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4	''Don't Chat with Strangers'' is an indie horror game developed by Bartosz Bojarowski. In the middle of the night, you receive a message from a mysterious girl online named Lucy. Your choices in your conversation with her may or may not lead to your demise.
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6	This page will have spoiler tags for all possible deaths, as the many ways the protagonist can die [[TheManyDeathsOfYou are the main portion of gameplay.]]
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8	The game is available for purchase on Steam [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/533170/ here.]]
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10	!!''Don't Chat With Strangers'' contains examples of:
11	* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler:The protagonist killed Lucy by hitting her with his car.]]
12	* AttackOfTheKillerWhatever: Early on, attempting to get into the car will result in it backing over you and killing you.
13	* BeAsUnhelpfulAsPossible: Lucy is very cryptic about her goal in talking to the protagonist, and what she expects of him. [[spoiler: This is because he murdered her, and she wants him to fail at putting her to rest so that she can take revenge.]]
14	* BrownNote: Dialing 911 results in [[spoiler: the protagonist being electrocuted while some odd, human-like noises and loud static come from the phone.]]
15	* CarFu: At one point, [[spoiler:a car can appear above your head in the house, supported by vines, until they release it and drop it on top of you, crushing you.]]
16	* CatsAreMean: [[spoiler:A deadly black cat comes out of the screen and crawls into your bed.]]
17	* ControllableHelplessness: [[spoiler:When you are hanging from the noose in the room, you can interact with other items, but clicking them does nothing.]]
18	* CreepyCrosses: At one point, a large cross slowly descends into the room without warning and simply sits there. [[spoiler:The protagonist ends up crucified on it. This happens if you turn the cross next to the bed upside down. In addition, if at any point Lucy asks you for your favorite color and you answer "Red", she will mention red being the color of hell, and your cross will ''turn itself upside down'', causing the cross to come down and crucify you. "Swearing" by saying "Jeez" as in Jesus Christ or claiming you don't like the Christian God will have the same result.]]
19	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: The game is composed of several of these.
20	* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Lucy - you killed her with your car.]]
21	* DeadPersonConversation: [[spoiler:The whole game is this; Lucy was killed by the protagonist shortly before the start of the game.]]
22	* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: Due to the TrialAndErrorGameplay approach the game takes, dying is not only a minor inconvenience at worst, but is actually necessary in order to figure out how to progress. This is subverted if you die during any of the more involved tasks, like [[spoiler:finishing Mech VS Fruits, or burying Lucy at the correct location.]]
23	* DrivesLikeCrazy: [[spoiler:The protagonist seems to be a terrible driver - this is why he hit Lucy.]]
24	* DoWellButNotPerfect: When Lucy challenges you to "Buttons", you want to beat her, which is easy, but not obtain the highest score possible. Getting too high a score results in her calling you a "tryhard" and leaving the chat (so you die), while losing convinces her you suck at the game and she leaves with "later, loser".
25	* EtherealWhiteDress: [[spoiler:Lucy's ghost, which comes up behind you while you play Mech VS Fruits, is clad in one. Depending on how well you are doing, she will either hug you or kill you.]]
26	* EverythingTryingToKillYou: Interacting with almost anything in the room can lead to your death.
27	* GlamourFailure: [[spoiler: When Lucy's ghost comes up behind the protagonist during his playthrough of Mech VS Fruits, if she is going to kill the player, she very briefly switches to her wraith form instead of the more human (but still ghostly) form she generally is seen in.]]
28	* GuideDangIt:
29	** Figuring out how to actually complete the game can be difficult, as there are very few clues as to what you have to do, and the few hints the game gives to you are very vague and can be easy to confuse. In addition to this, your window for the pivotal actions, [[spoiler: such as turning on the radio after Lucy tells you to "tune in"]], is very short.
30	** The most frustrating part is at the final moments, when the player [[spoiler:has to find Lucy's body and give it a proper burial [[ItMakesSenseInContext while her ghost is distracted playing]] Music/PachelbelsCanon [[ItMakesSenseInContext for you.]] First, there's a ''very'' short time to do it. Second, her body is randomly placed into one of the three locations on the map, which may waste precious time. Third, while you dig her a grave, ''[[TemptingFate you cannot button mash]]'', since it'll make the piano play end abruptly, locking you into a long-winded death-scene.]]
31	* HairTriggerExplosive: [[spoiler:The radio]] is one.
32	* HatesBeingAlone: Lucy gets very angry if you disappear on her.
33	* HaveANiceDeath: Seeing all of the deaths is one of the most fun parts of the game.
34	* HighVoltageDeath: Happens if you [[spoiler:call the wrong number when trying to call Lucy.]]
35	* JustKeepDriving: [[spoiler:Played straight, Type II. The protagonist seems to have hit Lucy directly on and to have simply continued on, without even stopping the car.]]
36	* KaizoTrap: Once the player finds [[spoiler:Lucy's body at the correct location]], the dramatic music playing can lead to the player believing that the game is essentially over, so it's not unreasonable for the player to be enmeshed in the atmosphere and thus take their time in [[spoiler: digging Lucy's grave. This is a mistake, however, because if the protagonist doesn't bury Lucy in time, she revives and rips his head off, leading to another game over. Conversely, if the player tries to mash just to get it over with, the piano playing will end abruptly, causing an instant game over. The player has to dig at the exact rate to bury her before the song ends, but not so fast that the game considers it mashing, in order to complete the final task successfully.]]
37	* KillerRobot: [[spoiler:The toy robot you have on the shelf can become one.]]
38	* MadeOfPlasticine: Some of the deaths give that impression, especially the radio one. May or may not be a side effect of [[spoiler:being haunted by a wraith.]]
39	* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:If you take too long burying the woman you killed, she yanks your head off.]]
40	* OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank: Especially in the explosion and car deaths. [[spoiler:Also, if you take too long to bury Lucy, she yanks your head off and your blood fills her open grave.]]
41	* PublicDomainSoundtrack: If Lucy asks if you want to hear her play piano and you agree, she plays "Pachelbel's Canon in D". [[spoiler:While she's playing is your only time to safely bury her body. You die if you're still digging when the song stops.]]
42	* SpiritualSuccessor: Holds a lot of similarities with ''VideoGame/HelloHello'', though it is Internet-based instead of phone-based.
43	* TrialAndErrorGameplay: The only way to finish this game legitimately is to keep dying until you learn the intentionally-poorly-explained patterns.
44	* AWinnerIsYou: You get a congratulatory message when you beat the game.
45	* WomanScorned: "Ignoring" Lucy in any regard, whether this amounts to entering a new tab while chatting with her or failing to call her immediately after your computer restarts leads to [[spoiler: you being hung from the ceiling, with a bloody message on the wall reading, "YOU LEFT ME"]].
46	* VillainProtagonist: [[spoiler:Or at least Criminally Negligent Protagonist. Your character apparently mowed Lucy down and didn't even stop to check on her.]]

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