For an early access game, Liar's Bar is well on its way towards its release. I enjoy Liar's Bar, and recommend playing LB in its current state.

PROs:
1. Voice chat makes this a game all about table talk. If you want a quiet table full of cool cats, you can find a quiet table full of cool cats. If you want a table where people accuse each other of lying even when it's not their turn to call LIAR, those exist. If you want a hostile table full of people that assault each other with profanity and insults, you can find those too.

2. Text chat makes it possible to bridge language barriers for those with good written language skills or those who like emoticons or even those that mute their mics due to bad background noise. Want to shrug but there's no emotion coded yet? Just paste "¯\_( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯" into chat.

3. For folks learning the game, there is a BASIC dice mode and a BASIC deck mode. I suggest you get comfortable with BASIC modes before going on to others. There is also a guide to the rules for all modes, courteousy of community member Sampo:
https://steamoss.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3377103757


CONs:
1. Currently, LB is an early release. One of the issues right now is overuse of GPUs. In an actual game, press <ESC>, then clicking Settings> Display and setting Max FPS to 60 is usually most helpful. Some players have to install a utility like the shareware FPSMon to monitor their heat, then leave a lobby between games to not crash or hang. Sometimes when my processors get hot, the Random Number Generator (RNG) starts to hate me. See my crash management guide for details: https://steamoss.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3399819698

2. The second major issue is cheaters. There are at least two cheat mods available publicly for LB. I'm confident that the LB team will get this under control over time. For now, the best defense is to find players you like to play with in the LB lobbies. I don't recommend using the matchmaking for ranking yet. If you plan to host a lobby, consider installing a third party anti-cheat mod, here: https://www.nexusmods.com/liarsbar/mods/1

3. The third major issue is getting kicked from lobbies when you join. This usually happens when a lobby host is waiting for specific people, or when you don't match the requirements the host advertises for the lobby. This happens most to me when I use the Quick Join feature and end up in a table for a language I don't speak. On rare occasion, I offended someone through a past mis-understanding and end up in their lobby, only to be kicked.

I've asked for enhancements to prevent the fast lobby kicks, but feature requests are exactly that, requests. The devs probably are pretty focused on covering the other issues. If the following enhancements make sense to you, please add +1 replies to these posts.

[FEATURE REQUEST] In-Game Table Owner Controls
https://steamoss.com/app/3097560/discussions/0/603018985919747495/

[FEATURE REQUEST] New Lobby Type: Friend/ID/Invite Only
https://steamoss.com/app/3097560/discussions/0/603018408517224081/


Be well!

- bgatesvoodoodoll

This game is a really good time, especially when one of your friends dies on the first shot 3 times in a row and uninstalls the game.

Don't bother with this game hackers every game you will never win save your money.......