Dark Cloud: Halloween Murder Mystery Party Game | Boxed Kit

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  • Type Boxed Kit
  • SKU DARKCLOUD25PRP-16
  • Age Range 13 to Adult
  • Minimum # of players 7 Suspects
  • Max Players (Kit A) 16 Suspects (Kit A)
  • Max # Offered 84: 24 Suspects, Up to 60 Team Roles (2 Teams, Various Kit Sizes)
  • Difficulty Rating Moderate, 5/10
  • Roles Flex-Gender
  • Game Duration 2 - 4 Hours Average (Flexible)
  • Setting At the crumbling Shade Hallow Manor in the misty town of Dark Cloud, where ghost stories, secrets, and the manor’s eerie past haunt every shadow.
  • Interactive Extras 3 Blackmail Notes (Will be Inserted into the R2 Envelopes)
  • Game Format Murder | Guided Clue Mingling | 4 Rounds
  • Vibe & Content Notes Cheeky Hauntings * Clean Halloween* Chillingly Charming
  • Publication Date 2012. Last Revised 2025

A chilling Halloween murder mystery filled with ghost stories, bitter rivalries, suspicious townsfolk, and deadly intentions inside a decaying seventeenth-century manor.

Kit Sizes & Pre-Game Website

Kit A: 7 to 16 Players (16 Suspect Roles)

Kit B: 7 to 24 Players (24 Suspect Roles)

Kit C: 7 to 32 Players (24 Suspect Roles and 8 Team Roles)

Kit D: 7 to 40 Players (24 Suspect Roles and 16 Team Roles)

Kit E: 7 to 56 Players (24 Suspect Roles and 32 Team Roles)

Kit F: 7 to 72 Players (24 Suspect Roles and 48 Team Roles)

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How the Kit Sizes Relate to the Downloadable Version
  • 16 players: main game only
  • 24 players: adds expansion pack #1
  • 32 players: adds expansion pack #1 and 8 team roles
  • 40 players: adds expansion pack #1 and 16 team roles
  • 56 players: adds expansion pack #1 and 32 team roles
  • 72 players: adds expansion pack #1 and 48 team roles

Halloween Murder Mystery Game Synopsis:

Shade Hallow Manor is a crumbling seventeenth-century mansion in the misty town of Dark Cloud. Once the magnificent home of celebrated author Shade Hallow, the abandoned estate is now overgrown, decaying, and surrounded by stories of its former owner’s restless ghost.

The estate managers are preparing the manor for a Halloween bash, hoping to transform it into a spooky bed-and-breakfast that will attract tourists. Most residents welcome the plan, but others insist the cursed property should remain untouched.

You have received an invitation to the celebration and must decide what to believe. The moon is full, fog blankets the grounds, and Shade Hallow Manor is opening its doors. This is where your story begins.

Host Character List, Game Preview & Free Resources

This game is licensed for personal, private use only. If you plan to use it for any commercial purpose, public event, business, organization, school, fundraiser, church, promotional activity, paid event, or any use that generates revenue or provides a commercial benefit, you must purchase a Commercial License.

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Melissa A
Totally fun, will do it again!

I made sure everyone committed, and then paid extra to everything printed and sealed. I’m glad I did, it was totally worth it!
We setup The night before, I made a booking police station photo op, that we used when people came in. Add some candles, webs, covered the furniture in white sheets, and made punch that I put into novelty blood bags, and added black lights.
Saturday, 6pm, Everyone got a name tag and took a pic. After everyone settled, we started round one, and people got into character. It was funny. We had drinks and apps.
We broke for dinner, at about 7:30. We pre ordered pizzas.
At 8pm we started round two, the motive and who was going to be the victim became pretty clear. That part was funny because we all looked at her and said you got any last words? And she flipped us off and went to become the victim. 8:20pm
The timeline (where everyone was during the murder) part was harder, that’s where I would take half a star, but we ended up doing that as a group. We each took turns reading off where we were, then the detective read the forensic report, and we wrote our guesses down. I collected the cards. Everyone shared who they thought the killer was.
Then round 3 cards went out and they read them in order. The last to read is the killer. Over by 9:30-10pm
Everyone wants to do it again!

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R.C.
Hosted this one last year

Our guests enjoyed the evening. The mystery was great, my guests got into their roles and had a lot of fun. I would highly recommend this. We are doing Hatter's Ball this year.