In development Snow Sleuth is still being made, so things may change, and the iPhone app isn’t out yet.

Press kit

For anyone writing about Snow Sleuth or making a video of it.

Snow Sleuth is a daily logic puzzle with papercraft penguins. Every night the penguins slide across the ice and leave their tracks in the snow; you work out the order they slid in.

The facts

Developer
Brian Ye, an independent developer
Platforms
iPhone, coming soon to the App Store. The daily puzzle also plays in any browser at snowsleuth.com/play.
Price
Free to download, with a new puzzle every day and two packs free. Other packs are $2.99 each. No ads, no account and no subscription.
Puzzles
15 packs, 480+ levels, and a new daily puzzle every day
Website
snowsleuth.com
Contact
support@snowsleuth.com

What sets it apart

  • A new puzzle every day, the same for everyone, with a streak to keep (and a shield for a missed day).
  • Every slide leaves a groove in the snow that ends at the penguin’s flag; the puzzle is working out who went first. Every level is checked by a solver before it ships.
  • New pieces, a pack for each: springs, rockhoppers, cracked ice, levers and gates, seal holes, chinstraps, gentoos, flip springs and flip switches.
  • A detective penguin to dress up, with 80+ things to wear, earned by playing.
  • Papercraft art by day and by night (light and dark mode), music made for the game, labels for screen readers throughout, and a Reduce Motion setting.

How it’s made

Snow Sleuth was made by one developer, with the help of AI tools. AI doesn’t make the levels: every level comes from a puzzle generator written for the game and is checked by a solver before it ships.

Trailer

To download: 27.5 s wide, 27.5 s upright, 12 s wide, 12 s upright (MP4, 1080p).

Pictures

From the game itself, by day and by night. Use them freely when writing about Snow Sleuth.

A night on the ice from the game: penguins, their tracks in the snow and their flags.
A night on the ice, part solved: by day, by night
The detective penguin in a top hat, a monocle and a cape.
The detective, dressed up: by day, by night
The Seal Holes pack’s cover: a penguin beside a swirling seal hole.
A pack’s cover (Seal Holes): by day, by night

Get in touch

support@snowsleuth.com

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Writing about the game or making a video? We’re happy to unlock every pack for you, and to answer anything this page doesn’t.