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...
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.)...
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...
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...
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.
In this newsletter: a new game (The Roswell Incident), extra characters for Murder on the Dancefloor, updated versions of Way out West and Death on the Gambia, and a playtest opportunity.
Our ongoing project to update our games to our latest format continues with Davy Jones’ Locker and Way out West. Davy Jones’ Locker We completed this earlier in the year but forgot to mention it here on our blog. Davy Jones’ Locker is our shipboard game of pirates in the Caribbean. The Libra is sailing from Tortuga to Florida – but with so many...
2022 felt like the pandemic was finally behind us. While COVID-19 is still around, it’s not the terror it once was, and the world (or at least, our part of it) is on the road to recovery. From our perspective, that means people are gathering in groups – and where there are gatherings, there are murder mystery parties! The recovery that started in...
Using a Google Form to help cast Murder on the Istanbul Express murder mystery game.
Our newsletter featuring a new game and some updates to older games.