Untraced: Cold Case Detective

Hohama Studio

Contains adsIn-app purchases

About this app

A phone. An open case. A night that doesn't add up.

Untraced puts a victim's phone in your hands. Someone stopped answering — and the truth is still on their phone. Read the messages they sent that night. Open the photos they hid. Crack the passcode protecting what they deleted. Every timestamp matters, and nobody is going to connect the clues for you.

This is the true crime story you don't just listen to — you solve it.

BECOME THE INVESTIGATOR
Snoop through a fully explorable phone, exactly like a real one: texts, photo albums, email, notes, calendar, maps, voice memos, banking and social apps. The evidence is scattered where real evidence lives — a throwaway text, a calendar entry that doesn't add up, a voice memo recorded at 2 AM.

SOLVE IT LIKE A DETECTIVE
• Read between the lines of every conversation
• Recover hidden and deleted photos the victim didn't want found
• Crack passcodes by finding the hints yourself — no hand-holding
• Cross-reference timestamps, locations, and stories that don't match
• Answer the case questions and confront what really happened

YOUR INVESTIGATION, YOUR PACE
Nothing is on rails. What you open, what you dig into, and when — it all shapes how the picture comes together. No random guessing: every answer is discoverable from the evidence on the phone. If a door is locked, the key is somewhere in the story. Feel like a real detective, because here you actually are one.

FOR TRUE CRIME FANS
If you binge crime documentaries and true crime podcasts and always think "I'd have caught that" — this is your chance to go deeper. And if you love found-phone and interactive mystery games like Duskwood, SIMULACRA, or An Elmwood Trail, Untraced is your next case.

PLAY ANYWHERE
An investigation fits in your pocket. Five minutes in a queue or a 2 AM can't-put-it-down session — the case waits, the phone remembers.

Start investigating for free. A Premium subscription unlocks every case, and free players can optionally watch a rewarded ad for a hint.

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Untraced is a work of interactive fiction. All characters, phones, messages, photos, and events are entirely invented. The game never accesses, reads, or displays anyone's real data — the phone you investigate is part of the story.

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Ratings and reviews

I'm a crime/mystery girl so when I saw this game on an ad ot really picked my interest. I was really excited to try it and see how it was, the gameplay and dynamics are so cool and it's just the right difficulty so I thought "perfect mystery game"; but after the 4th question in the Noor Khali case I have to pay to keep playing? Hell no, it's such a shame that the game developers did this to a little gem, I'm deleting it now due to this, really it is a shame.

The first case was rather easy, and easy to find most of the clues. however the second case was beyond frustrating - questions and hints are misleading and despite rephrasing the answer several times it doesn't accept the answers unless specific "key words" are used. I will not be continuing. Let's also not mention that you have to watch ads every other question just to progess the story unless you want to pay for the game.

I really enjoyed this game and would've given 5 stars until after I answered the fourth question. You have to pay to play the rest of the game. $30 for or $5 a week. That's incredibly ridiculous. I understand there was a lot of work out into it but I've played more intricate games for free or the cost is posted in the app store. They deliberately got around that to get you to play the first five minutes and then put a price on it. I'd love to continue playing it but I'm not paying