Social Deduction
Dead Air
Six of the winter crew are iced in with the one who smashed the radio, and the AI speaks for all six; only the sealed truth knows which hand did it.
Dead Air is a free social deduction game you play inside ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini. Solo social deduction against six iced-in AI crew, one of them a saboteur. For solo play, about 35–45m a session, it needs no signup — open it in your assistant, or paste one link, and play.
- Players
- 1
- Length
- 35–45m
- Rating
- 16+
- Version
- 1.0.0
Works with ChatGPT · Claude · Gemini. Free, no signup.
Opens your assistant, fetches the game, and starts — the same on your phone or desktop. Playing in Gemini? Tap Copy link to play and paste it in.
No web access, or want it as an installed app?
The game card is the whole prompt — paste it if your assistant can't browse the web. The Skill installs Dead Air into Claude on any plan: download it, then Claude → Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload.
How to start
- Open your AI. Start a new chat in ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini. No paid plan required.
- Paste the setup. The six roles come pre-sealed under a SHA-256 hash printed in the card, so the setup is fixed before anyone speaks.
- Work the crew. Interview the characters, cross-check their alibis against the logs, and narrow the saboteur before the station goes cold.
- Confine and verify. Name your suspect, then check the revealed setup against the seal to see if you were right.
Questions
- How can one AI honestly hide which crew member is the saboteur?
- The saboteur, the motive, and every alibi are fixed in a setup sealed with a SHA-256 hash before the first question. Each of the six keeps its assigned identity and knowledge for the whole game, so the AI cannot quietly reassign the culprit, and you check the reveal against the seal at the end.
- What am I trying to do?
- Find which of six iced-in crew is sabotaging the station before the sabotage turns lethal. You question the AI-played crew, cross-check their accounts and the station logs, and confine your suspect. The sealed setup then shows whether you caught the right one.
- Is it actually deducible, or just a guess?
- Deducible. The saboteur carries concrete tells — an alibi that cannot be true, a detail only the culprit could know, and a physical trace — that a careful player surfaces by asking the right questions. Every innocent has an ordinary, checkable whereabouts, so a sharp reading of the evidence names the culprit rather than luck.
- Do I need other people to play?
- No. Dead Air is built for a single player against an AI ensemble; the AI voices all six crew so the social deduction works solo. You supply the suspicion, and the AI supplies the trapped crew.
- Does the AI cheat by changing who did it?
- No. The culprit and every role are committed before the first question via a cryptographic seal. The AI plays inside that fixed setup, and after the game you can verify the reveal against the seal to confirm nothing shifted mid-play.
16+ — a concealed death, endangerment, and isolation under crisis.