START AGAIN: a prologue
Worth it · RPG · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $10.99, a BANGER if it drops to $7.32.
- Length
- 2.9h 4.1h to 100%
- Value
- $3.79/hr
- Reviews
- 96% of 684 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.32 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in 6 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
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
timeloop depression station ✦ In Stars and Time's prototype-thingy-thing
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, DirectX 9/OpenGL 4.1 capable GPU, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 22 times in the 5 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 11 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $7.32 BANGER line 16 times.
On value it sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 63 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, FINAL FANTASY V ($17.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Small Saga ($19.99, scores 71).
More about START AGAIN: a prologue
This site sampled 325 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2021 to August 2026.
What players say
For such a short amount of playtime it made me feel so much. I really felt Siffrin's pain. Many tears shed. I'll be playing In Stars and Time next and this has very much made me look forward to it.
2 more reviews
You don't need to play this to understand "In Stars and Time", but if you liked that game, you might like this. It is far shorter, but still enjoyable!
START AGAIN: a prologue is a compact narrative RPG that takes the familiar concept of a repeating time loop and uses it to explore isolation, frustration, friendship, and the emotional damage caused by remembering events that everyone else continually forgets. Created and published by insertdisc5, the game follows Siffrin, an adventurer traveling with a small group of companions on what should be the final stretch...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
START AGAIN: a prologue scores 78/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1691420/start-again-a-prologueReviews 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 Sep 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.