Player reviews: 92% positive1,607 reviews
Steam Deck: Verified
Runs on: Windows, Mac
Price: US$24.99

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2026 · Amanita Design · Adventure · Indie

Phonopolis

The story of Phonopolis tackles relatable, real-world themes and topics, focusing on manipulation and individualism, but still keeping the overall experience playful and light-hearted. Players will take on the role of Felix, a thoughtful young man who, along with his fellow citizens, faces the imminent threat of falling under the control of the city’s authoritarian Leader once and for all, effectively losing their humanity. Accidentally becoming the only person who consciously recognizes the threat, young Felix must try to stop the Leader from playing the Absolute tone...

Released: 20 May 2026
Platforms: Windows macOS
Genres: Adventure Indie Point-and-click adventure Puzzle
Developers: Amanita Design
Publishers: Amanita Design
Modes: Single-player
Perspective: Bird view / Isometric Side view
Themes: Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Languages: Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish and 6 more

About

Phonopolis is a point and click adventure puzzle video game, developed by Czech company Amanita Design and released in May 2026.

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Take on the role of Felix, a young man who, along with his fellow citizens, faces the imminent threat of falling under the control of the city’s authoritarian Leader once and for all. Accidentally becoming the only person who recognizes the threat, Felix must try to stop the menace.

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Gameplay

Phonopolis is a point and click adventure puzzle game, mixing exploration with puzzles. The game's voice acting was released in English, with subtitles in other 15 languages. A month after the release, Czech voice acting was also supposed to be added.

Story

Felix, an inconspicuous young garbage collector, lives in Phonopolis, a city ruled by the dictatorial Leader. Though it isn't a direct depiction of any country, its visual design and political themes are inspired by the Soviet Union avant-garde constructivism in the late 1920s.

Felix unknowingly faces a great threat with his fellow citizens. Leader created a system of amplions through which he sends subliminal commands, and with them he leads the whole society to perfection. But behind what may have been a noble pursuit of a perfect community in its seed lies slavery, and after finding a pair of headphones, which are able to suppress the amplions' noise, Felix realizes that the pursuit of the Absolute Tone, to which the Leader has dedicated his life, may end in disaster. So he decides to thwart all Leader's plans and make sure that the society survives in its imperfection.

Development

Phonopolis was originally developed by Hammeware. The project caught interest of Jakub Dvorský from Amanita Design and in 2016 development moved under Amanita Design. The game was officially announced on 18 May 2022. The game differs from previous titles by Amanita Design with its graphics.

While previous games used 2D graphics Phonopolis uses 3D graphics, made from real paper and then digitized. The game refers to interwar avant-garde artistic trends, such as constructivism, futurism or suprematism. A playable demo version consisting of a few beginning scenes was released on Steam on 11 February 2026. The full game was released on 20 May 2026.

Reception

Phonopolis received generally favorable reviews from critics, according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Fellow review aggregator OpenCritic assessed that the game received strong approval, being recommended by 88% of critics.