Description
Reunion with Death is a murder mystery party 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
| See stories and pictures from Reunion with Death |
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
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 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 mysteries 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.
“Thank you for a great site, fantastic games, good service and very quick reply. Keep up the good work.” Ole Martin Brodwall, Norway
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, drop us a line at info@freeformgames.com with the name of the game and the email address you used to purchase it, and we’ll resend it.
Sam Soo (store manager) –
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.
Mike Munoz (store manager) –
What a great way to do a murder mystery without anyone having to leave their home. We loved Reunion with Death… We had a few concerns on how this would work online, but it did! We played on google hangouts and used a Facebook group chat where we were able to change the names to our character names. Private chats were happening by text, messenger, and phone calls. It was great. Once again a great story and a great game!
Terence Smith (store manager) –
Hosted Reunion with Death on the weekend and it was an absolute blast! …
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 … All in all another successful murder mystery! Thanks a heap.
Kristen Hanneman (store manager) –
I am hopeless when it comes to computer skills, but the instructions for how to host Reunion with Death over google hangouts were so simple and clear, I had no problem setting up the rooms and sending out links … 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.