Murder in 1985 | A Virtual Murder Mystery

My friends and I haven't actually played the game yet, but I am coordinating with them for next weekend via Zoom. We live in the northeast and it's starting to get too cold at night to do things outside so we are looking for virtual activities to keep our spirits up. I am coordinating pushing out information through a Facebook Event. It's been a great way to send some additional information to get people excited. We are doing Murder in 1985 so I sent a link to an 80's montage video and a link to popular cocktails from the 1980's. People are really getting into it and working on their customers and backgrounds. I was a little worried at first that the coordination would be complex and it would be hard for me to organize, but the documentation, with a timeline and checklist, has been fantastic and very easy to understand. I'm already looking forward to doing more of these over the winter! P.S. I plan to play the role of the detective, so I looked ahead to see who dunnit and who had critical other roles so that I could assign my most reliable friends the key characters. I also tried to match characters to personalities that I thought would be a good fit. We are all really looking forward to our murder mystery night!!! ---------------------------------- From MMP Staff: The host can and should play along! You can easily play a character and not know anything, as the spoilers are all in a separate file (& video with some games) that doesn't need to be opened until after the game is played. We're super glad you had fun, though! But next time - be a character :)

Our group of 8 enjoyed the game. We enjoyed the pre-game activities to get into character. During the game, we got a bit confused about how much to disclose and when, but easily addressed by the host resetting the group. The videos were good. For the host, there was a bit more work than expected so give yourself some time to prepare and setup. Having the videos and instructions ready for sharing is key. We will definitely come back for another game in future.

My son wanted to do a murder mystery party for his 15th birthday. I wasn't sure how we were going to do this and keep socially distanced, so was pleasantly surprised to find My Murder Mystery Party when I googled "virtual murder mystery parties." My older daughter did one from this same company a few years ago and it was a big hit. My son and his friends ended up having a great time- and many of their parents let me know that it was just what their kid needed! Being that they are teenage boys, I was worried at first that they wouldn't take it seriously. It also seemed that it took a little bit for them to get really in to it, but once it got rolling, they were all fully participating and getting in to it (I didn't play, but followed along and kept the timeline going. My son also asked me to assign his friends their characters so he wouldn't know who was essential and who wasn't). I got a little worried that I had made a big mistake. Near the end of the party, when they were deliberating who they thought the killer was, I realized that I had mistaken the character of one of the kids that had to drop at the last minute. He was an essential character! I was panicking that maybe he was the killer and that I had ruined the entire thing. My younger daughter, who also didn't play, watched the reveal video and thankfully that person wasn't it. PHEW! I never did admit my error to my son. shhh... ;)

I hosted the party w/ 10 guests over Zoom. Everyone said they had fun and it was a great time. We played one bonus game which people were into. It took about 2 hours to complete. We just took a 5-10 min intermission break between rounds. During the breaks I played 80s music and had the guests answer an 80s themed poll between rounds. Already planning my next virtual murder mystery!

We had a great time, this was my first virtual party (I have purchased and hosted 3 other regular murder mystery parties-which I now consider a hobby! LOL) and I wasn't sure what to expect. We only played the 6 main characters and all of us have played murder mystery games before and had a great time! It took us just over an hour. I would suggest making sure everyone takes their time and make sure to read everything on your scripts! We are already planning the next one with more characters!

Absolutely loved it! Just spend some time before the event reading it all and planning it and it’s easy. It’s great it comes with video links so it looks super professional. It’s not hard give everyone a character, each round people read their scripts! We loved it!

My high schoolers ran this over zoom and it was amazing!!!! One of our best events this year since Covid hit.

A bit tougher than some of the others, but some great characters to get into and definitely possible to solve if you pay close attention to all the evidence.

This was my first time attending or hosting a murder mystery so I was a little nervous! On top of it, I had all 16 characters but one of the main characters dropped out 1 hour before! I managed to switch a non-essential character to the missing main character last minute and after that everything rolled out smoothly. We had no issues doing this over zoom but I would say that the host needs to be savvy with Zoom as there is a lot of screen/audio share exc. Everyone really got into character and really enjoyed it! only 2 people guessed who the murderer was but perhaps we were having too much fun to really think too hard about the evidence! , I would defo do this again, thanks

Definitely a great night. Well thought out characters and storyline. We were all engaged all night and definitely felt like a night together while being socially distant.

We had a really fun night celebrating my husband's birthday virtually. There were 10 of us in total and we had such a giggle. The resources were fantastic - including the videos and character information. We were all a bit self-conscious at first, but soon embraced our characters and had such a fun time.!

Loved this. Well prepared from the pre-game tasks to the script and PDF evidence files. Ran very smoothly on Zoom. Agree with top tips for everyone to change their screen name to their character. Everyone really got into character including accents which meant lots of laughs. We didn’t take the crime solving tasks too seriously (had a few drinks by that point!) so only one out of ten of us guessed the murder correctly (on a whim!) but there is definitely a decent amount of clues available if you want to really get into it. Highly recommend.