Online detective game blog

Thank you for amazing year!

2026-01-01
With the new year celebrations, we want to thank all the users that took part in The Lone Detective game in 2025. The number of users that put their brains to the test have jumped (compared to 2024) by 246%, which is amazing! Together, we put to jail...

Account page and nationality

2025-12-10
The account page was reworked to make the details clearer: - sign out button was moved up - player rank is now displayed in more visible way - Premium Token icon was added to make it clearer where the information about the amount of tokens availab...

Casefile rating update

2025-12-09
We made some small changes to the casefile rating system - apart from choosing the rating between 1 and 5 (1 being the lowest and 5 the highest rating) now you might be asked to also provide us with some text feedback. While we appreciate the high...

Notification glitch

2025-10-05
Due to recent interface update some of you may experience a notification glitch, meaning you will get notification of a GM reply to your previous solution if is was submitted in recent days, no matter if you read it already or not. Sorry about that....

AI and introduction of length limits

2025-06-27
Due to the recent plague of clearly AI-written solutions that were submitted not only way, way too long for a sane human being to write, but in most cases also completely wrong, we are introducing the maximum length for each part of the solution. ...

Two new features

2025-06-05
Two new features were added to the game: 1. Case aftermath Some of the solutions might have added case aftermath, describing what happened after the case has closed, explanation what happened if the detective has solved the case, but missed some ...

New feature - ask a question

2025-02-04
A new feature was just added to the interface - ask Game Master a question. The title pretty much explains what the feature is - if you are lost in a case, you can ask Game Master a question regarding some detail of the case file. Of course not every...

The Halloween Murder Mystery

2025-01-04
New case was just added to the game, The Halloween Murder Mystery - unconscious passengers aboard a yacht, a foggy night and the mystery to solved. Who killed the only victim? Was it a murder? Or is the ghost to blame? Take a dive into this case and ...

Thank you for a great year!

2024-12-31
The 2024 was, so far, the best in the history of The Lone Detective - year to year the number of users went up by 33%, user activity by almost 50% and the number of bad guys who were put in jail by you went up 160%! At the same time, the number of us...

Brand new short case, this time in Belgium

2024-11-25
A brand new short case is available right now - The Fleeting Fortune. A young man, who just turned 18, became a millionaire after he inherited the family fortune. Unfortunately, his happiness was short-lived and just two days later he ended up dead. ...

The magical number 787

2024-09-02
Would you say there is something interesting in a number 787? No, me neither. At least until last week. The July last year was pretty active on The Lone Detective, exactly 787 users took active part in the game, which was a nice touch. It was the hig...

Interface upgrade complete

2024-01-27
The last elements of the new version of interface were activated today: - the short cases gained elements that are slightly animated, to break the monotony of the casefiles, - each case you solve you can rate between 1 and 5 on the solution page, ...