u/East-Listen-1377

We've been doing this for about a year now with our friend group and honestly it's one of the most fun things we've added to game nights. You set up little physical "task stations" around the house — stuff like shooting a paper ball into a bin, doing 10 push-ups, balancing something for 5 seconds, whatever you come up with. The crewmates have to complete them, the impostors just pretend.

It works surprisingly well, but over time we ran into the same annoying problems every single time:

The kill cooldown was a nightmare. The impostor had to secretly time 25 seconds in their head, or someone had to hold a phone stopwatch, or we just... forgot entirely. Half the games ended because the impostor killed someone 2 seconds after the last kill and everyone knew it was impossible.

Emergency meetings were chaos. In the game there's a physical button you walk to. IRL someone would just yell "EMERGENCY MEETING" from across the room with no accountability. Or two people called one at the same time and nobody knew which counted.

Nobody remembered whose turn it was to vote or what the rules were once we'd had a few drinks. We'd spend 5 minutes arguing about game mechanics mid-round.

We tried paper systems, honor systems, separate timer apps — nothing really worked cleanly.

So I ended up building a small app specifically for this. Each player opens it on their phone. It handles the kill cooldown automatically, controls when emergency meetings can be called, assigns tasks per player, and runs the voting. The actual game still happens in the room — the app is just the rulebook in the background.

We've been using it with groups of 4–12 people and it genuinely fixed all the friction points that were killing the fun before.

If anyone's tried this or wants to give it a shot — happy to share more details. There's also a Discord if you want to ask questions or share your station ideas: discord.gg/2jYFnMEVMb

App (iOS): apps.apple.com/app/id6769766460 / search "Impostor IRL"

We've been doing this for about a year now with our friend group and honestly it's one of the most fun things we've added to game nights. You set up little physical "task stations" around the house — stuff like shooting a paper ball into a bin, doing 10 push-ups, balancing something for 5 seconds, whatever you come up with. The crewmates have to complete them, the impostors just pretend.

It works surprisingly well, but over time we ran into the same annoying problems every single time:

The kill cooldown was a nightmare. The impostor had to secretly time 25 seconds in their head, or someone had to hold a phone stopwatch, or we just... forgot entirely. Half the games ended because the impostor killed someone 2 seconds after the last kill and everyone knew it was impossible.

Emergency meetings were chaos. In the game there's a physical button you walk to. IRL someone would just yell "EMERGENCY MEETING" from across the room with no accountability. Or two people called one at the same time and nobody knew which counted.

Nobody remembered whose turn it was to vote or what the rules were once we'd had a few drinks. We'd spend 5 minutes arguing about game mechanics mid-round.

We tried paper systems, honor systems, separate timer apps — nothing really worked cleanly.

So I ended up building a small app specifically for this. Each player opens it on their phone. It handles the kill cooldown automatically, controls when emergency meetings can be called, assigns tasks per player, and runs the voting. The actual game still happens in the room — the app is just the rulebook in the background.

We've been using it with groups of 4–12 people and it genuinely fixed all the friction points that were killing the fun before.

If anyone's tried this or wants to give it a shot — happy to share more details. There's also a Discord if you want to ask questions or share your station ideas: discord.gg/2jYFnMEVMb

App (iOS): apps.apple.com/app/id6769766460 / search "Impostor IRL"