Underplayed Gems

Don't Chat With Strangers (2017)

Don't Chat With Strangers cover
Developer
Bartosz Bojarowski
Platforms
Windows
Genres
Indie
Rating
2.4 of 5, 178 player ratings
Typical playtime
about 2.6 hours
Where to get it
Steam

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How it feels

a tense, unsettling puzzle game where every chat choice can lead to sudden permadeath in a single claustrophobic room

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What players say

Players praise the pixel art and the variety of gruesome deaths, but overwhelmingly report that the game is buggy, with at least one achievement broken since release. The trial-and-error puzzle design forces repeated failures, and the true ending requires a tedious sequence of steps.

Screenshots

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