Subtext – Phone Diaries [v0.6.0] [4supixel]

Subtext is a phone. Someone else’s phone. Their messages, their photos, their socials, their bad decisions at 2 AM. You

Subtext is a phone. Someone else’s phone. Their messages, their photos, their socials, their bad decisions at 2 AM. You read, you reply, you choose, and the story goes where you push it.

Two things come in the box:
Both Originals received complete rewrites and expansions. That is only one additional chapter per Story, but more than 1,800 new messages and choice replies in total.
Your choices can now change relationships, unlock scenes, open or close routes, affect later chapters, and lead to completely different endings.
STUDIO

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The same no-code editor used to create the Originals ships with the game.

Create:
– Branching conversations and group chats
– Choices with real requirements and consequences
– Skills and relationships
– SMS Moments and full-screen Live Moments
– Social posts, gifts, bank transfers, and GPS locations
– Triggered events and persistent Gallery content
– Complete Story routes with multiple endings

Use the Story graph to visualize every branch.
Export your Story as a single file and share it with anyone.

Thread Updated: 2026-08-26
Release Date: 2026-08-22
Developer: 4supixel Itch.ioDiscordTwitter
Censored: No
Version: 0.6.0 beta
OS: Windows, Android
Language: English
Store: Itch.io
Genre:
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2DCG, AI CG, Male Protagonist, Mobile Game, Multiple Endings, Branching Story, Swinging, Cheating, Voyeurism, Romance
Installation:
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1. Extract zip and run Subtext.exe (Windows).
2. Install Subtext.apk (Android).
Changelog:
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v0.6.0: The Choice Is Real
Your choices finally matter. They can open and close routes, change relationships, unlock scenes, affect later chapters, and lead to completely different endings.
Two Original Stories, completely reworked
  • Movie Night is now complete with a seventh chapter, Front Row, and several endings shaped by your decisions.
  • My Beautiful Neighbor gets a fourth chapter centered on the seminar and hotel, with major new routes for Maya and Jade.
  • More than 1,800 additional messages and choice replies across both Stories.
  • Earlier chapters, routes, scenes, and choices have been extensively rewritten.
Restart from anywhere
  • Rewind the Story from any message.
  • Right-click on desktop or press and hold on mobile.
  • Restart any chapter you have already started from the Journal.
  • Keep compatible progress from everything that happened before that chapter.
Experiment. Go back. Make it worse.
SMS Moments and Live Moments
  • SMS Moments stay inside the conversation with the real Messages interface and history.
  • Live Moments step outside the phone into full-screen visual novel scenes.
  • Live Moments support dialogue, choices, branching, photos, videos, effects, and automatic playback.
  • They can launch from Messages, GPS, chapter events, or the new Camera app.
Also new
  • Skills that evolve and unlock choices.
  • Relationship scores such as affection, trust, and complicity.
  • New Contacts app with character profiles and relationship progress.
  • New Bank app, money transfers, and priced Nozamart gifts.
  • Visible requirements for locked choices.
  • Completely rebuilt six-chapter Meet Ai-chan tutorial.
  • Smoother long conversations.
  • Extensive mobile and browser improvements.
  • Story graphs and richer branching tools in Studio.
  • Safer Story publishing, migration, and update systems.
Important save notice
The progression system was completely rebuilt for version 0.6.
Updating from an earlier version resets existing Story progress once. Settings and installed Story packages are kept.
Old JSON save exports are no longer compatible. New saves use the .subtext-save format.
v0.3.0 – Time Slices
– New Original story: My Beautiful Neighbor.
– Reworked the time skip system. Days are now split into time slices for finer pacing control and cleaner story structure.
– Story authors can now trigger events per slice instead of per day.
v0.2.0 – Moments
– Added Moments, an immersive mode for scenes that matter.
– When a Moment triggers, the phone frame drops away and the artwork fills the screen. The conversation stays overlaid on top, semi-transparent, so you keep reading and replying without breaking out of the image.
– Story authors can trigger Moments from the editor like any other event.
v0.1.0
– Initial release: first Original story (Movie Night) and the community story editor.
Developer Notes:
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I’m the dev. Subtext is in beta and free.
Runs fully offline. No login, no online services, no analytics.
The tags above cover the Originals. Community stories may contain anything their authors put in them.
Some graphics and code are AI-assisted.
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Subtext – Phone Diaries [v0.6.0] [4supixel]