Snowfall Games is thrilled to announce their upcoming multiplayer murder mystery game, It Was You, set to launch on Steam later this year. Are you cunning enough to commit the perfect crime and cover your tracks, or perceptive enough to expose a meticulously planned murder? Find out in this thrilling new game.
It Was You invites 5-12 players to a Halloween party at the haunted Tylock Estate, where they will be assigned roles as either detectives or killers. Each role comes with unique tools to manipulate, uncover, or plant evidence of a murder.
Detectives have a variety of tools at their disposal to uncover the truth. They can use a magnifying glass to trace footprints, a blacklight to reveal hidden blood splatters, or even a lie detector to expose a suspect’s role. On the other hand, killers rely on deception, using items like a spray bottle to erase their fingerprints or tape to plant someone else’s. They can even drag a body into a closet, hoping it remains undiscovered. At any moment, players can call for a discussion and vote to exile whoever they believe is guilty.
One of the standout features of It Was You is the acoustic proximity voice chat, which introduces lifelike reverberation and occlusion. Voices echo in the long corridors of the Tylock Estate, and when a player enters a room and shuts the door, conversations from outside are naturally muffled. This adds an unprecedented degree of immersion. To execute the perfect murder, killers must ensure the door is closed and no one is around, or risk detectives overhearing the victim’s scream echoing through the halls.
Every party feels alive with the addition of non-player guests. Killers must eliminate these NPCs first, creating a buffer that allows real players to investigate and participate in the narrative of every game before they risk becoming victims.
“We’re huge fans of social deduction games and think the appetite for it is only growing, with Jubensha, the real-life role-playing rendition of murder mysteries, being the third highest-grossing form of entertainment in China, earning $3.4 billion across 10 million players,” said Jaden Holladay, Co-Founder and Engineering Director at Snowfall Games. “While we’ve loved social deduction games like Among Us, Town of Salem, and First Class Trouble, we felt there was more we could bring to the genre by adding new tools to play with, such as acoustic proximity voice chat, first-person perspective, and an array of tools to investigate a crime scene—resulting in a more realistic and complex murder mystery experience!”
For more information on It Was You, visit the game on Steam and connect with Snowfall Games on their social media channels.
