The App That Solved a Murder - The Dark World of Randonautica & Pokémon GO

How can an app solve a murder?

When a gang of teenagers embarked on what they thought would be a fun adventure, they didn't realise their lives would be profoundly changed forever. In the height of the 2020 lockdown, people became obsessed with an app called Randonautica. It promised users a randomly generated adventure and it delivered. But for some people, that journey would turn into a nightmare.

But Randonautica wasn't the first app which helped people stumble across some awful things, back in 2016, there was Pokemon Go! Was this app just as bad or was it even worse?

Join Cheryl and Nikki to find out more in part two of our deep dive into the weird world of Randonautica.

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Sources

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanepe/article/PIIS2666-7762(23)00221-1/fulltext#:~:text=The%20UK%20Office%20for%20National,year%20average%20(excluding%202020).&text=1.,-Office%20for%20National&text=This%20persisted%20into%202023%20with,of%20the%20year%20than%20expected.&text=1.,-Office%20for%20National

https://www.randonautica.app/about

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToPj9n7PAPY

https://youtu.be/Nkn8CYpS2sI?si=pEuA88hx9_obFWad

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