You open your eyes to see the most horrible truth of a lifetime... It has just come to an end and you're a ghost, floating in the air! Terrified, you take a look at your own body. A group of strange individuals have gathered around your mortal remains, looking at it closely with sparks of fascination in their eyes. They wish to communicate with you to find out how your life ended. You will need to talk to them and reveal the truth so the culprit can be judged!

Paranormal Detectives is a party game of deduction. One player will takes the role of a Ghost. All other players work as Paranormal Detectives and will need to discover how the victim died. Using paranormal abilities they will communicate with the Ghost, asking open questions about details of the crime. The Ghost can answer in a variety of ghostly ways - by arranging a hangman’s knot, playing chosen tarot cards, creating a word puzzle on a talking board, drawing by holding the hand of a detective and many more!

At the start of the game, the Ghost player gets a story card with a full description of the murder. Every card depicts all the details of the case. Each Detective gets asymmetrical, pre-constructed set of interaction cards, player investigation sheet, and a player screen.

On their turn, each Detective asks the Ghost any open question they wish and plays a single interaction card. The card implies the way the Ghost can answer the question. There are 9 different interactions total, most of them giving information to all the Detectives. Since Detectives can ask any open questions and interaction cards vary, the game allows for lots of creativity for both the Ghost and Paranormal Detectives.

Detectives may try, twice during the game, to guess what has actually happened to the victim stating who was the killer, where it happen, what was the motive, how was it done and what was the murder weapon. The Ghost then writes down secretly on this Detective’s investigation sheet how many of their answers are correct.

IThe game can end in two different ways:

If a Detective gives all the correct answers. In this case, they will win, together with the Ghost player.

If all Detectives have run out of interaction cards. In this case, if no one has guessed everything correctly then, whoever guessed the most information correctly is the sole winner of the game!