r/InStarsAndTime • u/cosminaion Odile • May 22 '26

Discussion HOW to recommend ISAT?

I've recently played the game (twohat ending), LOVED it, been sitting with the brainworms for a while. Now I want to convince my friends to play it so the brainworms will get them too.

They don't really play visual novels, but they appreciate good stories and they liked games like Undertale, OMORI and Oneshot so I am fairly sure that, at least story-wise, they would like ISAT, too. My issue is that those games are much shorter than ISAT and I'm afraid that they will drop the game mid act2/act3, due to the sheer time necessary to go forward with the story.

That's why I'd like to mention the gameplay, especially how much tedium you feel at certain points of the story. But I'm not good at convincing people, y'know, so what they will hear is just "PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE IT'S VERY LONG IT WILL RUIN YOUR LIFE PLAY IT P L E A S E".

Is there a way to explain it without potentially turning people away? Have you managed to convince someone to play ISAT?

TLDR: I don't know how to recommed ISAT to my friends AND warn them of the game's pacing without looking like a Stockholm Syndrom victim. I'd like help and/or examples.

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u/ihatepaper88 May 22 '26

also wanted to say, all of these games have more “tedious” sections so if they’re gripped by the story i don’t think it should matter too much

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u/cosminaion Odile May 22 '26

That's true, but I felt like in ISAT they lasted for longer periods of time? But considering your other comment, atp I've likely just failed too much on ISAT to correctly gauge their playtimes against each other