I haven’t thought about this possibility but it makes sense – the infrastructure is in place for this kind of approach and it’s certainly cheaper than the former theory in the first place.
Lovecraftian horror games. There have been some games in recent years but I think there’s definitely a larger design space for this kind of thing. This could mix with other genres as well like survival and potentially rogue-like stuff.
It always impresses me how seemingly every corporation adopts this mindset of not needing the “little guy” to function. Like their company isn’t made up of “little guys” that produce their given product.
Mutually exclusive events. If someone is lying we usually want to know if they’re lying. If they are lying we will trust them less.