The spin on the game is that it will be themed around July 4th. These games are played on holidays, at least for now, and we needed to make it different than the movies. So we’re creating a brand-new story: It’s July 4th weekend, and this little town of Clarion, Pennsylvania, is having a big drive-in for the holiday. They wake up to a newspaper report that these Ghost Face killers are running around and killing people. The idea is that the police officers have figured out that this Ghost Face (or Ghost Faces – key!) is headed to the big drive-in to kill a bunch of people. And it features nine masks in the line. So you’re gonna get the gold Ghost Face, the devil Ghost Face, the orange, the green, the scarecrow, the aged one. The idea is to celebrate the line of Ghost Face masks that Fun World has been cranking out but aren’t in any of the movies … it’s a brand-new adventure for Ghost Face. He’s still killing.
Unlike the other Stop the Killer games, we have a multiple-killer angle, which you find out throughout the game, and it’s different with every game, whether there are one, two, or three killers you have to stop. And there’s a whodunnit angle.
—description from the designer