How to Play Suzy Says

There are two things called Suzy Says, and they are not the same game. One is the short listening game you can play on this page without downloading anything. The other is Suzy Says!, a Windows horror game by the developer MOONBIT that you download from itch.io. Below is how to play both, what each one asks of you, and how long it takes.

The browser version (the one on this site)

The game in the player on the home page is an original listening game made for this site. It is not a port of the MOONBIT release and it is not official. It runs entirely in the browser, takes about ninety seconds, and needs nothing but a finger or a space bar.

A voice called Suzy gives you an instruction. Sometimes she says the phrase "Suzy says" first. Sometimes she does not. Your job is the old playground rule:

• If she says "Suzy says", do the thing. Tap the pad.
• If she does not say it, do nothing. Stay still.

Each round gives you a short window to react, shown by the bar under the instruction. React in time and your streak goes up. React when you were not supposed to, or miss a real instruction, and you lose one of your three lights. Three mistakes ends the run.

Controls: tap or click the pad, or press the space bar. That is the whole control scheme.

Length: about ninety seconds per run if you survive to the end. A failed run is shorter.

Saving: your best score is stored in your browser and shown on the screen, so you can try to beat it later. You can also put a name on your score and appear on the public board for this game.

A few things that help

• Read the first two words, not the whole line. The instruction is a distraction; the phrase in front of it is what matters.
• Stillness is the skill. Most lost runs come from reacting to an instruction with no "Suzy says" in front of it, not from reacting too slowly.
• Do not chase your streak. The instructions get faster, and the temptation is to start tapping pre-emptively. That is exactly what the game is testing.

The Windows game by MOONBIT

Suzy Says! is a different beast. It is a short first-person horror game for Windows, released on itch.io in November 2026. You download a zip file, unzip it, and run the executable. There is no browser version of it and no mobile version. We do not host it, mirror it, or sell it — see the download page for where it actually lives and what the free and paid versions include.

Controls: keyboard only. WASD to move, space to jump or interact, C to crouch. There is no mouse-look scheme to learn and no inventory to manage.

Length: a single run is roughly seventeen to twenty minutes. It is a short game on purpose — it is built to be finished in one sitting and then talked about.

Endings: the game has three endings, and one of them is hidden. We deliberately do not spell out how to reach each one. A twenty-minute game only gets to surprise you once, and the endings are the whole point. If you want the hidden one, the honest advice is to play normally first, then replay and stop trusting the instructions you are given.

Which one should you play first?

If you have ten minutes and no patience for downloads, play the browser version above — it is free, it is instant, and it will tell you whether you enjoy the feeling of being told what to do by something that might be lying.

If you want the actual game people are searching for, get the Windows release from itch.io. The browser game on this site is a tribute to the same idea, not a substitute for it.

Common questions

Is the browser game the same as the PC game? No. Different developer, different design, different length. The browser game is ours; the PC game is MOONBIT's.

Can I play the MOONBIT game in a browser? No. There is no official browser build, and any site claiming to host one is either hosting a stolen copy or hosting something else entirely.

Does the browser game save my progress? It saves your best score locally, and you can optionally submit a name with your score to the board. Nothing else is stored.

Do I need sound? For the PC game, yes — it is a horror game and the audio is most of the experience. For the browser version, sound is optional; every instruction is written on screen as well as spoken.