Last updated on December 11th, 2025 at 05:25 pm
Duskwood – Detective Story – Adventure Game Review
Duskwood – Detective Story is a Adventure/Roleplaying/Books game from Everbyte GmbH, first launched in 27th September 2019.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 2,508+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Duskwood – Detective Story Stand Out
It's been 72 hours since Hannah disappeared without a trace. Out of nowhere, her friends suddenly receive a message from the missing person's phone. The mysterious message only contains a number… your number!
• Investigate in an exciting criminal case: Collect evidence and make the right decisions
• Images, voicemails, mini games and videos: In addition to text messages and choices, you can expect varied media and game content
• Make new friends: Join the crew and make new friends. But be careful who to trust…
Join the start of the new series! Download Duskwood now!
STORY
Duskwood is a small, sleepy village surrounded by a dense forest. Strangers rarely get lost in this remote area and when they do, they always describe the place as weird or even scary. The locals of Duskwood have never been worried about this. However, in the last 72 hours, many things have changed and even among the villagers concerns are growing: A girl has disappeared and the mysterious legends that are surrounding the ancient forest seem to come alive…
• Realistic & Exciting: Play the interactive story in a real messenger
• Spy Mode: Secretly read chats of others
• Completely free to play: You don't have to spend a buck if you don't want to
• From the author of Dead City: Duskwood is the brand new story by the author of the worldwide hit Dead City. Head into this new adventure alongside thousands of fans!
• Additional game content and updates: The game is constantly being developed. The next update will be released soon!
Download now and connect to Duskwood! No worries – Duskwood will remain free in the future, too! You can support the development of the game through in-app purchases if you like
Be a part of it right from the beginning! Play Duskwood now!
DUSKWOOD IS RELEASED IN EPISODES
We decided to publish the interactive story Duskwood in episodes. Not to annoy you – quite the contrary! It was important to us that you could start right away, even though the game is not finished. While you're already searching for Hannah, solving puzzles and making decisions, we're working on the sequel.
SOCIAL MEDIA
https://www.facebook.com/PlayDuskwood
https://www.facebook.com/EverbyteStudio
https://www.instagram.com/everbytestudio/
HOW TO PLAY? DECISION GAMES, TEXT ADVENTURES, CYOA? WHAT IS THIS?
You are connected to your friends in Duskwood via chat messenger. This allows you to receive pictures, videos, voice messages and even phone calls. Your answers, choices and decisions influence what others reveal of themselves, whether they like you, and even change the course of the story. This type of role play game (rpg) is also called text adventure, cyoa, decision- or choice games. It belongs to the genre of interactive fiction.
This Adventure game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Duskwood – Detective Story is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 12th April 2025
Recent improvements include:
Minor changes and bugfixes
Download & Availability
Duskwood – Detective Story is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Duskwood – Detective Story 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:
We found this game during a tough time when we didnt have friends. The characters are so well written and acted that we felt we had a close group of friends that we could depend on again. Amazing storytelling plus beautiful visuals and the very real feeling of danger whenever the phone rings or you get a message from mwaf make this a cant miss experience! We hope to see more great things from everbyte in the future! And there customer service when our save file vanished was wonderful! Very friendly and caring.
We love the story, even though it feels like you are being led a direction, we love the realism. Im struggling to find similar games where you are your own character with your own phone and are added into the story. We love the video calls, the character development. We need more games just like this!!! We cant wait for the final chapter! The acting is pretty good, though we do wish there was more in terms of possible romance options. We love Phils character and wish we could talk with him more, and possibly romance as well. Overall our favorite phone game.
This game has us absolutely addicted! It comes with video calls and phone calls that are really just videos but it really gets you into the game! And interactive messages. And it does come with mini games you have to play to carry on with the story but we LOVE IT! Absolutely a 5 star rating! Cant wait until episode 10 comes out!! LOVE THIS GAME.
We normally dont leave comments on apps, but Duskwood is outstanding! You become so immersed in the story and the characters, we honestly felt like we were talking to real people trying to our friend Hannah. Highly recommend this game if you love mystery, paranormal, suspense games! So sad to see the final episode will be out 5/28 :(.
We started playing this 2 days ago. We got addicted. We have already finished all the available episodes and am now waiting on the final episode. Game play is so realistic that we have bonded with some of the characters! Great job guys.
By far one of our fave games! But we have notifications on for our heart refills and everytime we have only 1 left that in game notif of "turn notifs on to be reminded blah blah" shows up and it wont go away unless we close the app. We click the button at the bottom of it and nothing happens. Its kinda annoying but thats about it. :).
This game is a real step up from most phone games. You really become involved, and it feels like an immersive experience. We are really looking forward to the last episode, but we are sad that it will be over soon. We hope there will be more games like this, and that there will be behind the scenes videos and chances to meet the real people behind this game and hear some of the creative minds that made this game. Great Job.
This is the most immersive experience in a mobile ive had in awhile. It gets you hooked. We cannot wait for the last season. Ive become hooked on this game! Please make another one similar to this style. :-).
Super cool concept. It doesnt feel like your playing a meaningless low rent game (like most games from the App Store). It makes you want to keep playing and its super immersive. Very cool concept! We want more.
This game has truly been a journey and it really sucked us in. Although it is really annoying having to wait for the final chapter (Ive been waiting since March) we still enjoy it.
We would have liked to be able to say what we wanted a lot of the time, and some of those match 3 games were so hard to pass so maybe earning some tools to help us get through em. And if your only going to go to 10 chapters make a new one cause this is a really fun game.thank you for all that you have done.
Mad props to whoever created this.. Everything about this game is so sophisticated! Theres intense moments, trust issues, enemies, blood, murder, mystery and so much more! Plus it gives you the feel of having true friends.. It honestly has helped us through a lot lately.. We always turned to them (even as a distraction) when we just needed to change the subject in life for a bit.. Amazing work!! <3 -Tayla S.
We are absolutely obsessed with this game. We love it! The one thing that bothered us in the beginning was how long it took to get the new episodes out. We didnt like the fact that we had to wait so long to get more of the story, but that also proves how good it is. We would absolutely recommend this game to anyone who enjoys Detective or murder mysteries. One of the drawbacks are the mini games. Im sure you hear a lot about this but theyre really hard and they can get pretty boring really fast. Another thing is the Photos and Voice messages. We really wish they had some kind of ad system or something of the sort so we can look at or hear the things. Other than that this game is wonderful andI really enjoyed/enjoy it.
We dont normally rate mobile games but this deserves it so much. Better than any mystery game Ive seen as it is one of the only which Ive seen that truly immerses people. Great mystery, amazing acting, and so much thought put into every aspect. We hope this game gets more attention as it deserves all of it.
Absolutely love this game, Im ADDICTED. Literally finished the 9 episodes in a week!! The only downfall is that you have to keep solving mini games to keep playing.
We are completely hook line and sinkered- we already love match games but the plot and social interaction with the character has made us feel like we are watching one of our favorite shows and we cannot wait for the next season. We have sunk so much time and money into this game just out of pure lust for more. Great freaking job! Seriously. All of you deserve cookies.
Im so addicted to this but now we have to wait.
This is one of the only interactive games we never got bored of and deleted right away. Its catchy, and makes you feel like you truly have the phone of Hannah! Cant wait for season 10 and the new games theyll produce! Only thing we dont like is having to play mini games for diamonds, but its worth it.
Love this game, so addictive! Love that you are able to interact not like other detective apps. The only thing we would like the developers to take into consideration is the credits! As the mini games get tougher by the episodes, can we get more credits? We loose 9 credits for 5 moves and that usually takes 1-2 tries or during multiple mini games. Cant spend anymore money for credits! Please help us out here and give us more credits on the tougher mini games . Other than that we love this game.
We love the game. Its really fun and the mini games were fun at first too. They get increasingly harder which is understandable considering youre getting further and further into the game but then it takes you days just to finish one. And on top of that you dont even progress much in the story when you do finish them all. It honestly makes us want to quit playing.
We had originally started the game on our tablet before the latest update and after the update we could no longer play it on the tablet due to coding covering the page preventing us from pressing play. We then installed the game on our phone and what will be two weeks this Saturday, there are no problems and Ive finished all nine chapters. We love everything about this game: the conversations, picture, video calls, everything.
We really do love this game. Ive been playing it for days now. Im almost done with it but as we were getting ready to start episode 9 the screen froze. Its been like that ever since and im upset because im probably gonna have to restart all over.
Id give it all five starsif the game didnt crash so often and lose all progress. Ive played the game twice went back to it for the newest chapter but the app wont open.
This game is fun but it made us start the game over twice and we lost all of our progress which is really annoying and we keep having to start over again.
We had this game a while ago and we had to wait fo new episodes we ultimately ended up deleting it. We redownloaded it and we had to start from the beginning which we figured. But, we cant even get close to where we were because a lot of the time Ill open the app to continue and we have to start allllll over again.
This game could be one of the best if we werent forced to play mini games. It has nothing to do with the story and makes us lose interest. The fact that we have to do them SO OFTEN, its repetitive and boring. Makes us not want to finish . If u want mini games so bad you could atleast give different ones or none at all or make us do them way less. Please fix.
We would have given this a solid 5 stars if it wasnt for the number of times you have to stop play to complete mini games. They get increasingly challenging and by the time youve completed the required number of games to proceed with the storyline its easy to forget whats going on. We dont mind the games, but it would be much better if you could play more of the storyline before they pop up. We paid to unlock the photos/videos, we would have paid more to just get rid of the mini games entirely.
Awful. You cannot get past the mini games. The mini games (to progress to actually play the mystery game) are half way impossible match 3 games that remind us why we quit playing candy crush years and years ago. You should have different mini games that oh we dont know pertain to the actual game. Havent even had the game a week and already frustrated. Zero option to bypass the games too. Deleting the app. Love the concept of the game. Thats why we gave 2 stars and not 1. If only we could PLAY the game.
The first few times the mini game was fine but now they literally arent possible mini games. The story is great too bad we cant finish it because its not just a hard mini game they are actually not possible. Very disappointed. You need to win a certain amount of games to move on in the story.
So upset. Went in to check on when episode 10 would be released and all our progress is gone and it having us start all over again.
Would love this game if we could actually play it. We got the through the first chapter and now am constantly stuck with the error our servers are busy, try again later when we try to download another chapter. Ive tried every trick in the book to fix it and nothing works. Even their website doesnt work anymore. Dont play! Youll get addicted and then not be able to finish the story.
We quite enjoyed the game, Im not a fan of playing with our phone but the plot is thrilling and amusing and mysterious at the same time. Thank you , we recommend it to anyone who is looking for a exciting game.
Excelente juego le doy las 5 xq tiene intensas conversaciones tremendo suspenso estoy esperando q llegue ya el episodio final y c estn tardando mucho.
We love this game we played this game 3 days straight and ready for episode 10 we need our Jakey jake.
We amost never take the time to write reviews for apps. And we even more rarely invest money in them. But Duskwood is more than an app, it is an experience. We feel like we are taking part in a movie or TV show. We feel like a real participant in the best way. Everything about Duskwood makes it clear that this is a labor of love for it's creators and actors. We honestly don't know what we'll do with ourselves once it's over. Also, for any Duskwood fans who haven't taken the time to also play Nox, PLEASE do so NOW! Nox is a beautiful escape room game that, like Duskwood, stands out! And it manages to do so in a much more crowded genre. It was our gateway game. We are now an Everbyte convert and we cannot wait to see what they come up with next! Thank you all at Everbyte for the PHENOMENAL work that you all do and the love and care that you clearly invest into your creations. It is a joy to play your games.
We amost never take the time to write reviews for apps. And we even more rarely invest money in them. But Duskwood is more than an app, it is an experience. We feel like we are taking part in a movie or TV show. We feel like a real participant in the best way. Everything about Duskwood makes it clear that this is a labor of love for it's creators and actors. We honestly don't know what we'll do with ourselves once it's over. Also, for any Duskwood fans who haven't taken the time to also play Nox, PLEASE do so NOW! Nox is a beautiful escape room game that, like Duskwood, stands out! And it manages to do so in a much more crowded genre. It was our gateway game. We are now an Everbyte convert and we cannot wait to see what they come up with next! Thank you all at Everbyte for the PHENOMENAL work that you all do and the love and care that you clearly invest into your creations. It is a joy to play your games.
This game is so good! We got obsessed with the game, and trust us: we are not a game person, but this one is soooooo good! Entertaining and with the right amount of suspense. Sometimes the puzzle game is a little glitchy, and the save mode require a lot of memory, but it deserves all 5 stars at the end. Totally recommend.
Cant wait for the next episode but sad it will be the last his game has all the best quality and has gotten all the best aspects of being a good horror mystery game you guys keep making these types of games cause THEY ARE SO FUN AND YOU GUYS MAKE THEM AWESOME.
This game dragged us right in. We were hooked and binge played it. Had us on the edge of our seat. Great job by the makers. Cant wait for the final episode.
We are so anxious and impatient for the 10 episode. We wish we would have found this game after it was finished. We cannot wait for episode 10.
We love it so far but can you not have the multimedia pack? It kinda ruins the storyline since not everyone has money. Other than that, we love it.
This is a really good game that draws you deep into the storyline. You feel invested in the characters and the interaction prompts seem realistic. The match 3 games can get a bit redundant because there are lots of them to play but it doesnt take away from the game. Looking forward to the final chapter.
We LOVE this game its just the minigames that make the downfall. This game has beautiful development and nerve racking plot twists but then you have minigames to play. We were wondering why dont we just be able to buy the whole game for like 10 dollars? Other than that small inconvenience this game is absolutely flawless and definitely delivers what its supposed to.
Its really fun, but the mini games are a pain in the you know what. But we understand thats to stall the game because of not we would end the episodes super fast and they wouldnt have enough time to create the next episodes. Other than that Im dying to get to the last episode , but sad at the same time. Keep up the good work guys.
We found this game and was sucked in immediately. We have played quite a few chat story games, but this one kept us coming back. You dont have to pay to play it, but its well worth it to unlock all of the content because the audio/video calls and pictures make you feel like youre in Duskwood with the group. Im so invested in this game and am waiting on pins and needles for the next episode! We found ourselves attached to all of the characters as if we really am a part of solving the mystery to find Hannah. We also have a soft spot for matching games, so this hidden gem has been up our alley. We like that its challenging and makes you wait a bit. As much as we would love to just keep going until the conclusion (so we can play it again) we like the little breaks we have to take because it draws us further into the game. Great job all around.
Literally one of THE best mobile games legit.
Please let us know when the final episode is out we need to know what happens in the 10 episode please and thank you we need to know what happens to the group.
There are many similar games to this, but none come close to this one. This game is really immersive and fascinating. We love this game so much, but Im sad theres just one episode left! Maybe theyll make a sequel.
Im into mysteries and point-and-click games on our iPad. Duskwood has the most realistic story line. Player is able to get to know the characters (who seem like real people, especially in the later chapters)l. With the assistance of a hacking specialist, player must find clues to try to solve a mystery ; where is Hannah? The story is cohesive and seamless to whatever way you interact with the characters. There are puzzles, which become more challenging with each chapter. True gem. Cannot wait for more from these guys.
We love this game! Its so good and we cant wait to find out the ending.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.10.17
- Size: 224.19 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PL, PT, RU, ES
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References, Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes, Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence, Infrequent/Mild Medical/Treatment Information, Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Everbyte GmbH
Last updated: 12th April 2025 | Genre: Adventure, Roleplaying | Developer: Everbyte GmbH