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Starstruck: Prologue
The free first chapter of Starstruck: Hands of Time, an upcoming 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, 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 2026-09-27.
“Words cannot describe the sheer delight I had playing this game. It’s really something special. A friend of mine described it as “A playable rock opera straight off the Dreamcast/PS2” and I couldn’t agree more with that statement. To me, the world and characters of Starstruck…”
— a player, Steam review · 19 hrs played“Every single thing about this game is undeniably strange and wonderful, but I really love that they captured the feeling of how much the music matters to you and your place in the world. Stellar. What I mean by that: playing a song really well had meaning for the character and…”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played“Disclaimer: I was involved in play testing this demo before release. This review only reflects the demo and will change as the game evolves. If you're just looking for a description and a recommendation, yes go play it if you like Earthbound or Parappa or Blast Corps! Summary…”
— a player, Steam review · 7 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 2026-09-27.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Delisting of Starstruck: Prologue on August 20
👋 Hello Stars Truckers! Starstruck's release date is just one month away! Are you ready for September 16? I'm writing this post to announce that I will be delisting Starstruck: Prologue from Steam on
Release Date Announcement!
September 16! 👋 Hello Stars Truckers! Starstruck finally has a release date: September 16 ! Check out the release date trailer here: Just about a month and half away! Please wishlist the game if you h
BitSummit 2024 + Prologue Update
Big news: I'll be exhibiting Starstruck at BitSummit in Kyoto from 7/19 - 7/21! If you're in Kyoto, please stop by and say hello! To celebrate this, I've also just released a major update to the Prolo
May 2024 Update
👋 Hello everyone! I have some great news about Starstruck! But first, let's start off with some art: New Key Art You might have seen it already on the store page, but this is Starstruck's new key art.
July 2023 Update
Hello Stars Truckers! How's your summer going? Time for another update... but first, some Starstruck fanart! by @pedro_vstheworld A very creative interpretation of The Captain, by Synaptic Abyss ( Tum
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-27.
| Genres | Adventure, Casual, Indie, RPG, Free To Play |
| Player tags | Indie · Free to Play · Adventure · Casual · RPG · Rhythm · Music · Surreal · Great Soundtrack · Time Travel · Story Rich · Funny (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Captions available · DualShock Controller Support · DualSense Controller Support · Steam Cloud · Remote Play on TV |
| Languages | English * , Russian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 12 |
| 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: 6 GB available space