Damage Control: Texting Game
Rehearse hard conversations
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
New: rehearse the conversation you're dreading. Describe the real person, have it here first, then see exactly what you said. Your first rehearsal is free.
You sent it to the wrong person. Now talk your way out.
Damage Control is a texting game where every conversation has already gone wrong, and you type your way through it. There are no answer options. You write every message yourself, and the person on the other end reacts to what you actually said. They soften, they dig in, or they stop replying.
THE SITUATIONS
Six are free:
• The Screenshot – you sent your girlfriend's mother a screenshot of what you said about her
• That Wasn't For You, Boss
• Left On Read For Four Days
• I Said I Was Sick
• You Weren't Invited
• I Forgot, Again
Four more are group chats, with two people texting you at once:
• She Found The Other Chat
• I Don't Remember Last Night
• Her Parents Think We're Engaged
• I Quit In The Wrong Group Chat
Play the first three turns of any of them for free, then unlock one or all four together. Buy once and replay whenever you like.
Every situation has three endings to find, details the other person only admits if you ask the right way, and a debrief that shows which of your messages helped and which one cost you.
YOUR OWN: REHEARSE A REAL CONVERSATION
Some conversations aren't a game. Asking your brother for the money back. Telling your boss no. Ending something. Say it here first, where getting it wrong costs nothing.
Answer six short questions: who they are, what happened, what you want, what they do when it gets hard, how they text, and what you're dreading they'll say. Then have the conversation. They answer in their own voice and push back the way you said they would.
Afterward, you see what you actually did: how many of your messages said the hard thing, where it got heated, the line that did the most work, and what you never said.
Your first rehearsal is free. More come in packs of 3 or 10. Rehearsals are saved on your phone only, and are never ranked or shared.
HOW IT WORKS
• Live replies: the other person's messages are written by AI and answer your actual words. You choose whether to turn this on, and you can switch it off anytime in Settings.
• With live replies off, everything runs on your phone with written replies.
• No account, no ads, no subscriptions.
It's a simulation, not a prediction. It can't tell you what someone will really say, and it isn't a substitute for professional help.
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Information
- Seller
- Andreas Skyum Paulsen
- Size
- 3.1 MB
- Category
- Entertainment
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
16+
- 16+
- Frequent
Mature or Suggestive Themes
Infrequent
Profanity or Crude Humor
Alcohol, Tobacco, Drug Use or References
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Ten rehearsals $12.99
- Three rehearsals $4.99
- All four situations $4.99
- I Quit In The Wrong Group Chat $1.99
- Her Parents Think We're Engaged $1.99
- I Don't Remember Last Night $1.99
- She Found The Other Chat $1.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Andreas Skyum