Post #13 Murder Mystery Game Styles

Murder Mystery Game Styles

Murder mystery games has an array of styles, however the most common are deduction, contradiction, and investigative. Players will often have to unravel clues and challenge their own intellect and skills.

Deduction:

Deduction-style games immerse players in the roles of detectives and are tasked with solving crimes. Through examining evidence, interviews, and reasoning, players have to piece together clues to uncover the truth and/or perpetrator. These games challenge players deductive abilities and analytical skills. It emphasizes problem solving and critical thinking, which offers a stimulating experience for the player.

Contradiction:

Contraction-style games revolve around uncovering inconsistencies in witness testimonies, evidence, and alibis. Players are assigned the role of an investigator and tasked with analyzing information and challenging faults or false information in the evidence. These games emphasize critical thinking and attention to detail.

Investigation:

Investigation-style games immerse players in once again the role of an investigator, tasked with collecting evidence themselves and analyzing everything to come to a conclusion. These games emphasize logical reasoning and attention to detail. These types of games often focus on the storytelling aspect of the investigation and interactive game play.

Although a film cannot get the same level of immersiveness and interactiveness with the audience then a game can, knowing the styles that are used for murder mystery genre games can help me have similar elements to appeal to the viewer.