Game Info
Year
2020
Players
3-5
Age
16+
Playtime
120 min
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Description
A silent tabletop roleplaying game played entirely through text messages where 3-5 players investigate the disappearance of a high school student
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Pros
- Low component count and easy to set up
- Strong atmosphere and tension built through texting
- No GM makes it approachable for groups of friends
- Flexible remote play options and accessible pricing
- Effective soundtrack and pacing when the group engages
Cons
- Endgame can feel rushed or shoehorned by card flips
- Miscommunication via texting can hurt immersion
- Early pacing can feel crowded with many moving parts
- Limited concrete mechanics; relies heavily on players' storytelling
Thematic elements
- teen disappearance, secrets, and investigative storytelling
- Silent Falls, a small town in Northern California, during winter break in a high school milieu
- text-based, collaborative storytelling with no game master
Comparison games
- Fiasco
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Action Timer — A 90-minute run time with a 10-minute pivotal event leading to the end
- card-driven prompts — Cards are flipped at intervals (every 5–10 minutes) to introduce events and prompts
- No Game Master (GM-free) — All players contribute to the story; no central narrator or referee
- Relationship and motive cards — Characters have backstory, motives, and connections to other characters that drive the plot
- remote play support — Can be played via chat apps (Discord) or remote setups with templates
- Text-based play via chat — Players communicate as characters through typed messages and DMs
- Timer-based structure — A 90-minute run time with a 10-minute pivotal event leading to the end
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Quotes (from this video)
- there's no GM
- Remote Play can help give you this feeling of isolation
- playing this online is like playing a video game
- Alice is missing sinks or swims based off of your story weaving abilities
- this is a role playing game
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