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Solve It – A visual novel – Roleplaying Game Review
Solve It – A visual novel is a Roleplaying/Puzzle/Books game from Haiku Games Co, first launched in 22nd June 2019.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 2,191+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Solve It – A visual novel Stand Out
Matthew Park was fabulously wealthy, had a beautiful wife, and was renowned for his genius. In short, he had it all – that is, until he was murdered. There’s no shortage of suspects you must investigate to find the killer. Was it his son who he constantly yelled at, his wife who would inherit everything, or his investor who was disappointed in his performance?
CHOOSE HOW TO INVESTIGATE
Solve It! Death of a CEO is a murder mystery visual novel where your choices can bring the killer to justice. Will you aggressively interrogate the widow or give her some breathing room? Do you cooperate with the police investigation or hide facts from them? Be immersed in an interactive story where your decisions shape what happens next.
INTERROGATE THE SUSPECTS… OR ROMANCE THEM
Meet suspicious characters like Nico, the sauve yet shady bartender, and Penelope, the non-stop PR executive who is trying to keep the company ahead of the news cycle. Will you maintain a professional relationship with your suspects or begin romances with them? Characters will remember how you’ve treated them!
SOLVE THE MURDER
Find clues by talking to suspects and investigating whether their alibis hold up. Did anyone actually witness the murder? Every character has secrets – can you determine which are relevant to solving the case? Confront suspects with evidence to find their motives and make them come clean!
SUPPORT AN INDIE COMPANY
We're an indie game studio that loves making games. At Haiku, we have a game design philosophy we call “satisfying challenge.” We think games should be tough but solvable, so we spend a lot of time designing games that we hope you will enjoy!
Website: www.haikugamesco.com
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OTHER GAMES BY HAIKU
Haiku Games is the company behind the hit Adventure Escape series. This unique series of escape rooms have been played by tens of millions of people!
This Roleplaying game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Solve It – A visual novel is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 23rd January 2020
Recent improvements include:
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- Fixed an issue with playing on cellular data
Download & Availability
Solve It – A visual novel is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Solve It – A visual novel on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Loved it! Towards the end, we had a hard time putting our phone down because we were so close to solving it! Our only frustration is that to get coins to get bonus stories or extra tasks/adventures, you have to spend real money. It would be great if the bonus coins we get for sleuthing were greater or we could solve side mysteries or games for extra coins. Overall, though, we loved it.
Ive played every and all of Haiku games Ive found and have enjoyed them all. Im a full grown adult and still had fun solving puzzles to different story lines. Highly recommend.
We absolutely enjoyed playing this detective game. It was super fun. We wish there was more detective games like this one.
Great game! Now that Ive closed the case, it leaves us wanting more.
Im a big fan of this developers games and this one did not disappoint.
Id definitely recommend this app its amazing.
This is a very well done story. We liked being able to chose our responses. Well thought out and put together! Hope you do more games like this. There re too few like this for adults.
We cant get enough of these games! This one just makes us want to download ALL OF THEM.
We actually enjoyed this game! Bring on another please.
Ive played hundreds of puzzle games and nothing compares to haiku games. Honeslty and hands down our favorite and the best. Much better last time than social media! Lol.
Played this game twice. Its a great mystery. Kept us hooked. Would love to see more of these. We know there are only 3 and have played all 3 already.
We loved the story overall but we would have loved to have a potential love interest side plot to maybe get the main character with one of the other characters and that would depend on how they react to the main character overall.
We had a good experience. It is what we were looking for in terms of a choose your own adventure style. The art is delightful. We also like that there are no in-game ads forced on us. We made sure to make a few small in-game purchases to support the creators. The keys needed to solve the mystery add up quickly enough. We tend to need a lot of hints sometimes. It would be cool if the coins we earned with our stellar sleuthing could be transferred to the sequel. But thats the only improvement type feedback we have. Definitely try it.
A pretty dang good game. The sound affects and music were involving, the energy was pretty easy to get, and the choices werent misleading.
Kept wanting to see what happened next all the way through.
We enjoyed this game, completely free. Keys load fast and they give you enough. We did buy more keys, because we were having so much fun. Need yall to make more if yall havent already. Short but fun.
Tried this game after reading reviews. They are correct this is an awesome mystery. Being part of the storyline is a great concept. Finished in about 24 hours. Look forward to the future games from this company. Keep up the good work.
They did a very great job of story telling and we thought it was one of her best games Ive played yet.
We totally enjoyed ourselves playing this game and really hope the devs come out with more like this. We played all the other games, having to get help from time to time, but this game lended itself to a true investigative roll play venue. Bravo.
Awesome there not like any other adventure escape games out there. Cant wait to see what next.
We actually played all 3 solve its. Theyre great. You choose what to do or say from 2-3 choices. You investigate the crime, talking to all the witnesses. The stories r interesting and just plain fun.
If youre into true crime or detective shows/games this game is perfect! We love how you have to use thinking skills to decide on which questions you have to ask certain suspects, theres Logan to give you hints which is nice but we never use them because its more fun to figure it out on our own! We also love how certain people seem like valid suspects until you figure out a plot twist later on and someone else looks more guilty, it keeps us on our toes trying to figure out who the killer is and actually excited to wait for our keys to load unlike other games where we roll our eyes and wait impatiently we highly recommend this game yall.
We really enjoyed that it felt like we were an investigator.
Very fun, love the fact that it really makes you think.
A great story, but we wish there were more cases to solve.
We love this game. The lay out and the ways it teach you how to solve crimes. Got any more.
We played, solved & evolved !!! We were instantly addicted to Solve It 1,2, & 3!!! We played & solved all 3 games in 3 days!! We had the best time!!! Ive never played a visual novel game beforeI absolutely LOVED It!! Our ONLY complaint is there are no morewhere is Solve it 4,5 & 6 lol we tried researching to find similar games & no luck Now we have no idea what to playnothing compares unfortunately.
Love all the Haiku games we have played, very well done.
A terrific game!! We just cannot stop playing.
The game is very good. It always keeps you wanting to keep playing and discover more. We loved it. We search for something like this and found just what we want.
We cant wait for the next one. The games are challenging but also fun to work through. Keep up the great work.
We love this game! It kept us interested from the start all the way to the end. It was challenging, but not frustrating, and it felt like the choices we made really did matter. Ive played a ton of choose your adventure app games and its really rare to find one that 1. Isnt all about romance, and 2. Is actually playable completely for free! Throughout the game, we think there were only 4 opportunities to use coins to make a special choice, and while these choices were cool, they didnt seem to be necessary to solving the case. Also there were no pop up ads or anything, which is very refreshing after so many other games which have ad after ad after ad. One thing that might have been nice would be the option to watch an ad to get coins or keys, but we didnt pay anything through the whole game and it didnt feel necessary so Im not complaining. The plot of the game was fascinating and the graphics and design were really cool to look at! (By the way, is it just us, or does Herschel look like Nam Joo Hyuk?) Anyway, we would highly recommend this game! We look forward to playing the next ones in the series.
It is a good game.we havent finished it yet but we think its a good game so far.we like the characters and their dialogue.we like the Mystery we still dont know who did it.
Had us hooked !! The only part we didnt like was when the credits started rolling .. Will miss this game.
Really enjoyed playing this game. Easy to follow plot with some minor surprises. No hiccups, no constant begging for money, just our kind of gamewho done it.
LOVE LOVE LOVE This game is so fun!! We need more solve it games.
We loved this game. We dont often pay for the extras but we decided to try it with this one because we enjoyed the art and characters so much. It was well written and you could envision everything that was described. The developers did a great job. All the team did really. We hope these guys make more games soon like this. Im a fan now.
We always enjoy Haiku games. This one was no exception. We dont leave a lot of reviews, but when we do leave one it is only because the game is well done. Well done Haiku.
As all haiku games are, amazing! We can not seem to get enough of these games! Everything from beginning to end was just fantastic! Any payments in the game are completely optional. If anyone ever says anything bad about any games made by haiku, they really dont know a good game when they see one! And best of all, no adds! Almost too good to be true! But we do have one question if any payments are optional and you do not use adds, how do you all make a profit? You guys do not have to answer this question but we are just curious.
Enjoyable mystery and nice options in the interactions.
We enjoyed every moment. When does the next one come out.
When an indie developer puts a game out for free with no ads, Im already impressed and lower the bar a little but we didnt have to for this game. We were captivated by the story and cheeky dialogue and the amount of clues and characters to discover kept the game really compelling all the way through. Scenes are beautifully designed and gameplay is intuitive. If you prefer not to wait (we finished the game in one sick day) you can spend a bit of money to play through. Thanks haiku for tickling our mystery itch.
How do we give this 1,000 stars? We loved the story and everything about this game! We will be looking for more games by this developer.
Another great game with a great storyline, really keeps you engaged on whats happening!! Thanks haiku for the big job of making such fun games.
This game is wonderful. It is interesting and fun to play. You have to get in to the mind set of a detective.we look forward to play the next to and hopefully they will make more of the series.
This game was actually amazing. It kept us on our toes and made us always come back for more.
We really like Haiku games, you get hooked on them and want to know what comes next. Keep up the great job, you guys are amazing.
We love the interactive part and you get to say how the story goes.
So fun. We like finding a puzzle that you dont have to play those mini/match games. Much better story than most episodes.
This game keeps you interested. Its fun without being complicated.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.12
- Size: 183.65 MB
- iOS: 9.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity, Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References, Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes
- Developer: [Haiku Games Co]()
Last updated: 23rd January 2020 | Genre: Roleplaying, Puzzle | Developer: Haiku Games Co