Dawson Oaks Trailer Park is a proximity voice chat social deduction game. Steam’s description sets the three sides: suspects must commit secret role-specific crimes, a Supervisor watches and tries to work out who is doing what before calling the police, and a hidden Snitch blends in with the suspects while feeding everything back to the Supervisor.

Chart credential: Dawson Oaks Trailer Park is a new entry at #42 on Steam 250’s 7-day chart, on a rank score of 7.23 from 124 reviews at 89% positive. Released 17 September 2026. Position read 19 September 2026.

Key features

Eleven roles that force you to act

Steam lists eleven suspect roles — Drug Dealer, Junkie, Moonshine Cook, Creep, Scrapper, Pyromaniac, Gambler, Thief, Drunk, Prankster and Hobo — each with urges that must be satisfied to stay sane, and instability that grows the longer you wait. This is the sharpest idea in the game. Standard social deduction lets innocents do nothing; here nobody can sit still, so the tell is never simply “that player is behaving oddly”.

Proximity voice chat as the information layer

Because voice carries by distance, being near someone is both how you gather evidence and how you get seen gathering it. That two-way cost is what proximity chat adds over a text vote screen: alibis have to be physically constructed, and the map becomes the thing you are reading rather than a list of names.

A third faction that breaks the usual maths

The Snitch knows more than anyone but dies if identified, and the suspects can call meetings to vote on who it is. A third asymmetric role stops the game settling into the two-team stalemate that most deduction games reach, because the suspects can be right about the crimes and still lose the meeting.

Where to find it

Dawson Oaks Trailer Park is on Steam at $8.99. Online and LAN PvP and co-op, with Steam Achievements and Family Sharing.

The honest caveat

Steam lists it as multiplayer only — there is no single-player mode. A proximity-chat deduction game with eleven roles also needs a populated lobby to function, so it is worth checking current player numbers before buying if you do not have a group.

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