your team loses.

My social deduction tips will help you tell the good cops from the bad cops.

Good Cop Bad Cop Summary

It’s pretty good, we only played with the minimum player count of 4 which generally doesn’t work so well for these kinds of games. I didn’t really feel like more players would feel that much different, just longer in playtime.

It’s got that Blood Bound feel but plays better, and is more accessible.

It’s good, not great but I would like to play it with more players. I think it will make things better, but as I mentioned, it’ll also be longer. Perhaps too long? Especially if you get shot early on.

Jesta ThaRogue