Reunion with Death

Rated 4.00 out of 5 based on 2 customer ratings

£26.99

Reunion with Death is a downloadable present-day murder mystery game for 6 to 9 people where the host can play too. Mikolette Lukanis, former prom queen, has been killed just before the 15-year high-school reunion gala party. But who is the murderer? This includes, free of charge, a Christmas version of the game. Written by Mo Holkar. Recommended for ages 18+.

SKU: 72 Category: Murder mystery games Tags: 18+, Beginner-friendly, Bestselling, For up to 9 guests, Host can play, Mo Holkar, No combat or poison, Present day

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Reunion with Death is a murder mystery game for 6 to 9 people where the host can play too. It is set at a high-school reunion in small-town America, in the present day. Download the free introductory pdf file.

Reunion with Death is an evening of high-school grudges, present-day rivalries, and murder! Your guests will be in the middle of the action, and it will be up to them to wheel and deal to get what they want. Will they achieve their goals, keep their secrets hidden, and survive Reunion with Death?

Reunion with Death comes bundled with Christmas Reunion with Death – it's the same game, but with a Christmas theme, ideal for holiday season parties!

"I thought everything about Reunion with Death was great! The interwoven storylines were good, I liked the clues and the slow release of information throughout the evening."
Cerys

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Read the Holborrow Courier-Bugle

A 15-year high-school reunion, in smallish-town America. Former students are gathering in the town's main hotel, ahead of the big party tonight. But one of them, former prom queen Mikolette Lukanis, has been found murdered!

Everyone is locked in together in the hotel ballroom where the gala was to have taken place, pending a full police investigation. High-school rivalries will re-emerge, old grudges and secrets will surface: along with a heady mix of present-day envy, betrayal, and lust.

Get out your glad rags, consult your old high-school yearbook, head for the complementary bar, and join the alumni of Holborrow High as they prepare for their Reunion with Death!

Reunion with Death lasts for about four hours and is suited to an evening. It is often played over a meal – a finger buffet if possible, to allow guests to circulate and talk in private.

"I have hosted at least 8 in-person Freeform Games murder mystery parties, so I was excited to do a virtual one for once!… Reunion with Death was SO fun! Everyone had a great time, and is still talking to me and each other about it!… Overall, I am VERY satisfied, and they all keep asking me when the next one will be!"
Rob Newbold, United States

One of our more straightforward murder mystery games, suitable for beginner hosts.

No combat, no poison.

The host can either play one of the characters or can just be the host, as they prefer.

The free introductory pdf file contains an introduction to the game, a cast list of all the characters, and a copy of the Holborrow Courier-Bugle.

Cast of characters

Locals, living in Holborrow

Elizabeth Rondel: Former library monitor, now a police officer.
Frieda Gilbert: Former ‘nice girl’, now a beautician.
Ross Tallowah: Former swim team star, now runs a cafe.
Suzanne Cardigan: Former goth outsider, now a journalist.
Taylor Michaels: Former science whiz, now cares for elderly parents.

Returned from out-of-town

Charles Masinga: Former high-school-band member, now a professional musician.
Damian Lukanis: Former chess club captain, married to Mikolette Lukanis, now an architect.
Jay Fitzgerald: Dropped out of high school, now a software developer.
Rowan Silverberg: Former grade-A student, inherited money and now a dilettante.

Reunion with Death is for 6 to 9 players:

6 players (2 male, 2 female, 2 any)
7 players (2 male, 2 female, 3 any)
8 players (3 male, 3 female, 2 any)
9 players (3 male, 3 female, 3 any)

You also need a host – someone to organize the party and ensure everything runs smoothly. That can be a separate person – or the host can also play one of the characters in the game. It's up to you.

How Freeform Games murder mystery games work

Reunion with Death is unlike other murder mystery games. Although the game starts with a murder, each character has several goals they must try to accomplish. While they may want to solve the murder, Reunion with Death contains plenty of other plots and secrets to keep everyone busy. Reunion with Death isn't scripted, and lets the players decide how to achieve their goals and thwart their enemies.

"We've played Reunion with Death twice – I hosted for some of our regulars and for my daughter and her friends (800 miles north of us). It was well received by both groups."
Mark Rickert, United States

On the evening of the game the guests are met by the organizer, the Hotel Manager, and welcomed to the Sturner Palace Hotel.

They each have their detailed backgrounds – including dark secrets and personal objectives. The fun then begins as they form alliances, blackmail each other, lie, cheat, and deceive! Along the way they may uncover some of the mysteries of Reunion with Death. Who is secretly a drug kingpin? How, fifteen years ago, did high-school girl Marcie Matthews die? What will be the fate of local radio station KHOL? And, of course, who is the murderer of Mikolette Lukanis?

Finally, the game concludes and everyone finds out how they did, and what secrets everyone else was concealing.

And the host can play too! Unlike most of our other games, the host can also play a character in Reunion with Death. Just be careful not to read the file that's marked as secret, if you plan to do that. (Or if you want to just host the game, without playing a character, you can do that as well.)

Recommended for ages 18+

We recommend Reunion with Death for those aged 18+, as it includes references to drug use, extra-marital affairs, and homosexuality.

Extra characters

Sometimes you have too many guests and need more characters. So most games have free extra characters (written by us or previous hosts) included in the download when you purchase the game.

Parker Biggins – tobacco shop owner from a nearby town (Any)
(by John Mulheren)

Please note that we haven't always tested these – and they may not tie in exactly with our games.

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Cast Iron Guarantee

We offer a Cast Iron Guarantee on all our murder mystery games. If you're not completely satisfied with Reunion with Death then please let us know within 30 days and we will refund you. See our full terms and conditions, and our refund policy.

Trouble downloading? If you have trouble downloading the game files, please first check your spam folder. If you still can't find the download email, contact us with the name of the game and the email address you used to purchase it, and we'll resend it.

8 reviews for Reunion with Death

Rated 4 out of 5

Adam Greene (verified owner) – 4 October 2024

Really enjoyed the game, played it as a surprise for a friend’s birthday and were kept guessing until the end! Only marked lower because the games with 15-16 people that I’ve played (Way Out West, Dead Man’s Chest) were even more complex and exciting. Love the games!
Rated 4 out of 5

Karin – 9 April 2024

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Sam Soo – 15 August 2020

I organised a group of friends, some who didn’t know each other and we had a blast with Reunion with Death. There’s not too much pre-reading required of the participants and it was great to be able to join in as a host (not overly demanding of a job).

This was my first Freeform game and I was impressed with the design, there’s enough plotlines, secrets, clues and intertwined relationships that make the time fly by. Even virtually, everyone got into their characters and once we got into a rhythm with the tech we were buzzing by the end of it. Would definitely recommend as a little escape from the lockdown and everyone is keen to join for another.
Helena Mas – 20 July 2020

We played Reunion with Death (with Microsoft Teams) and it went very well. Everyone had a great time!
Rob Newbold – 25 June 2020

I have hosted at least 8 in-person Freeformgames murder mystery parties, so I was excited to do a virtual one for once! I used Zoom for Reunion with Death, had everyone change their screen names to their character names, while I changed mine to Hotel Manager and used a generic hotel logo. The game was SO fun! Everyone had a great time, and is still talking to me and each other about it! The 2.5 or 3 hour game time was daunting to people at first, but I told them it will go so fast it will be over too soon, and they all agreed afterwards, and in fact wanted it to go on longer! For Zoom, the 'breakout rooms' was clutch. I could hop into the rooms to offer support at their request, and also I could broadcast messages to everyone no matter what room they were in. Overall, I am VERY satisfied, and they all keep asking me when the next one will be!
Mark Rickert – 18 June 2020

We’ve played Reunion with Death twice – I hosted for some of our regulars and for my daughter and her friends (800 miles north of us). It was well received by both groups. I had been concerned that a lack of items, special abilities, and combat along with less social interaction would make the game dull for veterans, but some of them actually preferred this format for a puzzly whodunit. They were able to keep all of their notes organized in front of them during the game. (Normally, we provide envelopes for them to keep their stuff (which sometimes gets dropped), so it’s not as accessible when roaming around a house – especially if you’re holding a glass of wine in the other hand.)
Terence Smith – 5 May 2020

Hosted Reunion with Death on the weekend and it was an absolute blast! Had some technical difficulties as some people couldn’t access Google Hangouts properly so ended up doing a last minute switch to using a main Zoom chat which was always active and then for individual conversations people broke into Facebook Messenger and could just mute the Zoom chat as they wished. It worked really well and everyone had a great time; feedback from one of my friends who has done a few conventional murder mysteries said she loved it and felt it was so much more high pressure than usual which was great. As a host I found it much easier to gauge people’s interest and changed up the timing of things a bit if it felt like people were hitting dead ends. All in all another successful murder mystery! Thanks a heap.
Kristen Hanneman – 20 April 2020

I have hosted several Freeform games over the years and they have all been smash hits. I usually host a game in the Spring, and I was feeling down about having to skip this season when up popped a notice about Reunion with Death, and its ability to be played remotely! I am hopeless when it comes to computer skills, but the instructions for how to host this over google hangouts were so simple and clear, I had no problem setting up the rooms and sending out links. For most Freeform games I give myself a month to put together the guest list and gather up materials, but with this game I didn't need to worry about printing out anything, and since babysitting and travel weren't a concern for the guests it was possible for me to host the party practically the day of purchase! I will admit I was skeptical – and I actually had many guests admit to me that before the party they had many misgivings about how the whole thing would go down, thinking there may be too many tech issues, worrying about how the switching between rooms would work, and believing the remote nature of the whole thing would detract from the experience. But everything went smoothly, and I'm still receiving calls from the guests telling me how much fun they had.

One bonus from the host's perspective I'd like to bring up: this game demands much less from the host than any of the other Freeform games I've played. The lack of items and abilities requiring host participation meant I wasn't constantly being called over to help with those things, so really all I needed to do was watch the time for when to send out the various announcements. This meant I had much more freedom to bounce around rooms, eavesdropping on conversations and watching my friends get into their characters. I love hosting these games, but this made for a fun change of pace. It almost felt like sitting down to watch a play, and it was easily more entertaining and better acted than several movies I have seen recently!

Thank you for continuing to provide such great experiences. Y'all's games never disappoint, and I'm looking forward to hosting many more over the years!

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How do I receive the game? Michelle asked on 30 October 2024

Hi Michelle, thank you for your interest in Reunion with Death!
When you complete your purchase, you'll be taken to a screen where you can download the game right away. You'll also be sent an email with the download link, in case it's more convenient for you to download it later or to a different computer, etc. You have the option of either purchasing as a guest, or creating an account -- if you create an account, then you can also come back to this website at any future point, log in, and download the game again.

Freeform Games answered on 30 October 2024 store manager