True crime & cold case games
The feeling of a true crime file, on a phone
If you’ve ever listened to a true crime podcast and thought “check the phone records”, this is for you. In Last Text, the phone records are the whole case.
To be clear: every case in Last Text is fiction. No real victims, no real names, no real crimes.
Like a cold case file, but it’s still moving
Cold case games usually hand you a box of evidence: statements, receipts, photos. Last Text gives you the phone of someone caught up in a death, and the people around them are still texting. You read what they said before, and what they say now that they think nobody’s watching.
- Check alibis against time stamps, tide tables and door alarms.
- Listen to voicemails and look closely at photos.
- Decide when you’ve seen enough, then name who’s behind it. One chance.
Case 01 is free on iPhone and Android.The murder cases
Each takes about 50 to 65 minutes and is rated hard (●●●).
Safe Crossing
A tidal island, cut off for the night. A grandmother at the foot of the cellar stairs. Nobody could cross. So who was at her back door?
Eighty-Six
The chef is dead in his own walk-in. The alarm was silenced with her PIN, and the whole kitchen heard her threaten him.
Dry Season
Twenty years after a mine collapse, the man who held the claim drives out into the night and doesn’t come back.
Not ready for a murder?
Start with Case 01, The Fiancé. It’s free, it’s gentler, and it teaches you how the phone works. Then pick up Grandpa’s New Friend, a romance scam told through a 78-year-old’s phone.
More about the genre: found phone games and detective games on your phone.