Cold Case Bureau vs Silent Evidence
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cold Case Bureau
Engage in a slow-paced mystery game where you analyze case files, evidence, and suspect testimonies to uncover contradictions. Piece together clues on your investigation board to solve crimes and advance your detective career through increasingly challenging tiers.
- Analyze case files and evidence
- Identify contradictions in testimonies
- Use an investigation board
- Progress through difficulty tiers
- Offline play
- Reputation system
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One case a day. The same case for everyone. Nothing to buy, no ads, no account. Cold Case Bureau puts a case file on your desk: the victim, the suspects, the evidence, and somewhere inside it, one story that doesn't hold together. Read the file. Find the two statements that can't both be true. Pin them on the board and watch the string pull tight. Then build your theory, not a guess from a menu, but an argument, element by element. Get part of it right and that part locks in. Get part of it wrong and the case tells you exactly which part, and lets you keep working. THE DAILY CASE Every day the Bureau opens one case, and it's the same case for every player in the world. Solve it, keep your streak alive, and share your result. A spoiler-free grid that shows how you did without giving anything away. INVESTIGATE Four Case Hours, and a case that offers more than four hours of leads. Press a suspect with a piece of evidence and what they say depends on what you chose to show them. Pull records nobody asked for. Send evidence to the lab. Earn a warrant with proof from your board. A wasted half hour is on you, but the case can always be closed from the file alone. Nothing is ever locked behind a guess. THE INVESTIGATION BOARD Real red string. Connect two pieces of evidence that contradict each other and the connection is established permanently. The board is where you prove people are lying. THE ARCHIVE More than ninety past Daily cases, free to work in any order, from quick Rookie files to five-suspect Senior investigations with paper trails that close like a net. FAIR PLAY, GUARANTEED Every case is verified solvable from its own evidence before it ships. Every question has exactly one answer the file supports. If you reason correctly, you win - that's the whole promise. No ads. No purchases. No timers that want your money. Just cases.
Silent Evidence
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The file lands on your desk. A body, a handful of suspects, and a stack of evidence that does not lie — but does not speak, either. Silent Evidence is a noir detective game where you crack real, fair-play murder mysteries. Sift through autopsy reports, witness statements, ledgers and photographs. Play the dictaphone recordings and listen for the clue words can't tell — a clock striking the hour, a name half-spoken. Then, when you're ready, name the culprit, the motive, and the method. Every case has exactly one answer, and every answer is hidden in the evidence you were given. No guessing. No tricks. Just you, the file, and the truth. • 10 hand-crafted cases — from a vineyard poisoning to a locked-room library murder • Real evidence: coroner's reports, forensics, telephone logs, financial records • Voice recordings with hidden audio clues — listen closely • Suspect dossiers and a deduction you build yourself • Earn a detective's badges as you close cases Your first case is free, start to finish — and every case after opens its first clues for you to examine. Silent Evidence Pro ($9.99, one-time — yours forever) unlocks all ten and every case to come. Can you read what the evidence won't say out loud?
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cold Case Bureau at none against Silent Evidence's 1. Silent Evidence's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.6). On price and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Silent Evidence sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Cold Case Bureau asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Cold Case Bureau | Silent Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (8 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Thomas Masters | MEHMET CANKER (TR) |
In-app purchases
Cold Case Bureau
No in-app purchases
Silent Evidence
- Silent Evidence Pro$9.99
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