Hostile Volume – A game about adjusting volume with intentionally bad UI

2026-03-1418:392316hostilevolume.com

Mandatory Feedback Please complete a short customer service satisfaction survey to access the volume controls. 1. Before we begin: Is a hotdog a sandwich? Absolutely yes, it fits the structural…

Mandatory Feedback

Please complete a short customer service satisfaction survey to access the volume controls.

Absolutely yes, it fits the structural definition. Absolutely not, that is culinary blasphemy. It is technically a taco. I am trapped in a volume slider, please send help.

Honestly, yes! It's brilliantly creative and fun. Absolutely not. I hate this with a burning passion. It's a love-hate relationship, mostly hate. I will be sending my therapy bills to the developer.

10/10 - Sleek, modern, and visually fantastic. 1/10 - It's clunky, ugly, and hard to read. It looks great while it's actively torturing me. I can't see the UI through my tears of frustration.

It's unironically a great, relaxing track. It's mind-numbingly repetitive and awful. I muted my device 15 levels ago. It perfectly scores my descent into madness.

They are clever puzzles that are satisfying to beat. They are completely unintuitive, poorly designed and the dev needs a new hobby. Whoever made this is a certified supervillain. I am just clicking blindly and hoping for 25%.

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Comments

  • By jonathanlydall 2026-03-1420:13

    My favourite bad volume control was in Real Player around 1997 where changing the volume in the application actually changed the global volume of Windows.

  • By graypegg 2026-03-1419:431 reply

    This is not an issue at all, but when ever I come across something like it, I like to poke at the frontend in dev tools a bit. You can pass most levels with `setVolume(25)` in the web console, since that function is just sitting in the document object. That feels like the ultimate volume UI puzzle heh.

  • By anwar_nairi 2026-03-1419:56

    Had a lot of fun cool idea! Make it a PWA so I can list it on https://korru.app

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