Guide

Working the night shift

For build v7

It is 4:46 AM. One notification will not swipe away. You clear shifts to open apps, you read what those apps say for themselves, and at the end of every chapter you name the one that is lying. Six chapters, thirty shifts, twelve suspects.

The loop

Clear a shift. Handle the stream of notifications with the right gesture for each one.
Collect evidence. Some cards drop leads. They are filed against the app they point at.
Open the app. Every few shifts a new app unlocks. Go read its statements.
Name the liar. When a chapter's shifts are done, the verdict screen asks its question.

Six notification types

Each card tells you what it wants in its own corner. Read before you move.

Card	Gesture	What it is
AdCloud	Swipe left	Ordinary junk. Trash it.
Leads	Swipe right	Evidence. Trash it by mistake and the thread is gone.
Clock	Tap	Tap the required number of times to silence the alarm.
Echo Notes	Hold	Hold until it finishes repeating itself.
Software Update	Wait, then swipe left	Masked. Its real face only shows after a moment.
Red Anomaly	Contain	Box it before it spreads to the next card.

There are also VIP entries and bundles, which follow the swipe-right and tap rules respectively. When a shift is masked or blacked out, the card text is hidden and you have to work from what little is left.

Power, focus and card life

Power drains as you act. Clean handling gives some back; long combos give back more. At zero, the shift ends.
Focus drops when you use the wrong gesture. At zero, the shift ends.
Card life is the bar under each notification. Let it run out and the card counts as a miss.

Combos matter. Consecutive clean handling raises your score and returns more power. A single mistake resets the run, so on hard shifts it is often better to read for an extra second than to guess.

Twenty-two shift types

Standard shifts teach the gestures. After that the floor starts changing the rules: Rush shortens card life, Low Power starts you drained, Blackout hides the card text, Masked turns everything into an update, Mirror flips your controls, Flawless allows almost no misses, Endurance simply refuses to end, and Contain and Red Tide flood you with anomalies. Boss shifts close each chapter.

Reading testimony

Open the lockscreen to see the twelve apps. Unlocked ones can be opened and questioned. Each has a set of statements, and you can put a question to it from the prompts at the bottom. Statements are not answers — they are what a suspect chose to say.

Tag each app yourself: trusted, lying or infected. The tag is only your working theory and can be changed any time. Once a chapter is closed correctly, the two apps in it are confirmed, and the tag stops being a guess.

The evidence board

Every lead you pull off the floor is filed against the app it points at, so the library shows you who has been named the most, which statements contradict each other, and which sector each piece came from. Apps you have not unlocked yet still show the clues aimed at them, sealed until you get that far.

Verdicts, and getting one wrong

A chapter will not let you past its verdict. Name a suspect and the game tells you whether the chapter closes.

Correct: the chapter closes, both of its apps are confirmed, and the next chapter opens.
Wrong: the chapter locks. It does not tell you the answer.
Second hearing: replay any one node from that chapter to earn the right to try again. A corrected verdict pays half.

This is deliberate. If a wrong guess were free you would simply try all the names, and the case would stop being a case.

The Tuning Bay

Cache coins and chips earned from shifts unlock six pieces of equipment. They are progression items only and cannot be bought.

Equipment	Effect
Dense Battery	More starting power, and clean handling returns more.
Focus Core	More focus, softer mistake penalties, one extra allowed miss on Flawless.
Anomaly Scanner	Masks slip sooner and the containment zone widens.
Payout Protocol	Larger reward per shift.
Preread Queue	Longer card life, so you get more reading time.
Cache Radar	Richer chapter caches and quest rewards.

Settings

Sound effects — the synthesised feedback layer, plus device vibration.
Music — the background track.
Replay intro — watch the opening again.
Reset records — erase the saved case permanently. There is no backup.

A hint for chapter one

Two apps open first: Clock, the time witness, and Browser, the ad door. One of them keeps insisting the noise was ordinary. Check the signature on the ads you have been trashing, then check whether anybody's history is missing exactly one minute.