Beginner's Guide

Suspects can be a hard, and or confusing game to some. Though the game is easy to understand within 1 or 2 days, and players should be able to get hang of the basics by then. This guide will help you get a further better understanding of the game. Pages for more specific purposes such as The Mansion, The Hotel, Abilities, Tasks, Roles, Meetings and Gamemodes are pages that can help you about these specific Maps, modes and mechanics in their fullest depth. This page will describe the basics of most of these things.

It is advised for new players to also check out Terminology for self-explanatory reasons. (To understand basic in-game terminology players use.)

## Controls

The joystick on the left of the screen is the movement joystick, (in the settings of the Main Menu, you can change this to the right side of the screen for left-handed people) you tap and hold on the joystick and drag it to the direction of choice to move in that same direction of choice.

The Use button on the right side of the screen is pressed when next to a task. You'll know if you're next to a task if an object is glowing (which is where the task is) and the Use button becomes non-transparent. On how to do tasks, go to the page titled Tasks. For more information on the Use button and more actions in the game, go to the page titled Abilities.

## Beginner Roles and their goals

There is a Killer. The Killer is a role that can kill Guests, drop bombs, and use trapdoors to travel quicker. The goal of the Killer is to kill all the players in a game until there is an even amount of Killers and Guests. In order to do this, the Killer has to be sneaky, as trapdooring or killing someone in front of someone else is a dead giveaway.

There is also the Guests, the Guests' goals is to either have all the Guests in a game do all their tasks, or to find who the Killer is and vote them out. Guests do tasks by standing next to a task, and pressing the Use button. To start a meeting, both Guests and Killers can either use the bell in the middle of the map, or report a body by tapping the report button.

## How a game usually goes

When joining a public game, you'll be put in a Pre-Game Lobby where players can chat, and use Role Tickets. This is where players wait for the game to start once enough players join.

When starting in a game of Classic's Beginner mode, players spawn on the map. The primary thing everyone does here is to walk around and do tasks.

There is a minimap button on the top right corner of the screen which when tapped on, will show all the rooms of the map. The triangle symbols with exclamation marks inside of them are where tasks are. The list on the top left corner is what tasks the player needs to do. Some tasks are required to do other tasks. For example, to do the eat the burger task, the player must do the task where they must get the burger recipe, then they need to do a task to select the ingredients, and *then* players can do the eat the burger task.

After some time, eventually a Killer will kill someone, and somebody will find the body. When they do, they will most likely report the body, which starts a meeting. When this happens, the game pauses, and everyone now has to communicate, whether in voice chat or by text to talk about who they think is the Killer.

The buttons on the top right from left to right are: The microphone button, which when green, means that other players can hear your audio, and when it means you're muted. The deafen button, which when green means you can hear all players in the meeting, and when red means you can't hear anyone in a meeting. These 2 buttons can be tapped on to change between 2 different modes each. The text button is last, which when tapped on, shows the text menu, where you can view text messages from other players and send ones yourself.

After everyone has decided on who to vote, tap on the person who you think is the Killer, and tap again to confirm your vote. If you aren't sure yet, you can tap on skip vote twice instead.

This process repeats itself until the Killer is either voted out, or kills everyone. Sometimes the Killers activate bombs around the map, when that happens, use the minimap to locate where the bombs are, and when you reach a bomb, you gotta use the Use button, and then cut the wires in order.

## Guest and Killer dos and don'ts

### Guest

* **Don't** look for the Killer, focus on doing tasks unless it's more beneficial to do the contrary.
* **Don't** look through the cameras for too long, as that makes the Killer focus on whoever is looking through them, and hense giving you a higher chance of death.
* **Don't** make accusations without good evidence. As this makes it look like if you are the Killer, and if not, will certainly anger the lobby you're playing in.
* **Don't** vote on anyone when your game only has 4 players in total at the moment and there's 1 Killer. As if you vote on an innocent player, the Killer only needs to kill 1 more person to win. Only do this if you know for SURE who the Killer is. For Intermediate and Advanced, the same rules apply except for when there's 7 players in total, and there's 2 Killers left.
* **Do** look at the Guest List whenever you're passing by it. This keeps in you in the loop as to who's dead or not. And it doesn't take too much time to do so.
* **Do:** When you and a group vote someone out because someone else accused them of something, it's a good idea to start and emergency meeting, and tell everyone to vote for the person who was the first to accuse the innocent player you voted off. As there's a higher chance that they were accusing them to stay alive longer.
* **Do** report dead bodies whenever you see them, and **Don't** hesitate. There are legitimate reasons for you to do this, like quests for example. And if someone sees you next to a non-reported body, that will make you very suspicious.

### Killer

* **Don't** accuse someone back after they have accused you. As the Guests will very likely vote you out after finding out they kicked kicked innocent player out. Instead, focus on making yourself seem innocent, and if that doesn't work just proceed to accuse the person who accused you first to at the very least *try* to get someone else out too if you have 2 Killers on your team. Only do this if there's only 4 players left. (Or 7 left if you're playing with another Killer)
* **Don't** kill people or use trapdoors when the cameras in the background are blinking red. When they are blinking red, that is a signifier that someone is looking through the cameras right now, and they can very much start a meeting to vote you out.
* **Don't** excuse yourself from faking your tasks, as if you're seen doing nothing, and running around, Guests may be suspicious of you. Make sure to do tasks that most of the lobby is doing too, to make yourself less suspicious.
* **Don't** be the only person; reporting bodies, fixing the lights, or deactivating bombs. If you do these things much easily and quicker than everyone else, either 1. You're good at the game, or 2. You're the Killer, where they know the exact time THEY will start these events, and where too.
* **Do:** Kill any witnesses who saw you either trapdoor or kill someone. Unless you're playing in any Classic Mode above Beginner, if you use trapdoors, you're 100% the Killer to the Guests. And Killing the witness will ensure that your secret will never be revealed to other players.
* **Do:** Focus on killing the Inspector or the Detective. As they have more abilities than Guests that can be used to find out that you're the Killer.
* **Do:** If you have played in a lobby long enough, focus on killing the players who are more experienced. Once they die, it will be much easier to get away with killing people.
* **Do** kill people after sabotaging the lights. When the lights are off, it's easy to kill people and use trapdoors because of the fact that nobody can see you murdering players, or jumping into trapdoors. But still have the tendency to be careful, as the Guests can still use the cameras to see you commit these actions.