Roomers

Press kit · a cozy murder-mystery logic puzzle for iPhone & iPad

Roomers is a murder mystery you solve like a logic puzzle. Each case is a floor plan cut into rooms. You place every suspect so each row and column holds exactly one person, follow what each suspect tells you, and whoever ends up alone in a room with the victim is the killer. Every case has exactly one solution, and it's provable. No guessing, ever.

Fact sheet

Developer	Enrique Barclay, solo developer
Platforms	iPhone and iPad, iOS 17 or later. Universal app; portrait and landscape on iPad.
Price	Free: 41 hand-checked cases (tutorial included) and the Daily Case. One optional one-time purchase, Roomers Unlimited ($9.99): endless generated cases and the daily archive. No ads, no subscription, no account.
Languages	English and Spanish (the whole game, clue sentences included, follows the device language).
Released	1.0 on July 2, 2026 · 1.1 (full iPad app) on August 7, 2026 · 1.2 on September 9, 2026
Privacy	App Store label "Data Not Collected". Fully offline, no analytics, no third-party SDKs. The Daily Case is generated on the device from the date, identical for every player.
Accessibility	VoiceOver (with four rotors on the board: furniture, suspects, notes, clue squares), Dynamic Type up to the largest accessibility size, Reduce Motion, Differentiate Without Color, Sufficient Contrast (4.5:1), Dark Interface.
App Store	apps.apple.com/app/id6779009687
Contact	enriquebarclayrd@gmail.com

The story

"My wife kept running out of sudoku murder-mystery puzzle books, so I built her one that never runs out: a solver makes endless cases, each with exactly one solution. That's Roomers."

The generator writes a case, the solver proves it has exactly one answer, and only then does it reach the player. The Daily Case uses the date as its seed, so everyone in the world gets the same mystery without a server being involved. Almost everything in version 1.2 came from players who wrote in: a hint system promised on a Reddit thread, accusation options a player emailed about, a Spanish translation requested by a blind player at ONCE in Spain who then tested it, and VoiceOver rotors and a rewritten How to Play that came out of an AppleVis thread.

What's new in 1.2

Hints. Three free steps when you're stuck: who to look at, which room, then the exact square. Free and unlimited, with a switch in Settings.
Trophies. Twelve, on the Stats page. The win screen also calls out a new best time per difficulty.
Every locale in its own colors, light and dark. Solved cases file themselves into a Closed Cases drawer.
Accusation options. Hold to peek at the board before accusing, or let a solved board close the case on its own.
Spanish. The whole game, generated clue sentences included.
Accessibility. Four VoiceOver rotors on the board, a How to Play section for VoiceOver players, larger text to the top of the scale, Reduce Motion, Differentiate Without Color, contrast fixes.

How a case works

Grids run from 6×6 to 8×8, with up to eight suspects and twenty themed locales (a dinner party, a ski lodge, an aquarium, a lighthouse, grandma's house).
Each row and column holds exactly one suspect, rooms have furniture that can or cannot be stood on, and each suspect's clue pins them down ("She was beside a plant", "He was in the Kitchen").
The victim is always alone with exactly one person once the board is solved. That person did it.
Pencil notes, auto-marking, undo, clue highlighting, a furniture legend, and a timer you can hide.

Assets

Free to use in coverage. Download everything (zip): icon, App Store screenshots for iPhone and iPad, hero images.

Hero, iPhone (PNG)
Hero, iPad (PNG)
Icon, 1024×1024 (PNG)
Screenshots
All App Store screenshots, iPhone 6.9" and iPad 13", are in the zip.