Someone's phone. Someone's secrets.
A phone was found. Its owner wasn't. The department puts the recovered phone on your desk, and everything you need to solve the case is already in your hands - their messages, their photos, their voicemails, their lies.
You're the detective. Read everything. Pin what doesn't add up. When two pinned facts can't both be true, you've broken the case open. Then name your suspect, back it with evidence, and get graded on your work -S to F. The grade goes on your record. So does everything else.
THE METHOD
• READ EVERYTHING - messages, photos, notes, mail, and voicemails that speak out loud, each contact with their own voice
• PIN WHAT'S WRONG - anything suspicious goes on your case board, connected with red string
• BREAK THE LIE - two facts that can't both be true make a breakthrough
• ACCUSE - name the killer, prove it, and live with your grade
THE CASES
Open the desk and the folders are waiting:
• MIRA - a travel influencer with 900k followers vanishes between two posts
• HARBOR - a night watchman's phone, fished out of the harbor with 41 messages addressed to you
• ALIAS - a woman with no name, eight aliases, and a phone mailed to the department by no one
• COMET - a 12-year-old stargazer disappears before dawn, and her telescope shouldn't work anymore
Close two cases and the department sends the next two. New phones reach your desk every week.
THE DEPARTMENT
• Earn your rank - TRAINEE to CHIEF INSPECTOR. Promotions are rare and remembered.
• Four endings per case - earned endings stay on file; sealed ones dare you to reopen
• Take the oath and sign it in your own hand - your signature lives on your service record
• A forensics lab for when you're stuck - one free analysis every day, always
YOUR PHONE STAYS YOURS
No account. No sign-in. No ads. No tracking. Your cases, grades, and progress live on your device and nowhere else.
NEVER PAY TO FINISH
Every case can be solved with patience and the free daily analysis. Purchases are optional, always.
The desk lamp is on, Detective. The first folder is already waiting.
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This game is really fun and cool but the reason I gave it four stars is because I feel like it could be better, it’s a bit confusing and the voices are kinda creepy. I got this game because I finished an Elmwood trail and I’m waiting for episode four, I saw this game and thought it would be fun and a little similar. I feel like there should be options to text people more than just once and your text should pop up. Other than that this is a really fun game and it has potential just needs a little more depth and work like the voices especially lol.
Developer Response
Thank you, seriously. This is probably the most useful review we’ve gotten so far.About the voices, they are actually supposed to feel a little unsettling because you’re listening to recordings from strangers’ phones. That’s kind of the whole point. But if it feels more creepy/uncomfortable than tense or interesting, then yeah, we didn’t get that balance right. We’re already reworking the voice mix and delivery for the next update.And you’re completely right about the texting. I think that’s the biggest issue you pointed out. You reply once, then you don’t even see your own message in the conversation, so it starts feeling like you’re not really part of it. We’re putting that at the top of the list.Really appreciate you taking the time to write all of this.Thanks.
FIXED - CASES THAT STOPPED ARRIVING
Some players stopped receiving new case files entirely, with nothing on
screen to say why. The department's records room was turning requests away
and the app was ignoring the refusal. Files now arrive as they should.
FIXED - A SHOP THAT SOMETIMES OPENED EMPTY
The Detective's Kit could show no products at all if the App Store was slow
to answer on a cold start. It now asks a second time before giving up.
NEW - THE APP TELLS YOU WHEN THE LINE IS DOWN
If new files cannot reach your phone, a dispatch slip says so, and says
plainly that everything already on your desk still works. Where a retry can
help, there is a button for it.
FIXED - THE SHIFT PICKER ON THE ROSTER
The hour you were choosing was hard to read against the paper, and the
question above it was cut off mid-word. Both are fixed, and the control is
now drawn in the department's own hand.
FIXED - RATE LAST SEEN, IN SETTINGS
Tapping it could do nothing at all. It now opens the App Store where you can
actually leave one.
Version 2.1.2
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