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Every Confessd case, spoiler-free: where it happened, what happened and who is in the room. Who lied, you find out by playing.
Inspired by a real caseA Victorian bedroom by lamplight: an unmade bed, a vial of laudanum and an upside-down jug.
A mansion in Balham, London, Wednesday, 1876. On Tuesday night at 9:45 pm, the solicitor Ambrose Tilney, 30, flung open his bedroom door shouting for hot water and collapsed on the hallway rug.
Beatrice TilneyAmbrose's wife, 31
Ezra HolbeckHydropathic physician, 66
Harriet VosperBeatrice's lady's companion, 49
Inspired by a real caseA Russian palace salon by a frozen canal, with a gramophone, a piano and still-warm ashes.
Petrograd, December 1916, Saturday, 11 am. Twenty degrees below zero. At 8 am, the river police pulled the body of a long-bearded man from under the ice, near the Islands Bridge.
Kirill SarkanovPrince and owner of the palace, 29
Larissa GlebovaCabaret romance singer, 38
Timofei BraginNight watchman of the canal quay, 56
Inspired by a real caseChart room of the steamer Ondine at dawn, with maps on the table and a crackling telegraph.
St. Lawrence River, Canada, July 31, 1910, before dawn. The steamer Ondine, which left Antwerp eleven days ago, has just taken a river pilot aboard. The pilot is you.
Rosalind KerrThe surgery's typist, 27
Lionel GarsideAmerican homeopath, 48
Barnaby QuintMusic hall baritone, 41
Inspired by a real caseJapanese residential street after a summer festival: lanterns, stacked tables, police tape at a garage.
A residential neighborhood in Wakayama, Sunday, 9 am. At Saturday's summer festival, the residents' association served at 6 pm a curry cooked that morning and kept in a garage on the street.
Fumiko ArakawaNeighborhood cook, owner of a lunchbox shop, 58
Shun MorimotoDelivery boy for the neighborhood liquor store, 19
Reiko TsujimuraNeighbor, treasurer of the residents' association, 37
Inspired by a real caseCandy aisle of a 1980s Japanese supermarket, with police tape around one shelf.
Hanabusa Supermarket, Namba district, Osaka, a Wednesday in October 1984, 10:30 am. At 9:50 am, a grandmother was about to give her grandson a box of Starlets, the chocolate from Tsubaki Confections, and saw a typewritten label on the bottom: "Danger: contains poison."
Shingo KuriharaNeighborhood customer, 46
Yumiko HosodaSupermarket shift manager, 34
Haruo IshizakiPolice reporter at the Kansai Daily, 58
