# The Talking Game: Deep Talk — The honest question party game > The honest question party game (iPhone/iPad app by Benjamin Yap.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-talking-game-deep-talk/id6783577366 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Benjamin Yap](https://appshunter.io/developer/1890137606) - Category: Games, Casual, Card - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 17+ - Requires: iOS 15.1 · 60 MB - Languages: American English, Arabic, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French (France), German (Germany) and 22 more - Released: 2026-06-30 - Data updated: 2026-08-31 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-talking-game-deep-talk/id6783577366/reviews.md ## What is The Talking Game? Some nights you remember for years. This is the game that makes them. The Talking Game is built for real friends and one shared phone. Each round, the deck picks who is in the hot seat and turns over one honest, hand-written question. No filler. No recycled internet lists. The kind of question that makes the table go quiet, then lean in. You know the moment. The night is good, someone wants to go a little deeper, and everyone blanks. The Talking Game carries that moment for you. Every question is written by hand and chosen to pull something honest out of the room. Zero AI. Just the right question at the right time. HOW IT PLAYS Put one phone in the middle. The deck names who is up. They tap to turn the card. The question lands, slow build then snap. They answer honestly, or they pass. Then the phone moves on. No setup, no account, no rules to read. You are in your first round in under a minute. DECKS, NOT DIFFICULTY Every deck is its own mood, a different feel and a different depth: - First Light: easy openers to warm up the table (free, included) - Roots: where you actually come from - Deep & Raw: the honest ones, no performance - No Mercy: the questions that ask for a straight answer - 3 AM: the thoughts that keep you up - 3:30 AM: for when the night runs longer - Confessions: the things you rarely say out loud - Lovers: for two people who think they already know each other - Life Values: what you would never trade away Turn the depth from easy and light to open and honest, and the deck meets you there. WHY IT IS DIFFERENT Most conversation apps hand you the same forgettable prompts. This one does not. Every question is written by hand, chosen with care, and wrapped in something that actually feels like a moment. Warm, honest, made to be remembered. Built to be felt, and built to be shared, because the reactions are the whole point. OWN IT, FOREVER First Light is free, so you play the core before you pay a cent. After that there are three ways in, and not one of them locks the decks you already bought behind a subscription: - One deck: $3.99, a single purchase, yours forever - All Packs Forever: $19.99 once, for every deck we have made and every deck we ever make - All-Access Yearly: $29.99 a year for the full library plus every future drop while you are subscribed New questions land in your owned decks over time, free. Buy a deck once and it stays bought. No paying once and losing access later. No account. No data harvesting. No dead air. Put the phone in the middle. See who the deck picks. Find out what the people closest to you have never said. The Talking Game. Real questions for real friends. All-Access Yearly is an auto-renewable subscription, $29.99 per year. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically at the same price unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple ID account settings. Single decks ($3.99) and All Packs Forever ($19.99) are one-time purchases, owned forever, and are not subscriptions. Terms of Use: https://thetalkinggame.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://thetalkinggame.app/privacy ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **Subscriptions** | Subscription | Price | Period | | --- | --- | --- | | All-Access | $19.99 | per month | | All-Access Annual | $29.99 | per year | **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | 3 AM Thoughts | $3.99 | one-time | | Roots | $3.99 | one-time | | Deep & Raw | $3.99 | one-time | | 3:30 AM | $3.99 | one-time | | Confessions | $3.99 | one-time | | Lovers | $3.99 | one-time | | After Dark | $3.99 | one-time | | Life Values | $3.99 | one-time | ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.0.7 — 2026-08-29 NOTHING NEW TO SEE, AND THAT IS THE POINT This release adds no features. Under the hood it turns on a masked recording of how the app is used — where taps land, which screen follows which — so we can find the rough edges without asking anyone to file a bug report. What a recording keeps is the shape of a session. What it does not keep is anything legible: every question card, every player name and every picture is covered over on your phone, inside the recorder, before a frame is ever stored. The console and network channels are switched off for the same reason. Our privacy policy says all of this in plain words, in every language the app speaks, and it said it before a single frame was recorded. ### 1.0.6 — 2026-08-27 THE FACE YOU PICK STAYS SHARP Tap a face in the character picker and it used to go soft for about a second — the eyes and the smile blurred while the tile grew, then everything snapped crisp again in a single frame. The selection animation itself was the cause, and it has been rebuilt. None of the motion changed: the same grow, the same spring, the same lift. The face just stays sharp the whole way through now. EVERY DECK YOU OWN OPENS THE SAME WAY The free deck always opened on its own name and its own emblem, with a beat before you begin. A deck you had paid for skipped all of that and dropped you straight into the first turn — so the one deck you actually bought was the only one that started with no ceremony at all. Now every deck you own opens the way the free one does. ### 1.0.5 — 2026-08-20 ONE WORD, EVERYWHERE The app called them decks on one screen and packs on the next. They are decks now, in all 35 languages. RUSSIAN NOW SPEAKS TO EVERYONE 448 Russian questions were written as if the person in the hot seat were a man. They have been rewritten so the card reads the same however it lands on you — no slashes, no bracketed endings, nothing you have to decode out loud. ONE QUESTION REPLACED A Deep & Raw question asked almost exactly what a free First Light question already asks. You should not be sold something you already have. It has been replaced with a new one. ALSO Fewer ways for a price or a purchase to go quiet on you, and a lot more of the app watched for problems that used to pass unnoticed. ### 1.0.4 — 2026-08-19 SHARPER IN YOUR LANGUAGE Native speakers read the questions out loud for the first time, and rewrote the ones that failed. Some were correct on paper and impossible to say at a table. A few quietly asked something other than what the English asks. Arabic now lays out right to left from the first launch, the way it always should have. And a pack you own but have never opened no longer claims it isn't out yet when you're offline. It tells you the truth, and offers to try again. ### 1.0.3 — 2026-08-16 YOUR LANGUAGE All 690 questions now exist in 35 languages. The app follows your phone's language the first time you open it, and you can change it any time in Settings. ALSO IN THIS UPDATE Long names on the wheel stay whole and readable instead of shrinking everyone else's. Prices always show in your own store's currency. ## More apps by Benjamin Yap - [WhatsGen: AI Texting Practice](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/whatsgen-ai-texting-practice/id6761524932) All apps by Benjamin Yap: https://appshunter.io/developer/1890137606 ## Related topics [the talking game](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/the-talking-game) --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-31.*