A Shot in the Dark

You turn up at college to close the book on what came before. Good idea, bad timing: the semester has barely started when one of the women from your house is gone. No message, no trace, just rumours travelling faster than any actual fact.

From there the campus becomes a place where nobody quite rings true. The game runs as a dark investigation where you decide who to get close to and who to doubt. Every friendship, every rivalry and every advance either moves you towards the truth or steers you deliberately away from it.

The cast around you is mixed accordingly: classmates who have their eye on you, rivals with short fuses, friends from way back and teachers with agendas of their own, among them Monica Kapoor from the photography course. An argument here turns into something else fast, and so does a friendship.

Refreshingly clear for the genre: the developer states outright that there is no sexual violence and no NTR storyline, and that relationships stay consensual throughout. It plays free with no download, right in your phone browser: tap, ask questions, keep digging. A Shot in the Dark is made by ViM Studios and currently runs through chapter 4.