Comparisons
Dark Stories app or Post Mortem: can you play alone?
Illustration: The Voice on the Radio
Dark Stories, by Treebit Technologies, is a situation puzzle app with a blunt warning at the top of its store page: if you are alone, you cannot play. Post Mortem, our game, puts the narrator inside the app so you can also investigate on your own. Which one suits you depends on who you play with and who will know the answer. This comparison is written by LaBoîteBleue, the studio that publishes Post Mortem, from the official store pages cited below.
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| Criterion | Post Mortem | Dark Stories (Treebit) |
|---|---|---|
| Platforms | iOS and Android | iOS and Android |
| Languages | French and English | French, English and more than twenty others |
| Who answers questions | The app’s narrator, or a human host | A player who reads the solution |
| Play alone | Yes | No, the listing rules it out |
| Solution for a human host | Once the riddle is solved, or in an owned pack | Read by the narrator in the app |
| Filter for younger players | No | A “Safe for children” filter |
| Model | Free riddles and paid packs, no subscription | Free, with in-app purchases |
| Ads | One optional video, offered when your questions run out | Contains ads |
Compiled by LaBoîteBleue, the publisher of Post Mortem, from the official pages cited below, checked September 29, 2026.
How Dark Stories plays
Treebit's listing describes a party game for friends in the same room. One player is chosen as narrator, picks a mystery, reads it aloud, then reads the solution without sharing it. Everyone else asks questions, and the narrator may only answer yes, no or "it is not relevant". The narrator decides when the story has been solved well enough, reads the full solution, and can drop hints when the group is stuck.
The listing announces more than 200 stories and says more will be added. The app is free with in-app purchases, the Google Play page marks it as containing ads, and the App Store lists French, English and more than twenty other languages. Its version history also mentions a "Safe for children" filter that hides stories involving violence or death, which is worth knowing if you host a camp or a family evening.
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What changes when the narrator is in the app
In Post Mortem's solo mode, you type your closed questions and the app's narrator answers yes, no or irrelevant. Nobody beside you has to read the solution first, and you are not picking from suggested questions: the wording is yours, so the investigation follows your own suspicions. The narrator needs a connection to answer; the statements themselves are in the app.
Facts start concealed and become readable as you uncover them, so you can see what you have established without the rest of the story showing. Finding one striking detail is not the end. You still have to connect it to what happened, and the case is solved when you have. There is a riddle of the day, the stories come in packs, and your record stays on the phone, with no account, no streak to keep and no countdown.
Hosting a group with either app
Dark Stories is built for this: the narrator reads the solution on the phone and runs the table. Post Mortem can also give a human host stories to tell, but the host has to be able to read the answer first. Solving a riddle opens its answer, owning a pack opens that pack's answers straight away, and the complete bundle opens all of them. A free riddle you have not solved keeps its answer closed unless you own the bundle.
So if you want to host Post Mortem tonight, check that you can turn the card before everyone sits down. The free riddle pages on this site show the opening scene only. They are a good way to judge the writing or send a puzzle to a friend, but they will not put anyone in the narrator's seat.
What is free in Post Mortem
Post Mortem has free riddles and paid packs, with no subscription. Solo questions come with a daily allowance unless you own the complete bundle. When they run out, you can watch an optional video to get some back; that video is the only ad in the game. Store prices are the ones that count, so we do not repeat them here.
Which one fits your evening
Start with the way you want to play, not the size of the catalogue.
- Friends in the same room and someone happy to host: Dark Stories is designed for exactly that.
- Alone on a train, or nobody wants to be the one who knows: Post Mortem's narrator answers you.
- Children at the table: Dark Stories has a filter for stories of violence or death. Post Mortem has none; it is a game of dark riddles.
- A language other than French or English: Dark Stories covers far more of them.