Stringline: A Castle Whodunit Logic Puzzle, Free Demo
A game from Core Systems Asset Factory. Genre: Puzzle. Paid; free browser demo on the page.
Stringline: A Castle Whodunit Logic Puzzle, Free Demo is a game, paid, with a free browser demo on the store page.
Stringline is a castle whodunit in 15 cases, where every clue is a line you draw. The first 3 cases are free in your browser. Crossbow bolts are stuck in the walls of Castle Harrowgate and nobody saw the bow. You are the magistrate's stringer. Press on a bolt and drag its red string back along the shaft; where you think it glanced off a pillar or a piece of iron, pull the string past it and swing it round.
When every string ends in the same place, that is where the archer stood. Call the hearing and the court checks your strings against the rules. 15 cases, 40 bolts, 3 rooms. The Great Hall, the Chapel of Saint Orm and the Gatehouse, each case laid out once and solvable only one way. Four rules, learned one at a time. Stone throws a bolt back only when it comes in low. Iron sends it off one angle flatter.
A bolt goes straight through a banner. How much shaft shows tells you how far it flew. The straight answer is usually wrong. Pull every string through every surface and they meet in several places. Only the physics narrows it to one. Three candles a case. A string that breaks a rule burns one. Solve it without burning any for a clean seal.
AI disclosure, as the store page states it: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text
Paid · free browser demo on the page · Get it on itch.io. Files, screenshots and the full description are on the store page.