Talk to Strangers

Talk to Strangers

Post Mortem Pixels · 2019

Sharp dialogue gives every doorstep its own strange personality

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The WhatsNext verdict

For Fans of narrative adventure games, dark comedy, and quirky branching visual novels.: It turns mundane door-to-door sales into an absurd survival puzzle where every conversation balances mental breakdowns, sales quotas, and bizarre neighborhood secrets. Tradeoff: Uncovering every ending requires trial-and-error repetition and navigating dialogue choices that can result in abrupt failures without prior knowledge.

What it does best

  • Sharp dialogue gives every doorstep its own strange personality

  • Darkly funny salesmanship in a cheerfully unsettling neighborhood

  • Every conversation can send the week somewhere completely different

  • A bizarrely effective mix of sales sim, visual novel, and survival satire

What might put you off

  • Trial-and-error conversations and very short runs

The setup

What you are walking into

Talk to Strangers is a short game of everyday survival. Survive door to door conversations ranging from bizarre to mundane (in this order) while trying to sell products to strangers. But beware: nothing is what it seems in this neighborhood.

Where it lives

LinuxPC (Microsoft Windows)MacNintendo Switch

Genre

Point-and-clickSimulatorStrategyIndieVisual Novel

Vibe

SurvivalComedy
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