Detective Speaking
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Season 01 · The call begins

Detective speaking.

You wake up under guard. You can’t remember why. The phone is ringing.

See the 9 cases Hear a call

You know their voices. You can’t remember their names.
A hospital wristband on white sheets. The name, date of birth and record number are smudged beyond reading.
Exhibit A — Unknown patient

You wake in a hospital bed with a police officer outside the door and gaps where your memory should be. Nobody will tell you why you’re here.

But the bedside phone keeps ringing. A night clerk. A radio producer. A stranger on the last train. Each of them has seen something, and each of them needs a detective.

So you do the one thing you still can. You listen, you ask, and you solve it out loud. And case by case, the calls lead back to the night you can’t remember.

How it works

No menus. No commands.
Just a conversation.

  1. 01

    Pick up the phone

    A call comes in. A witness, a clerk, a stranger, each with something they saw and something they missed.

  2. 02

    Ask anything, out loud

    Speak naturally. Follow a hunch, circle back, interrupt. The game works out what you asked on your own device, and they answer with lines written for the story.

  3. 03

    Say what you’ve worked out

    When two facts don’t fit, say so. If your reasoning holds, the case moves forward.

  • Five levels a case
  • Progress saved after every question
  • Prefer typing? Switch any time
  • Understood on your device

Tape 01 · Night Desk · 1:40 a.m.

Listen to a call.

Tom, a night clerk, found your card and called you about a theft. Listen to two of his answers. Something in them doesn’t fit.

Your voice
Counter00:00
  1. YouDid the engineer ever leave?
  2. TomI don’t know. I never saw him leave. And he never gave the visitor card back.
  3. YouIs there a camera on the door?
  4. TomThere’s one, on the front door. I checked it after Lucy came down. Nobody has gone out that door since noon.
What would you say next? See the cases

Season One

Nine cases. One missing night.

Each case stands on its own. Together they lead back to the room you woke up in.

A hotel reception desk at night under a single lamp.
Free
Case 01

Night Desk

1 a.m. at the Crown Hotel. A guest’s bag is gone, and the night clerk saw everything but the obvious.

5 levels
A late-night radio studio lit by a red ON AIR sign.
Case 02

Dead Air

A late-night host goes silent mid-broadcast. The last thing he said wasn’t meant for air.

5 levels
An empty train carriage under cold fluorescent light.
Case 03

Last Train

The last train of the night. Three passengers. One of them is lying.

5 levels

  1. Case 04

    Revealed when you solve Case 03.

  2. Case 05

    Revealed when you solve Case 04.

  3. Case 06

    Revealed when you solve Case 05.

  4. Case 07

    Revealed when you solve Case 06.

  5. Case 08

    Revealed when you solve Case 07.

  6. Case 09

    Revealed when you solve Case 08.

Yours to keep

Buy it once.
It’s yours for good.

Remember when you bought a game and it was simply yours? That’s how this works. One price for the season, and every case stays yours to play again.

All 9 cases, including each new one as it’s released. The first case is free. Refunds

  • One price, no subscription

    Pay once for the season. No monthly fee, no coins, no surprise charges.

  • Play it again, any time

    Every case you own stays yours. Go back, ask different questions, and hear what you missed the first time.

  • Nothing in the way

    No ads and nothing to buy halfway through a case. Just the story, the voices and you.

  • Plays offline

    Built to run on your own device. No connection needed, and nothing on our side that can switch off.

Questions

Before you pick up.

Do I need a microphone?

Speaking is the way the game is meant to be played, so a microphone and headphones give the best experience. If you can’t talk out loud, you can switch to typing at any moment and carry on.

Is this an AI chatbot?

No. Every character’s lines are written and voiced in advance, and every case has one true answer. Small AI models on your device work out what you said and what you meant. They can’t write lines, invent facts, change the story, or hand you a solution you didn’t reach.

How long does it take?

As long as it takes you to see it. Each case has five levels, and your progress is saved after every question, so you can stop any time and pick up where you left off.

What does it cost?

The first case, Night Desk, is free. Season One costs $19.99, once: all 9 cases, including each new case as it’s released. You keep it and can replay it whenever you like. No subscription, no ads, no in-game coins.

Can I play offline?

Yes. The game is being built to run entirely on your own device, including understanding what you say. Once your cases are downloaded, you can play without an internet connection, and nothing depends on our servers staying up.

What happens to my voice?

It stays on your device. The game turns your speech into text and works out what you meant right there on your iPhone. The audio is never sent to us or anyone else. If you like, you can switch on sharing the text (never the audio, and nothing that identifies you) to help us improve the cases. It’s off unless you turn it on.

What do I need to play?

An iPhone with a recent version of iOS, and ideally headphones. The game is an iPhone app first; iPad and Mac versions are planned to follow.

3:12 a.m.

The phone won’t stop ringing.

Night Desk, the first case, is free. The whole season is $19.99, once, and yours to keep. All you need is a microphone and the nerve to ask.

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