The Great British Bump Off is certainly brimming with surprise fillings, Murder on the Disorientated Express sounds like a hoot (toot, toot!), we bet Death Actually has plenty of thrilling tangents, and we certainly want to go up to the lab and see what's on the slab at the Little Rock Horror Shop of Murder! There are some hilarious and just-shy-of-copyright-infringing themes to choose from. They have games suitable for smaller groups of 6-20 people, kids parties, and larger groups that can break off into multiple rooms. Just when you thought Cluedo -style mysteries would be limited to figuring out who got into your stash of quarantine snacks (was it the bored housemate with the unsanitised hands in the kitchen cabinet?), UK company Red Herring Games has come through.ĭescribing itself as a provider of “the best in murder mystery entertainment”, Red Herring’s multilayered games can now be adapted for virtual gatherings with the assistance of video conferencing applications like Zoom or Google Hangouts. What a shame you can’t invite your mates over for a nail-biting night of scripted fun under current conditions, eh? Think again. Pre-pandemic, if you wanted to get a little more hands-on with an investigation, you could channel your big detective energy into a good ol' fashioned murder mystery party (like they do in cute Rose Matafeo-led series Starstruck, currently streaming on ABC iview, FYI). If the enduring popularity of moody crime thrillers (hello, Mare of Easttown) intersecting with our collective isolation has taught us anything, it’s that we're all partial to stories of salacious murder, larger-than-life characters (special nod to Tiger King), and a bit of amateur sleuthing.

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