Midnight Casebook
A free daily murder mystery you solve in 10 minutes
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A new detective case opens every night at midnight. Search an illustrated crime scene with a flashlight, listen to voiced witness statements, and accuse the killer, the method and the motive. Every case is fair: everything you need is in the file, checked by an automatic solver and playtested before it ships. Free in any browser, no download, no account to start. Also on Android. Six languages. Casebook Pro adds the archive, all hints and the long Sunday Dossier.
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PH · launched Oct 29, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%)
- Media & entertainment
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Android
- Puzzle Games
- Games
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Yes A web-based mystery game is mostly UI, interactive image hotspots, and audio playback, all standard web work. The hard part is writing fair, well-constructed cases, which is creative labor rather than engineering expertise.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 111 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #45 of 112 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 274 days after the earliest competitor.
- Whodunnit: The Casebook · ph · 2026-10-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- Daily Case — A mystery a day · ph · 2026-10-06 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Casebook · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- 3am Archive: Sleep Detective · ph · 2026-10-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Murder At Mine · ph · 2026-10-15 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Clue Mates · ph · 2026-10-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Somatry: Cold Case Mystery · ph · 2026-10-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Trick or Teach · ph · 2026-10-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
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