Deception: Murder in Hong Kong, designed by Tobey Ho, was released in 2014, and rereleased in 2016 after Grey Fox Games spun off from CoolStuffInc.com (see “Grey Fox Releasing '7 Ronin'”). The hidden role party game casts one player as the secret Murderer, masquerading with the other investigators to try to solve the crime. Another player is the Forensic Scientist, who can only communicate through crime scene analysis.

Deception: Undercover Allies adds new roles, which give both teams special powers, as well as expanding the maximum player count to 14 (from 12). There are fresh scene tiles for the forensic scientist to use, and more means and clue cards are included. There is also a new event which tests the trust between the investigators.

The box contains 2 role cards, 88 clue cards, 52 means cards, 2 badge tokens, 7 scene tiles, and 1 event tile. As an expansion, it requires the base game to play. The game is for 4 – 14 players, ages 14 and up, and plays in 15 – 30 minutes. MSRP is $24.99.

The game was funded via a Kickstarter campaign in July which raised $273,397 from 4,424 backers ($61.80 /backer average).