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[(Anonymous)]

Is it weird that every so often, I wish I was in a game that never really gets off the ground and fails? I love my games, and I'm in them for the long haul, but the end game for both of them is probably at least two or three years away. Sometimes, that feels a little exhausting when I look at my character list and only want to play one for a few months at the most. I wish there was a nice balance between a game that never gets off the ground and the ones that run for years on end.

[(Anonymous)]

iirc there's games out there that are set on a very small timeline too, maybe including just a few months

like all those murdergames that cropped up recently, off the top of my head? though i haven't looked into those too much

[(Anonymous)]

Murdergames are designed to last 2-3 months at most, maybe try one of those?

[(Anonymous)]

What are murdergames?

da

[(Anonymous)]

Murder games are games that are very much based off the overall premise of Danganronpa with elements of other genres involved. Pretty much they involve a group of characters who have been kidnapped and trapped somewhere. The characters are then told that to escape they have to successfully murder someone and not be caught. When they do this everyone else will die and they go free. The games tend to run on a format of someone dies on Friday and an investigation is run, trial happens on Saturday and then execution after that and then you get to do it again the next week.

The games may have some variations, but pretty much they are very intense games that run around 2-3 months on average and have about 30-40 characters with no new arrivals, just people dying. Expect high activity levels, weekly ACs and not much in the way of backtagging to previous weeks.

It's very much worth it to consider giving it a shot and some of the games will run mock trials before a round to let newbies give the format a try and see if it's something they would enjoy and even those can be a blast.

dda

[(Anonymous)]

Danganronpa and by extension other murdergames are based on the party game Mafia. The root of murdergames is older than you think. This doesn't really change your explanation, I'm just petty about details.

ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

That may be true, but the genre of short term DWRP games termed as murder games have a lot more in common with Danganronpa than Mafia. Mafia doesn't tend to get mentioned because that's another style of short term games and mentioning Mafia tends to mislead as to how the mechanics work.