Don't Chat With Strangers

Don't Chat With Strangers

Released Jan 2017

Don't Chat With Strangers is an experience puzzle game, mostly taking place in a single room. The main character in the middle of the night is approached by a strange girl in an online chat. Don't die and solve the mystery of the girl.

46% positive · 177 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence

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Evaluation

Don't Chat With Strangers launched on January 6, 2017 as a self-contained indie puzzle/horror experience. The store description presents the game as a complete, finished product — it describes a singular, bounded scenario with defined goals (survive, uncover the mystery, or find the many ways to die) and makes no mention of planned expansions, future updates, or additional content. There is no DLC listed, no roadmap, and no developer communications suggesting post-launch content was ever planned or delivered. This is a solo-developed, small-scope game that shipped as a finished product and has received no indication of further development since its release.
Evidence
Store description presents a complete, self-contained horror puzzle experience with defined goals and no mention of planned future content or updates.
description · Jan 6, 2017 source content shipped
high
Short description reinforces the game as a finished, bounded experience — solve the mystery, don't die.
store metadata · Jan 6, 2017 source content shipped
medium

Media

Details

Publisher
Bartosz Bojarowski
Achievements
17
Platform
Windows
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Not rated
Players
Single-player

About this game

Don't Chat With Strangers is a hard-to-describe-sort-of-horror-permadeath-puzzle-game mostly taking place in a single room.

The main character in the middle of the night is approached by a strange girl in an online chat. It quickly turns out that he is in grave danger - the player's task is either to survive and find out why the girl is bugging the protagonist, or kill the main character in a multitude of different ways.

In DCWS you will
  • chat with a virtual stranger (by selecting replies from predetermined phrases)
  • play computer games in a computer in a computer game in your computer
  • click on a few things in your room to do stuff (as in point and click adventure games)
  • have to think a little if you want to complete the game
  • get spooked a little
  • die multiple times in multiple various ways
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