CASE FILE DETECTIVE GAME
COLD FILE.
You get the file. Nobody tells you what matters.
The incident report, the autopsy, the access logs, the interview transcripts, the dead man's phone. Four to six people who all had a reason. You read it, you work it out, and you name three things: who did it, why, and the exact three pieces of evidence that prove it.
THE DRAWER
STATEMENTS LIE. LOGS DON'T.
A man says he took the 8:45 ferry. The harbor log says the 8:45 was canceled at 8:20. Nothing in the game points that out. That is the whole game.
THE BRIEFING
THE COUNTY HAS ALREADY DECIDED. THE COUNTY IS WRONG.
Every case opens on a victim with a face and a life, and the ruling somebody wants filed. Then you get the folder. Nine to twenty-one documents depending on difficulty, unlocked in stages. To open the next set you type what you have worked out so far. Not multiple choice. You type it.
EXHIBIT L, FORENSIC MIRROR
HIS PHONE, THE WAY THE LAB GOT IT
Threads, call log, camera roll with timestamps and locations, voicemail transcripts, notes with earlier revisions, email, browser history. Around fifty artifacts per case, and most of it is nothing. That is deliberate. Triage is the skill, and triage doesn't exist until there is more in front of you than you can read.
THE BOARD
RED STRING, AND A REASON WRITTEN ON IT
A free board you can pan and zoom. Pin documents, pin single photographs, drag them where you want them, and tie two cards together with a note saying why. It is the thing everyone pictures when they picture doing this, and it works.
1,300 PHOTOGRAPHS
Scene, exhibits, and a portrait of everyone in the file. Tap any of them for full screen, pinch to zoom.
THEY TALK BACK
Transcripts that push back, correct themselves, and ask for a lawyer at the point it starts to hurt.
REAL FORENSICS
Traumatic asphyxia recording the shape of what caused it. Carboxyhemoglobin turning skin cherry pink. Fatigue striations on a fractured bolt. Researched, not invented.
FILING THE CASE
TWO TRIES,
THEN IT GOES COLD.
THEN IT GOES COLD.
Name the accused, the motive, and exactly three exhibits. All three right and the case closes. Anything wrong and you have one filing left. Miss twice and it stays open on your record for good.
SPOILER
The solution screen for Case 001. Blurred on purpose.
73 CASES IN THE DRAWER.
Roughly sixty hours already filed, and it grows. A monastery cellar. An auction house. A press hall at 2am. A ski patrol hut. A prison law library. A container ship's engine room. A hilltop radio transmitter. A telephone exchange. Each case is a closed world with its own vocabulary.
ULTRA EASY
5 cases. 8 to 12 documents, 10 to 20 minutes. The on-ramp.
EASY
5 cases. 9 documents, 15 to 30 minutes.
MEDIUM
24 cases. 11 to 13 documents, 30 to 50 minutes.
HARD
20 cases. 13 to 14 documents, 40 to 60 minutes. From here up you type the name. There is no list to pick from.
SHERLOCK HOLMES
19 cases. 16 to 22 documents, 60 to 90 minutes. An evening's work.
THE DAILY DOSSIER
One document, one question, about a minute. Everybody in the world gets the same one on the same day, and it builds a streak. It is the reason to open the app on a day you don't have an hour.
THE PRECINCT
A weekly board that resets on Sundays, plus all-time boards for cases closed, Sherlocks closed, clean closes, hidden corners found, and longest streak. Tap a name to see that detective's record.
YOUR SERVICE RECORD
Cases solved against the whole catalogue, split by difficulty, with clean closes, commendations, streak, and 23 badges. Close a whole season without a single wrong accusation and it says so.
YOU BUY CASES. THAT IS THE WHOLE STORE.
One-time purchases. Nothing recurring, nothing that expires.
FIVE FREE, FOREVER
In the app from install.
ONE FREE EVERY MONTH
No purchase, no subscription. It appears in the drawer on the day.
CASE PACK, $2.99
Three themed cases. Always one Medium, one Hard, one Sherlock. 18 packs so far.
SEASON PASS, $9.99
Six packs, eighteen cases, against $17.94 bought separately. A season is fixed before it goes on sale and nothing is added later. 3 seasons so far.
NO ADS. NO ENERGY METERS. NO LIVES. NO TIMERS. NO HINTS FOR SALE. NO IN-GAME CURRENCY. NO SUBSCRIPTION.
A mystery you can buy your way through is not a mystery.
THE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE AI-GENERATED
No real people, no real crime scenes, no real victims. Every image was made for this game. All the writing is human.
NOTHING HERE IS A REAL CASE
Every person, place and death is invented. The forensic reasoning inside them is real and described as accurately as we can. The cases are not.
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