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.
After a murder mystery party we like to get feedback from our players. We primarily do this to improve our games, but I’ve started asking for stories. As well as celebrating the party’s success, stories are the only way I get to discover what happened. (As host, I am often the last person to find out what’s going on.) Post-party feedback So after...
In our last post, Mark R told us about Kumospace, a spacial chat app he used to host Death in Venice. So I thought I’d try it out and successfully ran Reunion with Death using Kumospace. Reunion with Death on Kumospace - the pop-out map showing the whole floor is on the right So here are my tips for using Kumospace: Names: Ask everyone to change...
Mark R recently wrote to tell us about Kumospace. In Mark’s words… We did Reunion with Death back in 2020 using Zoom. The game was great, but Zoom is a bit clunky since the host must admit people to rooms. Kumospace layout I just bought Death in Venice. I'll use a different service this time: Kumospace. I haven't used it yet (other than to play...