Jubensha Con 2026

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Incog Games

Spy of the Year (£30/player, 6 players, 2h) – Tickets sold out

Welcome to the Spy of the Year awards ceremony! Your group of S.E.C.R.E.T. agents (and handler) are here to have a nice time and hopefully win some awards. With all the world’s greatest deceivers, tricksters and double-crossers in one place, surely nothing can go wrong. At the very least you can trust everyone at this table… right? Right?!

This game is a cross between a scripted murder mystery and a tabletop game using scores, minigames, and lots of spy tropes. You all have your own secrets to hide but there is a mole in your midst. Can you find out each other’s secrets while hiding your own? Good luck agents!

This game will be led by a live actor. 

Content information: This game contains: Irreverent references to violence, references to murder, deception, hidden identity, hidden romance, manipulation of power systems, hacking, guilt, betrayal, hidden family secrets.

This is a an original English Language Jubensha game created by Incog Ltd: Arlo Howard, Chloe Mashiter, Hannah Raymond-Cox, and Tom Black

Chronic Insanity

All Falls Down: Sorroborough (£15/player, 5 players, 2-3h) – Book tickets

In All Falls Down: Sorroborough, five friends have to solve the mystery of who caused their plane to crash into the forests of the Pacific Northwest. The Pacific Northwest is a dense wilderness steeped in folklore, secrets, and the unfathomable. To be stranded here, with no food, no shelter, and no way to communicate with civilisation, is to be truly lost.

Unfortunately, that’s where you begin this story. You’re trapped with only the wreckage of a plane, whatever you had on you for your short trip to Camp Sunny Beach, and four of your once closest friends, one of whom you believe responsible for your misfortune. Will you be able to find out who has caused your stranding? What will you encounter in the all encompassing firs around you? And what will you uncover about the friends by your side as you journey towards Sorroborough?

Across 2-3 hours of play, you’ll sift through wreckage and memories, uncovering clues and secrets hidden in both the forest and your past bonds. Who among you sabotaged the flight? And what else lies buried in the trees?

This game contains: References to being in a plane crash, financial insecurity, struggles with neurodivergence while growing up, post-uni blues, and social isolation.

This is an original English Language Jubensha game created by Chronic Insanity: Joe Strickland, Len Schaffert, and Sam Hill.

Seven Strikes (£15/player, 5 players, 2-3h) – Book tickets

Five strangers sit around a table in a tired community centre on the edge of the city. They don’t know each other. They don’t trust each other. And they’ve all been summoned to the same urgent police press briefing.

Four police officers have been attacked. Rumours are spreading. A masked group known as Seven Strikes may be behind it all.

By the end of the evening, the group must decide what really happened, who is responsible, what story will be told, and how far they are willing to go to protect themselves, expose corruption, or rewrite the truth entirely.

Because in this city, the truth isn’t reported. It’s manufactured.

Seven Strikes is a story-driven jubensha, blending social deduction, immersive roleplay, and modern political storytelling into a single evening experience. Inspired by true-crime narratives and interactive theatre, the game asks players not just what happened, but who gets believed.

This game contains: References to assaults on police officers, descriptions of accidents resulting in significant injury, mention of acid attacks, references to past physical altercations and dangerous situations, Institutional misconduct, manipulation, corruption, and unethical behaviour within police and corporate structures, coercion and exploitation in personal and professional contexts, parental abandonment, strained or complicated family relationships, characters dealing with long-term consequences of past harm, guilt, self-doubt, and obsessive behaviour, PTSD-like responses to previous incidents, characters under emotional and moral pressure, policing and protest culture, community-authority conflict, discussions of systemic inequality and public trust in institutions, mentions of racist abuse, references to trespassing, infiltration, and covert surveillance, past criminal actions or morally questionable choices by characters.

This is an original English Language Jubensha game created by Chronic Insanity: Joe Strickland.

Cognito (£15/player, 5 players, 2h) – Book tickets

Welcome to Cognito: a bleeding-edge clinical trial designed to elevate empathy, investigate illness, and maybe cure death itself through soul-swapping technology. But this dream of advancement turned to a nightmare within 24 hours when the experiment went wrong and the lead scientist’s body was found. What reason is everyone really here and can you find the culprit before they walk free? Step into someone else’s shoes in this scripted murder mystery game you will have the chance to uncover the murderer and decide what your characters would like to do with this powerful pseudo-science tech. 

This game contains: References to violence and murder, references to ghosts, hidden identities, deception, the afterlife, religion and the soul, anxieties and phobias, references to family secrets and traumas, guilt, hacking. 

This is an original English Language Jubensha game created by Chronic Insanity: Sam Hill, Len Schaffert, and Joe Strickland.

Here, You Scream: New Delphi (£15/player, 5 players, 2h) – Book tickets

The New Delphi Rest and Replenishment Station is hardly the dream gig for a scavenger. A long week of cryo-sleep, no danger pay, and of course the rumours that the station never really went totally dark…

Yet here you are, five scavengers brought together by… what? A pay check? A penchant for chasing ghost stories? Or perhaps there’s something more sinister at play. And if so, is it lurking in the heart of the station? Or has it just stepped on board with you?

Inspired by games like Prey and Return of the Obra Dinn, explore the abandoned space station with your new colleagues and unravel its secrets while keeping your own intact. If you work together, you might make it out alive,  but will you be the same person you were when you arrived?

This game contains: References to violence and murder, deception, hidden identity and personal secrets, hidden romance, references to systemic oppression and political struggle, puzzle solving and ethical dilemmas.

This is an original English Language Jubensha game created by Chronic Insanity: Sam Marshall and Joe Strickland.

Suspense Studio

Game Over (£30/player, 5-6 players, 2-3h) – Book tickets

A group of game enthusiasts are invited to playtest a brand new game. During the game, all the players lose their memory. A player is found dead and no one can remember what happened. All the game instructions say is, “You have one goal in this game: escape. If you do not escape, it’s GAME OVER.”

Content warnings: bullying, death and suicide/murder.

This is an original English Jubensha murder mystery deduction game designed by Suspense Studio, experienced by hundreds of attendees at PAX Unplugged and Gen Con, and led by a dedicated GM throughout your experience.

The Sandcastle (£30/player, 6 players, 2-3h) – Book tickets

A group of die-hard gamers from the online gaming community, ‘The Sandcastle’, gathers at an exclusive island resort for the ultimate meet-up. But their dream getaway turns into a nightmare when one of them is murdered. Now, trapped on the island, they must navigate a deadly game of trust and deception. Will The Sandcastle withstand the tide of lies, or crumble under betrayal and deceit?

Content warnings: substance abuse, eating disorder, death and murder

This is an original English Jubensha murder mystery deduction game designed by Suspense Studio, experienced by hundreds of attendees at PAX Unplugged and Gen Con, and led by a dedicated GM throughout your experience.

Twist ‘n Turn Studios

Worms Against Humanity (Free, 4 players, 1.5–2h) – No booking required

It is Sept 20, 2123. The space age has begun. Humanity, now ravaged by a deadly alien parasite, establishes a research centre on a distant planet. The first batch of the highly anticipated cure will be delivered to Earth by SS Karma and crew, led by the seasoned Captain Black.

However, the spacecraft performs an emergency landing less than four hours into the trip. The esteemed Captain is dead and the cure is missing! What on Earth could have taken place on the SS Karma?

This game is offered for free and does not required a host/GM. 4+ copies will be made available.

Content warnings: No problematic content beyond murder. A similar level of horror referenced in Among Us. Ages 14+ recommended.

Jubensha Adventures

Fade to Black (£20, 5 players, 2-2.5h) – Book tickets

London, 1995. On a struggling film set, once-celebrated actor Martin J. Black is attempting the comeback of his career. On the final day of shooting, he films his character’s death scene. The cameras roll. He delivers what witnesses would later call the performance of his lifetime. Raw. Visceral. Utterly convincing. When the director calls cut, he doesn’t get up. By the time someone realises he isn’t acting, it’s already too late. Now five people with secrets, motives, and tangled histories must piece together what happened. Because someone in this room knew exactly what they were doing.

This game contains: References to murder, substance abuse, addiction and relapse, financial ruin, parental abandonment, infidelity, family secrets, grief, and references to a car accident resulting in serious injury.

Bear-faced Liars (Free prototype, 3 players, 1-1.5h) – Book tickets

Teddy bears are alive. They always have been. Humans just don’t know it. For lonely little Alex, Someday, Smush, and Farringdon are everything. That is, until Alex makes a new friend. Then comes the “accident”. Then comes the ambulance. And then comes the tribunal. Beneath the cheerful songs and gingham tablecloths, the teddy bears’ picnic has always hidden something darker. One of them broke the Bear Code. One of them chose to act. The Bear Code, it turns out, has some very creative interpretations…

Bear-faced Liars is a lighter, sillier take on the Jubensha genre. It contains mild references to parental abandonment and childhood loneliness.