KPop Idol Trainee: Text Story

You are the new trainee at a small agency. Nine of you, seven spots, twelve months until the line-up is read out in practice room 3.

KPop Idol Trainee is a texting game played in your phone's messages, where your choices decide who debuts. Your manager keeps a spreadsheet and never says what is on it. The top-ranked trainee is loud, brilliant and texts you at 1am. The one who can actually hear you sing is ranked last. A senior from the fourth floor replies to the moon emoji. Your mum wants a call on Tuesdays.

All five have your number. The fancafe watches the building. The whole game is your phone.

How it plays

• Read the messages as they land, month by month
• Pick every reply. No typing, no timers, no wrong-button deaths
• Every person remembers what you said. Lean on one and it costs you with the rest
• Let the buzz climb and THE FANCAFE posts it for two thousand strangers

What's in it

• Twelve chapters, one per month of training
• Nearly eight hundred messages, all written for this game
• Twelve endings, from Centre to Held Back to Home
• Sixty moments to collect: the messages you will want to screenshot
• English, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. Plays offline, no account.

The itch.io version

• No ads. No in-app purchases. The full game, once.
• There is still a short wait between chapters. Skip the wait is a free button, so you choose the pace.
• Read the room shows what each reply will do before you send it, free.
• The Google Play version's "Get 3 Charm" video offer is not in this version.

Installing

• This is an Android APK. Download it on your phone, open it, and allow installs from your browser or file manager when Android asks.
• It installs next to the Google Play version and keeps its own save.

A story about wanting something in front of people who want it too. The agency, the trainees and the group upstairs are invented.

From Crystl Labs. Same engine as Roommate Drama and Office Life.

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