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Counterweight

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Amasix GamesDiscovered Sep 21, 2026

About the game

A social deduction tower-builder for 4–8 players. Stack blocks, raise the tower, and figure out which of your friends is placing them badly on purpose. Grab chaotic items, vote people out, and forge the Saboteur Detector before every block hits the ground.

Original Steam description

 Build together. Fall together. Unless...

Counterweight is a social deduction game where the deception is physical. Your team has one job: stack blocks and raise a tower to the target height. But one of you is the Saboteur, placing blocks just badly enough, nudging at the worst moment, and eliminating other players.

Every fallen block brings the whole team closer to losing. Every fallen block is also a clue.

  How it works

  • Take your turn. Grab a block from the quarry, carry it up, and place it wherever you dare: clean and boring, or bold and risky.

  • Watch everyone. Who re-rolls their blocks? Who's always nearby when something falls ? Who's been holding that tribute all game ? And who's making players disappear one by one...?

  • Accuse. Put a suspect to sleep and call a vote. Guess right and the tower is safe. Guess wrong and you've kicked a friend for nothing. The Saboteur thanks you.

  An arsenal of beautiful bad ideas

Items spawn across the island all match long: jetpacks, sleep darts, butter, cages, smoke bombs, a gun that shouldn't exist in a building game... and a hidden kit of Saboteur-only tools that the rest of the team can't even see. No two rounds play out the same.

Nobody just stacks blocks. Builders hunt the Saboteur: complete quests to earn information items, carry tributes to the altar and forge the Saboteur Detector. One scan, one truth. The Saboteur hunts the builders: a hidden toolkit nobody else can see, blocks placed just slightly wrong, and a player count that keeps shrinking. Whichever side you're on, you always have a way to reach your goal... and so does everyone else.

  Death is not the end

Kicked out or killed? You return as a Ghost, free to float around with the other ghosts and watch the chaos unfold. You can't save the tower anymore, but you can still meddle: slow players down, light lanterns or snuff them out. And in the dark, nobody can tell which color belongs to whom.

  Features

  • Online multiplayer for 4 to 8 players : invite friends straight from Steam or share a join code

  • Hidden saboteur, suspicious friendships

  • Physics-driven tower building where every block placement matters

  • 40+ items, from helpful to hostile to purely comedic

  • Proximity voice chat to scheme quietly, panic loudly

  • Full controller support, including Steam Deck

  • A solo sandbox for practicing your placements (and your sabotage)

Demo and release information

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Information & artwork: Steam · Last checked UTC