Do Not Feed the Monkeys
Do Not Feed the Monkeys
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Do Not Feed the Monkeys 2099
Developer Fictiorama Studios
Spy on strangers through security cameras, invade their privacy and discover their secrets in this digital voyeur simulator. Welcome to the future of The Primate Observation Club. Even in 2099 the rule about messing with your unlucky subjects still remains in this sequel: DO NOT feed the monkeys! From the Steam store page
192 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy) · newest Oct 24, 2026 · last updated Oct 24, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
69
Fresh
120 positive · 54 negative
95% range 62–75%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 120 | 54 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 3 | 14 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 1 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
207 of 277 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
69% recommend · 124 yes, 56 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 180 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mixed (797 of 1,149 positive).
Many players find the sequel less engaging than the original. [1][2][3] Some reviewers appreciate the futuristic setting and new mechanics. [4][5][6] Several players criticize the game for feeling rushed or lacking content. [7][8][9]
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Representative posts
- [3]
TLDR: Do Not Feed the Developers. General Thoughts/Overview: Aww :-( I’ve been really looking forward to playing this, as I really, really, enjoyed the first. Sadly it’s a shadow of its predecessor. Simple in nature, in Do Not Feed the Monkey’s (DFM) you watch CCTV footage captured from hacked cameras. The OG posed interesting questions on action or inaction, and the extent to which you could, or should. This 2099 …
- [12]
The first Do Not Feed the Monkeys felt so sleazy and dirty and it nailed the atmosphere so, so well, I actually felt I was doing something I shouldn't when playing it, kinda like when you're 10 or whatever and looked up "naked people photos" on google images out of curiosity when your parents weren't around. 2099 has absolutely none of that. The only thing I felt when playing it was boredom. Tbf I dislike cyberpunk …
- [1]
I still prefer the first one, honestly. This sequel isn’t bad, but it’s missing that special something that made the original so great. It’s kind of hard to explain. Maybe it’s the future setting? I do think it’s a cool direction, and I appreciate the tropes. However, it just all feels so...fantastical? Like everything is already so strange that when something strange does happen, it doesn't have the same impact. …
- [4]
I'll be honest: when I learned about a sequel to "Do Not Feed The Monkeys", I was deeply skeptical. The original had become one of my favorite video games of all time for its unique premise, naturalistic dialogue, and simply spectacular pixel art, and I feared a sequel would lose what made the first game incredible in a desperate effort to recapture the lightning in a bottle. I now look back on my doubts and laugh …
- [2]
It's a fun game but not as good as the first one, not as re-playable either. I think the game needs more content. The endings are a bit hard to follow too.
Summarised from 34 of the 197 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 12, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
69% of the 180 Steam reviewers we collected recommend Do Not Feed the Monkeys 2099. The complaint that keeps coming up: not as good or replayable as the first game. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
Reactions
60 of 192 · most liked firstTLDR: Do Not Feed the Developers. General Thoughts/Overview: Aww :-( I’ve been really looking forward to playing this, as I really, really, enjoyed the first. Sadly it’s a shadow of its predecessor. Simple in nature, in Do Not Feed the Monkey’s (DFM) you watch CCTV footage captured from hacked cameras. The OG posed interesting questions on action or inaction, and the extent to which you could, or should. This 2099 sequel attempts the same, but has nowhere near the nuance or impact. Keep…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →disappointing, uninteresting cages. has less content than the first game. still challenging, however the searches and keywords and clue-connections make no fkn sense. feels rushed, even though they delayed it during production. put the osts for your games somewhere ffs. BOOOOOO tomato tomato tomato
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game compared to the first feels like a ripoff. This game has none of the originality that was the first. I understand that this is supposed to be harder than the first, however the game play is ruined for returning players and new. Do not recommend. Bad.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The first Do Not Feed the Monkeys felt so sleazy and dirty and it nailed the atmosphere so, so well, I actually felt I was doing something I shouldn't when playing it, kinda like when you're 10 or whatever and looked up "naked people photos" on google images out of curiosity when your parents weren't around. 2099 has absolutely none of that. The only thing I felt when playing it was boredom. Tbf I dislike cyberpunk settings, so I was already predisposed to disliking this game, I still got it…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The first Do Not Feed the Monkeys was very unique and innovative. The sequel is almost literally the same game, but one key factor that made the first game awesome fell apart when this sequel introduced a new setting: a sci-fi futuristic cyberpunk world. Because of the new setting, the narrative formula in the first game does not work well anymore. In the first game, many crazy story arcs came with a bunch of ridiculous moments, so they never stop surprising and amazing players. This time in…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Worse than the previous game by far, would not recommend. Stories are grindy and boring, it feels like the game creators tried to make the game more unique and instead made it cornier and more mundane. Clues get you very little when searched compared with the previous game and it feels like you rely more on luck to match clues and progress, rather than common sense or deduction.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Disappointment. First game was a blast and after I finished it I just prayed for the sequel. But this one feels more like a demo or early access. There are very few cages that will often repeat every playthrough and the clues are not as fun to search like in previous game. You just end up playing the game over and over again, getting bored and waiting for something different to happen. I just wish they put at least the same effort and love to making this game like to the one before.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →To really put a pin on why this game failed is that it's a worse version of the first Do Not Feed the Monkeys. The more grounded setting of the original makes it easier to pick up the situations, to do the detective work, and find the routes with the scenarios. As well, the more wild scenarios stood out in the more ordinary environment, 2099's setting shift just made it much harder to read scenarios and makes you just want to pick up a guide. If you haven't played the first game, do that, it's…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I still prefer the first one, honestly. This sequel isn’t bad, but it’s missing that special something that made the original so great. It’s kind of hard to explain. Maybe it’s the future setting? I do think it’s a cool direction, and I appreciate the tropes. However, it just all feels so...fantastical? Like everything is already so strange that when something strange does happen, it doesn't have the same impact. The first game had a bit of a normal setting, so when the ridiculous stuff…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The exact same thing as the first game, but in a futuristic-space setting. The same issues: The first few games were great, but when you start getting the same stories over and over and since you can only get a few variations in some of them, it gets repetitive really easy. I will say that the humor is good and that the resource management between not starving and stalking random people was fun. The main problem is the fact that missing events is quite common and just watching the cams…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't normally write reviews based on just glitches, but Mac cage glitch (cage views are glitched out completely) discovered in May 2023 is still not fixed. It's literally unplayable without the cage screens, so I'm curious why the bug isn't being addressed with some urgency. I'm not sure if the fix is even coming at this point, when the discussion of new DLCs came out before the base game could be ironed out.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm sadly, disappointed in this one. I wanted to like it, as the original was SO SO good. I was SO looking forward to this expansion thinking it would be just as expansive as the original, but honestly, this would have been better off being a DLC. It doesn't feel like a full game. You get the same cages every time and after a point it feels insanely grueling in ways the 1st one didn't. Unless they update to include more cages/stories, I am gonna give this one a thumbs down. TLDR: Just replay…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The original was much, much better to me? I don't know why. The UI is worse, the game is 100% copy-pasted (which was disappointing), but the stories/writing are much worse than the original, so it's kind of boring. The clue-connections don't make as much sense, there's more random-guessing, the vibes are off, and the characters/mysteries simply aren't as interesting. I ended up confused and saying "what? wtf?" to myself a bunch of times, unlike in the original game. I'll still play more and try…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →tragic, gore of my favorite game
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In short, downgrade of the first one : - Less engaging stories and cages - Pace & Difficulty unbalanced - Graphically poorer with less attention to details
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a fun game but not as good as the first one, not as re-playable either. I think the game needs more content. The endings are a bit hard to follow too.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →All the charm previously in Do Not Feed the Monkeys was completely lost. This game felt overly polished and just lacked any of the creativeness and wit that I found in the previous installment. Definitely not worth the money.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →unlike the first game most parts are just waiting for something to happen you lookup 2 things get a couple words then stare at a cage for a day waiting for something new to happen the first game felt more unexpected and thought out with the storys this game is pretty predictable also you start on easy mode and need to beat the game to get hard mode? felt kinda like a waste of time.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Simply nowhere as fun or engaging as the first game, sadly. The cyberpunk setting feels forced and annoying. Stories are much weaker than the first game. Would recommend to play the first one and skip this one.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game is a clone of the first game but the first game was better
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Seems like a promising sequel to the original, it is just a shame that I'm encountering a few bugs with it so cannot play much! I've had to reset my day 3 times already. Will probably not continue with the game until bugs are fixed, and would be happy to edit my review based on my experiences afterward.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pretty enjoyable like the first game, but that's only because the concept is fun. Not a huge fan of the futuristic setting. What made the first game even more enjoyable was the modern day setting, seeing scenarios that could realistically happen. I've gone back to the first a couple times, and I would recommend that one more than this one.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just want to mention most of the cages aren't interactable so you spend most of the gameplay sitting and doing absolutely nothing and the managment of resources such as the food or sleep are really unmanagable due to not getting enough to substain yourself. The "monkeys" talk too much and give you very little clickable stuff to work on. This is just a disaster of a sequel I would rather have this as a DLC rather than a full new game with very little no substance to even be fun.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'll be honest: when I learned about a sequel to "Do Not Feed The Monkeys", I was deeply skeptical. The original had become one of my favorite video games of all time for its unique premise, naturalistic dialogue, and simply spectacular pixel art, and I feared a sequel would lose what made the first game incredible in a desperate effort to recapture the lightning in a bottle. I now look back on my doubts and laugh hysterically, for I was so incredibly wrong. "Do Not Feed The Monkeys 2099" is…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Played the first game and thought it was decent, but flawed. The sequel is the exact same game but worse... On top of that 15 bucks is way too much for what you get. I'm a big fan of Digital Voyeur/Interface games, I didn't enjoy DNFTM 2099..
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →DNFTM 2099 is a time management game where you have to find time to work for money, dissect what's going on in all of your cages, and still keep your needs met and the club happy, with a bit of dark humor on the side. The concept of this game is exactly the same as the first, so if you enjoyed the original this one is more of the same and you'll prolly get a good amount of fun out of it. If you didn't like the first game, you definitely won't like this one. I agree with a lot of others that…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's just the first game, but with a futeristic aesthetic. If you like the first game you'll like this. If you don't, you won't. If you haven't played the first game, you might like this. The gameplay loop is watching security cameras and finding information. You can use that information to affect what happens to the people on the camera, for example you can help a lost family get to their destination or you can make them die by flying into a dangerous area.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I honestly can't recomend this game. It's a puzzle game first and foremost where the ways to get the answers to the puzzles are honestly random combinations in a way that reminds me of the 2010 point and click where you try every tool on every item to see what progresses. Unfortunately a couple of these are timed and the game still progresses while you try to combine every word you've collected to try to find the one search that progresses you. Due to there being multiple endings on each…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →4/10 i dont have the patience to play this
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'll start by saying I LOVED the first game. I was addicted to it and played for many many hours finally reaching 100% completion. I was excited to learn there would be a sequel and I have to say, it has not lived up to my expectations as it is in this moment. This game seems more graphics dense than the last one and causes my laptop to overheat, it's constantly freezing because of some unfixed technical errors, and because the game takes place in some made up alien future I can't intuit some…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Do Not Feed the Monkeys 2099 for PS4, Switch now available www.gematsu.com/2026/10/do-n...
neutral · AI labelView post →idk i preferred the first one more+ the new notebook is so freaking ugly it hurts my eyes and pierces my ear every time i pull it up
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I recommend this game if you are a fan of the first game and are thirsty for more. If youve never played either of the games just play the first one. Considering how good the first one was, I was a bit disappointed with this one. Still a fun playthrough but it seemed less thought out. I wish more items purchased in the online store were useful to the monkeys.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Interesting concept along with pixel art and suitable for fans of Austrian artists best Indie project for my money
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Perhaps weird, but this game (and the first but this one even more so) is really good for working on other tasks. Whenever I'm feeling bad creative block, I load up this game on my computer and then have my laptop open to draw or write, and I'm able to make a lot of progress compared to when I'm trying to focus solely on drawing or writing. It's still a fantastic game even when just playing and not also working on something! But it's also really great for productivity in the real world, too.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Loved the first one did not like sequel at all
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun, simple but challenging. I don't know how to describe games very well.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →🖥️ Graphics 🖥️ 🔲 You forget what reality is 🔲 Beautiful ☑️ Good 🔲 Decent 🔲 Bad 🔲 Don‘t look too long at it 🔲 MS-DOS 🎮 Gameplay 🎮 🔲 Very good 🔲 Good ☑️ It‘s just gameplay 🔲 Mehh 🔲 Watch paint dry instead 🔲 Just don't ☠️ Difficulty ☠️ 🔲 Just press 'W' 🔲 Easy ☑️ Significant brain usage 🔲 Easy to learn / Hard to master 🔲 Difficult 🔲 Dark Souls ⛏️ Grind ⛏️ 🔲 Nothing to grind 🔲 Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks 🔲 Isnt necessary to progress ☑️ Average grind level 🔲 Too…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I miss the coughing women at 8:00 am from the first game. Besides that it is great! Could have been more cages tho.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Once upon a time, a precious towel was sent to me by mistake, but I sold it immediately with no doubt... In this case, I have to play another 100 times, begging the robot to give me the towel randomly again. *DO NOT SELL THE TOWEL AND GO TO SLEEP IMMEDIATELY EVEN FOR ONLY 1 HOUR!!!* All achievements 34/35 in progress...
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Been playing Do Not Feed the Monkeys 2099 and, whilst I had to replay the first to refresh my memory, it’s definitely not quite as good
negative · AI labelView post →It just feels like a reskin but worse The first game worked because it was so real? even tho there is a camera about satan
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Suffers from sequel-itis -Lost the charm of the first one -Tedious/underwhelming stories puzzles -Not enough new to the table Play the first game if you are interested, skip this one.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →not as good as the first one but definitely fun. I wish they didn't force you to spend so much time working and stuff so you could focus on the cages
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm going to give this game a positive rating because ultimately I still enjoyed the game despite some faults and a very rocky start. I had to spend about 30 minutes troubleshooting the game because I wasn't getting audio when I ran it. This is a known issue with the game and seems to adversely affect USB headsets like the one I use. Fortunately once I fixed it the first time I did not need to again (thanks to a pinned discussion thread for that.) If you enjoyed the first game and are wanting…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So after 3+ playthroughs so far, the second game lags a bit compared to the first one, the world-building here was trying a little too hard with the "zomg, look how weird this future is, y'all", there's more moon-logicky guess-the-word-combination puzzles, and seems like there's a little less replay value .... but to be fair, I haven't tried the seasonal DLC cages. But when all is said and done (and monkeys fed), if you liked the first one, the sequel will probably hold your attention and is…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →More of the last game, but that's exactly what I wanted it to be. The twists on different sci-fi concepts are very compelling to watch and allow a lot more creative freedom for each camera feed. The game lets you fast forward now, thank goodness... The issue with being able to miss the mail still exists but now you can at least speed up time and not have to sit there for five real minutes to wait and see if the package shows up. I found the characters were just more memorable this time…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I will admit this one is not nearly as good as the first, but I still thoroughly enjoyed it. And personally, as someone who struggled a bit balancing the hunger, sleep, and money aspect of the games, this one having an easier option with no penalty to achievements was a nice touch! It's much harder to maintain money in this one, at least for me, so having no penalization on that mode helped a ton.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →DO NOT BUY IT EVEN IF ITS ON SALE when i read reviews i couldn't really believe them but i should :/ i can not understand how could they spoil such a nice game honestly
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A shorter, less interesting, and disappointing squeal to a great game
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A great game spoiled by one minor detail: Let me explain DNFtM is a game about watching security cameras, aka "Cages". The concept and content are great. But there are so many Cages, that it gets overwhelming. So there is a helper feature, a motion detector. A light under each screen button flashes when it detects something happening there, as well as an audio Cue, so you can switch to there and see what's going on. In theory, this should alert you to when things have changed, or there's…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →when games are so cheap and i finally have money... so painful. unfortunately, the urge has won today well, what was my haul? - Tangle Tower - Tails Noir - Strange Horticulture - PlateUp! - Do Not Feed The Monkeys 2099 - Distraint Deluxe Edition - Distraint 2 - Afterimage - Shenmue I & 2 #VTuber
neutral · AI labelView post →5 bucks on sale definitely worth
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have mixed feelings on this. One one hand, it's a funny (and fun) game that doesn't last too long per playthrough, with some rather amusing moments. The characters you are observing are hilarious, and if you choose to text or call them it leads to some pretty funny and chaotic scenarios. On the other hand, though, the resource management gets pretty tedious at times. I understand that it is kind of the point, that it should feel tiresome and anxiety inducing to manage your taxes and jobs and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The first one was more interesting for me, maybe more because of the feeling of nostalgia. But it's not bad, I liked the game, I enjoyed playing it, but I don't really want to replay it again like the first part. But for me it's a 7/10, and if you really liked the gameplay of the first game, you should give this one a chance too.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Most secuels fail, this is an example.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The first Do Not Feed the Monkeys is literally amazing and hard to beat, and this game didn't live up to those standards but it definitely did deliver
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game has had a drastic change compared to the first release. It's no longer straight forward and exciting. Instead, you're expected to sit through these repetitive stories in hopes of getting some kind of lead. I don't have the patience to sit through these cages grinding my time away trying to get some kind of drastic clue. In the first game, clues came about pretty quickly, but this one just feel grueling. Plus, by the time you do find a clue, it's too late because you won't have enough…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a good game and a worthy successor to the first one. I think this game doesn't hold your hand as much as the first one did. I'm sure some people probably like that. Apparently I am a little bit too stupid to make very many deductions or figure things out on my own though. I needed a lot more help with this game. And as a result I kind of lost interest when I realized I just wasn't smart/patient enough to play this without referring to a guide lol. But it doesn't deserve a bad review for…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I would give this a 5/10. It enjoyable enough and replayable. For many of the cages the things you need to search for are not intuitive at all. The sci-fi stuff makes it confusing. I'm searching each word and all combinations of the words just to find *something* new but often get nothing. In some of the cages the active times last too long with too little new information coming from it (the phone call ones are the worst), and the active times often overlap. I thought the original game had…
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