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A modern whodunit where the suspects actually answer.
PRESS KIT
Open Verdict,
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AT A GLANCEFactsheet
- Developer & publisher
- Digital Horizon Software LLC
- Based in
- Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
- Team
- One developer
- Released
- June 30, 2026
- Platforms
- iPhone (App Store), Android (Google Play)
- Price
- Free to play, with optional in-app purchases
- Cases
- 65 across five eras, 12 playable with no questions required
- Eras
- Victorian, 1920s, 1970s, present day, cyberpunk
- Languages
- English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese
- Audience
- Players 13 and older
- Genre
- Detective mystery, interactive fiction
- Website
- openverdict.app
READY TO QUOTEDescriptions
Short, about 50 words
Open Verdict is a noir detective game for iPhone and Android built around one idea: you question the suspects yourself. Type any question and they answer in character. Press them, put the evidence on the table, and catch the killer in their own contradictions. It is free to play, with 50 free questions for every player.
Long
You’re the detective. The victim is on the floor. The suspects are in the next room.
Most detective games hand you a list of questions and ask you to pick one. Open Verdict goes further. In every case you can type whatever you want (“Where were you at nine?”, “Why is your handwriting on this note?”) and the suspect answers in their own words, in character, on the spot. They deflect. They get defensive. Some of them lie straight to your face, and catching the lie is the game.
The facts never move while you play. Every case is written in advance: a victim, a cast, physical evidence and forensic findings that hold together under scrutiny, and one correct answer for each playthrough. Start a case again, though, and many will have quietly re-cast the killer, so a solved case can’t simply be memorised or spoiled by a friend.
There are 65 cases across five eras, from Victorian London to a cyberpunk future, ranging from a rookie’s first body to cold cases. Twelve can be played with prepared lines, no questions required, and every player gets 50 free questions to ask any suspect in their own words.
WHAT SETS IT APARTKey features
- Ask anything.In every case you can type any question and the suspect answers in character. Suggested questions are there if you want them, but you are never limited to them.
- They lie.Guilty suspects protect their story. Catching where two accounts stop matching is how cases break open.
- Put the evidence on the table.Show a suspect the item they swear they never touched, and watch the answer change.
- The killer can change.59 cases re-cast the guilty party between playthroughs, so a solution can’t be memorised.
- Earn the verdict.Name the killer and attach your proof. The case is graded on what your evidence actually shows.
- 65 cases, five eras.Each with its own cast, evidence and era-matched narration.
- Free to start.50 free questions to ask in your own words, and twelve cases that need no questions.
- Three languages.English, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese, including the suspects’ written live answers and the recorded voices.
RECENTLYLatest updates
IN PLAIN TERMSHow Open Verdict uses AI
The cases are fixed before you play. Every victim, cast, alibi, piece of evidence and solution is written in advance, then tested by automated checks that question every suspect before a case is released.
The suspects’ answers are AI. When you play live, each answer is written by Anthropic’s Claude, playing that character from the case file. It can deflect, lie and crack, but it cannot change the facts of the case. Prepared lines, in the cases marked No questions required, are written in advance.
Made with AI tools, by one person. The cases are written with AI-assisted tools, then edited and tested by the developer. Portraits and evidence art are AI-generated in a single noir style, and the narration uses AI voices.
THE MODELHow it’s monetised
Open Verdict is free to download. Cases marked No questions required can be played in full with prepared lines, and free play is supported by ads. Each live answer from a suspect uses one question, typed or tapped: every player starts with 50 free, and more come in one-off packs or with a monthly subscription. Current prices are on the App Store and Google Play listings.
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GET IN TOUCHAbout & contact
Open Verdict is made by Digital Horizon Software LLC, a one-person studio in Raleigh, North Carolina, founded in 2025. One developer designed, built and shipped the game, writing and testing every case with AI-assisted tools.
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Interviews, additional assets and early looks at upcoming cases are available on request. The game is free to play, with 50 free questions and twelve cases that need no questions, so it can be reviewed without a code.