“One of the best crime games — Most of these games are full of adds and just point and click- very low story and minimal immersion but this game? Totally blew away my expectations, I am finding myself binging just to find out what happens!…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 500 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.9 ★261,480 ratings
—Downloads
9+Age rating
272 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Solve the biggest mystery in the town of Riverstone surrounded by the Elmwood Forest. Find the missing girl and prove yourself to everyone.
It’s been 3 weeks since a young teen has gone missing and despite the town’s police's best efforts, they hit a dead end and declared the case of 18-year-old Zoey Leonard a runaway.
For all the interactive mystery game fanatics. Develop your own trail to unravel the secrets of the town of Riverstone! This is YOUR chance to help a detective regain his legacy, save the life of a missing girl, and uncover the orchestrator behind such a sick crime.
Investigate the case of the missing girl. Navigate through the story, interact with people, gather clues and hints, and make sense of the story.…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 3.1.5 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 3.1.5, updated 2026-08-26.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
80–89% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 3
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
From the store listing: Usable without an account
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
What we saw: The store privacy disclosure (3 entries) links no contact details or identifiers to the user — consistent with an app that does not require an account. Self-reported by the developer.
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Aggressive ad load: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (1.0% of 500 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Users describe the free version as usable
Reviewers repeatedly say the free version is worth using on its own. Nothing we can measure corroborates that — a free listing with in-app purchases looks identical whether the free tier is generous or a demo — so this is published as what reviewers say, not as a measured credit.
What we saw: Reviewers describe the free version as usable: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (1.2% of 500 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“S — Apart from the too many ads this game requires every time you need a clue everything is pretty much dope”
“I’M SHOCKED!! — If I were to recommend a game to anyone, it would definitely be Elmwood Trail !!IT’S SOOO GOOD THAT IT’S ADDICTING !!! The fact that only three people have developed this game and made it what it is shows so much talent…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 3.1.5.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown3
Lowest$3.99
Highest$7.99
Remove Ads$3.99
Saver Pack$7.99
Sidetrails$6.99