Don't Starve Together
Don't Starve Together
Game
Game2015
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
Developer Steel Crate Games
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes is a puzzle video game developed and published by Canadian studio Steel Crate Games. The game tasks a player with disarming procedurally generated bombs with the assistance of other players who are reading a manual containing instructions. It was designed around virtual reality support, with availability first on Android-driven Samsung Gear VR, with later ports to supported devices… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
429 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 4, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
96
LovedLoved
192 positive · 9 negative
95% range 92–98%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 192 | 9 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 43 | 0 | 151 |
| Lemmy * | 6 | 0 | 20 |
| Mastodon * | 2 | 0 | 6 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Overwhelmingly Positive
9,626 of 9,813 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
95% recommend · 185 yes, 9 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 194 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Overwhelmingly Positive (16,715 of 17,183 positive).
Players find it a hilarious and stressful test of communication and friendship. [1][2][3] Some reviewers note the game is best played in person with friends or partners. [4][5][6] A few posters allege the developers did not pay artists and modelers for their work. [7][8]
Liked
Representative posts
- [1]
One of the best games to play with a significant other. Really tells you, who they are.
- [3]
This game is fun as hell, just make sure to communicate and everything will be just fine.. Unless both of you are screaming at each other trying to understand what to do lol. "ARE THERE NO YELLOW WIRES??" "NO" "CUT THE FIRST WIRE" *explodes* 10/10 experience, would play it endless amount of times
- [4]
Kind of hard to play in a discord call, at least if the other people don't know how to play. But in-person, it's a blast. Lots of yelling... i love that! You and your friends can easily sink hours into this game because you just want to keep going and defusing more bombs. Highly replayable, and some pretty sick mods. This game is very much meant to played in-person with your friends. Not that you can't play it over …
- [2]
I made my wife cry. She has many qualities that I adore her for. Giving me directions on diffusing a bomb on a time crunch is not one of them. Really fun game but be prepared to question your communication skills with whoever you play with. I'd love to watch new people play this to see how they make out with it.
- [5]
Good "offline-multiplayer" option. I played it with people that don't play computer games and they also liked it. Best played by 2 ppl, the game says that it could be played by teams of players but imo that's stretch.
Summarised from 34 of the 392 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 9, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes sits at 96% positive across 201 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
The PC version of Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes received "mixed or average" reviews while the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 versions received "generally favorable reviews", according to review aggregator platform Metacritic. Destructoid awarded it a score of 9 out of 10, saying "If you are tired of always playing Cards Against Humanity, Monopoly, and that Gargoyles board game on Laserdisc, then Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes will certainly give you the fix you're looking for, pending you have friends ready to be committed to the task at hand." Ars Technica's Sam Machkovech reviewed the game, calling it a "must-have", although he also noted that once players figure out certain…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 429 · most liked firstWe played Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes IRL! It went just as well as you'd expect (RIP YogTowers).
positive · AI labelView post →Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes is $1.49 on Steam buff.ly/2V2ECMb Deck verified
neutral · AI labelView post →Stream Schedule Jan 18 - 25 🍸 Monday - We Were Here Forever 9pm Tuesday - Ys VIII 8pm Wednesday - EDF6 9pm Thursday - Ys VIII 8pm Friday - Bar Talk: Interview 8pm Saturday - Gartic Phone 9am Sunday Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes 1pm
neutral · AI labelView post →I made a crowd text-to-speech system for my Twitch Chat, where all the audio plays at once. It emulates a chaotic crowd yelling messages at me. Using their collective help, I tried to defuse one bomb in Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes.
positive · AI labelView post →I Hate Native Linux Games. This is just a vent post / unpopular opinion (? unsure if unpopular). Specifically on Steam. Linux native builds are so buggy and glitchy and never work right. Always some combination of: - No sound - Old outdated version missing content and incompatible online - Controllers don't work - Crashes, doesn't launch at all - Horrific FPS - Cutscenes don't play - Weird game breaking softlocks and logic errors, like critical items not spawning and dialogue not triggering -…
neutral · AI labelView post →As requested by my IRLs playing Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes: Joey Wheeler and Tony Tony Chopper attempting to defuse a bomb
neutral · AI labelView post →step1: buy the game step2: listen to basics, it's fine, it's easy step3: start playing step4: the bomb exploded cuz your friend is autistic step5: open math books from high school and relearn everything step6: boom
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Obligatory Interest Post: Games 🤍 Geometry Dash 🧡 Minecraft 🖤 Undertale 🤍 Deltarune 🧡 ULTRAKILL 🖤 Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes 🤍 Celeste 🧡 Hollow Knight Music 🖤 Porter Robinson 🤍 Radiohead 🧡 underscores (OLT Wallsocket) 🖤 G Jones 🤍 Former Hero General 🧡 Programming 🖤 Music Prod 🤍 Linguistics
neutral · AI labelView post →Many of my favorites at bargain prices on Steam: Stellaris, Titanfall 2, Firewatch, Tales from the Borderlands, Planet Coaster, The Forest, Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes...
neutral · AI labelView post →we've been playin waaaay too many stressful games lately, so @sulfurouspiano8.bsky.social and i are gonna unwind with. A bomb. A bombs. So many a bombs. let's play some KEEP TALKING AND NOBODY EXPLODES and ideally not Explodes! NOW LIVE! www.twitch.tv/sulfurouspia...
positive · AI labelView post →NEW MOD ALERT! Introducing Keep Vibing And Nobody Explodes! A @buttplug.io mod for Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes, featuring Vibrations for every bomb module & more! Check it out here! github.com/DryIcedTea/K...
neutral · AI labelView post →Weekend PC Game Deals: Winter Sales 2023 Edition. Big Deals - Microsoft Flight Simulator 40th Anniversary Edition – $35.99 on Steam - Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition – $29.99 on Steam - Dying Light 2 Stay Human – $29.99 on Epic Store - Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty – $28.19 on Fanatical - Total War: WARHAMMER III – $25.64 on Gamebillet - Persona 5 Royal – $25.64 on Gamebillet - Halo Infinite (Campaign) – $23.99 on Steam - Dead Space – $23.99 on Epic Store - The Callisto Protocol – $23.99 on…
neutral · AI labelView post →Weekend PC Game Deals: Autumn and Black Friday specials take charge. - Diablo IV – $41.99 on Steam - Persona 5 Royal – $35.99 on Steam - Microsoft Flight Simulator 40th Anniversary Edition – $35.99 on Steam - Street Fighter 6 – $32.46 on GreenManGaming - Cyberpunk 2077 – $29.99 on Steam - Forza Horizon 5 – $29.99 on Steam - Dead Space – $29.99 on Steam - Dying Light 2 Stay Human – $29.99 on Steam - Hogwarts Legacy – $29.79 on Gamebillet - HITMAN 3 – $27.99 on Steam - Rust – $26.79 on Steam -…
neutral · AI labelView post →Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
neutral · AI labelView post →One of the best games to play with a significant other. Really tells you, who they are.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A team effort of bomb defusal for us with Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes 💣
positive · AI labelView post →Lol I don't even know who the other two are but they're definitely the evil ones who refused to pay any of the visual artists on the Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes project.
neutral · AI labelView post →I made my wife cry. She has many qualities that I adore her for. Giving me directions on diffusing a bomb on a time crunch is not one of them. Really fun game but be prepared to question your communication skills with whoever you play with. I'd love to watch new people play this to see how they make out with it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Reposting an old Hololive doodle cause it’s been a rough Tuesday. Korone’s famous game of Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes with Mori Calliope #art #hololive #korone #inugamikorone #ころね #できたてころね #戌神ころね
neutral · AI labelView post →Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes is one of the few games I've ever encountered that can turn complete strangers into a functioning team, expose hidden personality traits, and cause hysterical laughter through catastrophic failure... often within the same five-minute round. I have about 149 hours logged on Steam, but that's a lie of omission. Between earlier installs and copies outside Steam, the real number is easily double that. Most people I know played this with friends. I played it with…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Throwback Thursday to simpler times (11 years ago today) - Oculus DK1, laptop, Razer Hydra controllers, pub, friends, beer and a printed copy of Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes rules
positive · AI labelView post →[Steam] Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes ($3.74 / 75% off).
neutral · AI labelView post →✨🌈Schedule for week of 29/06 - 05/07 🌈🌈 COLLAB WEEK!! Tuesday 19:30: Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes with @joannahex.bsky.social Wednesday 18:30: Meccha Chameleon with @kiwidrawin.bsky.social @sailorshinju.bsky.social & @sunnypeaceful.bsky.social Times in BST 🎨 Neptunesfortune on Vgen
neutral · AI labelView post →Incidentally a lot of the antecedents/design references of Big Walk are pretty obvious, things like The Witness, Breath of the Wild, Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes But one thing I really wish I knew, is Did the creators of this game play "Cities of Day and Night" by Increpare
neutral · AI labelView post →✨ 🌈 Schedule for the Week 06/07 - 12/07 🌈 ✨ Tuesday, 7 July 19:30 Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes Collab with @joannahex.bsky.social Wednesday, 8 July 18:30 Art and Commissions I will try stick to it this week!! 🎨 Neptunesfortune on Vgen All times are BST
neutral · AI labelView post →A spiritual successor to Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes but more variety + randomized, so you can't just memorize the steps, you gotta do careful reading and reporting if you wanna survive Maybe you're repairing a spaceship or something
neutral · AI labelView post →great game. just dont play with dumb friends or people who get mad easily or you may lose said friend
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Weekend PC Game Deals: Award winners, VR festivals, new choices and more. - Cyberpunk 2077 – $29.99 on Steam - No Man's Sky – $29.99 on Steam - Resident Evil 4 – $29.99 on Steam - HITMAN World of Assassination – $27.99 on Steam - Medieval Dynasty – $26.24 on Steam - BONEWORKS – $23.99 on Steam - GTFO – $23.99 on Steam - VTOL VR – $20.99 on Steam - Tetris Effect: Connected – $19.99 on Steam - Automobilista 2 – $19.99 on Steam - Red Dead Redemption 2 – $19.79 on Steam - Hi-Fi RUSH – $19.12 on…
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m live with @cdap404.bsky.social playing some Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes! Come see us panic and defuse bombs 😂 twitch.tv/CDap404
positive · AI labelView post →Average Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes scenario
neutral · AI labelView post →A game that helps you top off your anxiety and stress, strain your friendships, and test your mettle. With the variety of challenges and modules, it can do well in a party game playlist.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game would be really fun if my friends haven't been heavily affected by the ongoing literacy crisis
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →game inspired me to actually learn morse code because my incompetent friends could not parse what the hell it was saying
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Overcooked (4-player) Lovers in a dangerous space time (4-player) Death squared (2-4 player) Toybox Turbos (4-player) Trine (3-player) Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes (infinite player) Magicka (4-player) The various Jackbox Party Packs (players depends on which game. Most support 4 players, some up to 100 players, each player must have a phone to play on) Worms W.M.D (6-player) Untitled Goose Game (2-player)
neutral · AI labelView post →All different games this week! Darkest Dungeon, Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes, and Celeste!
neutral · AI labelView post →Hi everyone! Tomorrow @pineappleoppa.bsky.social and I will be playing Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes together! We have the talking part down so disarming a bomb can't be that hard, right? Hope to see you there~
positive · AI labelView post →Idea Cherri Bomb and Niffty play Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes #HazbinHotel
neutral · AI labelView post →The base game is a great as a party game, where the puzzles themselves are relatively easy and the challenge is in communication. Even if this is as far as you take this game, it's worth it to hear the crazy ways people will describe the symbols of keypad. But in my opinion, buying this game is only the gateway to the wonderfully diverse modding community. From vanilla+ modules that give the game near infinite variety to mind-bending challenge modules that force both defusers and experts to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Indie games trending today 1️⃣ Crow Country 2️⃣ Chants of Sennaar 3️⃣ Bongo Cat 4️⃣ Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes 5️⃣ Patrick's Parabox #gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiedev #games
neutral · AI labelView post →hii #pitchyagame Find or be Found is an 2 player asymmetric co-op horror game, where communication to steal the right object is key 🔦👩💻 Think Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes with vibes from Amnesia! 🗓️Coming 24th of June 🔗Wishlist & Demo on Steam store.steampowered.com/app/3713700/...
neutral · AI labelView post →I knew I forgot something important!! Update for this week's schedule~ Sun: SRB2Kart with @spadetheskeleton.bsky.social Wed: Half-Life 2 Thurs: Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes with IGT Fri: Forza Fridays with @midkitz.bsky.social Sat: SRB2Kart with @stellarstardust.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →💣Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes Collab!💣 www.twitch.tv/goblinfia I am live with @saincisco and we are playing Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes! its in my goblin culture to blow up soooo lets see how this chaos goes!
neutral · AI labelView post →I realize I don't understand what morse code is. Also please play this with a friend who knows their right from their left.. My friends didnt like me very much
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →**Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes - ft @artofsmw.bsky.social ** Two ponies with a minor language barrier defusing a bomb, I’m sure this will be FINE right? twitch.tv/PhoenixRedtail
neutral · AI labelView post →This game is fun as hell, just make sure to communicate and everything will be just fine.. Unless both of you are screaming at each other trying to understand what to do lol. "ARE THERE NO YELLOW WIRES??" "NO" "CUT THE FIRST WIRE" *explodes* 10/10 experience, would play it endless amount of times
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →KEEP TALKING AND NOBODY EXPLODES - COLLAB with the spooder @gonmasvt.bsky.social 4.10. 1PM Finnish time over at www.twitch.tv/copper_vaske...
neutral · AI labelView post →Silly lil thing of me and my boyfriend playing Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes XD I was our designated manual guy, and I definitely did really well frfr #art
neutral · AI labelView post →#promosky i am frog. movie: Princess Mononoke Beau is Afraid Fantastic Mr. Fox Children of Men game: Rain World Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes Deltarune Minecraft music: C418 The Microphones Toby Fox The Unicorns
neutral · AI labelView post →Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes (Switch) digital release is 80% off on US eShop: bit.ly/4wF15k0 $2.99 lowest price ever on Switch
neutral · AI labelView post →Great game! It's just that I had to force my friend to play it with. Also they hate the manual (too many words). I like being both the Expert and the Diffuser. If only I can split myself into two and played it by myself... Oh, and I hate the morse code. REALLY HATE THEM!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, but you're defusing a compression bra
neutral · AI labelView post →So sad that a game that the management behind this developer team opted to NOT pay the 3D modelers nor the artists that worked on this game got any of the profits from this otherwise incredibly successful game. The number of times I've played this with others with their copies, just to buy it for myself to play with yet more friends now feel like it came at the expense of many who helped bring this to the table in the first place. If you think people should be paid fairly for their work, do…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As the name suggests, don't stop talking and be quick with it. Amazing game, especially for couples or smaller friend groups! 10/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →4 games that defined my 2025: 1. Liar’s Bar 2. Mario Kart World 3. Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes 4. Bejeweled 2.
positive · AI labelView post →4 games that defined my 2025: 1. Liar’s Bar 2. Buckshot Roulette 3. Mario Kart World 4. Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes.
positive · AI labelView post →Today's the final night I've scheduled out for Video Game Night at the pinball club, so I need to start building out another three months. But, I think doing Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes tonight will be great.
neutral · AI labelView post →💣 Is Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes a game every designer should play? Why? Drop your thoughts in the comments below and we might feature them in the next episode 👇🎮🎙️ #GameDesign #GameDev #Podcast #IndieGames
neutral · AI labelView post →My first game! A multiplayer asymmetrical co-op ~ Wizard and the Warrior~ PlateUp! meets Hades meets Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes. The art is super rough at this stage - but the multiplayer functions and I get to play test with my partner to find the fun :) #gamedev #madewithgodot #solodev
neutral · AI labelView post →And now it's time for some Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes with @astriastars.bsky.social! My first time playing, so I'm sure it'll go great.
neutral · AI labelView post →A great drinking party game to enjoy!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →
Posts are quoted from public profiles with links to the original. Want yours removed? Contact us.