Ever dreamed of cracking a cold case like a seasoned detective? Look no further! Murder mystery board games offer a thrilling way to flex your deductive skills and immerse yourself in a world of intrigue.
From classic whodunits to modern-day mysteries, these 12 board games will keep you guessing and engaged. Each title features intricate puzzles, unexpected twists, and gameplay that will have you feeling like a master sleuth.
1. Mysterium – Review
An enjoyable game where one of you becomes the ghost in the haunted manor of Mysterium. The others must discover how they died?
2. Who Dunnit! Review
The City Adventurers are quite proud of their detective skills and so we settled down to play “Who Dunnit? – Mystery at the Museum” by YULU.
3. EXIT: Dead Man on the Orient Express – Review
Dead Man on the Orient Express is more than just an escape room in a box. It is also a murder mystery. The narrative leads you through the to the final puzzle where you deduce who the murderer is.
4. Cluedo Games
The City Adventurers love playing all sorts of Cluedo Games.
As well as the original, there are TV themed games and book themed games etc
5. Paranormal Detectives
Paranormal Detectives is a competitive deduction party game where one player takes on the role of a ghost and all other players try to be the first to figure out who the killer is, in addition to how, where and why they died.
6. Mansions of Madness Second Edition
Mansions of Madness: Second Edition is a fully cooperative, app-driven board game of Lovecraftian horror and mystery. Confront four scenarios of fear and mystery.
7. Detective: A Modern crime Board Game
Solve mysterious crimes and see if you would handle the job of a true detective in a modern setting! The game includes 5 scenarios for players to solve. Use every tool at your disposal to solve these crimes
8. Chronicles of Crime
Chronicles of Crime is a cooperative game of Crime investigation mixing a board game, an app and virtual Reality. With the same physical components, players will be able to play plenty of different scenarios and solve many different cases.
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9. Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective
In this cooperative game, you are investigators working to solve 10 cases in Victorian London. Pore over a map of the city, consult Watson’s journals and the day’s newspaper for clues, and rush around London to investigate key locations and interview persons of interest.
10. Deception: Murder in Hong Kong
In Deception: Murder in Hong Kong, one player is a Forensic Scientist who can only analyse the scene. The rest are investigators, interpreting the clues to solve the crime. But hidden within them is the killer who is secretly choosing the evidence they leave behind….
11. Suspects 2: Claire Harper – 3 Mystery Scenarios
Travel from England to Switzerland, solving murders and mysteries with Claire Harper.
Three mysteries await you in Suspects each with a unique theme and twist
12. Suspects – Adele & NEUVILLE, Reporters Detectives
Adele and Neville lead the enquiry into the heart of the 60s. Three mysteries await you in Suspects, each with a unique theme and twist
