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Donutal

93% positive of 31 Steam reviews

Released: 2026
Steam Deck: Playable
Platforms: Steam

Made by Arc System Works.

About the game

An alien conversation adventure where conversation is your only weapon. Awakened from a 150 year cryosleep, you are suddenly appointed as a Chief Extraterrestrial Counselor at the spaceport. Interview the aliens visiting Earth and uncover their true intentions.

Tagged by players

Aliens
Interactive Fiction
Diplomacy
Simulation
Mars
Space
Sci-fi
Choose Your Own Adventure
Adventure
Visual Novel
2D Platformer
Futuristic

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What players say

Recommended
Really fun! Good mix of seriousness and humour. Way too easy to cheat though; You effectively have infinite time to ask questions because quitting and reloading during an interview resets the timer. It's not a game that will really test your brain, but the fun of this game primarily comes from it's amazing art, cool/funny/cute alien designs, and interesting dialogue, plus the mystery that is slowly uncovered through…
3.6 h played when written. 16 found it helpful.
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Recommended
A bit of a mix between Papers, Please and a funky little toy from the late 2000s, Cube World: you watch two characters interact while trying to understand their reasons for traveling to Earth. It is first and foremost a visual novel, with a small amount of puzzle-solving mixed in. It is by no means a long game, though do keep in mind that I am a relatively fast reader, so your experience may differ. The solutions to…
14 h played when written. 8 found it helpful.
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Not recommended
Have you ever wished for someone to sell you a lemon by dangling choice in front of you, before pulling the rug from under you by telling you "wrong" whenever you are not picking their very narrow path of what they think you should have taken and ending your run in this visual novel masquarading as a game? No, that being still to entertaining? Well how about a visual novel that forces you into certain picks by…
5.5 h played when written. 3 found it helpful.
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