A Normal Lost Phone

Short game, puzzles too simple, dialogues without soul, sure it tells the story of a transgender and therefore who is going through this reality could see themselves in Sam, but everything that has been told seems written by a 2 year old child. It has potential, but not well executed.

Just finished playing this game, and it genuinely brought me to tears, incredible game. I was aware there would be LGBT topics, but I was not prepared for how close to home it would hit me and how accurate and well done all the topics were done. If you have a couple hours to kill, enjoy puzzle solving with a story and LGBT topics, this game is well worth the money!

Highly recommend. Took me about 2 hours to finish as I read through EVERYTHING. It covers deep topics and you really go through this person's life. I thought I had the game figured out but I definitely did not. The hints were very subtle yet in your face which I really appreciate. Highly recommend trying it out!

ok ngl i wrote a joke review originally but i honestly wanted to write a serious one because this game has me feeling very conflicted. i like the message, the premise, and the visual style, but i don't think it's executed well. a lot of the convos felt very stilted (especially the texts. people don't text like that) which kinda detracted from the experience. like it all felt kinda artificial. i dunno. i'd say it's cheap and short enough to be worth playing to kill time, but i can't say i think it'll be an experience that sticks with me

Beautiful and original story. Short but great game!

Amazing game that truly moved me. It brought me to tears because it portrays the harsh realities that some of us have to live with. It’s a really short game, but with a powerfull message.

[h1]Wall of cliche Text[/h1] The single biggest reason I don’t recommend this game is that [b]it’s[/b] for the most part [b]just many walls of text[/b]. The amount of text (especially relative to the amount of puzzles) in this game is insane. On multiple occasions you need to extract key info from one of these “walls”. Because of the amount of text it took me 3.6 hours to complete the game and I have no idea how others do it in less than 2 or even 1 hour. I guess, I might be overly perfectionistic playing games and some text could be skipped, but then you miss part of the narrative, which is supposed to be the main part of the game. [h2]Lame “gameplay”[/h2] Progression=puzzles of this game are incredibly basic: find a key piece of info in the text walls and use it as a password in some other phone app. Most of the time this password is a date, but not a specific date, just an “important date”, so you need to bruteforce numerous possibilities. Despite reading through every single text and skimming through texts once more, I wasn’t able to identify one of the dates as important to try as a password and needed to consult a walkthrough (which is a total shame for a game of such a short length and shallow depth). To quote said walkthrough: [quote]… but I’m not sure why that date would be the password. I mean, it makes sense in hindsight, but it seems like a stretch to expect the player to know this is the password. Still, that’s it. [/quote] [h2]Story[/h2] is super cliche. If you saw the game’s tags on Steam store page (as I did, or alternatively you read some reviews) and heard about the game’s topic, then you likely already know most of the overall plot before even opening the game - that’s how basic it is. It’s presentation is also cliche. [h2]Agendas[/h2] I don’t mean the main topic of the game - I think any game is free to try to make some point. I refer to the fact that it also contains at least two other agendas ([spoiler]“eat less meat”[/spoiler] and [spoiler]“intimacy needs explicit consent”[/spoiler]), which have nothing to do with the main plot and are furthermore presented in the most cliche way possible. I don’t critique the specific agendas, but the fact that there are [i]too many[/i] agendas all dumped in such a short game. [h2]Lazy[/h2] in various aspects. The game doesn’t even try hard to be solid experience: [list] [*]Wi-Fi password is this game’s typical “key info piece” and is shorter than 8 characters (which is not allowed in real life) [*]For so many walls of text, there is not even a search functionality [*]Calculator misses some clicks [*]Ending is (in line with the rest of the game) very basic [/list] [h2]Overall[/h2] Biggest critique is still that this game is a wall of text. Only play this game if you like to read a lot. In which case, you should probably read something interesting. So, don’t play this game:)

Fun little puzzle game, educational too, even though im relatively close to some of the issues. Id like to talk about events but i also dont want to spoil an emerging narrative! Well worth a play through, its not long but i got good value out of it.

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