Thailand-based indie developer Waka Studio have announced Cut That Wire, a multiplayer bluffing social deduction party game releasing on Steam in 2025. Work together with friends to deactivate bombs strapped to your chest, and play minigames to deduce who is secretly an imposter conniving against you.
In Cut That Wire, you play as a hostage strapped to a ticking bomb, trapped in a room with three others. You may take on the role of the victim, who must uncover the imposter before it’s too late; or be lucky enough to play the Engineer, who can see one safe wire that can be cut without detonation. As the imposter, you’ll deceive, manipulate and outwit everyone to survive – but be careful, as one wrong move could blow everything apart.
Each round throws players into tense ‘Big Bluff’ mini-games that test players’ quick thinking and deception. In ‘Big Bluff Drawing’, players sketch from a prompt and reveal their work at the end, while the imposter works from a different prompt and must bluff their way through. ‘Big Bluff Picture’ challenges players to study an image and answer questions about what they saw, while the imposter struggles to stay convincing with an entirely different picture. And in ‘Big Bluff Deck’, players swap and manage number cards, trying to avoid suspicion and dodge being left with the lowest total.
After each round, the group votes on who must cut a wire. The chosen player flips a coin: blue cuts their own wire, red cuts someone else’s. Imposters know which wires are lethal, and must manipulate the others into fatal mistakes. The Engineer, who can identify a single safe wire, must try to steer the group into making it out safely, but convincing others isn’t guaranteed.
“In our game, every wire cut matters, and every second counts in the fight to defuse the bombs,” said Pisorn and Jirawat Chungviwatanant of Waka Studio. “At Waka Studio, we believe that games should connect people through shared tension and triumph. This is exactly the kind of experience we want to deliver to our community through Cut That Wire!”
More information will be made available via https://wakastudio.co/.
