The Long Night · Case Archive Volume III
You've read the files. Now you're in them. Seven dark cases where everyone at the table plays a suspect, and one of you is the killer.
Nothing in these files is supernatural. That's the part that stays with you.
VOLUME III
Case archive · Vol. III · Files 001–007
Every character card, every document, every sealed answer. Open the first file tonight.
Why this volume is different
You work out who did it, all on the same side.
Each player is a suspect. One knows they did it.
The darkest files in the archive.
All new cases. You don't need the other volumes.
What's inside the file
Every case is rebuilt on paper, document by document. The answer is always in there. Finding it is the hard part.
Six suspects per case. Everyone hides a secret. Only one player knows they did it.
What the first officer wrote, before anyone had time to invent a story.
Every suspect lies about something. Only one of them did it.
The detail that breaks the case is in plain sight. Nothing graphic, nothing for shock.
Run the whole night, even if you have never hosted a mystery. Hints only if the table gets stuck.
Three answers per case: the mechanism, the person, the error. Every clue explained.
All seven cases are fiction, written to feel like the real thing. Anomaly Board and Timeline sheets included, in A4 and US Letter.
The archive · Vol. III · 31 October
Every case is set on a 31 October, in a different year. Every file has a human explanation. Play it any night.
It was meant to be a quiet Halloween dinner in an old house by the canal. Twelve invitations were sent and twelve guests sat down at the table. By midnight the host was dead. In the photographs taken that night every face is accounted for, and yet you can count thirteen.
Count them again.
UNSOLVEDOn Halloween night four children walk up to the last house on Elm Row. It has stood empty for six months, but the porch light is on. They knock, the way they knocked at every other door that evening. Someone opens it.
The house was empty. The door opened anyway.
UNSOLVEDSix people sit around a round table in a Yorkshire parlour, every hand visible on the cloth all evening. The candle never goes out and nobody leaves the room. Yet the seventh seat was occupied, and the cloaked figure in it spoke in his voice.
He was already dead in another room.
UNSOLVEDA mask maker is found alone in his workshop, behind a door locked from the inside. There is no wound and nothing is missing. Hundreds of his masks line the walls, but the one on his face is not one he made.
None of his assistants recognised it.
UNSOLVEDThe field was ploughed flat the day before Halloween. At dusk it was bare. By midnight thirty-one carved pumpkins were burning in a perfect straight line across the wet soil, and the soil around every one of them was untouched.
No footprints.
UNSOLVEDA warehouse party on Halloween night, two hundred guests in costume. One costume nobody recognises, and nobody remembers inviting the person inside it. Before the night is over, the same masked figure has been seen in two places at once.
One mask. Two places. The same moment.
UNSOLVEDIncluded in the collection · Not sold separately
Every copy of The Long Night comes with two extras you won't find anywhere else. One more case, and one way to close the night.
A full case file, sealed for a reason. It was never entered into the register, and the officer who opened it asked to be reassigned the same week. Nothing in the first six will have prepared you for it.
It exists only inside this collection.
Three envelopes, and how close you came decides which one you get to open. Inside: what became of all six of them in the years after that night.
The other two stay sealed. You will never read them.
Seven files, two extras, one download. No subscription, no expiry, no app.
Get all seven filesHow the night works
The link lands in your inbox within a minute of your order. No shipping, no app, no account.
Pick a case and give everyone a character. Each player reads their own card and keeps it private. Print it or open it on a screen.
Open three envelopes, question each other, write your accusation. Then the host breaks the seal and everyone sees how close they came.
Skip the cards and work the file alone, in about 90 minutes.
Skip the cards and work the file together, in about 90 minutes.
Everyone gets a card, and one of you is hiding the worst secret at the table. About 2 to 2½ hours. The Host Guide runs the night.
One case is a full evening. Play one tonight and keep the rest. No expiry.
Case archive · Vol. III · Files 001–007
Every character card, every document, every sealed answer. Open the first file tonight.
Before you take the file
Immediately. The download link is emailed to you within a minute of your order. There is no expiry date, so you can open the first file whenever you like.
No. Everything works on a screen. Most people print at least one case and spread it across the table, because moving paper around is half of how you spot a contradiction. A4 and US Letter are both included.
No, and you shouldn't try. One case is a whole evening: about 90 minutes without the cards, 2 to 2½ hours with them. Pick one for tonight and keep the rest for later.
One to six, and extra guests can join as detectives. With three or more, everyone plays a suspect. With one or two, skip the cards and work it as a detective file.
These files are dark, not graphic. Nothing is described for shock and there are no images of injury. What gets to people is the ordinary detail that turns out to matter. Recommended 14+.
No. Not once. Every case has a human explanation, and every explanation can be proven from the documents in the file.
No. Every case, person, document and location is fictional. Some settings are real places, but nothing in these files describes a real event or a real person.
Most people get at least one of the three answers wrong on their first case, and that is part of the experience. The sealed solution walks you through every clue, page by page, including every false lead and why it was false.
Yes. These are all new cases, and with three or more players, one of you is the killer.
No. The Long Night stands completely on its own. There is no shared story and no required order.
No. The stories take place on 31 October, but you can play them on any night of the year.
Yes. Just don't read the solution in advance. The Host Guide tells you what to print and when to open each envelope.
No. You can send each guest their character's name in advance if they'd like to dress up, but the game works without it.
