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As the mod of numerous games which, I am blessed to say, are nearly all considered excellent... I don't think it's a quirk of my game design that the only ones the villagers lost are the ones where they made early game strategy super easy for the wolves by giving away their suspicion list. Wolves were leaning on that suspicion list the whole game.Not true at all in practice (and especially not last game). I've never once seen village win a game where people intentionally hide their village reads unless it was a broken setup that requires zero thinking like follow the cop.
I can't think of one player in that didn't share village reads in Bioshock. You even got yeeted that last day because your own POE was so unaligned with everyone else's.
Look at protoman. They set up one of their wolves because people were saying before the game even began they were always suspicious of the person. They converted the mayor the round after everyone came out in mass to defend them against a random lunch vote (admittedly this was not early game). And they kept pressure up on one person the whole game under the auspices of "this person keeps escaping lunch vote since day 1". And it was megaman in a megaman themed game.
Seen similar stuff in pretty much every game I modded to be honest. Remembering nutmeg literally ruining WW for his wife carbon by being the wolf and the highest suspected person from day 1 and timing a seer VERY well on day 2 so he seered clean and no one ever questioned him again. Won that game too.
I honestly would be lying if I didn't say that I've also seen the wolves pounce on a list of suspicions and then squander that list. I feel like a list of suspicions definitely has a place in the game. 100%. But it involves nuance. Villagers have to communicate. But everything they say is useful to the wolves as well, PARTICULARLY early in the game. Being a mod x like 10 makes you very aware of just how much wolves succeed work using that info early and suffer from it late. But if they can use it very early to get everyone to give them a pass* - then you'll never look into them hard enough again.
*Thinking about the brilliance that was "the baker" from WW All-Stars. A wolf had a power to "tweak" rules in the game and after completely lying that they are "the baker" they used their power to create an item that did nothing called "bread" All because everyone kept calling them out early in the game and they decided to be like "didn't anyone get bread yet? That's from me! It protects you from death!". and I would just give the bread to a person who they knew they were not going to kill that night and who would not get lynched either. All of this because they knew everyone was inherently suspicious of them before they even opened their mouth to post