Times and Galaxy (v1.13.5060.0)

A rookie robot reporter gets seventeen cycles to prove it belongs aboard the Scanner, a ramshackle newsroom ship serving the strange Dorp system. Times and Galaxy turns the everyday work of local journalism into a lively narrative adventure, sending you after stories ranging from shuttle accidents to extraterrestrial cat competitions and ghostly memorials. Its sci-fi setting is colorful rather than grim, packed with oddball species, workplace friction, and the kind of low-stakes absurdity that can suddenly reveal a serious human—or robotic—truth. The tone lands somewhere between a workplace sitcom, a detective story, and an interactive comic about trying to meet deadline.

Each cycle begins by choosing an assignment, then flying out to interview witnesses, inspect scenes, pursue leads, and decide how far to push people for information. Conversations form the heart of the experience: sources remember your behavior, trust can be earned or squandered, and the details you uncover determine what material reaches your final article. The Build-a-Story system lets you assemble a report from collected facts, selecting its angle and tone rather than simply picking one obvious “correct” ending. Editors, readers, and colleagues react to your coverage over time, while the paper’s reputation reflects the cumulative effect of your reporting choices.

What makes the game stand out is its insistence that writing the story matters as much as finding it. Instead of treating dialogue as a route to the next quest marker, it asks players to weigh accuracy, sensitivity, drama, and the consequences of framing a story one way instead of another. Between assignments, the Scanner functions as a social hub where more than twenty crew members develop through optional conversations, creating a newsroom worth returning to. Fans of narrative choice games such as Oxenfree, Night in the Woods, or Citizen Sleeper should find plenty to enjoy, especially if they want a gentler, funnier take on investigative storytelling rather than combat or traditional puzzle solving.