Supervisor guide

This guide is about the launch build (1.0.3). Note that 1.0.3 explicitly fixed a bug where the Supervisor's police call did not work in some cases - if you played in the first 48 hours and calls felt broken, update and re-test.

What you actually control

• The police call. One call, one suspect. Getting it right removes a criminal from the round and moves you closer to the win; getting it wrong burns the round's patience.
• The Snitch's reports. Your hidden teammate is feeding you information - roles, behaviours, sightings. Treat their texts as your case file.
• Meeting presence. You attend suspect meetings. You do not get a vote worth lying about, but you get to watch how people argue, and who flinches when names come up.
• Your eyes. The park is small and crimes are physical. Fires, explosions, fights, people sprinting away from mailboxes - the broadcast is constant, mostly stupid, and mostly true.

Reading the park

The single most useful habit: know where everyone's trailer is, and note who walks away from theirs at night. Probabilities shift fast in this game:

• Saw a barrel fire with a player standing next to it? That is not subtle - public fire-setting is the fastest way into your notebook, and launch-week Pyromaniacs got arrested for exactly this.
• Watch the store and the saloon. The Dealer and Cook's customers cycle through, and the Junkie's "buy weed" urge is the cleanest tell in the game.
• Watch who goes quiet. The Snitch blends by seeming ordinary; a player who stops talking when crimes start happening is worth a second look later.
• Watch pockets, not people. The Thief hits bodies, not buildings - money and items vanish around players, not trailers, when the Thief is working.

Do not stare at screens; you cannot see through walls. You win with pattern memory: ten minutes in, you should know who lives where, who drinks at the saloon, and who has been doing the exact same suspicious errand as three other suspects.

Working with your Snitch

Your Snitch is a suspect-shaped player with a phone problem. Every report they send is a risk for both of you, so make their reports count:

• Read every text at once. Reports arrive while you are mid-watch; a stale report is a wasted one.
• Ask for specifics. "Someone was creepy" is not actionable; "Creep lingered outside Dana's window twice" is a call you can justify.
• Protect the identity. You know who the Snitch is. Never hint at it, never treat them differently in a meeting, and never say their name when accusing anyone else.
• Do not call the police on your own Snitch. There is an achievement for making that mistake work ("Deep Cover") - it is a stunt, not a strategy.

Timing your police calls

A wrong call is not just wasted - it is a public apology moment that teaches the park you are guessing. Build to a standard:

1. Early round: almost never call. Suspects are doing their maintenance urges; the patterns are not readable yet.
2. Mid round: start building a case on one or two names. Verify with a second sighting or a Snitch report before you dial.
3. Late round: calls are cheap and the park is desperate. Bank them for the people you cannot clear.

Two achievements map the extremes of this skill: "A Safe Community" (three correct arrests in a row with no wrong arrest) versus the sad truth of the player threads, where everyone admits their first calls were vibes. Start slow.

Meetings as pressure

Meetings are the suspects' invention, but they are your best reading room. Say little, watch a lot:

• Accusations reveal what people know. A player who suddenly has detailed knowledge of illegal behaviour either saw it or did it.
• Panic votes are your friend. When someone folds under light questioning, remember the name for your next call.
• Do not run the meeting. A Supervisor who dominates the conversation becomes the story, and suspects will spend the meeting building a case against you instead of each other.

Common Supervisor mistakes

• Spending calls on nobody. The police are not a mood; they are a resource. One arrest that you can explain is worth five you cannot.
• Ignoring the phone. The Snitch is texting you; a Supervisor who never reads their messages is playing a man down.
• Only watching the loud players. The Hobo who lives in other trailers and the Snitch playing quietly are the hardest roles to spot and the ones you lose to.
• Letting one criminal family run rampant. If the scoreboard says the Dealer has been out three rounds selling in front of the same trailer, that trailer is a case, not a coincidence.

Related guides

• The other point of view: Snitch guide
• What the criminals have to do every round: sanity and urges
• Learn the map before you need to chase somebody: map and landmarks
• All roles in one table: roles guide

Last checked: September 20, 2026 - game version 1.0.3. Role mechanics from the official store page, tutorials shown in launch-week streams and community reports; the Supervisor's exact scoring is not fully documented by the studio yet, so call thresholds in this guide are guidelines, not rules.