Players: Lucian Khan, Jenn Martin, Kristin Devine, Sean Nittner
System: Alice is Missing
Alice is Missing is a silent role-playing game about the disappearance of Alice Briarwood, a high school junior in the small town of Silent Falls.
The game is played live and without verbal communication. Players inhabit their character for the entirety of the 90-minute play session, and instead of speaking, send text messages back and forth to the other characters in a group chat, as well as individually, as though they aren’t in the same place together.
Hauntingly beautiful, deeply personal, and highly innovative, Alice is Missing puts a strong focus on the emotional engagement between players, immersing them in a tense, dramatic mystery that unfolds organically through the text messages they send to one another.
Thoughts
We played over Roll20 and Discord and I really struggled to keep up and kept missing things. At one point Jenn’s character shared a major secret with me, but because I was skipping between channels so much, I missed it and felt like a total heel because of it. She had shared something and was vulnerable and I didn’t even notice till she told me after the game. I like a lot of the ideas in the game, but the actual play experience was tough for me to keep up with.
