Final Verdict

Who lives. Who hangs. You decide.

Several condemned prisoners stand beneath the gallows.

One may be innocent. Or two. Or more.

You are a new judge in the town. Study the clues, compare their appearances and statements, and decide who deserves mercy. Cut the ropes of everyone you want to save. Then pull the lever. Everyone still tied to the gallows will hang.

There is no undo.

And you won't immediately know whether you were right.

Your verdicts follow you

Final Verdict is a Wild West logic game about deduction, judgment, and living with the consequences of your decisions.

Each working day brings 3–6 new cases. Solve logical puzzles, decide who is innocent, spare whoever you believe deserves to live, and deliver the final verdict.

When the workday ends, life in town continues.

The next morning's newspaper may reveal that you executed an innocent man—or released a criminal back onto the streets.

A criminal you spared may rob a bank, kill again, hurt your reputation... or even break into your own home.

The innocent people you wrongly condemned are never erased. Their photographs, names and ages appear on the town's memorial board, where flowers slowly accumulate as your mistakes pile up.

Features

• 100 logic cases with increasing complexity
• Up to five condemned prisoners at once
• Later cases can contain multiple innocent people
• Cut one rope, several ropes, all of them or none
• Pull the execution lever only when you've made your decision
• Permanent campaign decisions with no instant indication of whether you were correct
• A living Wild West town that reacts to your verdicts
• Morning newspapers reporting yesterday's executions and crimes
• Wrongly released criminals who may commit new crimes
• An interactive memorial board for innocent people who died because of your decisions
• Public Trust that rises and falls with your record
• Career promotions, demotions and changing daily salary
• Money, family expenses, illness and unexpected emergencies
• Bribe offers from prisoners and their associates
• Random events that can interrupt or shorten your working day
• Letters of gratitude, grief, accusation and threats from families
• A Case Archive where completed cases can be replayed as degraded surveillance recordings without changing campaign history

The town is keeping score

Save the innocent and the people may learn to trust you.

Make too many mistakes and the newspapers will turn against you. Crowds will begin calling for your removal. If public trust collapses completely, your career is over.

You spend the entire game passing judgment on others.

Eventually, Final Verdict passes judgment on you.

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Content Warning

Final Verdict contains stylized depictions of execution by hanging, death, crime, threats and references to violence. There is no graphic gore.