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Alice is Missing (2020)

box art for Alice is Missing
weight 1.96 / 5
BGG rating 7.58
designers Spenser Starke
artists Caleb Cleveland Christopher De La Rosa Julianne Griepp
publishers Alis Games Choo Choo Games Devir Hunters Entertainment Origames Raven Distribution
categories Childhood Crime (Mystery / Detective / Noir) Social (Relationships / Romance) Core Rules (min needed to play)
mechanics Cards (Specialized) Description Based (Narrative more so than Dice)
From the kickstarter: Alice is Missing, a silent role-playing game about the disappearance of Alice Briarwood, a high school junior in the small town of Silent Falls. ... The game is played live and without verbal communication. Players inhabit their character for the entirety of the 90-minute play session, and instead of speaking, send text messages back and forth to the other characters in a group chat, as well as individually, as though they aren’t in the same place together. Publisher's blurb: The game is played live and without verbal communication. Players inhabit their character for the entirety of the 90-minute play session, and instead of speaking, send text messages back and forth to the other characters in a group chat, as well as individually, as though they aren’t in the same place together. Haunting beautiful, deeply personal, and highly innovative Alice is Missing puts a strong focus on the emotional engagement between players, immersing them in a tense, dramatic mystery that unfolds organically through the text messages they send to one another. Right at home with games like Life Is Strange, Gone Home, Oxenfree, and Firewatch, it’s designed to feel as much like an event-style experience as it does a role-playing game. A microbadge is available
where it lives Library Left Shelving · D1