Stuck In Time
Housemade Inc. · 2021 · Idler, Adventure, Exploration, Pixel Graphics, RPG
PC
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About Stuck In Time
✦ AI summary
Plan out efficient loops of actions to optimize your idling time in this dark fantasy adventure where repetition makes tasks cheaper and faster. Explore a mysterious time-looped world, meet quirky characters, and uncover multiple endings while the game progresses peacefully in the background.
DISCLAIMER : This is an idle game. They are designed to be played while doing something else on the side. The progression is slower than regular games.
You like the careful planning and the thrill of exploration but hate the repetitive grind, this game is for you. It's a truly satisfying and self-contained game experience that takes the idle mechanic seriously and elevates it through an old school pixel-art adventure. The perfect game to play while idling or working on the side.
Plan your loops: Plan your actions ahead of time, choose which path to take, who to fight, what loot to take and start the loop. Craft up your different lists of actions and test them to compare their efficiency. Save them, load them and refine them over time.
Optimize your idling: Time is your main currency. Optimize your different paths as you gain experience to go faster and get the most of your idling time. As you repeat the same action it's cost get cheaper, so be sure to check if a quicker route has become available.
Explore the world: This game is all about atmosphere. Explore this dark fantasy world and get immersed in the lore and mystery that comes with it.
Meet characters: Find and meet the 10 different characters that will help you understand the world. Talk to them, learn from them or kill them and loot their corpses. It's all good, you're stuck in a time loop anyway.
Escape the loop: Redeem the curse and find out the different endings.
You like the careful planning and the thrill of exploration but hate the repetitive grind, this game is for you. It's a truly satisfying and self-contained game experience that takes the idle mechanic seriously and elevates it through an old school pixel-art adventure. The perfect game to play while idling or working on the side.
Plan your loops: Plan your actions ahead of time, choose which path to take, who to fight, what loot to take and start the loop. Craft up your different lists of actions and test them to compare their efficiency. Save them, load them and refine them over time.
Optimize your idling: Time is your main currency. Optimize your different paths as you gain experience to go faster and get the most of your idling time. As you repeat the same action it's cost get cheaper, so be sure to check if a quicker route has become available.
Explore the world: This game is all about atmosphere. Explore this dark fantasy world and get immersed in the lore and mystery that comes with it.
Meet characters: Find and meet the 10 different characters that will help you understand the world. Talk to them, learn from them or kill them and loot their corpses. It's all good, you're stuck in a time loop anyway.
Escape the loop: Redeem the curse and find out the different endings.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
You must kill peaceful NPCs in order to complete the game. Although I DID enjoy the game and would grind more if not for that.1 found this helpful
I really like this! I don't play many idle games but the gameplay seems unique and it's a pretty ideal balance between active management and background idling. If there's a sequel someday I would love to play it!
Hands down my favorite idler game. For the price you're not going to find one that's better, in my opinion. Honestly I can't think of one that's more expensive I've enjoyed more either. I replay this game once or twice a year because it's just so fun to come back to. The tile and character progression are super satisfying to watch improve over the course of the game. No weird gacha mechanics that seem to be prevalent in so many idlers now also. This game is exactly what it claims to be. An idle RPG, and an extremely good one at that. Frick l00p hero.
Yup.
nice game
It's a great game - the only complaint I could voice, is that there isn't enough of it. (Sequel - please) You're thrown into the world without knowing anything, and have to slowly explore around you, understand the world you've been thrown in and solve your little time-dilemma. It's not a long game (for an idle-game anyway) but what is there is filled with love and genuine care. The story is being told via your diary that contains information about either your own situation, or what you've found out about the characters - which are great btw. Every character has a pixel-animated frame (some of them are pretty cool) and the writing is very well made. The concept is also rather unique - it draws inspiration from idle loops, but the whole idea of incorporating lore and mystery into it hasn't been done again, as far as I know. Since the game is also rather cheap, I can recommend this game to anyone that likes to play idle-games in general, or anyone interested in a small little indiegame that shows some nice innovation and dedication to the game.
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