Investigate mysterious cases, find hidden clues, and uncover the true culprit.
Rawhand GamesSerious warnings 2 confirmed warnings, and users report 1 more thing. Checked: 400 reviews, the Android app’s code, the store listing and the privacy label.
From our automated analysis, 30 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.
This analysis describes version 1.21.4 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-30 .
The store currently lists version 1.21.4, updated 2026-07-03.
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
Investigate mysterious cases, find hidden clues, and uncover the true culprit.
“Detective S” is a mystery detective game that combines comic-style storytelling, spot-the-difference puzzles, clue hunting, and criminal investigation.
Search crime scenes for evidence,
analyze conversations and relationships between suspects,
and piece together every clue to reveal the truth.
In the end, you must identify the culprit yourself.
This is more than just a story game.
Become the detective and solve each case with your own deductions.
■ A Mystery Story Told Like a Comic
Ten years ago, Detective S lost his only family member in a serial murder case.
Years later, now a renowned detective, S discovers a wooden button engraved with a snake while investigating a new case.
It is identical to the one connected to the tragedy from his past.
Then comes a shocking revelation.…
From the developer’s store description.
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Findings that met the published evidence standard.
Bundles 7 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: Amazon Publisher Services, AppLovin MAX, Google Mobile Ads (AdMob / Ad Manager), Meta Audience Network and 3 more
The package embeds several distinct advertising or mediation SDKs — a stack built for ad volume, not for a single house ad.
Package artefact
Appworthy
sha256:5f7e138169030f354bf92c08a4d4010b093827842b0a6d6002fe2a45bc0cbf79Aggressive ad load: raised by 9 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 44 reviews we read)
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
Specific evidence of a useful property, within the stated scope.
The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.
Energy / timer gating: raised by 11 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 36 reviews we read)
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Use is rationed by an energy/hearts/lives meter that runs out and forces a wait or a purchase.
400 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.
Very fun game, and adorable art style. Quite nice to play if you're an analytical person like me. The main downside is the cost of each stage (30-60 diamond). You have to watch a lot of ads to get the enough amount (1 ad = 2 diamonds, max…
Great art style and story telling! I've only completed the first case so far but I'm enjoying the game quite a lot. They did a great job that even after all the evidence was gathered it wasn't immediately apparent which suspects could be…
This game is pretty in a lot of aspects but there is only one part that is difficult is that watching ad is okay but you can only watch 10 ad per day and with this gives you 20 gems per day max but so far the chapters require 30 diamonds…
Everything is great and I really love the game, but I think I've encountered a bug. Yesterday, after using all 5 of my lives, I closed the game to let them refill. However, every time I open the game now, the lives haven't recharged, and…
This is superb. When I downloaded this game, I was not expecting to find such a clever and well-structured storyline, and quite challenging puzzles. Most spot-the-difference games are usually shameless cash grabs, but I am willing to…
It's a detective themed spot the difference game, that seems to purposefully create fail states so that you watch ads or pay real money to continue playing. OR wait hours to earn back hearts needed to play. Underwhelming game play…
A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.
“Not assessed” means we could not measure it. It is never a zero and never a pass.
Android package 1.21.4, scanned 30 Oct 2026. These describe that package, not the current store version.
Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured
This analysis describes version 1.21.4 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-30 .
The store currently lists version 1.21.4, updated 2026-07-03.
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
No release notes were provided for this version.
detective-sAssessed 2026-10-30 from 400 user reviews, the app's package, the store listing and its privacy label.
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This assessment is produced automatically. Six independent signals are read — user reviews, SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text, the app manifest, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.
No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every recurring plan the store lists is named as weekly, the term read from the purchase names, with a list cut off at the store’s 10-item maximum not assessed; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.
There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.
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