The premise of Mysterium is that one player is a recently deceased murder victim who is trying to clue to the players who killed him, where it happened and with what murder weapon through a seance. But it being a seance, the ghost gives clues in the form of picture cards that have lots of different images (think Dixit) and the players have to guess what item on the image is relevant to what the ghost is trying to communicate.

Mysterium is available in digital versions so it’d be pretty inexpensive to try out. I’ve only played Rear Window the one time. I think Read Window might be a bit more approachable and I think shorter play time but I think I might still prefer Mysterium overall.

I’ve had the same issue with my controller. Been connecting it with usb to avoid the disconnects.

Been having a lot of fun in it.

The author’s done a good job of setting this up to be really sweet but also crushingly tragic.

I wonder if we’re in the final arc because it doesn’t seem like there are any loose ends beyond this one.

Got plays of Foundations of Rome and Clank! in.

Also played Rear Window by Prospero Hall. It’s roughly a Mysterium-style game themed after the Hitchcock movie. The one twist which probably should be skipped for the first play is that the clue giver might be a secret traitor.

I don’t know of the in universe explanation. My rationalization would be that any sufficiently advanced target you’d want to hit with this might have an advanced enough sensor network that it would be able to detect the attempt in time to do something about it.

Any target that wasn’t advanced enough you could presumably conquer without needing to make the planet uninhabitable.

This has largely been my take also. The technology in it is phenomenal. But the use cases they demonstrate especially from the consumer side make me question if we want wearing goggles to be normalized in society.

Even with Eyesight, I’d feel awkward wearing this around my family.