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Live with the ever-present burden of being trapped in a time loop only you can know about in this turn-based RPG. Create a better future for you and your friends. Find hope where there is none left. Pray to the stars and free yourself from time.

In Stars And Time is a story rich, rpg and lgbtq+ game developed by insertdisc5 and published by Armor Games Studios.
Released on November 20th 2023 is available on Windows, Steam Deck and Steam Machine.

It has received 6,184 reviews of which 6,035 were positive and 149 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.4 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 19.50€ on Steam, but you can find it for 5.26€ on Eneba.


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  • OS *: Windows 7 x64
  • Processor: Intel Core i3-530 (2 * 2930), AMD Phenom 9650 Quad-Core (4 * 2300), or equivalent
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: GeForce GT 440 (1024 MB) or Radeon HD 7750 (1024MB)
  • Storage: 500 MB available space

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29 hours played
July 2026
ISAT is one of those spoiler-y games that's hard to talk about. Not quite in the same vein as Doki-Doki Literature Club or Undertale but in the same geographic feature. And even just making those comparisons already feels a lot like saying too much. So here's what I can say. I feel like the game is held back by its RPG Maker DNA. A lot of stuff is tedious by design, but that doesn't mean it isn't tedious, and the engine only makes it more so. I feel like with a bespoke engine, fights wouldn't make you sit through the opening and first turn and then let you retreat from the fight with a 100% success rate, for example. Menus are more annoying than they should be, and combat does its best to be engaging, but still manages to drag. As expected, there is great writing and very great character writing; arguably, this is the entire point of, and appeal of the game. Considering how important the writing was, I was let down by the second half and the ending... I got the feeling the writer either couldn't, or didn't want to write soul-crushing angst as much as the fluff. Like, there is a scene that involves a gruesome murder which is depicted in PG-13 levels of detail. I was riveted to see how this was going to shake-up everything. They portrayed people as being deeply affected, broken to their core. They promised nothing was going to be okay. You get one line, and a debuff one time as a consequence, and then it never happened. And the debuff only really brought my most overpowered character back in line with everyone else. Come on, man. I'm playing your game about trauma and you're afraid of traumatizing me. I'm already sitting through the cruft of RPG Maker, I'm clearly willing to suffer. But. Yeah. Good game. I usually feel like my review niche is picking out specific details of the game that I especially enjoyed or thought were good design but...again...feels like spoilers. So I guess my review is just some nebulous nit-picks? Woo. ISAT is not for everyone. It's kind of the definition of a cult hit. But If you like cute games that come with a psychological horror tag, and you can deal with a little bit of jank, it could definitely be your new favorite game.
45 hours played
July 2026
This game is one of those games where after you play it... you just. Lay in bed. Thinking about your life ten times over. Staring at the ceiling, staying up all night, thinking. Remembering. Processing everything you just saw. A game that completely changes your perspective on life. A game that gives you a comfort that hurts. I love it. In Stars and Time has always been on my radar as an interesting game to me. I played it blind, no spoilers. I suggest anyone else also do that, too. It was like playing Omori for the first time again. Playing Oneshot for the first time again. Now it's playing In Stars and Time for the first time again. I'm gonna go slip on a dangerous banana peel now
30 hours played
May 2026
This game is sort of a case study to me in whether or not games should be fun. I think that comes off a little harsher than it should, I do think this game is fun... most of the time. But I also think about all the ways it tricked my brain and made me do things that weren't fun... for no other reason than because I chose to. In reality, the game never made me do those things, in fact, several systems in the game would have made my life way way easier, but I chose not to use them. Perhaps I'm getting ahead of myself. Every winter I take an extended holiday and during those holidays I like to play a ton of games. Ideally, I like to play stuff that is less than 10 hour's long and I like to play a whole lot of different stuff. Before that though, I figured I'd start with something I knew was a bit longer. If just because I knew I had the time. I'd first heard about this game closer to when it came out, but really all I knew about it is that it was another time loop game. Something about helping your party clear a dungeon, okay. I've played a lot of time loop games, and at this point I'm starting to think that my standards for them are getting pretty high. I could recount the plot beat for beat, but I don't think that's very valuable, so I'll sort of skip ahead. There's a point in this game where things got very... bent out of shape for me. I reached a point where I was starting to feel like "for sure this is the run, I better make sure it counts and do everything I want to do." and so I'd do that... I'd do everything. I'd start from town, I'd make family with all my allies. I'd go into the castle and I'd look at every object. I'd collect every trinket. I'd perform every brush past of a party member. I'd create the perfect run because I knew that if this was the run that I'd want the NPC's to have had those experiences like I'd had tens of times. I'd... become Siffrin. Even when it wasn't fun. I'd repeat this. I'd get to the point where I thought surely the end was just after and then... The start again. Frustrated, annoyed... I'd do it again. I'd repeat that perfect day. I'd collect all those trinkets. I'd do it all because... Well... Dammit, I cared about these characters. At some point I'd come to care enough about a bunch of pixels that I wanted that perfect ending. I knew they were fake of course but... Well it made me sad to think about an ending where they didn't get the experience that I had. There's an aspect about this game that lifts a bit of a burden off my chest. I'm always bouncing ideas around in my head like a 100 DVD logos on a small television, but there's one that I thought about a lot last year... I love the edges of a story. The advent of procedural language generation (Boo AI) sort of renders the idea obsolete, but... Stories have endings, games have endings. There exists within a story, and a game, a finite amount of written character dialogue. Eventually a character has said everything they can possibly say, and in a lot of cases their character model will simply blip out of existence, never to be seen again. Never again to be found within the confines of the game play space. I think Souls is kind of a good example of this. You talk to NPCs and then you reload and they're gone and maybe you'll see them again, but sometimes you won't. But eventually you'll reach a point where you can run around the world for maybe 100's or 1000's of more hours, but you'll never see them. Even if you do, such as in an Animal Crossing, eventually those characters will have nothing new to say. I'll hold the rest of the idea within my heart for now, but that should be enough for you to get the idea. In Stars and Time really plays with this idea. Siffrin is both a dictator of that limited script by constantly doing the same things, but also by existing is a kind of commentary on that limit. They address the edges of the narrative. It's not possible for the story to have infinite dialogue. It must have edges. In Stars and Time looks at the edges and then weaponizes them against Siffrin and the Player! Do I feel good about repeating that perfect day? Should I feel good? Should Siffrin feel good. You're just manipulating people. It's cheating because you know what they like. You know what they want to hear. Are you actually doing it to make them happy? Or am I just doing it because I want a so called "True Ending" or "Perfect Ending" or whatever the ♥♥♥♥. It calls to mind another thing I'd love to see get explored in games more. Gamification of relationships. How there's always an "optimal" thing to do or say or gift to give and how you can just look it up. Do you end up doing stuff then because you actually give a ♥♥♥♥ about a character or just because you want to win and you want them to love you? This game feels like a train wreck to play, a good one. That's not a negative, I love to feel bad about fiction. I love watching Siffrin tear himself apart. I love seeing my experience so perfectly mirror that of the main character. I love feeling myself slip into the same patterns as Siffrin. To cap this out, there's a moment I really love. I can't remember when exactly, I think it's in one of those "perfect runs", but I think it is encapsulates my core take away from the game. Siffrin spends so much time thinking they're only doing it for themself. Thinking that the others don't really feel the same way he does. But while eating a snack, Isa comments on how Siffrin does a breathing thing after ever battle. Siffrin is surprised that Isa noticed that about him. They think to themselves "(How weird! To be noticed, and known!)". The reality is that despite everything, Siffrin isn't alone. Everyone cares about them. To be loved, is to be known.
41 hours played
May 2026
game designed specifically for gay depressed tumblr users. if you fit this description, play this game, and then see a therapist
35 hours played
April 2026
a psychological horror time loop game that actually manages to be annoying in the right ways for the story it's trying to tell.

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In Stars And Time is currently priced at 19.50€ on Steam.

No, In Stars And Time is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 19.50€ on Steam.

Yes, In Stars And Time received 6,035 positive votes out of a total of 6,184 achieving an impressive rating of 9.42.
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In Stars And Time was developed by insertdisc5 and published by Armor Games Studios.

Yes, In Stars And Time is playable and fully supported on Windows.

No, In Stars And Time is not playable on MacOS.

No, In Stars And Time is not playable on Linux.

Yes, In Stars And Time is playable and fully supported on Steam Deck.

Yes, In Stars And Time is playable and fully supported on Steam Machine.

No, In Stars And Time does not support VR.

In Stars And Time is a single-player game.

Yes, there are 2 DLCs available for In Stars And Time. Explore additional content available for In Stars And Time on Steam.

No, In Stars And Time does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

No, In Stars And Time does not support Steam Remote Play.

Yes, In Stars And Time is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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In Stars And Time
Rating
9.4
6,035
149
Game modes
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Online players
74
Developer
insertdisc5
Publisher
Armor Games Studios
Release 20 Nov 2023
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