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With the power to freeze time, you can ransack a casino, rescue a celebrity, or cheat death itself! A thrilling interactive sci-fi novel.

Release DateSep 4, 2015
Price$ 6.99
Steam Rating (Steam Purchases / All)80.3% (positive) / 80.8%
Steam DB Rating (Steam Purchases / All)73.1% / 73.6%
Reviews (Steam Purchases / All)117  / 120
Curators16 reviews
Median Play Time7.1 hours  Top 25%
Play Time per Dollar1 hour  Top 25%
Followers569 
Owners± 6.6K 
Copies Sold± 5.1K 
Gross Revenue ($)± 15.9K 

Rating and Reviews (Monthly)
  

Chart showing the monthly evolution of A Wise Use of Time steam rating, positive and negative reviews.

This graph shows A Wise Use of Time's Steam rating and reviews between September 2015 and April 2023. Steam's rating is in a range going from 87.3% (December 2016) to 80.1% (December 2021).

With its 120 reviews, A Wise Use of Time could be considered a decent success for an indie game. The chart is compatible with a long tailed distribution, which suggests there was a good visibility at launch but that it was not followed by significant updates or discounts.

Review Languages
 

Donut graph showing review languages for A Wise Use of Time and the proportion of players they represent.

This doughnut graph shows A Wise Use of Time's reviewers languages. The most popular language is English (86%), followed by French (4%). There is diversity in the review languages, with 6 languages represented. The game has only one translation (English). Having more translations could have boosted the game's popularity.

Time Played

Chart displaying A Wise Use of Time percentiles of time played for positive, negative, and early access reviews.

This chart displays the number of hours played in A Wise Use of Time depending if the reviewer left a positive or a negative review. The time in game is acceptable, with 14 hours in the 80th percentile.

The negative reviews play time is 2.2 times lower than the positive reviews median play time.

Players' Feedback

Game's StrengthsGame's Weaknesses
  • Lots of choices and options
  • Stopping time is pretty awesome
  • Good replay options and mysteries to uncover
  • Numerous endings and consequences
  • Changes a lot of the dialogue, events, and decisions you can make
  • Dynamic characters that react to your choices
  • Good interpretation of time-"slowing" and lots of fun opportunities available
  • Robust decision tree
  • Adds little details that really make you feel you're there
  • Much longer than most CYOA stories
  • Needed more action
  • Assumed I wanted to play as a hero
  • Would have liked more puzzles and gambling opportunities
  • Gambling was very disappointing
  • Too much time spent on the boring characters and not enough time with the interesting ones
  • Plot lost me very quickly
  • Moves way too fast to be enjoyable at some points
  • Drags terribly at others
  • At least one really impactful choice is taken away from player
  • No checkpointing system - if you mess up/die, you must restart from the beginning

These advantages and disadvantages are not meant to provide a fair assessment of the game, but to help developers identify potential improvements. The game's score of 80.3% should be considered while evaluating them.

Please keep in mind that this list was AI-generated with only a statistical sample of A Wise Use of Time's review data that Steam provides. You don't always need to solve every issue. What some players hate might be what your fanbase loves.

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