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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...

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Looking back at 2022

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...

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Freeform Games’ review of 2021

As you might expect, the pandemic dominated 2021 for Freeform Games, but we slowly started to recover from 2020.We’ve been doing these reviews since 2013 – you can read them all here. Online and offline play While 2020 showed a strong interest in playing our games online (using Zoom or similar), in 2021 we sold fewer copies of our online games...

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Freeform Games in 2020

Unsurprisingly, 2020 was all about the pandemic for Freeform Games. 2020 had started well, with sales in January and February building on 2019 (which was a good year for us). And then in March the pandemic properly reached the UK and USA and our sales dropped off a cliff… We’ve been doing these reviews since 2013 – you can read them all here....

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Freeform Games in 2019

We're mid-way through January so it's time to look back and see how the last twelve months have been. I don’t like to do this in December, because the year isn’t fully over and we haven’t tallied all the sales. Death on the Gambia We’ve been doing these reviews since 2013 - you can read them all here. 2019 continued to build on the success of...

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Looking back at 2018

It’s the start of a new year, and that means it’s time for our traditional time to reflect on the previous year. We’ve been doing this since 2013. Hollywood Lies 2018 was our best year so far in terms of sales. We sold 28% more games on 2017, and we finally beat our 2011 previous best. No doubt the drop in the exchange rate has helped us there -...

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Looking back at 2017

It’s the start of a new year, and that means it’s time for our traditional time to reflect on the previous year. We’ve been doing this since 2013. 2017 was pretty successful for us in terms of sales, as we were slightly up on 2016 sales, although 2011 still reigns supreme. However, in terms of things that we planned to do… that’s a different...

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2016: Better than expected

It’s the start of a new year, and that means it’s time for our traditional time to reflect on the previous year. We did this last year, in 2014 and 2013. 2016 was an extraordinary year in many ways. Here at the Freeform Games HQ, we’re pretty happy with how 2016 went for us. Sales overall were up 29% on 2015, and it was our second-best year ever...

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Looking back at 2015

It’s the start of a new year and that means it’s time for us to look back and reflect on how we did last year. We did this last year, and for 2013 before that. Sales overall were up 7% on 2014, and it was our best since 2012. Sales might have been even higher, but for some website problems - more on that below. Hopefully this trend will continue...

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Looking back at 2014

So it’s that time of year again when we look back at the past twelve months and review how we did. We did this for 2013, and now it’s time for 2014. Sales overall - a bit flat 2014 was overall a bit flat for us - a rise of just over 1%. However, that figure hides quite a bit of good news, as although the first few months were generally very bad,...

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