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As dustman Felix, resist a city ruled by loudspeakers by manipulating its cardboard streets and solving point-and-click puzzles.
Released 20 May 2026
Hijack City Loudspeakers
Rearrange Cardboard Buildings
Shift Floors and Walls
Phonopolis is a story-driven puzzle adventure set in a hand-painted 3D world made of cardboard. Solve a wide variety of playful puzzles and help Felix end the Leader's oppressive influence in a resonant dystopian city inspired by avant-garde art.
Developed by Amanita Design · Published by Amanita Design
In Phonopolis, citizens obey commands broadcast across a dystopian city. Felix, a dustman who becomes immune to the loudspeakers’ influence, sets out to stop the Leader from using the Absolute Tone to make the population permanently obedient.
Explore scenes and solve point-and-click puzzles by interacting with people, loudspeakers, and machinery. Use broadcasts to affect citizens, and manipulate the setting by turning walls, shifting floors, operating mechanisms, and tearing paper barriers.
The adventure advances through a sequence of puzzle scenes as Felix moves through the city and encounters people caught in its system. Its 3D environments are made from hand-painted, digitized cardboard pieces, animated in a stop-motion-inspired style; music and sound are also woven into the story and puzzles.
Players frequently praise the handcrafted cardboard environments, animation, and music, describing the presentation as a major part of the experience. Many also enjoy experimenting with interactive scenes and solving imaginative puzzles, though some find puzzle goals unclear or rely on trial and error. Opinions differ on the narration, and some reviews wish the story or overall playtime were longer.
Welcome to Phonopolis.
A new puzzle adventure hand-crafted by Amanita Design, the studio behind Machinarium, Creaks, Samorost and more.
In the dystopian city of Phonopolis, life is orchestrated by omnipresent loudspeakers that dictate every aspect of people’s existence. Citizens, bound by the authoritarian Leader's commands, work in unison to achieve his grand vision. Soon, the Absolute Tone—a tone so strong that it would strip every citizen of their humanity forever—will be heard…
By coincidence or perhaps by fate, young dustman Felix becomes the only per son to consciously recognize the threat. Now, he must try to stop the Leader from indefinitely making every citizen a mindless servant. Loosely inspired by the works of Karel Čapek and George Orwell, the story of Phonopolis explores themes of social manipulation and individualism, but keeps the overall experience playful and light-hearted.
With Felix becoming immune to the commands, you’ll be able to take advantage of the loudspeakers and use them to solve puzzles involving other characters. Other times, you will interact with the cardboard environment in surprising, often unexpected ways—turn walls, shuffle floors, control various machinery or tear paper curtains. Each puzzle is carefully integrated into the world and presents a different challenge.
Metaphorically referring to the utopian, totalitarian model of society, Phonopolis is a city built of actual cardboard. Capturing the nostalgic charm of classic stop-motion films, every piece of any building, every character, and every frame of any smoke or flame is hand-painted on a piece of paper, then digitized for use in the game’s 3D world.
The art style is strongly influenced by avant-garde artistic trends of the interwar period such as constructivism, futurism, and suprematism, and their societal impact as a tool of propaganda. The distinct visuals come to life with music from Tomáš Dvořák aka Floex, composer of soundtracks for Machinarium and Samorost 3.
Story-driven adventure game set in the dystopian city of Phonopolis
Hand-painted 3D world made of cardboard
Traditional 12 FPS animation reminiscent of classic stop-motion films
Wide variety of puzzles integrated into the paper-built setting
Music by Tomáš Dvořák aka Floex (Samorost 3, Machinarium)
| Platforms | Windows, macOS |
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| Achievements | 20 |
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| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| Demo | View demo on Steam |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
| Metacritic | 84/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |
