A Normal Lost Phone

released on Jan 26, 2017

A Normal Lost Phone is a game about exploring the intimacy of an unknown person whose phone was found by the player.


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A Normal Lost Phone is a very nice, pleasant little experience that does a good job telling its story using its basic yet very natural-feeling interface. It's a pretty simple story — it's quite predictable at times and certainly isn't groundbreaking — but it gets across what it wants to decently enough to be a positive and unique experience.

Juego de puzzles bastante divertido e intrigante.

Very clean and smooth user interface, very much felt like navigating around an actual phone. The soundtrack is a vibe, but I had it turned down or completely off most of the time since it's hard for me to read with music that has lyrics. This is something that can easily be toggled to your liking from the start of the game however so I would not consider it an issue. I think the game has some decent and realistic representation which is always nice. A lot of the end game content however read as being more of an educational moment which in some cases could be great depending on the audience playing the game. I think even despite being fairly educated on what is discussed it was still a nice read. I've talked very vaguely about everything thus far to avoid spoilers, so story wise overall I think it's thoughtful and a nice dip into someone else's perspective. The puzzles throughout weren't that challenging but I did cave and look some of them up because I didn't want to spend the time to put in random numbers after exhausting what I thought was logical but the hints are all completely there and nothing is too unsolvable. I really loved how the ending paints a full picture and brings all the bits you've learned about together into a more cohesive narrative.

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Text messages were written quite clunkily (and sometimes made me laugh out loud) but the forum posts felt more true to life. However I felt that the actual trans talking points were VERY outdated as of 2024, and a lot of it felt like infodumping at the player.

Fun idea but the execution was mid at best. I agree with other reviewers that the phone could've had more set dressing to up the believability (open tabs, accidental screenshots, social media posts)

(trying to keep spoiler-free as possible) Sweet and hopeful game that illustrates a pretty real example of how young people in marginalized groups struggle with growing into the person they want to be in less-than-supportive environments. It's sort of a point-and-click/visual novel hybrid through lots of text, so give this a pass if you want something with active gameplay.The one detriment is that some of the passwords are a little odd to figure out, but i wouldn't say impossible. The best part is how all the things you see develop in significance as you go on!

"Beni kendisine bağlayamadı, çok ciddili sıkıldım."