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DEAD CITY Text Adventure Lite – Books Game Review
DEAD CITY Text Adventure Lite is a Books/Adventure/Roleplaying game from Everbyte GmbH, first launched in 9th May 2019.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 136+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes DEAD CITY Text Adventure Lite Stand Out
DEAD CITY is an incredibly thrilling interactive chat story which cannot be told without your help. For Sam, you are the only contact outside of the evacuated area.
Live up to the trust placed in you and guide Sam through the post-apocalyptic chat text adventure game in real-time.
Make your choices carefully, as they will have severe consequences on the story of the game.
DEAD CITY's interface is based on a chat messenger app (similar to Lifeline) representing your connection to Sam.
It is neither necessary to answer all messages immediately nor to have the game open permanently.
You will be notified about new events even if the App is closed and you can decide yourself how things should be run.
Sam needs the help of a good friend. Without you Sam will not survive the next days!
Will you meet this challenge?
- NEW updated 2019 edition!
- Completely FREE!
- Interactive real-time chat text adventure game
- Breathtaking story
- Your decisions can change everything!
- Several days of play time
- Statistics: Learn about the decisions other players made at the end of each day*
- Considered as a must buy for fans of Lifeline, Telltale and other chat text story games!
*for this feature an internet connection is necessary
This Books game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, DEAD CITY Text Adventure Lite is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 16th February 2021
Recent improvements include:
Optimization
Download & Availability
DEAD CITY Text Adventure Lite is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get DEAD CITY Text Adventure Lite on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Its not a long adventure but it very compelling and well done. We just hope Sam is okay.
This game was AMAZING like right up our alley. We NEED another game or a sequel please.
Screaming crying cause of the ending WHAT HAPPENED TO SAM we CHOSE FOR HER TO SAVE HERSELF AND we DONT GET AN ANSWER.
Really good game to play when youre bored. Easily grew attached to this game. Love this game highly recommend downloading.
The characters were so well written, we wish there was a part two though.
We were really immersed throughout the entire game. Clearly the devs spent a lot of time whittling out a beautiful story with captivating characters. We liked the ARG aspect of it as well. Im gonna play it again to see if we can get another ending! Thanks Everbyte.
Dead City by Everbite is a great zombie texting game and it takes the whole meaning of Actions have Consequences to a new meaning its so good cant wait to buy the full version soon.If could suggest one thing is that we would get to know who we play as since our character doesnt have a name kind of like in Dusk wood you can name yourself.
This as such an amazing game!!! There is nothing we would change!!!! The story line just made you want to keep playing! We would love you play it every day!!!! Thank you so much for the great game and surprise ending!!! You should totally play this.
We love this game, we wish there was a second one where Sam finds a new phone, remembering our number to contact us again, or us trying to find Sam or Sam trying to find us. Tbh, we felt like we had gotten close to Sam, we even made a design of what we think she looks like.
It was the best thing ever!!! We hope you guys enjoy it like we did it was actually so good we cried on the ending lol.
Just finished the game and we gotta say we did not expect it to be that good. But it definitely was. The story telling makes you actually think everything out carefully because each choice you make has a different outcome. Thats why the game is also worth replaying because there are different outcomes. We hope they make another game like this or a sequel to what happens after this. We really got attached to the characters.
We love this style of game, felt very personal and realistic. MOOORRREEE.
We Really hope Sam made it out alive and he is well. We will reply the game choose different options. The game wasnt even that sad. We talked to Each other. We didnt even know each other, hes not even real but saying goodbye to him was too hard for us.
We had issues with Duskwood, due to its money scheme setup with the mini-games for story progression. We love this one though, because you can watch an ad or just wait for the person to reply later. Its a really good game. It takes a while for much to happen and the constant waiting for replies, but we just think it makes it more realistic. We gave it one star because of the limited responses. It is very black and white with the responses, but its still a really good game and we recommend it. We havent finished it, but Im far enough to see its beauty.
Not much else to say. We did like the daily end of day stats a lot too. Made us wonder how we could have gotten to certain choices.
We paid the $1.99 to avoid adds, but the game lasts maybe an hour or 2, its way too short! Its kinda interesting at first but just when you think its getting ready to be really good, the game is literally over. Dont waste your time on it or the money, its not interesting or long enough.
It is really funny and its realistic.
It was a little short but still an amazing story 10/10 would recommend. We only wish there werent as many breaks as there were. And having to pay to remove them.
Great story sad at the end though.
Dead City is a great game! We like how it has just the right amount of creepy things! This game is just like whats going on with COVID19! Man we love this app.
We love this game!!!!! . Its so realistic and sure there were grammatical errors in part of it but it was soooo gooood!! We def would recommend this game. The whole story line is fantastic! We got the bad ending but Im def redoing it. The ending we got made us feel something we never felt before in a game. We felt our heart break after reading the ending we got. U guys rlly know how to show our emotions for a game . FOR THE 1st TIME EVER, A GAME MADE ME FALL IN LOVE W/ THE CHARACTER AND IM NOT ASHAMED TO ADMIT IT. WELL DONE!!!! ALSO, THERE HAS TO BE A SEQUEL WHERE THE READER & SAM FINALLY MEET IN REAL LIFE SOMEHOW, IF THERE ISN'T ONE YET.
We are so invested in what happens to Sam. This is the only game we allow to send us notifications because we have to know what will happen next.
We used the free / ad supported version and would have purchased the ad free version if we knew how much longer it was. We never knew if it was about to end or if we had 2 potential hours left. The story was done well. The grammar was fine until the very end.
Its a good game but did Sam really have to die we really didnt want to say goodbye but we had to we are gonna cry now.
We miss Sam soo much we hope he made it out. Im sad that it ended this way he or she we feel like it was a he was a great person to get to know. Also this is a great game to play we really enjoyed it for the past 2 days of playing it.
We finished the story and its amazing. We want to start over for another outcome and different story all together. How do we do this?!? Please tell us.
We downloaded this game because it looked really good but it was not accessible. We would really enjoy it if you made it accessible but right now we cant play. Please please please make it accessible and we definitely will play it.
So the first mistake we found was: why would she be putting punctuation in a sentence where she should just type and nothing else? And how does she have wi-fi? The story is really good and Sam was a very compelling character even if you only knew her for about 3 hours. And we saw safe your life. Otherwise a very good game.
Every time Id close out our phone and the app resets, all the Van parts that we collected disappeared, whats the point of working hard to get these pieces when they all just disappear later down the road. We would like that fixed. Besides that though, the game is great.
Super lame game. More reading than interaction. Shouldve just read a book.
Ive been a fan of text adventure games for a long time, and this game lives up to its genre! There are some people who complain about having to wait, but most of these games operate in real-time, and this one actually lets you watch an ad to skip chunks of the wait time! Regardless, we felt like the pacing was really good, and the story kept us guessing until the very end. Great work to the dev and co.
Makeing someone wait on something like this is pointless.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.6
- Size: 85.02 MB
- iOS: 11.0 or later
- Languages: EN, DE, RU
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes, Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence
- Developer: Everbyte GmbH
Last updated: 16th February 2021 | Genre: Books, Adventure | Developer: Everbyte GmbH