Karolina Soltys, author of A Purrfect Murder, appears in this video speaking at the Immersive Experience Network’s Live Immersive Design Symposium in October 2023.
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Freeform Games murder mystery blog
Our new murder mystery games website
We’ve recently redecorated our murder mystery games website, hopefully making it more attractive, user-friendly and easier for us to maintain.
Freeform Games newsletter May 2024: Playtesters needed!
Welcome to the latest issue of our occasional newsletter! In this issue we ask for playtesters for our new game, review our tips for beginners, and rummage through our mailbox. Enjoy! Mo and StevePlaytesters for Backstage Business Backstage Business is our new game, set in 1986 after a rock band’s gig. Players include band members, the crew and...
Jubensha script murder games
I hadn’t heard of Jubensha until a few days ago, but Jubensha script murder games are a kind of Chinese murder mystery game – and they’re huge! Here’s the video that introduced them to me. (You don’t need to watch the whole thing – the first five or ten minutes give you a pretty good idea of what jubensha involves.)...
Le Pharaon Maudit
France Murder, our French partner has just published Le Pharaon Maudit, a translation of Curse of the Pharaoh. Le Pharaon Maudit is a murder mystery game for 7 to 19 guests and is set at an archaeological dig in Egypt in the 1890s.There's also an introductory video on along with photos of the playtest, both on Facebook. Click here to learn more...
Freeform Games’ review of 2023
2023 was Freeform Games' most successful year in sales since we started in 2001. Growth has continued strongly since the end of the pandemic, and our sales have finally beaten our pre-pandemic best. We’ve been doing these reviews since 2013 – you can read them here. Best-selling games Our best-selling games for 2023 were Way out West, A Speakeasy...
Freeform Games newsletter December 2023: A Purrfect Murder
Our latest newsletter with details about A Purrfect Murder (our new game), our new shop, Christmas murder mystery games and games in French and German.
Spellbound photos
Earlier we mentioned Melissa Midcap using A Dead Man's Chest for a Spanish exam. In 2022, she used Spellbound: "This year (2022) we were allowed to have the full dinner/game for the final exam for my upper-level Spanish classes. So, Spanish 3 and 4 had an absolute blast with Spellbound ('Hechizados'). "The casting worked out perfectly! The...
Court in the Act photos
Alice Mottola sent us some wonderfully atmospheric photographs of her Court in the Act party. Click here to learn more about Court in the Act. Court in the Act is available in French as La Reine est en Danger.
Casino Fatale in Singapore
Bev Postma hosted Casino Fatale in Singapore for New Year's Eve. She writes: "Happy New Year to all at Freeform Games! We had a fantastic night on New Year’s Eve thanks to Casino Fatale. We staged the game at Brasserie Gavroche (aka Hotel d’Etoile) with a real Parisian Chef and a real Parisian Casino Manager. We even played a recording of...