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Aliya: Timelink

TDGame Studio · Anotherindie · 2024-04-25

Steam

IndieRPG

Modes: Single player

Releases: Apr 25, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The player connects to a girl in distress in space thousands of years later? How will they resolve the crisis and discover the truth? Through the mechanism of real-time synchronization, the game breaks through the dimensional wall and creates an immersive dialogue across time and space.

44
playing now
98%
positive of 9.5k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$2.99
steam price (US)

44 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 02:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Healthy
  • · 44 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 1,232 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~154/week).
  • · Review velocity down 37% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 5% of 18,161 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 190k–428k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 9,520 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.48 at Steam (2024-09-16)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $2.99 · on sale 6 of 12 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1.0k1.0k20242026Week of 2024-04-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 81 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 93 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 350 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 262 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 491 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 675 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 997 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1,042 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 465 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 333 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 666 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 208 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 367 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 208 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 291 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 186 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 254 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 222 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 166 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 213 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 147 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 171 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 128 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 174 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 212 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 87 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

7982026-08-07 00:00 — 22 players2026-08-07 08:00 — 54 players2026-08-07 16:00 — 38 players2026-08-08 00:00 — 22 players2026-08-08 08:00 — 63 players2026-08-08 16:00 — 51 players2026-08-09 00:00 — 20 players2026-08-09 08:00 — 61 players2026-08-09 16:00 — 36 players2026-08-10 00:00 — 22 players2026-08-10 08:00 — 76 players2026-08-10 17:00 — 53 players2026-08-11 01:00 — 34 players2026-08-11 09:00 — 65 players2026-08-11 17:00 — 28 players2026-08-13 00:00 — 26 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 73 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 39 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 20 players2026-08-18 07:00 — 38 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 60 players2026-08-20 20:00 — 29 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 53 players2026-08-23 11:00 — 69 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 16 players2026-08-26 03:00 — 54 players2026-08-27 11:00 — 77 players2026-08-28 19:00 — 20 players2026-08-30 02:00 — 44 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$2.99$2.482024-04-252026-07-092024-04-25 — best price $2.692024-05-02 — best price $2.992024-06-10 — best price $2.542024-06-17 — best price $2.992024-06-27 — best price $2.512024-07-11 — best price $2.992024-07-18 — best price $2.512024-08-01 — best price $2.992024-09-16 — best price $2.482024-09-30 — best price $2.992024-11-21 — best price $2.482024-11-27 — best price $2.482024-12-04 — best price $2.992024-12-19 — best price $2.482025-01-02 — best price $2.992025-01-26 — best price $2.482025-02-01 — best price $2.992025-03-03 — best price $2.482025-03-10 — best price $2.992025-03-13 — best price $2.482025-03-20 — best price $2.992025-04-30 — best price $2.482025-05-14 — best price $2.992025-06-27 — best price $2.482025-07-10 — best price $2.992025-09-01 — best price $2.482025-09-07 — best price $2.992025-09-29 — best price $2.482025-10-06 — best price $2.992025-12-18 — best price $2.482026-01-05 — best price $2.992026-02-12 — best price $2.482026-02-25 — best price $2.992026-03-19 — best price $2.482026-03-26 — best price $2.992026-06-25 — best price $2.482026-07-09 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

5
achievements tracked
52.7%
earned "The Truth"
22.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

2 supported languages: Simplified Chinese, English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)34944%5

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

2DRPGSpaceSci-fiEmotionalWord GameMinimalistStory RichText-BasedPerma Death

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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