Social Deduction
Ambervale
Seven neighbours gather by lantern light and one of them is lying; the AI speaks for all seven, and only the sealed truth knows which.
- Players
- 1
- Length
- 30–45 min
- Rated
- 12+
- Version
- 1.2.0
- Updated
Works with ChatGPT · Claude · Gemini. Free, no signup.
Opens ChatGPT or Claude with the play prompt ready; press send if it hasn't started. Same link on your phone as on your desktop. Another app? Copy the play prompt into it, or, if it can't open links, copy the full game card below. What works where.
No web access, or want it as an installed app?
The game card is the entire game, about 13k characters: every scene and rule, and the answers the AI referees from. Paste it into an assistant that can't open links, without reading it first: it gives the game away. The Skill installs Ambervale into Claude on any plan: download it, then turn on code execution under Settings → Capabilities and add it at Customize → Skills → + → Upload a skill.
Ambervale is free to play inside ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini. Social deduction for one player: seven villagers, all voiced by the AI, and one of them is a monster wearing a neighbour's face. Solo, 30–45 min a run. No signup and nothing to install: open it in your assistant, paste the play prompt into another, or paste the whole card where links don't open.
How to start
- Open it in your AI. Tap Open in ChatGPT or Open in Claude, and press send, or paste the play prompt into any assistant that can open links. No paid plan required.
- The game loads. Which villager is the monster was sealed under a SHA-256 hash before release; the AI plays from that fixed answer.
- Question the village. Interview the villagers, cross-check their stories, and narrow down which one is not human.
- Vote and verify. Once a day you may cast out the neighbour you suspect. When the game ends, paste the revealed answer into aigamecards.com/verify, which recomputes the hash in your browser.
Questions
- How can one AI play seven characters without cheating?
- The truth — which of the seven is lying about being human, and the order the nights run — was written and locked under a SHA-256 seal before the card was published; it is not rolled when you sit down. Each villager keeps the same identity and knowledge for the whole game, so the AI cannot quietly reassign the liar, and you check the reveal against the seal when the game ends.
- What am I trying to do?
- Find the Ravener, the thing among the seven that is only wearing a neighbour's face, and cast it out before the village empties. Each day you question the AI-played neighbours and may call one vote; each night the Ravener takes another sleeper. Cast out the right one and dawn breaks clean; cast out too many of the innocent and the valley is lost. The sealed answer then shows whether you read it right.
- Can I play social deduction without a group?
- That is what Ambervale is built for. The AI holds all seven neighbours at once — Mabel's bee-lore, Elias counting under his breath, Wat watching the tree-line — and keeps each one consistent for the whole game, so a taproom full of suspects fits inside a single chat. You are the inquisitor they sent for; there is nobody else to round up.
- What does a wrong accusation cost me?
- A neighbour cast out is barred from the fire for good — no more answers from them, and one fewer honest soul holding the door — and the Ravener still feeds that night. Six honest villagers stand between you and an empty valley, so there is room for two wrong calls; the third has to be right. Refusing to vote is no way out either: the nights come and the order runs whether or not you accuse anyone.
12+ — folk-horror dread: neighbours vanish offscreen night after night, and one neighbour's shape is worn by the thing that ate them. Adult secrets kept discreet — an affair, grave-robbing, a husband dosed to sleep. No gore.