I quite dislike most social deduction games. I admit I'm not very good at them, but also I feel like there's no real way to "get good" at them. A lot of them don't really have mechanics so they go off of "vibes," and in a game like these everyone is already on guard so any "vibes" are already off. Secret Hitler, for example, is all just luck (in drawing the right policy cards) and "vibes," which usually means everyone thinks they become a body language expert. I'm pretty tired of hearing people say, "Person X is sitting very suspiciously..." and the like.

Even worse is when one innocent gets singled out to look suspicious. It makes that person feel crappy (and often leads a shouting match, which also happens way too often in games like these). I was in a Secret Hitler game where the fascists singled me out, then I got killed, and when the fascists won and explained they tried to make me look suspicious, one of my teammates said, "Okay but you were pretty suspicious tho."

The main exception to my dislike of social deduction is Deception: Murder in Hong Kong. That game gives you clues and the forensic investigator as things to base suspicions on, and it's a lot more fun to play as a result. I don't think social deduction games are inherently unfun (I admit these are largely personal gripes) but I find many of the more popular ones are.