FIFTEEN CHAPTERS / THREE CASES / MULTIPLE ENDINGS
Everybody’s got a story. Somebody’s lying. You’re a private eye with a two-person crew. Collect evidence, question suspects, survive dangerous traps, and decide who you can trust. Your choices can cost lives.
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Adult mystery · Graphic injury · Strong language · No timed choices
Listen to the choices in order. Tap anywhere on the active choice screen one to four times to select the matching choice. Hear your selection, then tap once to confirm or twice to choose again. Each accepted tap makes a soft tone.
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Open choice pad Instructions and controls Read instructions aloud Pause instructions Rewind 5 seconds
Instructions use the separate guide voice. Their pause and rewind buttons affect directions only.
Mobile: where the buttons are The Dead Don’t Lie. Mobile instructions. After you begin, rewind fifteen seconds is at the top left. Replay current scene is at the top right. Pause speech, or resume speech when paused, is at the bottom left. Restart game is at the bottom right. Restart asks before returning to the main screen. These positions refer to the game area above your phone browser controls.
Mobile: choosing by touch After the story and choices finish, the large touch pad fills most of the screen. Tap once for the first choice, twice for the second, three times for the third, or four times for the fourth. Every accepted tap makes a soft tone. Leave a short pause after your last tap. Listen to your selected option, then tap once to confirm or twice to choose again. Repeat choices is directly below the pad. There is no countdown. The screen stops scrolling while choices are open.
Mobile: recovery and chapter menus If your character dies, listen to the explanation before choosing recovery. Checkpoint, title, and replay options are read aloud. Select and confirm them using the same touch controls. Each completed chapter is announced with a short status. At the end, your rank and full case summary are read when you choose them. Rewind and replay change what you hear; they do not undo choices or change your progress.
VoiceOver and TalkBack With VoiceOver or TalkBack, navigate to the numbered choice buttons and use your usual screen reader activation gesture. Listen to your selected option, then activate the large confirmation button. The screen reader double tap activates a control; it is not the game two tap cancel gesture. Turn automatic story narration off if you prefer your screen reader to read the transcript without overlapping voices.
Laptop: mouse and keyboard Mouse clicks on the large pad use the same count as mobile taps. Keys one through four select a choice. Number pad keys work with Num Lock on. Enter confirms the selected option. Escape lets you choose again. Tab reaches buttons and numbered choices. Enter or Space activates a focused control.
Instructions playback On this instructions page, Read instructions aloud begins the saved speech. Pause instructions stops at your current position and becomes Resume instructions. Rewind five seconds goes back through the instructions without changing the story. These controls affect instructions speech only. Instructions use a slower, clear pace.
Two-finger gestures On by default. One two-finger tap pauses or resumes. Two rewind fifteen seconds. Three replay the scene. Four request restart. On choice screens, hold two fingers still for one second to repeat choices. Leave a short pause after your final tap. Separate buttons remain available. VoiceOver and TalkBack may use these gestures themselves; turn game gestures off if they interfere.
Game options Turn this off when using a screen reader to read the transcript without overlapping voices. In this mode, read the scene, then activate Open choice pad.
Following stops when choices appear. It moves the page without moving keyboard or screen-reader focus. Turn it off if you prefer to navigate the text yourself.
Narrator speed 0.92× Speech volume Saved recordings play again without generating speech. No microphone, voice controls, background sounds or story sound effects are used. The app requests screen wake protection while playing when your browser supports it.
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