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Strange Telephone cover art

Strange Telephone

HZ3 Software · PLAYISM · 2019-01-21

Steam

AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Nov 06, 2019 (Nintendo Switch), Jan 21, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), TBD (iOS), TBD (Android)

Strange Telephone is a 2D adventure game in which the player explores strange worlds created with merely 6 digits, and has multiple endings.

0
playing now
83%
positive of 366 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 12:00 UTC (census sample)

The protagonist Jill is trapped in a dark world with a large door floating before her. She is aided by Graham, who takes on the form of a telephone. Making phone calls with Graham creates various worlds that can be explored. In each of these worlds are items to be found, including the key that will lead to her escape.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 46% of 11,362 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 9.2k–22k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 366 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.24 at Steam (2024-09-18) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 4 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$2.242019-01-212026-08-062019-01-21 — best price $4.492019-02-25 — best price $4.992019-04-01 — best price $4.992019-05-10 — best price $3.992019-06-03 — best price $4.992019-06-26 — best price $3.992019-08-05 — best price $4.992019-09-12 — best price $3.992019-10-28 — best price $3.992019-11-21 — best price $3.992019-12-19 — best price $3.992020-01-11 — best price $3.992020-02-12 — best price $3.992020-02-27 — best price $3.992020-03-30 — best price $4.992020-05-21 — best price $4.992020-09-28 — best price $4.992020-11-09 — best price $4.992021-01-05 — best price $4.992021-06-07 — best price $4.992021-08-16 — best price $4.992021-11-01 — best price $4.992022-01-05 — best price $4.992022-05-28 — best price $4.992022-12-10 — best price $4.992023-03-09 — best price $2.992023-06-29 — best price $2.492023-09-10 — best price $3.042023-12-02 — best price $2.492024-03-14 — best price $2.492024-06-27 — best price $2.492024-09-18 — best price $2.242024-12-06 — best price $2.242025-01-22 — best price $2.242025-04-13 — best price $2.242025-07-31 — best price $2.242026-01-17 — best price $2.992026-07-23 — best price $2.242026-08-06 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing1 DLC

4 supported languages: English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

Player tags

2DCuteIndieCasualSurrealAdventureAtmosphericExplorationSingleplayerPoint & Click

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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