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Starstruck: Hands of Time
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!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-18.
“Very fun game, love the many different art and media styles mixed into the game. The rhythm aspect is also very enjoyable. Over arching theme/story is nice and easy at first but got very odd towards the end. I genuinely had not a clue what was going on. That and in order to…”
— a player, Steam review · 7 hrs played“The definition of an author-driven art game full of personality. It's a metalinguistic work: art about art. It's a game from the perspective of passionate artists, the kind you see in undergraduate students. People who are eager to express themselves, have discovered a lot, met…”
— a player, Steam review · 9 hrs played“you gotta play this game, simply put. i want to stay vague but its perspective on art is so refreshing to see, love it to death.”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-19.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Starstruck's 1 Year Anniversary!
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Hello, truckers! I hope life is treating you all well. Just pushed a small update that fixes some minor issues the community has brought up (details below). Thank you to everyone who's reported bugs,
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🏷️✌️New York Game Awards Nomination Sale!
Hi Truckers. Starstruck is a New York Game Awards nominee for Best Hidden Gem! What an honor! To celebrate, the game is on sale from Jan 16 - 30. Tell your friends! -Max
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-18.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Casual, Indie, RPG |
| Player tags | Rhythm · Time Travel · Story Rich · Physics · Narrative · Music · Experimental · Surreal · Comedy · Psychedelic · Well-Written · Cartoony (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Captions available · Steam Cloud · Remote Play on TV · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , Japanese, Russian, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Latin America, Simplified Chinese * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 10 |
| Official site | https://starstruckgame.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7, 64 bit Processor: 2.6 GHz Intel Quad Core Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M, 2 GB Memory DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 14 GB available space