We Used to Be Friendsis a collaborative teenage detective drama game. As a group, youll create your teenagers, the city they live in, and a season-long mystery that ties them all together.

Choose one of thenineyearbook profiles to make your character:

• The Hardboiledwho can find clues and make the hard decisions
• The Sidekickwho helps friends and manipulates relationships
• The Delinquentwhose self-destructive tendencies can get clues at great personal cost
• The Socialitewho has the connections to make things happens and plays on emotion
• The Tech Geekwho uses their knowledge of technology to get favours and information
• The Libertinewho is here to make sure that a good time is had by ... them
• The Plotterwho wants to find out secrets and profit from them
• The Ingenue who puts themselves in dangerous situations but can rely on their friends to get them out.

We Used to Be Friendsinvolves a series of interwoven mysteries. The top level is theseason mysterywhich impacts every player at the table and when you solve it you know that your campaign is done. Then mostly every player has their ownpersonal mysterythat they can choose to investigate to find out more things about them and their family. Finally, there is theepisode mysterywhich is the mystery "du jour" which you will solve to end your current session of play.

We Used to Be Friendsdoesn't need anyone to plan. Every player can investigate and gather clues. Every player can take those clues and make them part of a mystery. Eventually you "solve" the mystery when there are enough clues placed on a suspect. But nothing is ever easy and there are always questions at the end of every mystery. There's even a fantastic Clue Chart designed by Tim Paul Groth to help you generate ideas for clues without telling you exactly what the clue is.

We Used to Be Friendsis a teenage drama game. Fall in and out of love. Get in fights with your parents. Throw parties! Worry about exams! Tell each other deep dark secrets, and fight over feelings. This is a huge part of the conflict, and fun, of the game.