Ist okay - muss aber nicht unbedingt sein.

I've only played around 1.5 hours so far of this game and I'm really enjoying it!
It's pretty interesting and the characters are all very unique in their own way. The game is basically you just going door-to-door selling products to strangers. You have a stress and depression meter which can go up pretty fast. Once you reach max of the stress, it's game over!
You have to be careful with your words with each customer, which can be difficult at times, but you learn from your mistakes and try different ways to approach them when starting the game over.
I cannot tell at this point if the game is long or short, but it will take some replays to get to the ending, that's for sure! (Unless you are super lucky and pick all the correct speech options first try, I guess?) But I would assume at this point that it's not too long.
This game does not have a "Save" option, once you get a game-over, you must start from scratch, but there is a saving option for if you stop the game and want to continue later.
I personally enjoy this little game and I would recommend it!

Pros:
- Interesting characters and concept
- Cute style
- Decent music
- Challenging
- Achievements
- Good price
Cons:
- A little stressful
- A few minor spelling errors (e.g they spell, "know" as "no" in some parts)
- Repetitive

Overall, I would rate this game a 7/10. I will update this review when I complete this game!

*UPDATE* It is a very short game, but takes some time to completely finish, so please do not expect too much from it! It would be nice to have more customers added in the future. Please know that this game is VERY repetitive and can become quite tedious, even to just get a real ending without caring for achievements. I'm okay with it, but it's a fair warning to those who do not appreciate that in game play. (Especially if you want all the achievements.) To those who like having 100% completion and are worried about this game: I'm sure the game would be quicker and less stressful to get 100% once a guide is made for it, which, let's be honest, will be made eventually, so just keep that in mind!
I hope my review helped in your decision to buy this game or not, if you end up giving it a try, please enjoy an hour or two of pure social anxiety like I did! This game might not impact my life much, but it did help me learn that I would probably make the worst saleswoman ever, so...Thanks!

Billions and billions of us.
Nobody knows anyone.
Strangers make you happy.
Strangers cut your heart.
Occupying the same reality.
We remained strangers.
Even to ourselves.

A short conversational time-management game. It's a neat concept and fun for a short while. However, it quickly becomes monotonous as you're going through the same(nonsensical) conversations over and over using trial and error to optimize your playthrough. If the conversations changed a little or if the game wasn't bogged down with ridiculously fast-filling "anger" and "depression" meters, I might have enjoyed it a bit longer.

Lots of grammatical errors, but it's still pretty fun.

6/10 (long story short) it's great for what it is although flawed.

Talk To Strangers provides a few hours of mindless entertainment. You are a salesman-or-woman and work for a product company who cares more for their sales than you. Therefore you have to balance work life (through rage and depression) alone whilst getting the door slammed in your face time and time again. The company encourages you to use queue cards that the game hinges on. My takeaway:

Pros
-Worth the price
-Great replay value up until you finish the game
-Clever concept
-Pretty and consistent art
-Characters seem real
-Funny lines
-Really fitting soundtrack
-Clever handholding to understand basic rules
-Achievements are easy to get

Cons
-Frustrating since there's no core strategy
-Characters act out in ways NO ONE would
-Only one town
-Guessing game
-Very repetitive
-Very short
-Lots of typos

I would make a horrible saleswoman and have a newfound respect for salespeople

Mixed. It requires many unnecessary clicks, essentially twice per input. There are many text errors, which is a problem for a game focused on dialogue. The concept is interesting (even in success you tend to lose money at the end of each day) and there are many endings, adding to replay value. Unfortunately, the choices can be obtuse with unintended consequences.

In the end, I had the option of grinding my way through many selections to discover the true path over dozens of hours, or following a guide. I chose the latter because it was not enjoyable enough to spend so much time exploring the numerous decisions and their consequences. Thank you ThatOnePerson for sharing (almost) all of the endings.

3.5/10

I decided to try Talk to Strangers after seeing some reviews praising the odd and surreal quality of the folks you sell products to in the game.

Unfortunately, the trial and error nature of not only selling products but discovering traits about your (in-game) self was so unenjoyable that I wasn't really motivated to dig any deeper and discover the truth about these residents.

When you begin the game, you'll find yourself going from home to home selling products. Some residents are not home at certain times, some are cranky at certain times, some prefer a hard sale (and vice versa), some seem to make your character irrationally angry or depressed, etc. However, there is no way to know any of this beforehand, and you can only take advantage of this knowledge on subsequent playthroughs.

I think it would absolutely improve the game if residents were to have some "tells" about when they're home, in the mood to buy, and what type of approach they prefer - even if these were brief and subtle. Additionally, it would benefit me to know that I'm role-playing a volatile individual with mood swings. In this way I'd feel that I had more agency, and I'd be more motivated to explore the world that developer Post Mortem Pixels created.

However, perhaps the object of the game was to help players feel as clueless as an emotionally unstable man with poor salesmanship. If so, bravo - but I can't recommend the game.

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[] the easiest thing ever
[] easy
[] medium
[X] hard
[] extremely hard
[] how the heck do you beat this-

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It's pretty hard, considering the game is about social interaction which is already hard in the real world. You have to pick the right things to say while trying to keep the customer happy and yourself happy.
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[] theres no music
[] trash
[] meh
[x] pretty decent
[] amazing
[] THE BEST OMG

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I like the music, it's something you can vibe with.
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[x] 30 mins or less
[] 40+ mins
[] 1-2 hours
[] 3-4 hours
[] 5-6 hours
[] 7-8 hours
[] 9+ hours
[] no end

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Really short, but fun.
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[] there's no story :/
[] story sucks lol
[] not original
[x] meh
[] pretty nice
[] amazing
[] SO GOOD HOW DO YOU WRITE THIS PLEASE

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The story doesn't affect the gameplay, so it doesn't matter that it isn't the best. It's just kinda boring, but it really doesn't matter for this game.
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[] underpriced
[x] worth the price
[] over priced
[] not worth the money

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The perfect price!
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[] no it sucks
[] it's only good the first time
[] i mean if you want
[] sure
[] yes!
[] YESSS
[x] there's multiple endings i wanna find yesss

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This is one of those games that you can sit in your room for hours trying to complete the game as well as finding all of the endings.
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(( includes art, and character design ))

[] horrible-
[] bad
[] decent
[] good
[x] amazing
[] WOW LIKE HOW-

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I really like the art! It has a pixel theme, and I love it.
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[] it felt like doing homework
[] not fun it sucks
[] ehh
[] good
[] pretty amazingly fun
[x] really fun
[] THE BEST TIME OF MY LIFE

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I'm very happy with my purchase! It is really fun, and a great way to pass the time while in quarantine.
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[] nope it just sucks
[x] nope
[] for some people
[] kinda
[] some parts
[] i cried the whole game

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Nah, not emotional.
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[] no it sucks
[] nahh
[] some people may like it
[] yeah sure, why not
[x] yess!
[] BUY IT NOW ITS THE BEST ATGKSU

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A cheap and fun experience! Overall rating - 7/10.
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WARNING === Mentions and shows drawings of smoking, it contains some cussing also.

i actually like the premise of this game, and i liked playing it at the beginning. however the more you play it the more boring it becomes. it will take multiple playthroughs for you to even learn how to get sales at some of the houses (unless you look at a guide) and then even then the dialogue doesnt seem to have a lot to say. it is very repetitive and unless you are achievement hunting 2 runs (about 25 mins if im being generous) is enough to get the entire feeling of the game without wanting to play more. there are also grammar and spelling mistakes in this game which were quite glaring since text is the main component. not too crazy about the art either, its just alright.

finding out traits and how to make specific sales wasnt fun, it was just click random stuff and get back mediocre dialogue. not really anything about this game is actually fun, the mechanics are not fun, the writing is not fun, and the art is just fine, the style isnt unique enough to me to make it interesting. even though the game is cheap i feel like it is overpriced.