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Someone's secrets.\n\nA phone was found. Its owner wasn't. The department puts the recovered phone on your desk, and everything you need to solve the case is already in your hands: their messages, their photos, their voicemails, their lies.\n\nYou're the detective. Read everything. Pin what doesn't add up. When two pinned facts can't both be true, you've broken the case open. Then name your suspect, back it with evidence, and get graded on your work, from S to F. The grade goes on your record. So does everything else.\n\nTHE METHOD\n• READ EVERYTHING: messages, photos, notes, mail, and voicemails that speak out loud, each contact with their own voice\n• TEXT THEM BACK: type to anyone in the phone and they answer in their own words. Nobody hands you the answer.\n• PIN WHAT'S WRONG: anything suspicious goes on your case board, connected with red string\n• BREAK THE LIE: two facts that can't both be true make a breakthrough\n• ACCUSE: name the killer, prove it, and live with your grade\n\nTHE CASES\nOpen the desk and the folders are waiting:\n• MIRA: a travel influencer with 900k followers vanishes between two posts\n• HARBOR: a night watchman's phone, fished out of the harbor with seven messages addressed to you\n• ALIAS: a woman with no name, eight aliases, and a phone mailed to the department by no one\n• COMET: a 12-year-old stargazer disappears before dawn, and her telescope shouldn't work anymore\n• SIGNAL: five students chase a radio station that doesn't exist, and the mountain sends back one phone\n\nClose two cases and the department sends the next two. New phones reach your desk every week.\n\nTHE DEPARTMENT\n• Earn your rank, from TRAINEE to CHIEF INSPECTOR. Promotions are rare and remembered.\n• Four endings per case: earned endings stay on file, and sealed ones dare you to reopen\n• Take the oath and sign it in your own hand. Your signature lives on your service record.\n• A forensics lab for when you're stuck. No case ever needs it, and the lab only saves you the walking.\n\nYOUR PHONE STAYS YOURS\nNo account. No sign-in. No ads. No tracking. Your cases, grades, and progress live on your device. When you text a contact, our server reads the message to pick their reply and keeps no copy.\n\nNEVER PAY TO FINISH\nEvery case can be solved without buying anything. No case needs an analysis. Purchases are optional, always.\n\nThe desk lamp is on, Detective. The first folder is already waiting.\n\n\nDetective's Retainer is an auto-renewable subscription: $3.99 a week, $6.99 a month, or $39.99 a year in the US. Apple charges your Apple Account when you subscribe, then at the start of each new term. The subscription renews until you cancel it in Settings. Credit packs are one-time purchases.\nTerms of Use (EULA): https://novarch.lol/lastseen-terms.html\nPrivacy Policy: https://novarch.lol/lastseen-privacy.html","facts":{"developer_id":6773573492,"developer_url":"https://novarch.lol/lastseen","first_released":"2026-07-24T07:00:00Z","support_url":"https://novarch.lol/#contact","privacy_url":"https://novarch.lol/lastseen-privacy.html","website_url":"https://novarch.lol/lastseen","app_version":"2.7.5","release_notes":"Bug fixes and improvements.\n\n• In case 2, MIRA, someone close to her now has something to hide.\n• 23 of the longest cases are tighter: the same mysteries and endings in about half the reading.\n• Until you make your accusation, no message gives the answer away. 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