KILLER INN Hands-On Preview – An Ambitious Take On Multiplayer Whodunnit

I’ve had my eye on KILLER INN since it was announced, as the concept of an online murder mystery experience sounds right up my street, with detective-style games being my newfound genre of choice. With the Closed Beta last weekend, I got the chance to jump in and see how the game is shaping up, and this is how it went.

First of all, the premise of KILLER INN is quite simple: an initial body is found, and you, among the rest of the players in the game, must try to figure out who did the deed and take them out. Players are divided into two teams: Lambs and Wolves. The Lambs are the ones trying to figure out the identity of the killer and survive, while the Wolves are trying to kill all the Lambs. It seems like a simple concept, and that’s largely because it is. Each game has more Lambs than Wolves, so it sounds like it should be a lopsided victory for the Lambs every game, but surprisingly, the games I took part in were evenly split between both sides for victories.

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