Update 1 - July 29

PATCH NOTES - Update 1

This update focuses on the two things that make or break a shift on

the phones: being heard correctly, and having a desk worth sitting at.

Voice recognition has been rebuilt from the ground up, audio settings

finally do what they say, and the office has grown a notebook, a

working clock, and a name on the door.

Two new cases also ship with this update! See the bottom of these notes.

VOICE & DICTATION (REBUILT)

• Speech recognition now runs on a local Whisper model instead of

Windows Speech. Dictation is noticeably more accurate, handles

accents and natural phrasing far better, and no longer depends on

Windows language packs or speech settings being configured.

• Recognition runs fully offline and on your machine — nothing you

say is sent anywhere.

• Fixed cases where dictation would silently stop working mid-call

or refuse to start on some Windows installs.

AUDIO & SETTINGS

• Added a microphone (input device) selector in the settings menu.

Pick exactly which mic the game listens to instead of hoping

Windows picked the right one.

• Added an output device selector so game audio can be routed to a

specific speaker or headset.

• Rebuilt the audio mixer routing. Music and SFX sliders now affect

the correct channels, and levels no longer jump between menus and

gameplay.

• All settings — sensitivity, zoom sensitivity, graphics quality,

volumes and device choices — now save and reload correctly between

sessions.

• Changing an audio device mid-session applies immediately, without

restarting the game or dropping the call.

NEW: LIVE MICROPHONE METER

• A segmented mic level meter now appears while you're on a call, so

you can see at a glance that the game is actually hearing you.

• The meter runs green through yellow to red, making it obvious when

you're too quiet to be picked up or loud enough to clip.

• It appears when a call connects and disappears when it ends.

NEW: THE DETECTIVE'S NOTEBOOK

• A notebook now sits on the detective's desk and can be picked up

and read at any time during a case.

• Type notes directly onto the page — names, numbers, whatever you

need to keep straight while a caller is talking.

• Added a drawing mode: sketch on the page freehand with the pen,

clean up mistakes with the eraser, or clear the whole page and

start over.

• Switch between typing and drawing with an on-page toolbar. Your

notes and sketches stay on the page while you work the case.

THE OFFICE

• The office has been expanded with new floor space, proper tiled

flooring and painted plaster walls.

• Added a double exit door with a lit exit sign.

• Your office door now carries a custom brass plaque reading

" 'S OFFICE", pulled from your Steam profile.

• The wall clock is now alive — the second, minute and hour hands

turn on a real geared ratio.

• General lighting, layout and prop pass across the whole office.

INTERFACE & QUALITY OF LIFE

• Text fields now show a soft pulsing glow while focused, so it's

always clear where your typing is going.

• Improved click handling on world-space UI buttons — fewer missed

or double-registered presses on in-world screens.

• Chair interaction UI cleaned up.

• Various fixes to the phone prefab, camera switching and evidence

paper handling.

NEW: TWO NEW CASES

• THE MAN WHO DIDN'T EXIST

• PROOF OF THE PUDDING

Both cases are live with this update and are waiting on your desk.

Cases are delivered from our servers, so there's nothing else to

download — install this update and they're there. Take notes, ask the

right questions, and be careful what you rule out early. Good luck, Detective!