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Murder mystery games are generally party games where one of the party-goers is secretly playing a murderer in-game, while the other attendees must determine who among them is the criminal. In some styles of game, the murderer may be aware that they are the killer and in other games, the murderer discovers this along with the other participants. Murder mystery games often involve the actual 'murders' of guests throughout the game, or open with a 'death' and have the rest of the time devoted to investigation.
Murder mystery games also refer to public performances in venues for events, team building, or corporate entertainment, where the suspects are played by actors, and the role of detectives falls to the other guests.
Dinner party murder mystery games are generally played with small groups of individuals, e.g. 6–20. Murder mystery events for larger groups are usually for numbers between 20 and 250 attendees, though events can be run with 400+ in attendance.