We have a packed issue, with our newest game, a competition, and another call for playtesters. Plus we visit a larp festival in Leeds, appear on a podcast and more.
Scene of the Crime: A Haunting in Hartwick
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Freeform Games murder mystery blog
Using online voting for your murder mystery party awards
One of our experienced customers shared a tip for making these awards easier: use online voting to make tallying the votes quick and painless.
Looking back at 2025
So how was 2025 for Freeform Games? In summary, we published more games (yay!), but sales were flat (hmmm).
Scene of the Crime: Christmas is coming – and another playtest!
Our Christmas 2025 newsletter, which talks about Christmas games, tips for Hollywood Lies, looks at murderers and their victims – and calls for playtesters!
Murderers and their victims in murder mystery games
We had a recent query about the gender of our murderers, as a customer was looking for games with female murderers.
Tips for Hollywood Lies from the Peoples Theatre
Tips for Hollywood Lies from the People’s Theatre including set dressing, awards, multiple hosts, posters and more.
Scene of the Crime: two new games!
This time we have two new games, a story about a customer from 20 years ago and a 20% discount code.
Customer returns after 20 years!
An old customer contacted us and we were able to let her access the games she bought nearly 20 years ago!
Scene of the Crime: Playtesters needed!
Welcome to the Freeform Games murder mystery newsletter.
This time, we are looking for playtesters, updating Lei’d to Rest, sharing an idea for creating player scoresheets and talking about our catalog.
The Freeform Games catalog
What happened to our long list of games – and where can you find it now?