The thumbnail used throughout the game's lifespan.
Murder Mystery, also known as Murder Mystery 1 (often abbreviated as MM1) was a round-based survival game created by Nikilis on January 18, 2014. The game went into beta a day later. It was renamed and replaced by Murder Mystery 2 in an update on December 25, 2014.
Murder Mystery was one of the biggest games on Roblox in 2014 and is credited for popularizing the "murder" genre of games on the website.
History[]
Murder Mystery was created on January 18, 2014, the game is based on the popular Gmod gamemode called Murder and the game was an instant hit when it came out on Roblox. It got to the top of the games page in less than a month and it was featured in an official Roblox video within the same month.
Murder Mystery was massively popular on Roblox in 2014, gaining over 20 million visits at the end of it's life. The success of Murder Mystery would help Nikilis win 2 Bloxy Awards in 2014, winning the Game of the year award and Most visited game of the year award. The game would get updated fairly frequently with new maps, knifes and guns, GUI's, and more.
The game's popularity spawned the "murder" genre on Roblox where several developers created very similar games such as The Mad Murderer, Twisted Murderer, and Murder. Despite Murder Mystery's popularity the game was plagued with exploiters and the later half of 2014 didn't see a ton of updates. Also competitor's would add more features to their games that Murder Mystery lacked like bonus rounds, pets, cosmetics and more, because of this competitor's murder games would gain ahead. This caused Nikilis to make an overhaul to the game where he announced a sequel was being made and Murder Mystery was replaced in an update on December 25, 2014 with the release of Murder Mystery 2.
Gameplay[]
Players spawn in a lobby and vote for a map to start the round. Once a map was chosen, players would be teleported to the chosen map and given the roles of either Murderer, Sheriff, or Innocent, along with a disguise. Players were disguised by receiving a different name, which was based off the NATO Phonetic Alphabet. Their avatars were changed to appear similar to one another.
Like Murder Mystery 2, there's one Murderer, one Sheriff, and a maximum of ten Innocents. The Murderer's objective was to kill all players and avoid being shot by the Sheriff. The Sheriff's objective was to discover who the Murderer was and to shoot them before the round ended. Innocents had to survive and witness murders. Although, if the Sheriff died, their gun could be picked up by an Innocent to shoot and kill the Murderer.
A dead Sheriff and the Murderer.
Murderers had the unique ability to see other players' footsteps. Other abilities could be acquired by buying knifes in the shop.
In the early days of the game it was in third person, in February 11, version 0.4.0b came out and the rounds forced first person only.
Shop[]
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| Cowboy | Gun | 800 Points  /5 Cash 
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| Splitter | Knife | 800 Points /5 Cash
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| Laser | Gun | 1200 Points /20 Cash
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Changes firing sound. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ghost | Knife | 1200 Points /20 Cash
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Knifes throw easier and fly faster. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Phaser | Gun | 2000 Points /40 Cash
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Changes firing sound. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prince | Knife | 2000 Points /40 Cash
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Grants 15 seconds of time per kill instead of regular 10. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Shadow | Knife | 3000 Points /125 Cash
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Pressing Q grants 6 seconds of stealth with a 15 second cooldown.
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| Golden | Gun | 3000 Points /125 Cash
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N/A | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Blood | Knife | 4000 Points /175 Cash
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Walkspeed increases by 50% on kill for 3 seconds.
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| America | Gun | 25 Cash (available July 4 - 6 2014) |
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Changes firing sound. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Legacy[]
Murder Mystery was later remade by a group called Roblox Remakes. The recreation of the game can be found here.
Notes & Trivia[]
- Nikilis made a few maps for the game, this being Italy, Office, and possibly more. The maps were created from here.
- In total there have been 14 maps added into Murder Mystery.
- Knives that were bought before the update to Murder Mystery 2 appeared in player's inventories with a tier of their own, Classic, which was later renamed to Vintage during the Season 1 Update.
- Players used to be able to grab the knife from the Murderer's hand, this was most likely unintentional.
- The overall gameplay of the original Murder Mystery is similar to the Disguises gamemode in current Murder Mystery 2.
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