Rise of the Mad Pharaoh

Professor Carter spent his career hunting one tomb. He found it, stole the sarcophagus and had it carried back to his study. Then he died, and the coffin has been restless ever since. Your team walks into the study with one job: send the Mad Pharaoh back to his rest before he rises.

The study belonged to a man with six obsessions, and each one left a desk behind: the Poet, the Egyptologist, the Cultist, the Codebreaker, the Cartographer and the Antiquarian. Players take a desk each, search it and report what they find. No desk gets you far on its own, so the team spends the hour comparing notes, passing things around and arguing over what a symbol means. Most of the game happens in conversation.

The mood is old-museum eerie: lamplight, velvet curtains, hieroglyphs on the walls and a gilded coffin in the middle of the room. It is spooky without gore, so it works for colleagues, friends and families alike. Up to eight players join on their own screens, and a full run takes about an hour.