Earplay
Experience one of the top-rated Free games on the App Store, Earplay! Developed by the innovative team at Earplay, Inc., this Adventure game provides a unique gaming experience like no other. With a content rating of 12+, it’s perfect for a wide range of players. Since its initial release on 16th November 2016, the game has seen numerous updates, with the latest version launched on 27th June 2019.
Are you a fan of Adventure, Entertainment, or Role Playing games? Then Earplay is right up your alley! You won’t be able to resist its appeal.
User Ratings of Earplay
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How Much Does Earplay Cost?
Good news! You can download Earplay on your iOS device absolutely free!
Earplay Release Date
Eager to know when Earplay first graced the App Store? It was launched on 16th November 2016.
When Was Earplay Last Updated?
The latest version of Earplay was updated on 27th June 2019, ensuring a more enjoyable gaming experience for all players.
Where Can I Download Earplay?
To get started with Earplay, head over to the official Apple App Store.
A Glimpse into Earplay
With Earplay, you can play audio stories with your voice, featuring high quality voice acting, music, and sound effects like in a radio drama. Experience this exciting new storytelling medium where you become part of the story, interacting with characters to affect how the events unfold.
EARPLAY
The Earplay Demo in the Earplay hub is an introductory demonstration of our unique style of interactive audio storytelling. It is written and hosted by the legendary Dave Grossman, Earplay’s creative lead, and one of the most prominent interactive story writers in the games industry. To learn more about Dave and Earplay, visit https://www.earplay.com
PUGMIRE (By Pugsteady and Onyx Path)
Dogs have inherited the world, building the kingdom of Pugmire untold centuries after the Ages of Man are over. Pugmire is a world that juxtaposes the tropes of high fantasy with our relationship with domestic dogs. The main characters are pioneers that explore lost ruins in search of relics, knowledge, and danger. The world is dangerous and mysterious, but good dogs will persevere.
THEY CAME IN OUTER SPACE (By Double RR Studios)
In this comedy that plays off of 50’s style sci-fi B-movie and radio drama tropes, Herbie Zoozman Jr., has reinvented the Interactive Cranial Activit-O-Vision ™, where YOU are Zoozman’s Co-Producer in charge of the mythic story of rocket-jockey Commander Brad L. Whiteman and his journey to a planet inhabited entirely by "Panther Women."
HEAD GAMES (Enhanced with Bose AR)
This Sci-Fi thriller is controlled by gestures like nodding, head shaking, ducking, and turning, as well as voice. When you are contacted by mental telepathy while using the Bose device, an NSA agent guides you to communicate with head gestures to prevent an alien invasion. But the aliens want to tell you their side of the story. Who will you trust? Developed in partnership with Bose, this story experience is enhanced by Bose AR, a first-of-its-kind audio augmented reality platform.
CODENAME CYGNUS
Enjoy mission one of the first ever voice-operated interactive audio story, a spy thriller where you play the secret agent. Originally launched in August 2013, six episodes of the story (and a bonus holiday episode) have been released so far. Learn more at http://codenamecygnus.com and https://www.earplay.com
OFFICE HOURS
Dial in to office hours of the dubious Professor Fenster, esteemed interactive storytelling professor of Story University. Is his latest story bot research ethical, or is he hiding something? This Earplay story was created for the 2017 Future of Storytelling Festival. To learn more visit https://futureofstorytelling.org/
NOTE TO PARENTS
Not all stories in the Earplay application will be suitable for all ages. Please use your own discretion, as parental review and guidance regarding Earplay content may be necessary. All content that contains material of a restricted nature will be accessible only with a registered Earplay account.
SUPPORT
Email us at [email protected] if you have any difficulties or to let us know what you’d like to hear next.
What’s New in the Latest Update?
Find out what’s new in the latest version of Earplay updated on 27th June 2019:
Update for Bose AR compatibility
User Reviews on Earplay
Looking for more information? Read a comprehensive review of Earplay below:
We love this app. Cannot wait for new stories.
These are all very enjoyable and well acted. We wish the app properly saved our place but it never has once and theres no indication so if we leave a story, we have to start over. It would also be nice to offer a downloadable version the way the old Codename Cygnus app used to work where you could play without an internet connection so you dont lose access to these great stories once the servers inevitably go offline.
It wont let us sign in it keeps giving us an error message, so far the app is useless!!!
The content is good the app is accessible except for a few little things that we dont really mind but whats making us give the one star rating is when we go in they came in outer space and purchase the one dollar story it always gives us an error thats whats making us give the one star review because we cant purchase it and it says its going to be a good story.
Easy to use and fun. The story was engaging and we cannot wait to hear more.
Wonderful voice acting; a perfect app for thinking on your feet.
Looking forward to experiencing more of these wonderful interactive stories.
Very accessible with voiceover should put more stories on the app.
Excited to see where they go with this!
We thoroughly enjoyed the demos provided with the earplay app, and we’re considering purchasing some of the stories. However, there are some accessibility issues with this version of the app.
This game looks to be lots of fun, however, there are accessibility issues that need to be resolved causing us to give this only a four star review rather than the five star it could have. Outside of that, game content and quality is great, and refreshing to find something different.
Interesting, and initially strange to be faced with choices that include "kiss the strange young woman who just sat down across the table from you in the restaurant, and is hurriedly demanding you kiss her". We’re sure we’re not the only person for whom kissing a female would not be the first choice of whom to kiss. But we decided, go with it woman! We will assume that the story writers will permit us to select in our own minds, in each game scenario, whether the character we are playing is heterosexual, bi or homosexual, And male, female or gender neutral? (Or any other options that may exist but we are currently spacing on, LOL?) Cannot wait to find out whether they will let us select a different ethnic/cultural background within a game story, or different skill sets say for an agent? Will they eventually expand the interaction to, say, let us ask our "handler" (a.k.a. The voice in our heads) to "remind us who someone is", or "describe the room/building/location" we are in? If these interactive audio games come even halfway to matching our imagination, this should be a blast while we’re getting other real life but boring things accomplished.
We liked the story we got from Alexa and downloaded the app, but after reading the privacy policy that described data collection we have removed the app and will disable on Alexa. It’s unfortunate because it sounded like a creative and fun product. Our privacy needs to be guarded a little more carefully… Time to start reading that fine print.
Sounds like a cool cross between a game and mystery radio storytelling! Am enjoying playing it on our Google Home and Alexa Echo. Can’t wait to hear more!
What a great way to bring back the choose your own adventure book. We hope they make full stories soon.
We love this concept! Makes us feel like we’re taking part in a modern, immersive radio drama.
This has to be the best app of 2016 we can’t wait for the next years to come and hear what year play has to offer.
We love the Orpheus dl. Do it with the lights out.
We tried a few demos, the Orpheus Device being chief among them. We are all White Wolf/Onyx Path fan. The demo was quite moody and atmospheric and had good sound production values. We see that Project Cygnus is available, but this review does not reflect having tried it. Our concern is whether a full version of the game will tell a full and complete story, rather than just some interesting conversational by-play. That said, we’re giving it a five star review based upon the demos. We’ll be looking for a more robust narrative in the full versions, but it would be premature to mark it down now. We really look forward to complete stories in the future!
We’ve been looking forward to this release for a long time and we’re not disappointed. Keep the episodes coming! :)
We have never listened to an audiobook before. We could never find myself to sit still long enough or focused enough to actually listen to it being read to us. However, this actually made us focus on the story to know how our choices, affect the story route. This was just from playing the ‘EarPlay Demo’. So we are now awaiting more stories to listen/play along with.
This is such a great idea. We can’t wait for more stories.
Genius. It’s really refreshing to get such a way to tell an engaging story only YOU are the story; and you make the decisions. Kinda reminds us of Mass Effect.
We are a huge White Wolf/ Onyx Path fan and am really excited to see this continue!!
Interesting short experiments, we look forward to seeing this evolve.
We’re a new mom and we get tired of watching TV or movies while feeding our baby. This was really entertaining! We used it with the echo dot!
If you like interactive stories, you’ll love this app.
Wonderful app! Would very much like to see more adventures. Thank you for making the app accessible for the visually impaired community and interesting enough to be exciting for those who want an audio experience and not just a visual one.