A new game featuring a character resembling Pavel Durov has appeared in the Telegram messenger. In this game, the main character escapes from a French prison and encounters suspicious individuals along the way.
Although the game is not related to the founder of Telegram, Pavel Durov, he spoke about this project on his official channel and shared a link to it. "Someone has created a game about me escaping from a French prison.
Along the way, I meet various suspicious people. Try it out yourself!
Only on Telegram could independent developers create something like this," Durov wrote. According to Durov, he knew nothing about this project beforehand and did not participate in it.
"Respect to the creators of the project," the Telegram founder added. This game, called Total Glitch, was created by independent developers and works on the Mini App platform.
This tool allows you to launch additional apps and games inside the messenger without installing them separately. According to the game’s creators, players must escape from prison and fight various enemies to achieve freedom.
Durov’s post about this game spread rapidly on social networks and was called "the most unexpected Telegram advert of the year" by users. It is known that Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, has always had a complicated relationship with French law enforcement agencies.
In August 2024, he was detained in France as part of an investigation regarding "insufficient moderation of content" on Telegram and was interrogated for several days. Durov remained in custody for four days and was later released on bail.
Following this, Durov repeatedly accused France of attacking freedom of speech, despite being a citizen.
