Zombie Town: Halloween Murder Mystery Party Game

A fun zombie-themed murder mystery party game. This unusual zombie mystery is packed with eccentric undead residents, government threats, suppressed cravings for human flesh, pumpkin-based cuisine, political tension, suspicious histories, growing civil unrest, outrageous personalities, festival activities, and murder during Zombie Town’s Undead Festival.

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Main-game players can get started before the party with costume suggestions, character information, details about Zombie Town, and the events leading to the Undead Festival.  See the host character lists (for the main game and expansion pack, sold separately), free invitations, and sample game materials at the bottom of the page. 

• Expansion Pack #1: Adds 5 Characters and Five Expandable Teams
  Sold separately. 

Zombie Murder Mystery Party Game Synopsis:

Three weeks ago, the lively town of Sunnyville was devastated by the H5N1 Zombie Virus, a plague that turns the living into zombies.  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has quarantined the town, and the federal government issued veiled threats to wipe out the zombies to prevent a pandemic nightmare. The CDC scientists rallied, developed a vaccine, placed it in the water supply of the surrounding human population outside Zombie Town, and halted the epidemic. Nobody outside of a few government officials ever knew the difference.

The citizens of the newly-established Zombie Town aren't like the undead portrayed in the movies. The people of the town are dead and decomposing but remain the same upstanding citizens as they were before. However, the H5N1 virus has plagued them with an intense craving for living human flesh. For this reason, they cannot live among humans. 

Even though the government tried to keep the epidemic a secret, word got out, and human rights activists outside of the former Sunnyville formed the Save a Zombie Alliance. Millions banded together across the world and persuaded the federal government to sign a peace treaty with the zombies. Ashes, the self-appointed Emperor of Zombie Town, is currently negotiating the truce with the U.S. President. Ashes has agreed that the zombies will not cross the border of Zombie Town. Because there are warning signs posted for miles surrounding Zombie Town’s edge, the President decided that if a living human ends up inside Zombie Town, they will be approved for a zombie's dinner table. Ashes and the President are set to sign the treaty as soon as the fine points are worked out.

The citizens are happy to be at peace with the feds. They have discovered through rigorous testing that they could sustain themselves by eating pumpkins. Alas, the fruit curbs hunger and provides nutrients, but does not prevent the intense cravings for living human flesh. Appetite suppression has led to turmoil and discontent in the town of the undead. Ashes must pump up the morale of the citizens. Leery of impending civil unrest, the Undead Festival has been scheduled. This will be a town-wide celebration with delicious pumpkin-inspired food, rockin’ music, and fun zombie games. You are a zombie living in Zombie Town. You plan to attend the festival. This is where your story begins. 

Host a Large-Group Zombie Murder Mystery Party:

• Main Game: 16 unique suspect characters
  • The main game has 16 suspects, so do not expand the 3 teams that come with the main game beyond 15 players each unless you are adding the expansion pack (sold separately). In that case, with 21 suspects in the game, you can push to each team having 30 team roles.  
  • ZZTV Production Crew:
    • Led by Storie, the Zombie Town television reporter.
    • Add up to 15 duplicate ZZTV Production Crew members.
    • The additional crew members are duplicate, non-suspect team roles.
    • This expandable team is included with the main game.
  • Zombie Town Military:
    • Led by Colonel Pow.
    • Add up to 15 duplicate Zombie Town Military members.
    • The additional soldiers are duplicate, non-suspect team roles.
    • This expandable team is included with the main game.
  • The Departed:
    • Led by Numb, the band’s lead singer.
    • Add up to 15 duplicate members of The Departed.
    • The additional musicians are duplicate, non-suspect team roles.
    • This expandable team is included with the main game.
• Expansion Pack #1: 5 additional suspect characters
  • Sold separately.
  • Includes 5 optional flexible-gender roles.
  • Expands the game to 21 unique suspects.
  • The expansion characters may be added in any combination.
  • Each expansion character may lead an expandable team.
• Expansion-Pack Teams:
  • • Up to 30 Arg’s Pumpkin Patch Farmers.
    • Up to 30 Bugsy’s Casino Staff.
    • Up to 30 Cotour’s Design Team.
    • Up to 30 Hyde’s unemployed zombies.
    • Up to 30 Jace Myers’s serial-killer zombies.

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