Lord and Lady Westing’s Will is one of our more challenging murder mystery games to run online. The game is set in an English country house with numerous private bedrooms to sneak into. Our rules for searching the rooms involve talking to the host (because you probably don’t have an English country house of your own to run the game in). Different...
Kelly in Michigan has tried both Reunion with Death and Death in Venice, and has shared her story (and some great tips) with us. “Thanks for making the online versions of the games! We tried both of them. I don’t think I am qualified to review Reunion With Death though. The first time around I was going through stuff and made a mess of it. The...
Our murder mystery game newsletter featuring news of a new game, games that the host can play too, and practical tips about hosting our regular games online
We occasionally receive criticism about the role of the host: some people want to be able to host a murder mystery game and play it at the same time. While we’ve written before about hosting and playing our games, it’s not always satisfactory because of what the host needs to know and manage. But that changes with Death in Venice and Reunion with...
We've just released another game specifically designed to be played online during this unprecedented lockdown – Death in Venice. Death in Venice is for 5-9 players (and one host) and is again designed to be played using video chat (Zoom, Hangouts, or whatever your favourite is). Last night at the glamorous Venice Film Festival, controversial...
A Heroic Death is one of our more complex games in terms of moving parts - it has superpowers and hidden identities and specific locations. So we never thought it would be a candidate for online play during coronavirus lockdown. How wrong we were! Eve Bennett successfully ran A Heroic Death with her friends spread across three cities, two in...
One of our customers, Peal, got in touch with us recently to share with us a site they had prepared for lockdown Murder at Sea with 20 guests. We’re really impressed - it’s a great way to set the scene for your online murder mystery party. They built their site using Google sites. I’m not sure if they used one of the templates or if they built it...
Our murder mystery newsletter, featuring a new game (Reunion with Death) written to be played online during lockdown! And tips for playing our games online.
To help with those Coronavirus lockdown blues, we've just released our latest game - Reunion with Death. Reunion with Death is for 6-9 players (and one host as usual) and has been written to be played online in lockdown, using video chat. We've included detailed instructions for using Google Hangouts, but you can use any system that you are...
Following on from our last post about running a A Will To Murder in lockdown, we have another lockdown story - Way out West. Paul Barnard used Zoom and ownCloud (a bit like Dropbox or Microsoft OneDrive) to run Way out West across five houses. Here's how he did it. Way out West across five houses “With the Covid-19 isolation policies in place it...