TouchTone™
Step into the gaming world with TouchTone™, one of the top $2.99 games in the App Store! Crafted with creativity and innovation by aeiowu LLC, this captivating Puzzle game is bound to grab your attention. With its content rating of 12+, it caters to a wide audience. Ever since its release on 19th March 2015, it has been constantly updated, with the latest version rolled out on 16th April 2019.
Whether you have a liking for Puzzle, Adventure, games, TouchTone™ is sure to keep you hooked!
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In today’s world, it’s all on the line. Answer the call.
Join your fellow citizens to decrypt suspicious messages and help make our nation safer and stronger! For every puzzle you solve, for every dangerous message you bring to our attention, you make your family and your country that much safer.
Solve high-level decryption algorithms through a puzzle-like interface, then uncover potential plots and unmask suspicious individuals. Reach into their past to follow their movements and uncover their motives, track their associations and evaluate the threat.
The guilty have nowhere to run.
The innocent have nothing to hide.
What’s Fresh in the Latest Update?
Discover what’s new in the recent update of TouchTone™ on 16th April 2019:
Even more bug fixes on iOS12+
- fixed level crashes on hill and city
- audio logs play properly w/ transcript
- added play button graphic
Hear from the Players – TouchTone™ Reviews
Find out what gamers are saying about TouchTone™:
We were looking for a fun story/puzzle game after finishing Device 6, but this was lame. You only solve one type of puzzle cover and over. After solving a handful, it shows you some email or text correspondence and you have to make it as pertinent or not pertinent. Well, smoking dank is now legal in most places and certainly isnt going to be a priority by a CIA/FBI organization, but the game seems thinks it is pertinent. Another email made reference to a bomb explosion, but it wasnt pertinent. Not a fan.
This is a challenging and intriguing game but some of the stereotypes that are used could come off as a bit offensive. Other than that, AMAZING GAME!!
Great writing and really hard but fun puzzles.
This game is great. Challenging, satisfying puzzles. Instead of giving up on hard puzzles, we take a break and am brought back by the intriguing story. Those giving this poor reviews for "troubling" content do not understand satire, so if you are someone who usually understands things you can safely ignore them.
TouchTone might be one of the first games we’ve ever paid money for on the App Store and it was because of a review we read, we think it was in WIRED or something. This game is amazing. Yes, it’s an elegantly well balanced light bending type of puzzle game but the story that you uncover as you solve more puzzles is realistic and very timely. This game redefines what mobile gaming can be. It reminds us a lot of Papers, Please on Steam and now on iOS. They’re games with rather simple mechanics and very simple graphics but the stories they tell and the way they make the user feel uncomfortable because it’s so realistic and timely cause games like this to transcend expectations. 5 stars, easily worth $3.99.
The puzzles got pretty tough, but never too frustrating. We got stuck on a couple for a while, but with a fresh look we were able to solve them. The story kept us motivated to advance as well. We found the ending to be very fitting. Thank you for making this game!
This is a good game. The strategic thinking used is kind of similar to the game "Portal" and that’s an awesome game.
Game play in easy though puzzles quickly get tricky. Graphics and music set the right mood. You can get as deep into the spying as you want or just solve the puzzles. We get frustrated with some of the puzzles but finally solving them is very satisfying.
While the puzzles and the story don’t seem to be intersecting, they both are fun. It’s a bummer that the extent of story integration doesn’t go beyond solve puzzle/get given story. Definitely worth $3. Consider it an investment in even more games this well made.
This puzzle game starts easy but, following a smooth difficulty curve, definitely makes it to the challenging range. Thx for a very nice game :)
Excellent laser puzzle design that introduces mechanics succinctly and delivers real challenge quickly without tons of boring tutorial. Aesthetically excellent with stylish puzzles and a story equally damning of the surveillance state and backstabbing business culture. Rad hacker soundtrack.
The puzzles are a challenge, but the story’s been driving us to complete them! We’re waking up thinking about them. This game is a surprising combination of strategy/puzzles and story. Really enjoying it.
Puzzles are tough but the story here is interesting enough to keep you going, anyone interested in this game should also watch that Citizen4 documentary on HBO.
The people who have given this one star reviews evidently have never heard of satire. This is a scathing, funny, and accurate discussion about the paranoia of national security departments.
We enjoyed this puzzles game a lot. It can be repetitive but we found each puzzle to be challenging. Sadly, it no longer opens puzzles correctly in iOS 12.
We finished the last level (hill) what is next?
We’ve been enjoying this game quite a bit. If you like reflection puzzles with modifiers and such, this game is for you. Sometimes it seems like the difficulty of the puzzles is random rather than incremental, but that’s not a big enough problem to turn us off from the game.
Fun game. We’re really enjoying the puzzles and how it ties into the story.
The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
Really a little depressed about other reviewers inability to read deeper than the surface. When your NSA overlords say things that are racist, thats the author’s commentary on the NSA. That doesn’t mean the game is racist. Regrettably, those things probably /are/ being said in real life. If you feel uncomfortable thats good, it’s the point. It actually worries us a little that the same people who aren’t grasping the difference between commentary and position aren’t also bringing up the sexist characters? Who are you monsters? Either way, totally impressed that a game on the appstore is generating this kind of discussion!
Fun gameplay. Preachy/vaguely racist story. Too bad it’s so fun because it makes us feel really dirty playing it and having spent 3 bucks on it when it’s already perpetuating stereotypes about middle eastern people and Muslims by the third level. Feeling a little duped.
Great puzzler with a story that makes it seem almost like a companion to a socially current Tom Clancy game. Also the switch to another app resetting this app is literally the only down vote worthy thing because it really is unacceptable for a modern app, especially a paid one, to have this problem. (Most of us are changing songs or googling something not cheating so it’s still pretty bad even if the implementation was intentional.)
We have played better and more creative puzzle games. We have played games with a better story. But many people, we believe, simply aren’t giving the game enough time to unfold. New gameplay elements are added as you work your way through the game, (though we don’t think there’s anything new added after the first chapter) and the difficulty increases steadily (although the difficulty level does seem to jump around a bit in the first half of the game). Regarding the story, it’s much more complex and nuanced than it seems at first. If you pay close attention to the narrative, you’ll begin to realize that something fishy is going on fairly early on, and (once again, if you pay attention) there’s a revelation waiting for you that explains a lot near the end of the game. The story is semi-satirical, not racist, generally quite realistic, and overall not what you think it is when you first start playing. It raises concerns of privacy in a mature and responsible way that would be difficult for anyone to take offense to. Finally, after finishing the game, a new section seemed to open up that we can’t seem to get back to. Does anyone know anything about this?
This is a fun puzzler with a story thread that keeps the game moving along. Our only problem is if we switch to another app mid puzzle and then switch back we lose all progress on the current puzzle. That can be frustrating. And to all the people calling this game racist… Please do yourself a favor and look up "satire".
The gaem is not racist, its a joke at the NSA’s expense. Figure that out. As a puzzle gaem, it fills out its role. The rubiks cube effect is points as it adds needless difficulty to putting things in place and in it self is another puzzle. But its got sum real thinkers, and random misplaced ez af ones? Also theres an impossible level, im stuck on it, it seems to be missing a piece.
First off, the good: this is a very pretty game, and it’s nice to see a puzzle whose story is taken seriously. We played through the whole thing, but we probably would have quit early on if there hadn’t been so much effort put into the plot and aesthetics. That said, the story itself is not so great. We agree with other reviewers that the intro comes off as tone-deaf and racist. Satire in games often falls flat, and this is no exception. We liked the choice aspect early on, but that was quickly abandoned. It’s too bad–the stakes immediately felt lower once we lost the ability to say "no". The puzzles were the weakest part for us. The light reflection is fine, even if there’s nothing new here. But the sliding mechanic: whyyyyyyyyy? We first heard this game pitched as being "like a Rubik’s cube". We don’t disagree! But the thing about a Rubik’s cube is that once you’ve solved one, you’ve solved them all. The algorithm to rearrange a slide-by-rows puzzle doesn’t change from level to level. All it does is discourage experimentation, and add a few extra tedious minutes to the puzzle as you put things into place. This probably feels like a really negative review. We’re giving three stars because, despite the flaws, this is a path I’d like to see more games take. The effort put into atmosphere, graphic design, and plot are all things we appreciate on iOS. We just wish this one was better.
You know when you have to untangle a bunched up wad of Christmas lights? There are pretty colors and it’s pretty challenging but it’s just not very fun. That’s this game. The story (yes it is satire and it’s sad people didn’t get that) is not connected to the gameplay very well. It’s just a collection of tedious puzzles that we didn’t find very fun.
There is only one type of puzzle here, and it’s been done to death in other ways. Certainly not worth what we paid for this.
This game has a beautiful design and provides a very nice soundtrack. However, it became uninteresting after about 4 days. Good potential, but TouchTone is NOT worth $2.99.
Just purchased about two weeks ago. We were able to enjoy it for a week before the new iOS was released. Now game wont run. Starts up but screen goes black when selecting a puzzle. All our other apps were updated and work fine. This is the only one. Hope they fix or else we just wasted our money. Three stars only because we were enjoying up until that point.
We’re struggling to remain interested. There is no variance to this game. Every time we clear a lock and a new section appears, we cringe, wishing it were over. Games shouldn’t produce that reaction. We’ll cry if there’s more than "The Valley" to explore. We feel compelled to finish since we paid $3. Wish we had paid $1 so we can delete. Story is NOT that interesting. Barely blips the radar.
TouchTone is a lot of fun for the first 30 or so levels, until you realize, oh, that’s all there is. There are three "worlds" (for lack of a better word), and all the mechanics you ever see in the game are introduced in the first world. Similarly, there’s no clear difficulty curve beyond that first world. Puzzles get harder and harder and then the game plateaus and you’re at the same level of difficulty for an interminable amount of time. The story is interesting and subversive and there’s a fun little twist at the end, but then the game just sort of ends (and doesn’t make a whole lot of sense when it does). If TouchTone was a third the length, it’d be twice as good.
Fun enough game to keep us amused so far. Hopefully players are wise enough to see the obviously poor stereotypes. The author would have us believe that ‘all’ Muslims are targets and eyed with the utmost suspicion, while in reality we severely doubt this guy has any true knowledge beyond what Hollywood and Wikipedia has told him. If you can get past that, it’s entertaining enough (so far).
The description on this app had us thinking it would be a special puzzler. Alas, it is a re-tread of mirrors-and-light puzzles with a promise of depth that ends up being about as shallow as the story’s would-be true antagonists. The atmosphere of the game is well designed and thought out, and the execution of the (very repetitive) puzzles is good. That is about it for positives, though. If you are hoping for a brain stretcher or something that truly tickles your epic conspiracy itch, look elsewhere.
But then became boring and monotonous real quick. The way the puzzles move is innovative and rather simple, but becomes a huge pain later on in the game.
But then this game became a bit tedious. Generally, we really like idea of the usage of puzzles to guide you through a storyline And we loved the satire; we were sitting there laughing at the fact that ¡Spoiler!: you have no choice but to report everything that Samir is doing. It’s total bs, but it’s hilarious. Anyway, we love puzzles and we love games with a story, so games like this are perfect for us. However, part of what makes this game tedious is that you never do anything new… You are basically doing the same type of puzzle over and over again. The only thing that interrupts the monotony is the few changes in the story. We haven’t gotten super far yet just because we’re getting tired of doing the same puzzle just harder. It would be a whole lot better if there were different types of puzzles offered, perhaps ones that tie more into the storyline, like having to decrypt emails so you can read them, or having to sift through different audio sound bites on a computer while listening in on a subject’s phone call. It just needs something else. Something different.
Got this game a while ago. It was actually pretty fun. Only problem now the game no longer works (no puzzles load) and has basically been abandoned by the devs. Save your money.
It’s a fun game, however we don’t think it’s worth the three dollars, mainly because we didn’t find it very challenging, and secondly because at some point we found the game to be in a certain way racist, then again, that could’ve been just our opinion so don’t judge the app solemnly on that, but other than that, if you’re looking for a fun puzzle, then maybe the three would be worth to you.
This game is lacking. Not worth three dollars! Not worth the time.
We purchased this app because it seemed like it would be fun. The "tutorial" is broken and shows us a black screen, tried reinstalling to no success. Give us a refund.. Waste of money.
IPhone 8 Plus, when we click on the first tutorial level we get a black screen. We can touch an invisible button on the bottom of the screen to bring us back to the menu. Several attempts to contact the developer directly have gone unanswered. Help, please?
Don’t waste money on this game, puzzles aren’t worth it and racist. To finish a puzzle you have to decide weather the info given at the end is potentially harmful to the nation. In one a college student asks another if he wants to go smoke, and suddenly they are a threat for drug trafficking. Another guy visits his religious father in Iran and gets labeled a potential terrorist. The narrator even says "oh a Muslim, our job is half done."
Looks like it hasnt been updated in awhile… If its abandoned and outpaced, it shouldnt be in the app store. We want our $3 back.
Would like to play this, unfortunately the screen goes blank when you start the first tutorial mission. We have emailed the developers about the problem but have received no response.
Mildly entertaining puzzle format unfortunately exposes an underlying narrative of bigotry and stereo-typing. "He’s Iranian and a Muslim, so our work is already half done." College students discussing pot deserve govt surveillance as drug traffickers? We don’t need more fear and hatred perpetuated in our society. We seriously regret giving these "game makers" a single cent. Is that a Koch Brother we see hiding behind that curtain over there?? Shoo! Get out of our iPad!
Black screen on levels using iOS 12.
Seriously, why do game makers keep doing this? Your game’s music is not THAT AWESOME (not that it would make a difference), and if we can’t listen to podcasts while playing your game, then we won’t be playing your game.