Dawson Oaks Trailer Park Game Roles — Suspects, Supervisor and Snitch

Dawson Oaks Trailer Park game roles come in three tiers, and the match only makes sense once you can tell them apart. Most players are suspects drawn from eleven unique criminal roles, one player is the Supervisor who wants the criminals arrested, and one player is the Snitch who pretends to be a suspect while secretly reporting to the Supervisor. The Steam store description lays out the suspects, the Supervisor, and the Snitch in that order, and the recorded community sessions show how differently the three tiers behave in practice. This page collects the documented role list, the urge fingerprints that give each role away, and the practical reads that experienced crews use.

This page is compiled from the official Steam store page, the Steam Community hub, and credited community gameplay recordings; role behaviours that appear in only one recording are marked to confirm.

What the Roles Do in a Match

Each tier wants a different outcome, which is why the same behaviour can look innocent to one player and damning to another. Suspects want to commit their urges, stay out of jail, and vote out the Snitch. The Supervisor wants arrests and only gains ground when they have usable information. The Snitch wants to look like a suspect, keep the Supervisor supplied with evidence, and avoid the vote. The Steam page is explicit that the Supervisor has power only through information, which is the design reason the Snitch exists at all.

Tier	Documented job	Main risk
Suspects	Commit role-specific urges to stay sane and clean up the park	Being exposed by public purchases or by someone seeing their role items
Supervisor	Watch everyone, work out who is doing what, and call the police	Calling the police with no evidence and losing the lobby's trust
Snitch	Blend in, track behaviour, and secretly report to the Supervisor	Being voted out, because the Snitch loses the moment the crew identifies them

The recorded session shows this tension immediately: one suspect was arrested after a photo of a crowbar was shared, another was caught by the Supervisor on the phone, and the Snitch spent the match trying to look like the most enthusiastic criminal in the room. In a game built on proximity voice chat, the tier you belong to is the thing you must hide rather than the thing you must announce.

The Eleven Suspect Roles

The Steam store page lists eleven suspects by name, and the funniest detail is that several of them describe their urge right in the title. A Junkie is going to buy and use drugs, a Gambler is going to be at the slot machine, a Thief is going to break into rooms, and a Pyromaniac is going to set things on fire. The recorded session walks through the Junkie urge list in detail and shows the Gambler cover character at the bar, which is why the community treats the store, the bar, and any open trailer as the three highest-information locations in the park.

Suspect role	What the name documents	Documented or reported signal
Drug Dealer	A suspect who deals drugs	Associated with observed drug handovers in the recorded session
Junkie	A suspect with a drug urge	Urge list includes buying weed and getting high in a trailer
Moonshine Cook	A suspect who brews moonshine	Alcohol supply is a shared bar activity; exact urge to confirm
Creep	A suspect who creeps around	Recorded session describes park behaviour that reads as the Creep
Scrapper	A suspect who collects scrap	Exact urge to confirm
Pyromaniac	A suspect who lights fires	Fire-setting behaviour is the documented read
Gambler	A suspect who gambles	Urge list includes slot machine wins, borrowing money, cigarettes, and energy drinks
Thief	A suspect who steals	A crowbar in hand is the read the recorded crew used
Drunk	A suspect who drinks	Bar and alcohol activity is the shared location signal
Prankster	A suspect who pranks people	The mailbox-destroying question in the Steam discussions points to prank objectives
Hobo	A suspect on the margins of the park	Exact urge to confirm

Supervisor and Snitch: The Two Hidden Roles

The two non-suspect roles are the only players who know more than the lobby, and the Steam page gives both of them a distinct win condition. The Supervisor watches everyone, figures out who is doing what, and calls the police before it is too late, but the page warns that the Supervisor has power only if they have information. The Snitch blends in as a suspect, tracks everyone's behaviour, and secretly reports everything to the Supervisor, and the page adds that the Snitch knows more than anyone else but is finished if the crew identifies them.

In the recorded session the Supervisor ran the loyalty check over messages and phone calls, and the Snitch's job looked exactly as advertised: gather sightings, send photos, and stay in character. The Supervisor cannot simply arrest people, because the police is another player who needs a reason, so the Snitch's reports are the supply line that turns a suspicion into a removal. That is why the vote matters so much: removing the Snitch early starves the Supervisor, while missing the Snitch at a meeting lets the reports keep flowing.

• The Supervisor's tool kit is information, not force, so an accusation with no evidence costs the role credibility.
• The Snitch should mirror the group's energy, because the role carries a sanity drainer that makes crime costly and can produce tells.
• The police is a played role, so the Supervisor's call is a request that a real player has to act on.
• If the Snitch is voted out, the Supervisor is left with guesses, which is the suspect side's main comeback window.

Urges Are the Role Fingerprint

Urges are the mechanism that makes roles visible without telling anyone your role. The Steam page states that waiting to commit them makes you unstable and easier to expose, and the recorded session shows how specific they are: the Junkie is told to get high in their own trailer, buy weed, get high in someone else's trailer, and spray air freshener, while the gambling cover character is told to win money at the slot machine, borrow money from another player, smoke a cigarette, and drink an energy drink. Those lists are effectively public fingerprints once the crew knows which urge belongs to which role, which is why the notebook is the most important tool in the game.

The Snitch is the exception. The recorded session notes that the Snitch gets an exclusive urge that other roles never receive and that crime drains Snitch sanity instead of restoring it, so a Snitch who tries to keep up with the criminal majority is fighting the design. The practical read for everyone else is that you should compare a player's visible behaviour against the notebook's urge list before you accuse them, because the game rewards matching a purchase or a location to a documented urge rather than guessing from personality.

Documented urge	Role it points to	Where it is easy to witness
Buy weed and get high	Junkie	Store handover and any trailer interior
Win money at the slot machine, borrow money	Gambler	The bar and the player-to-player money transfers
Break into rooms	Thief	Locked doors and other players' trailers
Set fires and burn property	Pyromaniac	Open outdoor areas of the park

• Use the notebook before the vote, because the suspect pages list urges and turn behaviour into evidence.
• Treat a public purchase as a confession when it matches a documented urge for a criminal role.
• Remember that the Snitch's exclusive urge is unprovable to the crew, which is why the role hides in the group.
• Watch the bar and the store during quiet stretches, since those are where urges are easiest to observe.

Reading Roles in Practice

The fastest way to learn the roles is to treat the first match as a mapping exercise rather than a test. Note who visits the store, who spends time at the bar, and who keeps showing up near other players' trailers, then match those habits against the urge lists in your notebook. The recorded session is a useful negative example: the crew voted on personality and disputed sightings, missed the real Snitch, and let the Supervisor keep feeding evidence into the phone system. Behaviour that survives cross-checking with the store log beats a confident accusation every time.

• Track three habits per player: store purchases, time at the bar, and visits to other trailers.
• Report sightings in the meeting with a location and a time so the crew can verify them together.
• Protect the notebook habit all match, because it turns a hunch into something the lobby can check.
• Expect duplicates and requests such as a Jester role to stay unconfirmed, and play what the store page documents.

The systems that surround the role list are covered elsewhere on the site: the how-to-play page walks the tutorial and the vote, the gameplay page explains the full match loop, and the multiplayer page covers party size and lobby settings.