Murder Mystery Games
Immersive social deduction, murder mystery games
Dying for a dose of mystery? Craving a way to feed a debilitating true crime addiction? Want shared experiences that will keep the group chat blowing up for weeks on end? Folklore's murder mystery games are designed to create epic group experiences. They are the most interactive, engaging, and social murder mystery games on the market. Whether you're into fantasy, historical, or sci-fi storylines, we have a murder mystery game that will surprise and delight even seasoned veterans in the murder mystery and social deduction space.
Hollywood Masquerade
Publisher: Folklore
Designer: Mike Drysdale
Players: 10 - 15
Genre: Social Deduction
Sub Genre: Murder Mystery Games
Themes: 1920s Hollywood
Hollywood Masquerade's design ethos is built around mechanics that challenge players to navigate an extremely low trust, toxic information environment.
The game does this by incentivising both good and evil players to lie. This makes information harder to come by, confirming roles becomes more difficult and the process of elimination is harder rely on.
This ties into the game's secondary theme which is targeted kills. It's not enough for the killer to spray and pray, they have to deduce people's roles so they can find their target.
Monster Hunt
Publisher: Folklore
Designer: Mike Drysdale
Players: 10 - 15
Genre: Social Deduction
Sub Genre: Murder Mystery Games
Themes: Medieval Fantasy
Monster Hunt's design ethos is built around the principle of 'look before you leap'. It rewards strategic and precise gameplay especially when it comes to eliminating evil players.
Key mechanics revolve around negative effects that trigger when henchmen are voted out by the town, or the Hydra is killed before certain conditions are met.
The secondary mechanical theme is vote manipulation with three roles that have the potential to alter vote totals and reveal aspects of the game.
Titan Star: Uprising
Publisher: Folklore
Designer: Mike Drysdale
Players: 10 - 15
Genre: Social Deduction
Sub Genre: Murder Mystery Games
Themes: Sci-Fi
Titan Star's design ethos is built around transformations and double claims. With twin roles, double agents, and sleeper cells, you'll be doing the Spiderman meme in no time.
Titan star is our only game where a number of players start the game as conscripts: a role with no ability, that may be trained, brainwashed, or experimented on to gain new abilities.
It also up ends a classic social deduction trope. In Titan Star: Uprising - The good team are the informed minority. They play resistance fighters infiltrating an evil enemy base.
Murder Mystery Games That Let You Play Both Sides
Because Folklore's murder mystery games are built on social deduction game systems, players aren't simply investigators working their way through old case files looking for hidden clues. You become characters in the story - and not just on the good side either. Players might take on the role of a fearsome monster capable of taking human form. They could be henchmen aiding the monster in destroying a village or antagonists helping a crazed fan go unnoticed as they infiltrate a glitzy Hollywood party.
Perfect for Highly Interactive Murder Mystery Parties
Nobody has enough information to solve the mystery on their own. So as soon as people start interacting - the game's social dynamics, the need to bluff and form alliances create a raucous party atmosphere in no time. As nominations open and the wild accusations start flying, you'll be in fits of laughter as your friends defend themself... or don't!
Designed to Suit Many Different Playstyles
An evil team might brazenly lie and lead accusations against good players, or they might sit back and let the good team fight amongst themselves. Player's can speak publicly, or split off into groups or pairs and share their information more privately. Folklore's games cater to extroverts and introverts alike, combining strategic puzzle solving logic and social deduction gameplay for broad appeal.
Endless Replayability
As your guests embrace their hidden identities, they actively impact and create the story in real time. Meaning every play through is unique and there is no predetermined outcome! The good team could track down and bring the monster/ killer to justice in just a few rounds, or you could be locked in a titanic struggle, trying to overcome the evil team's misinformation before it's too late. Delving deeper into the various roles reveals new strategies, and leads to even more possibilities as every player plays each hidden identity slightly differently.