This is very tangential, but: if that’s your experience with e.g. one night ultimate werewolf, then I strongly recommend changing the mix of roles so that the numbers on each side are random and the werewolf side ends up in the majority a nontrivial fraction of the time. Makes the game a lot more fun/interesting IMO, and negates some of the points you list about divergence between such games and real life.
This is very tangential, but: if that’s your experience with e.g. one night ultimate werewolf, then I strongly recommend changing the mix of roles so that the numbers on each side are random and the werewolf side ends up in the majority a nontrivial fraction of the time. Makes the game a lot more fun/interesting IMO, and negates some of the points you list about divergence between such games and real life.
Thanks, I haven’t played ONUW much, Avalon is the main game I play, also more classic mafia, werewolf, secret hitler and Quest.