The Real Killer: Mystery
Restart and the killer changes
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
The first case, "Pylon 2," is free to the end. I get back from a trip to a voicemail from a safety inspector. That same day, he's found in a quarry. Police say he jumped.
"Reporter Yoon, it's Moon Tae-seop. Let's meet tomorrow morning at 7, at the Lighthouse Tearoom."
I got back from a work trip Friday morning and found a message on my voicemail from Moon Tae-seop, a safety inspector. He'd wanted to meet yesterday morning, and I was still away. Then this morning the news came in: he'd been found at the bottom of a quarry.
The police say he jumped. City Hall had already gotten a threat letter: "On opening day, October 11, the first gondola will fall as it passes Pylon 2." The opening is tomorrow. His last words on my voicemail break off like this: "And that letter to City Hall, it's..."
I'm Yoon Ji-woo, a reporter at the Danwol Daily. I don't carry a badge. I go see people and ask questions, take pictures, dig through old papers in the archive, and swap information with a detective. My story is due early Saturday morning.
■ How it works
Where I go and who I see is up to me. But the clock keeps running. While I spend time in one place, other places close their doors.
I hear testimony one line at a time. When something doesn't fit the evidence I've gathered, I show it right then. If I've got it right, a red pen strikes the line, and they give up something they were hiding.
At the end of each chapter, I fill the blanks in my story with words from my notebook. At the end, I file the story with my editor. The more I get right, the bigger it runs. Pick the wrong culprit, and an innocent person takes the blame.
■ Start over
And the culprit changes. Every time you start "Pylon 2," one of the five suspects becomes the culprit. You meet the same people and go to the same places, but the one who's lying changes, so the stories stop adding up in different places, and the final front page comes out different too. Memorizing last time's answer won't help.
A full run takes about an hour. When it's over, the editor stamps the result: Solved, Not Proven, or Wrong Man. Each culprit's stamp stays in your Case Log.
■ Good to know
It's 2003 in Danwol, a made-up port city on Korea's south coast, drawn in brown ink and halftone dots. The locals speak the Gyeongsang dialect. Play in Korean, Japanese, English, or Spanish.
The first case, "Pylon 2," is free to the end, whoever the culprit turns out to be. After that, each case is sold separately. New cases download without an app update. No ads, no sign-up.
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Information
- Seller
- JUHAN LEE
- Size
- 234.9 MB
- Category
- Adventure
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 16.4 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 3 more
- English, Japanese, Korean, Spanish
- Age Rating
16+
- 16+
- Infrequent
Realistic Violence
Mature or Suggestive Themes
Horror/Fear Themes
Alcohol, Tobacco, Drug Use or References
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Issue No. 2: Take a Number $3.99
- Copyright
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