FILE 001
The Wrong Kind of Dead
Caldwell Manor, Wiltshire · 1957
A locked house. An open safe. The money trail is a lie.
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Not a dinner party. A case. The evidence comes to your phones in stages, the operations board builds on your television, and the story changes under your feet. Solve it together, before it goes cold.
Be the Detective is a murder mystery game for two players, or for one. There are five cases, all original fiction, and each one delivers evidence across five stages: as a pair, to both your phones while a theory board builds on your television; on your own, to one phone, with the TV optional. No host, no guests, about 60 to 90 minutes, and A$39 a case with instant access.
Our party games gather a room around a table. Case Files are something else: intimate, procedural, more like actually being a detective. Made for two. A couch. A date night. A pair who want to be inside the investigation, not hosting it. Or made for one: every case also plays solo, on a single phone, with no partner and no television needed.
Five stages. Each one unlocks only when the two of you agree on an answer, so you cannot skip ahead and you have to actually talk it through.
Scene photographs, the victim's file, the first reports. The shape of the night before anyone knew it had gone wrong.
Log your theory on the board: cause of death, prime suspect, motive. Any answer is accepted. You may be confidently wrong.
Forensics land. A statement cracks. The board flags an answer amber. Not "wrong": "you may want to revisit this."
Correct your course, or commit too early and miss the signal. Three from three is a clean solve. The path you took is the story.
Five self-contained investigations, each built around a single clean misdirection. All five are open now.
A locked house. An open safe. The money trail is a lie.
Wartime. Everyone has a secret. The killer's bond to the victim is nothing like it looks.
A death on a lit stage, four hundred witnesses, and a past in Coventry no one mentions.
A planning dispute, a quiet harbour, and a blackmail no one reported.
Academic rivalry, a plagiarised proof, and a verdict the college would rather leave open.
Pour two drinks. Open the board on the television. Send your partner the link. See if the two of you can out-think the evidence.
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