Alice is Missing Role Playing Game

Alice is Missing is a tabletop role-playing game played in silence through text messaging. Players investigate the disappearance of a high school girl named Alice Briarwood by assuming the roles of characters who have preexisting relationships with her and each other.

Alice is Missing is designed for 3–5 players, with each player being assigned a character. The game begins with each player receiving a character card, detailing their character's name and prompts about the character's background, motivations, and relationship to Alice Briarwood. Following the setup, the actual game lasts for ninety minutes and is communication is held entirely through text messages on players' cellphones or other messaging devices.

The bulk of the gameplay consists of interacting with the other players as the assigned characters, both in a main group chat and in separate private conversations, with the objective being to “figure out” what happened to Alice, though the answer is not yet established. At certain times throughout the game, new evidence and information as to Alice's whereabouts or her captor is hypothesized via evidence cards.