Do Not Feed the Monkeys

Do Not Feed the Monkeys turns surveillance cameras and an in-game computer into a single-player study of curiosity and interference. At ≈ $0.53 from Kinguin, it is a particularly apt buy if you enjoy piecing together clues and weighing whether to help strangers or exploit their situations. The club's rule against interference gives those choices a clear frame. At ≈ $0.53 from Kinguin, Do Not Feed the Monkeys is at the site's tracked historical low; surveillance, clue-gathering, and choosing whether to interfere are its appeal.

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93%Steam Reviews10.5K reviews77OpenCritic/100

Released: Oct 23, 2018

Point & Click · Political Sim · Management · Dark Humor · Choices Matter

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01About Do Not Feed the Monkeys

In Do Not Feed the Monkeys, you join a secretive observation club and watch strangers through surveillance cameras and compromised webcams. You analyze clues on an in-game computer, then decide whether to follow club rules or help, blackmail, expose, or sabotage the people you observe. Steam player rating: 93%% positive from 10,460 reviews. Interface languages: Simplified Chinese, English, Spanish, Russian, German, and Korean. Released October 23, 2018.

Credits

Developer

Fictiorama Studios

Publisher

Alawar

Steam player reviews

93%positiveVery Positive10,460 Steam reviews

Lowest recorded in 36 months

$0.582026-07-30 · KinguinBase game · same records as the chart above; USD history, not a regional Steam low.

Language support

Language	Interface	Subtitles	Audio
Simplified Chinese	Yes	Yes	—
English	Yes	Yes	—
Spanish	Yes	Yes	—

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Language	Interface	Subtitles	Audio
Russian	Yes	Yes	—
German	Yes	Yes	—
Korean	Yes	Yes	—

Steam PC edition data · 2026-10-20

02Before you buy

Play mode and languages

The Steam PC version is single-player. Supported interface languages are English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, French, German, and Italian.

Subtitles

Subtitle languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, French, German, and Italian.

03Frequently asked questions

What do you do in the game?

You watch strangers through surveillance cameras and gather information on an in-game computer.

Can I interact with the people I observe?

You can contact or interfere with the observed people despite the club's rules, with possible consequences.

What themes does the game cover?

The game deals with voyeurism and invasions of privacy and describes itself as Mature.

Popular Steam reviews

Native-language selection · 10 reviews

Selected helpful reviews in this language show both recommendations and criticisms. This selection does not represent the overall positive rating; opinions reflect the version reviewed.

RecommendedSteam player

07/10/2019

If you're like me, you're very particular when you buy a game. You want to think about how much you'll play it, for how long, if you can play it over and over again and if your experience will be different each time. I went into this game thinking I would play it a couple of times, learn everything I needed to and could clock every achievement before hitting 9 hours of gameplay total. Do Not Feed the Monkeys follows us, a weird protagonist who has way too much time on their hands and an apartment the size of a bathroom stall, watching various people or 'monkeys' through our monitor while balancing our health. You can interfere or you can do nothing or you can be an ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ . Really, you can do what you want. These people's lives are essentially your soap opera and you can mess with their narratives how you wish . I wasn't enticed into playing the game by the multiple endings, those usually only aggravate me because I don't like multiple endings, however the abrupt end is why I hit 'new game'. This game will end on day 16, regardless of storylines you haven't finished and things you have yet to do. It will end there and what you have done is done and what you haven't done remains. I restarted my game with hopes you find out what the full story was in one of the cameras I had and it is when I hit new game for the second time that I knew that I would be replaying this game many more times. By day 16 I had 25 cameras to watch. When I restarted and reached day 16 again I had only had 4 cameras that were the same. Just 4. There are so many stories I haven't seen the end to and so many stories I probably have yet to see, not to mention there are different ways for all these stories to unfold. A few people told me I probably wouldn't even reach day 16 on my first play through because of all the information that was thrown in your face when you start. So when I did beat the game I assumed this game didn't have many surprises left for me but I was very wrong. I have, so far in my less than 24hrs of owning it, replayed Do Not Feed the Monkey 3 times. Each time was a mostly new experience. TL;DR I highly recommend this game. I've bought so many games and there are none that I would recommend more. This is well worth the moneyShow moreShow less

7 hours at review408 people found this helpful

Not recommendedSteam player

01/02/2020

I'm not saying it's a bad game. It's unique, and I like the unique genre of it. But the game is only the most fun for me at the beginning, before I become so overwhelmed with juggling 16 feeds with 8 different storylines all overlapping each other WHILE managing yourself to not get broke, not get expelled and not die/starve/exhaust yourself. It's a little bit too much. And I feel the mechanics overshadow the storylines in a game where the storylines should take priority. It's frustrating really.Show moreShow less

4.3 hours at review457 people found this helpful

RecommendedSteam player

10/24/2018

In A Nutshell 🔵 Pros + Original, fresh and interesting gameplay concept. + Excellent pixel-art graphical style. + Successful mix of story-driven, puzzle and management genres. + Great replay-ability with some different content each time. + Engaging storyline featuring all kinds of situations from comical to tragic. + Multiple endings and secret interactions to discover. 🔴 Cons - Deadlines could be a downside for players wanting to read everything thoroughly. Do Not Feed The Monkeys (DNFTM) is a really unique game: as a member of an ultra-exclusive secret society, you will be tasked with spying various people and locations all over the world via hidden cameras, while also living your normal life. The game mixes together various genres such as puzzle game, story-driven adventure and management in equal parts, and does so really well, not making any of the three components overpower the others. Using a special interface you'll be able to spy on many locations, collecting hints and clues about what's going on in that place, and when you got enough scribbled down on your notebook, deduct conclusions. Not only: you'll also be able to use search engines in order to collect more info using what you already got, such as phone numbers, addresses, coordinates and more. Many things can be done with people's secrets: record videos, then find someone's contact and use them to blackmail and extort money or favors, or just send them to some news channel for a quick buck. The Club will task you with additional and mandatory tasks, the most prominent being the purchase of new "cages" (camera slots) in a set deadline, or face expulsion, among other secondary missions regarding information collection. Your real life is aswell important, as rent, food, money sleep, and health are all important factors to manage while also living your "double life" as a Member. There are many ways to get money, the prime resource, some legal as jobs, others much less so. Every action has consequences reflected in the camera feeds each passing day, and even in your very life in some cases. Overall, I found DNFTM to be a really interesting, fun, and involving title with a really unique gameplay formula that works brilliantly, also leaving space for additional play-throughs featuring more content. I suggest this game to anyone wanting to try a different, stimulating experience, because you won't likely find anything like this around. A gem among this year's releases. Liked this review, and want to see more of the same quality? Check out Tamaster's Review Archive to see all my Reviews in a single, convenient location. In-depth Feature Analysis 🎮 Gameplay The gameplay of DNFTM is mainly divided into Espionage and Management Espionage is done via remote cameras placed in various locations, accessible via a program in your character's computer: at first only a few are available, but as the Club deadlines come closer, you'll have to get a lot more. Elements of the environment and dialogues are the main sources of information, important elements being highlighted and have to be clicked in order to get written down in your notepad, leading eventually to conclusions and more info. Using search engines, phone calls and even black market in some cases are all important things to find out more, leading to potential blackmail opportunities, secondary quest solving, or unique secret events. Results of our actions influence what happens dynamically, and may even attract attention on you directly: the first rule of the club is to not interact with the "monkeys", but you will do that a lot in order to survive. Management is another very important part and basically is about not getting your real life go to waste, Things like rent and living expenses still exist, and need to be juggled around with the Club's always present deadlines to get new cages and missions. Sleep deprivation, starvation, illness, or even worse events are waiting to happen and it's up to you to find a balance between everything. Making money is the absolute priority and you'll soon resort to illegal means to achieve that, but abuse that too much and face consequences. based on how you act during the adventure, different endings can happen. An overall brilliant and fresh gameplay system that will please a lot of different player types. 📖 Story Story in this title is absolutely brilliant as it is composed of many mini-stories, each in a camera window, other than the "main" plot, being the protagonist's own life and how you live it. There is enough mystery and tension to keep you going until the end smoothly, while the many events witnessed while spying are varied and interesting, spacing from comicality, tragedy, to outright degeneracy or violence. 👊 Combat System N/A 💰 Content & Pricing For a base price of 10€, offering around 2-3 hours of content for each play-through, considering the fact there is some different content in each of them, plus different endings, i'd say this price is well worth the purchase even without any discount. Only people that really hate management or multitasking should avoid this product. 🔗 Balance & Challenge The stats to manage such as hunger, sleep and health are fair enough, there aren't problems with any of them depleting too fast and thus being annoying, even in regular mode. There is an "easy" mode making these stats go down much slower in case of trouble anyway, so everyone can have a good experience. Technical Analysis 🎥 Graphics Very well made pixel-art, purposefully low-res style, with a lot of details in each environment, quite smooth animations, and generally good polishing. This style fits the proposed experience perfectly and is a great choice. 🔊 Sound Apart from some effects and soundtrack there isn't much about the audio compartment to speak about, the game is very minimal and essential on this side, but not bad at all. 🔩 Performance & Stability Never had any issues in 4K resolution, game is very light and has no issues on this side. [i7 4820K, GTX1080, 16GB RAM] 💻 Artificial Intelligence N/A 🏠 Quality of Life Interfaces work well and are thought for not giving too much of a hard time performing the required multitasking operations such as watching multiple cameras at the same time. No issues to report here. 🐛 Bugs & Issues Once the game got stuck after falling asleep for deprivation, and a restart was needed as the screen was always black. Apart from this, no other bugs to report. Conclusion Do Not Feed The Monkeys is a really great title combining various genres masterfully and delivering a unique, fresh experience. For the proposed price and quality, it's really a bargain, one of the best hidden gems of 2018 in my opinion. This product was reviewed using a free key provided by the Developers.Show moreShow less

6.5 hours at review224 people found this helpful

Received for free

Not recommendedSteam player

10/24/2018

I can see that someone put some good thought and effort into this little game but it isnt for me. Trying to follow the stories is FAR too stressful because of all the time/hunger/job/sleep and more management issues. And then youre supposed to be monitoring many multiple cameras and several of those cameras become active at once so you cant sit and enjoy/follow any single one of the stories(one camera or "cage") or even read much of what the actors in any of the "cages" are saying. You're forced to constantly and FREQUENTLY flip from one camera to another. You're also so focussed upon making sure you click on all the "yellow" words as you frantically flip from one cage to the next, that you cant fully read the context of those words so you have no idea whats really going on. I was hoping that this was more of a "story" based game but it isnt. Its a pure, balls to the wall, stress inducing, frantic information collection/time & resource management nightmare. What little of the stories that I was able to comprehend between frantically flipping cameras, clicking on yellow words, worrying about eating, sleeping, working, buying more cameras, rent, etc., etc., seemed fairly intriguing but the game is too intense(even on easy!) in the time and resource management/key info collection areas to know for sure. The game makes it impossible to invest in any of its stories. You just cant! Anyway, I got this game on sale and at a discount because of another game that I own. Even so, I may just ask for a refund because the only way that I can ever see myself enjoying this game is if they got rid of some of the god awful intensity of the time/resource management and ESPECIALLY made it so people could relax a bit more when it came to collecting information and following the stories. This game is more about how quickly you can flip and click than it is about fun.Show moreShow less

0.9 hours at review176 people found this helpful

Not recommendedSteam player

09/07/2019

This is one of those games that I would love to recommend. It reminds me of a more humorous take on things like Orwell, and after playing Hypnospace Outlaw I was very much jonsing for another point and click 'Its kind of the internet but not really!' video game. However, there are a few reasons why I cannot recommend it, and I would, in fact, return this game if I could. 1st: The survival mechanics become obtrusive from the start of the game. Maintaining your need to eat, sleep, and of course the health which can drop pretty quickly if you're not careful enough is just.. It's not very fun. 2nd: This is tied to the 1st reason. The game is very much text oriented, a point and click styled adventure with a sort of 'choice' feeling to them. However, I found that the best way to actually play the game.. Was by not playing it at all. What do I mean by that? Well, I'd start up the game, get on... And instead of actually looking through the 'Cages' to watch people, I'd end up doing job after job to get money for food and rent. You can go through this entire game without touching the cages other than unlocking them to meet your quota. So, at times, it feels like it's giving you a choice between actually enjoying the game or beating the game. Which brings me to the next thing... 3rd: Peeper mode is this games easy mode. However, Peeper mode also feels like it's the way the game should be played from the get go. Food and Sleep are less important, thus giving you more time to actually fiddle and 'feed the monkeys'. This mode is the mode to play if you want to experience the rather rich, witty, and sometimes interesting dialogue the writers put into this game, but there is a caveat. This mode also turns off achievements, for some that's no big deal, but I enjoy the brief sensation of satisfaction that achievements give me. All in all. Much like with We Happy Few, I'd only recommend this game if you find the aesthetic extremely enjoyable, don't care for achievements and can run Peeper mode, or are extremely skilled at micromanaging three bars while trying to click on important text and actually read it all in time. Otherwise you're just in for a very frustrating experience.Show moreShow less

3.9 hours at review62 people found this helpful

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