Untraced: Cold Case Detective

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4.34K reviews
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PEGI 12
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PEGI 12
Mild Swearing
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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.

Terms of Use: https://foredawnhq.com/untraced/terms
Privacy Policy: https://foredawnhq.com/untraced/privacy
Support: https://foredawnhq.com/untraced/support
True crime detective game: search a victim's phone, follow clues, crack the case
Updated on
Oct 27, 2026

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Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
  • No data shared with third parties
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  • No data collected
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  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.18K reviews
Holly Robertson
August 25, 2026
good game, great concept but I think some clues were missing. for example, in one case there was a note widget on the home screen which began something along the lines of "someone opened my door...." but when you go into notes there's not one there that says that and it's not in a locked note either. The case I'm on just now tells you to open an app and look for a specific thing but it's not there.
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Mika S
August 11, 2026
A good game let down by corporate greed. You have to pay for a subscription to unlock 95% of the game, but then you still have to pay for extra hints as youre only given 5 free hints a day and there's no other ways to earn them. Also sometimes you have to be extremely specific with your answer for it to accept, so you're forced to use 4 hints to get to an answer that you already know. Without the forced microtransactions it would be great.
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Catherine Maskrey
September 16, 2026
the game is fun but starts glitching very quickly, I had to restart it 8 times and I havent even had it for an hour. It also has 90% of the game behind a subscription pay wall and unless you unlock that pay wall you cant even purchase any hints despite the fact that they give you the option. I have uninstalled the game and wished to make people aware of this.
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