Starstruck: Hands of Time
Fair · RPG · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 4h 9.2h to 100%
- Value
- $5.00/hr
- Reviews
- 94% of 290 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $16.42 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Starstruck: Hands of Time is a story-rich rhythm adventure game where you play guitar and abuse time travel! Control a giant hand destroying a miniature town, or play as the two guitarist kids living in it. For extra fun, optionally plug in a Guitar Hero controller!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M, 2 GB Memory, 14 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 20 times in the 2 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 30 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 8 percent on value. It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Everhood ($9.99, scores 86) beats it on value, while it beats Everhood 2 ($19.99, scores 35).
More about Starstruck: Hands of Time
Steam's global achievement data puts 46 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 1 of the 255 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2024 to August 2026.
The main story runs 4 hours. Doing everything runs 9, 2.3 times as long.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 4 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
53% start to 46% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
"When the world has sunk into such an artificial life, it is reserved for Art to restore it. To descend into Hell, liberate that which has been cut off, and crown it as the new cornerstone."
2 more reviews
Absolutely incredible game, bizzare funny sweet and esoteric. If you're a fan of the Earthbound vibe (or YIIK for that matter) and also prefer rhythm games to RPG's I highly recommend this game. Really intruiging, really cool mixed media visual style. Absolute gem. One of my favourites of all time
I can't believe Hideo Kojima took a break from OD to make Mother 4. this was my 1000th review can I get some free likes and rewards plz
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Starstruck: Hands of Time scores 65/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1054950/starstruck-hands-of-timeReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 2, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.