What you are describing is a desire for the mech-play aspect of playing mafia (in contrast to the social/dayplay/reads aspect of mafia). I will say this site does have a preference to the latter but it doesn't mean the former does not exist.
The thing about mechanical play is that often times, heavy mechanical play setups can devolve at worst into (
https://wiki.mafiascum.net/index.php?title=Dethy) dethy setups where the game becomes a flow chart of sorts. This isn't fun for anyone because there is no variance of gameplay or real skill involved. Setups tend to avoid this.
Another way to have heavier mechanical setups is to rely on nightplay and power roles to spice things up, but the issue here is you need to be the power-role user to engage in the mechanical aspect of the game, and to engage in these mechanical plays does require the social element of forming reads, but you don't necessarily need to do so collaboratively. However I will add that it is possible to engage in mechanical aspect as a non-power role, but this is highly dangerous and requires fakeclaiming and gambits that need lots and lots of experience and skill to pull off, and even if you have the qualities it can go horribly wrong and very rarely is the right play. You find these type of closed setups in the normal queue mainly, but I will say that site balance dictates that nightplay and therefore mechanical play should never determine the outcome of the game and once again reads needs to come out ontop.
semi open suck.
There are open setups that have mechanical play through power roles as well, and the emphasis there is to play around by protecting these power roles. Then you have the absolutely chaotic setups with everyone having power roles, look for Idea games, UPicks, Role Madness for setups where everyone has some power role and you will eventually have to engage in forming a plan in stringing everyone's power role actions to solve the game. These setups are wild, but arguably its about trusting reads again, because these setups are the easiest to fakeclaim in so once again you have to find the scummiest players blah blah blah.
Now, it's hard to avoid the dichotomy of voting out who the scummiest is, but there are certainly setups that alter the elimination mechanic or have some public mechanic that is so impactful, you have to engage in a different type of thinking. For example, FakeGod mods these dance games that require people to pair up and then eliminate the pairs with only one nightkill, and what results in these setups is its about finding the top town pairs, a different type of mechanical play that requires townhunting and figuring out optimal pairs, but once again this requires "reads" and unfortunately for some, a lot of experience with the playerlist because meta analysis is very prevalent in these type of setups. Of course it would be helpful if you could catch the next time he runs an anonymous alt dance game in the large theme queue.
Some other setups that had strategy in them I have played where
viewtopic.php?f=56&t=81030 (Baton Pass) and
viewtopic.php?f=56&t=82018 (Titus vs Alisae). These games had such a warp to them, but for these heavy dayplay based mechanical setups, optimal solutions aren't necessarily a collabrative thing and are very vulnerable to quarterbacking, where one person dictatorially controls the game. I personally find it very interesting to play in these "dictator" style games because its a very diferent dynamic but most people find these games to be annoying and toxic. Titus vs Alisae was a draft setup, so there was the element of figuring out who scum drafted onto their team, but the game was only made interesting because there were a lot of competent scum players in the playerlist so we had to lean a bit on associatives and draft spec and coming up with nightplay (only made possible by the setup having a town treestump) than just culling bottom up.
What I'm kinda saying is you won't find games on this site that are divorced from reads, hell 99% of games on this site are focused on the reads aspect of the game, because it's bad design and boring if you focus on mechanical play and divorce yourself from the social aspect of forming reads etc. However there are plenty of setups if you look for them that have the option to be reads + strategy, of course the more you focus on strategy, the more other issues appear, but they exist and can be fun. But, setups that are reads + strategy and still highly focused on dayplay require experience to be more enjoyable and a very good playerlist of players who can play scum well enough not to roll over and die (and of course a general consensus that scum won't roll over and die), then you have to lean into other aspects outside of reads. But the coming up with plans in these playerlists and dayplay setups might not be your cup of tea either, its less about correct night actions and more about building consensus in a stubborn world and finding pre-flip associations so you strategically flip for teams rather than going bottoms up. But they exist, large themes are your best bet for these type of setups. But it does take a bit of site experience to find playerlists that have so many players that are willing to put up a fight and don't have obvious tells so you can get into the meat of the game and are forced to lean on other aspects of the game than going bottom up to win, since bottom up can't beat good scum players who are sitting at the top.
