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Please, Don't Touch Anything

Puzzle

Ratings

Age

9+

Category

Puzzle

Languages

English

Please, Don't Touch Anything is a non-linear, button-pushing puzzle game. While covering for a colleague, you find yourself in front of a mysterious panel with a single red button. Despite the instruction to stay put, interacting with the console triggers a chain of events leading to over 25 different endings. From nuclear explosions to alien invasions, players must hunt for clues hidden in the environment to unlock increasingly complex puzzles in this atmospheric, pixel-art mystery.

Dinsun Expert Review

Our Expert Score

88/100

Please Don't Touch Anything is a brilliant example of how a simple concept can spiral into something incredibly complex and rewarding. You start in a room with a single red button and a monitor, told simply not to touch anything. Of course, you’re going to touch it.

What follows is a series of cryptic, nested puzzles that require you to pay attention to every tiny detail in the room. The pixel art style is perfect for hiding clues in plain sight. It’s a game of trial and error that never feels frustrating because each discovery feels like you've cracked a secret code. It’s short in a single sitting, but finding all 25+ endings will keep you occupied for a long time.

Dinsun reviewed on: Tue Feb 24 2026

Features

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25+ unique and cryptic endings

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Stunning 8-bit pixel art style

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Richly detailed environment filled with hidden clues

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Atmospheric chiptune soundtrack

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Non-linear puzzle solving

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Q&A

There are over 25 unique endings to discover, each requiring a different set of puzzle solutions.

Ratings & Reviews

Fun but Bomb game is broke
Wed Apr 09 2025 UnseelieAgent

Really fun and unique puzzle but one of them involves hitting the red button to drop bombs. For reasons I don’t understand you have to hit the red button exactly which, when looking where you’re dropping and touching a glass screen, your finger will inevitably shift and then you just end up losing. All these puzzle are great example of how you make a fun puzzle game. That one game is an example of what you should never do in a puzzle game.

Now THAT'S a puzzle
Sat Feb 06 2016 OxcartMC

I've played my share of puzzle games. PDTA is unreal as puzzlers go. This is a highly complex puzzle-box style game, with lots of outcomes and an extraordinarily detailed set of secondary puzzles ranging from pattern problems to orientation to math...and some that just plain defy explanation. As complicated as it is, it can be frustrating, but there are answers, and some of the animations are hilarious (but all are creative). People with a short attention span or who are easily frustrated may not enjoy this one, but for puzzle fans, it's quite good. Clues are a little thin on the ground, so here's one non-spoiling tip: don't think you can only tap things once. That's enough to get you started on hours of puzzling. A well-earned A to this pixelicious puzzler app!

Love the Game, but… Game Center
Wed Jun 12 2024 LilicyMarie

I’m rating it five stars because I’ve played this game over and over again through the years on multiple platforms and devices. I still love to come back and replay it, obviously. The reason I redownloaded it this time, though, was to complete my achievements in Game Center, but none of them are registering that I’ve gotten them. I would hate to leave a poor review for something that may or may not be something the developer could fix, but just can’t seem to find a solution to the problem.

City boom
Mon Dec 25 2023 yeah dolphins

When I get overly angry or upset I tend to push my arm into my teeth, or “bite” myself, and after what felt like 500 failed attempts at the city boom mini game, I was left with a red arm and sore head. The button isn’t big enough or responsive enough, when trying to click the button you can spam, making the game almost impossible to beat on iOS during the end. This means that you can’t even finish all the endings, because you need the 24 to get the last one, and without city boom you can solve another one, but other then that mini game, the game is great and the puzzles are really tricky.

Idk what to put here
Fri Dec 30 2022 nick5929

I like PDTA but the game has ending that are very hard like the laser ending to ticket robot comes out at MIDNIGHT but in the 3d version you can just break to clock and set the time to midnight and get the ticket and also city boom is the hardest ending for me because the screen is to small to see and the plane is very fast and also the bombs have a delay before they drop and you can’t zoom by the screen to see and another ending that’s hard for me is the 666 and 276 because when you touch the grey button the numbers go up very fast so you have to time it perfect to stop and get the ending.

Please fix this
Tue Jun 21 2022 waylon walter perry

I’ve gotten so frustrated at this before after I’ve beaten city boom it was the most amazing feeling in my entire life because it’s so hard it’s completely frustrating for me with someone with anger issues please fix it because it’s actually really difficult other than that it’s a good game but that’s the only thing I would suggest to fix and I just want more frequent updates because I’ve seen the last update was two years ago

Fix The Button
Fri Mar 18 2016 KJC007

This game was a lot of fun up until I reached the bomber mini game. Using this on an iPhone 5, the button just isn't responsive enough for this mini game. I find myself dropping only one bomb at a time, because the button won't register my touch. I only have two endings left, the bomber and the final, and I don't know if I'm gonna be able to beat it. I would recommend not purchasing this game until they update the button during the mini game to be more responsive.

Imagine trying to tie your shoes with chopsticks
Thu Aug 03 2023 mercygamer

Imagine trying to tie your shoes with chopsticks. Quite an infuriating task if you had to imagine, right? It seems like a useless endeavor, but it wouldn’t be if you had chopsticks for hands. Of course, why would anyone have chopsticks for hands? I don’t know. Why is the hit box for the red button half of the button’s actual size? I managed to beat the minigame, but it makes Bennett Foddy look like a Ghandi figure, trying to bring peace and prosperity instead of anger and rage. Still don’t get how infuriating it is? Imagine trying to tie your shoes with chopsticks.

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