An AI murder mystery
CULPRIT
Everyone in this house is lying to you.
One of them is lying about murder.
A detective game you play by interrogation. Question suspects in your own words — they remember every answer, lie to your face, and crack under pressure. Gather the evidence. You get one accusation.
Free to play · no download · nothing to install
This is the game
There is no dialogue tree. You ask whatever you want.
Every suspect is played by an AI actor with a secret to keep. Press the right nerve and their composure slips — the ring around their portrait heats from gold to blood as they come apart.
Vivian Laroux
torch singer · suspect
A staged exchange — in the game, you type the questions
Six states of coming apart. Your questions decide how far they fall.
How a case plays
Interrogate. Build the case. Accuse.
Interrogate
Sit each suspect down and ask anything, in your own words. They remember what they've told you, protect each other, and lie — until the pressure or the trust is right.
Speak your questions aloud, hear them answer — if you want.
Build the case
Catch contradictions, collect exhibits, search the rooms, and quote one suspect's words to another. A deduction sheet keeps score of what you can actually prove.
Every mystery is verified solvable before you ever see it.
Accuse
When the accusation unlocks, name the killer, the motive, and the proof. One shot. The verdict plays out — triumph in candlelight, or the wrong soul condemned.
Then share your result — spoiler-free, Wordle-style.
Three doors into the dark
Pick your poison
Ten worlds, one kit
A case doesn't just change setting. It changes the light.
Each world is twelve colours, a light and a texture — and every one of those twelve is drawn from the same fixed palette the pixel art is quantized to, so the chrome and the plates can never belong to different games. Pick one and the whole page crosses over with you.
You are in
Gaslight
10 worlds · 12 tokens each · low light
Every surface you can see right now — the nav, the buttons, the cards, the paper the clippings are printed on — is drawn from those twelve. Nothing on this page is a colour the pixel art could not produce.
Commission your own mystery and it is dressed the same way: the brief picks the world, the world picks the palette, and the palette locks the art.
Notices from the world of Culprit
SINGER QUESTIONED THRICE, WEEPS TWICE
The consulting detective is said to refuse all interviews save those conducted by lamplight. Suspects report the questions arrive 'in any order a mind could dream.'
MANOR SEALED; HOUSEHOLD CONFINED TO GROUNDS
No one may leave until the matter is resolved. The butler maintains the household has 'nothing whatever to hide,' a phrase this newspaper has learned to treasure.
AUCTION HOUSE MURDER: 'WE HAVE NEVER SOLD A LIE'
Five persons of interest. One vault. The newest inspector is reported to keep a sheet of deductions and to confirm nothing until it is proven.
All mysteries are fiction. The suspects are AI actors — they improvise their answers, but they can never break the facts of the case.
The house is waiting.
Someone in it has rehearsed their answers. See how long they hold.