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Smartphone doubles its endings for a Steam remake

Smartphone doubles its endings for a Steam remake. OwataStudio rebuilds its browser horror adventure with revised controls, new story turns and twice as…

Smartphone interface used to investigate a locked room
Calls, messages and apps provide the only trail out of the sealed room. Credit: OwataStudio.

Smartphone launched on Steam on August 23 as a remake of OwataStudio’s unityroom psychological-horror adventure. The protagonist wakes inside an unfamiliar locked room with one usable object: a phone containing calls, messages, apps and fragments that may explain how to escape.

Smartphone: confirmed details

Players choose whom to contact, which information to trust and which digital traces deserve attention. Those decisions lead to multiple conclusions. The developer says the Steam version revises the story, direction and controls while doubling the ending count from the earlier browser release and adding new developments.

What changes for players

Keeping exploration inside a familiar phone interface makes every notification potentially useful and suspicious. A message can be evidence, bait or both, and contacting the wrong person may reveal information at a cost. The expanded endings give the remake room to test different interpretations of the same confined situation.

Release and platform context

Smartphone is a Windows single-player release with achievements. Its official Japanese title is スマートフォン, and the store page is written in Japanese. The developer states that all device and communication details shown in the game are fictional and that the software does not collect or display the player’s real information.

This report reflects the developer’s official information published on August 23, 2026. Features, schedules and balance can change after publication, so the linked announcement and current game build remain the final references.

Source: official Steam store page. The dates and named features come from that primary source; the analysis is our own.

More recent PC releases: The Brothers Karamazov, Backyard Paintball and Breachline.

Editorial note

Facts and mechanics were checked against the linked primary sources before publication.

This article was reviewed on August 24, 2026.

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