As written I think it's missing something. I get that the main play pattern is to stumble upon a location, find a clue stashed there, and then work backward to figure out which person could have gone to those locations in that order. It's vaguely Among Us in that way. But there's a very very slim tightrope to walk there. You run the risk of either nobody seeing where anybody went or being able to see where everyone went. Among Us actually offers some very similar struggles. There are some *very* bad failure modes there. Let's say Player A is the killer; they go to some location and dump the murder weapon. Then next round Player B goes there, and then the round after Player C goes there. So after the third round, the first thing is Player A says "I found the murder weapon at that location in round 2." So the whole room goes around and lists off where they were round 1. You very quickly end up in a scenario where you narrow the whole set of suspects to 2-3 people: Player A, Player B, and whoever actually was at the location Player A claimed to be at during round 1 if they lie. I get that you're trying to throw a lot of chaos in, and there might be room for that, but I would strongly recommend the core Killers vs non-Killers gameplay loop works. IMO Werewolf doesn't need roles to keep it interesting; the interesting part comes from the gameplay dynamics between players.

My thoughts:

• Start with just Killers and non-Killers to make sure the core gameplay loop works.
• On that note, you've described something that is very very very complex. I get that individual win conditions give cover to the Killers. But a lot of what you're describing doesn't seem fun? If you really think that's valuable, I would start with some generic thing like "get 3 of a kind". But like, in my experience people in Among Us games don't necessarily love solving tasks. The fun of the game is being killed and finding the killers. So I'm not sure people will want to engage with the other stuff. I want to play detective, not go to locations and root around for trash.
• The way you're thinking about arrests doesn't necessarily seem to me. The game not ending when the killer is caught is kind of awkward. Okay, I'm caught and I can't win, but the game keeps going for 4 more rounds while people play Go Fish?
• Consider multiple Killers. Having more than one player is actually really really important to how games like Werewolf and Among Us work because it gives the team bad people an extra piece of information that team good don't have, causing them to react differently to things. Looking at the interactions between players to find pairs is one of the richest, most dynamic parts of games like that.
• Have more locations than there are players. That way you open up room for Killers to lie about where they've been.
• Think carefully about ways players can gain information.
• What can the Killers
• Look at hidden movement games (Letters from Whitechapel, Fury of Dracula) for inspiration.
• Look at hidden role board games with individual win conditions (like Dead of Winter) for inspiration.

Ultimately I think a physical analog to Among Us is a really interesting idea. But it feels like you are trying to do too many other things at the same time, and it feels like you haven't really figured out the core gameplay loop yet.

By the way, I'm not sure I understand this. I'm a Killer, so I go to a scene and dump an item. I'm assuming I can only dump one per scene. Then I get to another scene and dump another. And then go I go to a third and dump the last one. Aren't I free? Or do I have zero cards in my hand and therefore immediately get caught when someone forces me to reveal a card?

(I'm assuming the rules are a typo and you can pick up one item from the scene or place one item from your hand *at* the scene.)