Square Enix's Next Game Blends Among Us-Like Murder Mystery With Bloody Carnage

Bet you didn't have this one on your bingo list. Developed by Tactic Studios in partnership with Square Enix, the game was unveiled during the Summer Game Fest livestream, and it's far from the famed RPG maker's bread and butter. Killer Inn, as it's called, is a multiplayer murder mystery that takes Among Us-like gameplay and ratchets it up by handing players knives, guns and many other weapons to kill or be killed while they search for the original killer. Killer Inn might be one of those games that is best understood after playing a few matches, but even from the reveal trailer, there's a lot going on. In each match, 24 players enter a sprawling castle-turned-hotel to determine who the real killers are as they're picked off one by one. There's deduction and mayhem aplenty. Killer Inn's play phases are patterned after detective-style games, from Among Us to Ultimate Werewolf to Mafia. A match begins with most players as cooperative participants ("lambs," in Killer Inn's parlance) mi ... Read full article.