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The Payphone

80% positive of 20 Steam reviews

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Released
2025
Steam Deck
Not tested
Platforms
Steam

Made by Kosumic Interactive Studio.

About the game

You are an investigator working in a near-bankrupt agency, however a case no-one would take landed on your desk. Disappearances of Ashfield Plains, each case is hauntingly similar, all their final phone calls were traced back to that specific payphone. Short on cash, you took the case.

Tagged by players

  • Walking Simulator
  • FPS
  • Interactive Fiction
  • Multiple Endings
  • Survival Horror
  • Horror
  • First-Person
  • Atmospheric
  • Casual
  • Adventure

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What players say

  • Recommended
    Nice little hidden gem was invested in the story from get go. And thanks for putting in such generous checkpoints in the sewer section for the not so great gamers like me who are scared of the dark. I would have loved an option to continue near the end to see the other ending as well.

    1.2 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.

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  • Recommended
    This is like Instagram reels. Short but DOPAMINE MAX

    1.4 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.

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  • Not recommended
    GARBAGE GAME

    1.6 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.

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