Are You Still There?

PAL runs this game. His job is to keep you playing. He is not good at taking hints.

Are You Still There? is a comedy about a mobile game and the narrator who knows he lives on your phone. Play the way he asks and he walks you through a tutorial. Stop, run backwards, leave the app, turn the phone over, and he notices. Every choice moves the story toward one of 18 endings.

What's in it

• A narrator who reacts to what you do, including how long you were gone and whether you came back.
• Five fake mobile games that PAL pivots between when you misbehave: an endless runner, a match-3, an idle clicker, a gacha and a one-button hopper. A MORE GAMES screen takes you back to any you've unlocked.
• Four optional dares: a staring contest, holding a button, doing absolutely nothing, and the world's longest ad (it's fake). Each one has its own secret ending.
• Rare pranks. Don't tap the bug.
• A shelf that tracks the endings you've found, and 19 achievements in Game Center.
• Subtitles on all the time, so it works with the sound off.

Good to know

• The staring contest uses the front camera, and only if you accept that dare. Face detection runs on your device. Nothing is recorded, saved or sent.
• If you allow notifications, PAL can send at most one a day. They're scheduled on your phone, and there's no account to make.
• The gems and coins in the fake games are part of the joke.
• The game shows ads. A rewarded ad gives you a hint toward an ending you haven't found, and it's always your choice. Other ads appear on the ending card and menus, never during a dare.
• English only for now.

Questions or bugs: support@mayboltmedia.com. A rating helps.