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10 Best Murder Mystery Board Games to Play - IGN
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We like Mysterium a lot, it is very similar to Dixit if you've played it. I could never get into ultimate werewolf though, the one night thing always made it just feel like chance to me.
Oh interesting! Dixit I have played but its not a very complicated game. Does mysterium add some more complexity?
Yeah, a bit, it's still a somewhat basic but I enjoy this more. One player is a ghost and the other players are working semicollaboratively to identify the room, suspect and murder weapon with in the first instance each player having to identify a set of the three. The ghost has the three pre allocated for each player so then it's giving out hint cards for the players to identify the correct thing, which is itself a card. The ghost can't talk so can only communicate through the hint cards. Once all three have been identified for each player there is then a voting to try to identify the right set based on more hint cards with players seeing only a limited selection depending how well they did on the first phase.
I hope this makes sense, I can explain more if it's helpful!
Super helpful! Thanks a lot! I guess its most fun with many people :)
Yeah there is a way to play it two player but I think five is ideal
If you like Mysterium, I highly recommend the successor game Obscurio. Its pretty much the same gimmick of art interpretation, but works way better for groups.
Instead of the "ghost" having to keep track of and pick art for each person, the "investigators" are making a group decision so you only need to pick one set of clue art. This means the ghost's turn is way faster (doesn't explode with higher player count) and there's actually group interaction instead of each person in their own world, staring at art no one else cares about.
The way it's set up also means the ghost can start working on choosing the art for the next round while the group is debating, not having to wait to see if they are correct or not, so it's way more streamlined. All together just a snappier, more engaging version of Mysterium.
That sounds great, I'll check it out!