Cold Case Bureau vs Last Seen
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.
Last Seen
Step into the shoes of a detective and solve daily cases by examining a suspect's phone. Uncover secrets through messages, photos, and call logs to accuse suspects and reveal the truth. Compete with others on leaderboards and experience a pure noir atmosphere.
- Daily new cases
- Phone evidence investigation
- Deduction-based gameplay
- Multiplayer duels
- Global leaderboards
- Noir atmosphere
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You're the detective. The only evidence? Their phone. LAST SEEN puts a suspect's phone in your hands and dares you to crack the case. Read the messages, scroll the photos, check the call log, the banking app, the dating profiles, the deleted drafts — everyone's hiding something. Then accuse across six angles — WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, HOW and WHY — and find out how sharp your instincts really are. • A NEW CASE EVERY DAY — noir short stories: affairs, disappearances, heists, betrayals • DEDUCTION, NOT LUCK — every clue counts, every wrong guess teaches you something • COMPETE & TEAM UP — daily & global leaderboards, multiplayer duels, detective clans • PURE NOIR — a rain-slicked, jazz-tinged atmosphere built for the part Free to play. Last Seen+ unlocks the full archive, multiplayer and ad-free. The truth is on the phone. Go find it. Terms of Use: https://last-seen.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://last-seen.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cold Case Bureau at none against Last Seen's 6. Cold Case Bureau also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.1 vs 3.8). Last Seen's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 months). On price, ratings volume, device support and iOS requirement 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. Last Seen sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Cold Case Bureau asks for nothing beyond the download.
Cold Case Bureau holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Cold Case Bureau's written reviews are positive against 40% of Last Seen's.
Cold Case Bureau ships an update every 2 months, Last Seen every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cold Case Bureau | Last Seen |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (8 ratings) — better | 3.8 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 40.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 83 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Thomas Masters | Secarius |
Customer experience
Cold Case Bureau
Last Seen
In-app purchases
Cold Case Bureau
No in-app purchases
Last Seen
- Last Seen+ Weekly$3.997 Days
- Last Seen+ Monthly$6.991 Month
- Last Seen+ Annual$44.991 Year
- Handful of Coins$2.99
- Stack of Coins$5.99
- Vault of Coins$9.99









