Games like In Stars And Time
A party of five is two floors from the end of their quest, and the day keeps resetting on Siffrin alone.
Liked In Stars And Time? Each game below says what it keeps from it and what it changes.
Steam data checked Sep 17, 2026 · How matches are scored
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What makes it distinctive?
A hand-drawn turn-based RPG built on rock-paper-scissors typing, run through a dungeon you will clear many times. Siffrin remembers every attempt; the party does not. Dialogue accumulates around that asymmetry, so the same conversation reads differently on the tenth pass than on the first.
Who plays In Stars And Time?
For players who seek a time loop that hurts the person who remembers it.
Fantasy: Narrative / Mastery. Fantasy is our reading of the game, separate from the Steam review score.
A match rises when it shares the way you play: the loop, the mechanics, the session. A shared mood alone does not put a game at the top. If too little is known, the row is left off.
How to read this list
A loop that costs the protagonist something. Minit and Twelve Minutes share the reset and shrink the stage. The Forgotten City keeps the interrogation and changes the century. Hades dies as a conversation, not as a wound.
FAQ
Is this a Steam tag clone list?
No. Tags are one input. Mechanics, fantasy, progression and session structure are classified by Shypiard. If a signal is missing it is skipped.
Why is a famous game missing?
Either Shypiard has not profiled it yet, or it shares too little with In Stars And Time to be a fair match. The list is never padded to reach a round number.