Times & Galaxy

There are enough comedy and fun characters to pull the story along, but getting lost with the cast of characters is the true gem here.

One of the classic draws to games as a medium is having a go at fictional jobs like wizard, space salvager, or landlord. This week I've been playing Times & Galaxy, a kinda silly but absorbing visual novel game about a sci fi concept called "journalism". It's good!

I appreciate that Times and Galaxy is a very different vision of what a game can attempt to do. It reminds me of the games I used to play on the Apple ][ in my school library, where the idea was to teach lateral thinking. But while I enjoy the weird idea, a new mechanic, time-wasting NPCs, and game-ending bugs simply make for a bad front page.

Mixing together elements of classic adventures, mysteries, and story-telling, it has some appeal

Times & Galaxy feels like it blends what you’d expect from adventure games with a sort of newspaper management simulation.