In Between All Times (v2025.10.07)

An empty Creative Writing Club room becomes the unlikely centre of a quiet science-fiction drama about deadlines, doubt, and the need to make something meaningful before university ends. In Between All Times follows a final-year student on a campus suspended among the stars, where the pressure of graduation feels as alienating as the setting itself. His routine changes when Byeol, a mysterious ghost, appears in the room and draws him into a shared effort to finish a short story. The tone is reflective and melancholy, but the relationship at its core gives the cosmic loneliness a warm, human edge.

As a kinetic visual novel, the experience is built around reading, observing scenes, and following its narrative without dialogue choices, alternate routes, or puzzle systems. Players move through a linear story focused on the protagonist’s creative paralysis, uncertain identity, and evolving bond with Byeol. Rather than asking for mechanical mastery, it asks for attention: campus conversations, private anxieties, and moments of artistic inspiration carry the momentum. The lack of branching may limit replay value for players who expect multiple endings, but it also lets the developers control the pacing like a short film or carefully edited comic.

Its strongest feature is the presentation, which mixes illustrated CG scenes with comic-book framing and motion graphics instead of relying solely on static character portraits. The futuristic university is not a hard-science playground; it functions more as a surreal mirror for the confusing transition between student life and adulthood. Studio Elysian’s background in film, comics, and music-video production shows in the visual rhythm and cinematic ambition. Fans of intimate, linear visual novels such as A Space for the Unbound or Florence, especially those who enjoy stories about art and self-discovery, are likely to get the most from it.