Final Course: Murder Mystery Dinner

A black card arrives: dinner on a private island, seven courses, eight guests. It is signed only 'The Chef'. You used to be a detective. Before the soup is served, the host drops dead.

Final Course is a murder mystery party you play against a table of computer guests. Every course begins with a body and a clue: the killer's hand, their scent, a thread of their clothing, the mark of their shoes. Between courses you get three questions.

How it plays

• Click a guest to ask where they were last night, ask them about another guest, or look closer at one of their traits
• Honest guests tell the truth about the night. The killer lies about where they were, and a thief at the table lies for reasons of their own
• Catch the alibi that does not hold, match the guest to the clues, then accuse
• Get it wrong and an innocent spends the night in the wine cellar while the killer strikes again

What's inside

• Seven written dinners on an island, a night train, a snowed-in chalet and a yacht, all leading to the Chef
• Endless dinner parties: every guest, alibi and killer is new each time
• A daily dinner, the same for everyone
• A notebook that logs every statement and a grid of every guest's traits against the clues
• Thieves, a doctor who guards someone each night, and a medium who hears the dead
• Hand-drawn guests and a dinner table to dress with your own linen
• English, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. Plays offline, no account

Controls (PC)

• Mouse: click a guest, then a question; Notebook; Accuse; Next course.
• Enter: takes a story card's button, starts and resumes. Esc: pause / back; on the title it asks before quitting.

The itch.io version

• No ads. No in-app purchases. The full game, once.
• A second opinion on any statement (2-minute cooldown), one extra question (90-second cooldown) and one second chance per dinner are free.
• Double coins is gone, so coins stay at their earned rate.
• A 540x960 portrait window that can be resized.

Linux requires libcurl.so.4 in addition to a working graphics driver.

All characters are fictional.

Credits

Characters: Open Peeps by Pablo Stanley (CC0). Music: "Gymnopedie No 1" and "Bass Walker" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), CC BY 4.0. Icons by Lorc, game-icons.net, CC BY 3.0. Fonts: Cinzel, Kalam, Nunito, Noto Sans Symbols 2 (SIL OFL 1.1). Made with Godot (MIT). Crash reports by Sentry (MIT).