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Tortuga 1667

“It’s the honest ones you want to watch out for,” says Johnny Depp’s Captain Jack Sparrow in the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie. Tortuga 1667 takes this piratical philosophy of distrust and applies it to a entertaining, if occasionally overly chaotic, social deduction gem that sees two teams of pirates secretly working to loot more treasure than their rivals – the problem being that nobody knows who’s part of their crew.

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