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Meanwhile: An Interactive Comic Book

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App ID 714980
App Type Game
Developer
Publisher Zarfhome Software
Supported Systems Windows macOS Linux
Technologies Unity Engine
Last Changenumber 31486217
Last Record Update 5 October 2025 – 01:52:52 UTC ()
Release Date 17 January 2018 – 15:52:12 UTC ()
❓ 66.98%
15 reviews
0
In-Game
🧚 Choose Your Own Adventure 📚 Interactive Fiction 💬 Comic Book 🏽 2D 📚 Story Rich

An experimental mind-reading helmet, a time machine, and a doomsday device that can annihilate the human race. Which one would you like to test out first? The classic choose-your-path comic book by Jason Shiga.

Additional Information

Developer Zarfhome Software
controller_support full
DLCAvailableOnStore Yes
ReleaseState released
Publisher Zarfhome Software
Store Release Date 17 January 2018 – 15:52:23 UTC ()
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community_hub_visible Yes
Social Media https://bsky.app/profile/eblong.com
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@zarfeblong
Primary Genre Indie (23)
Store Genres Indie (23)
Steam Release Date 17 January 2018 – 15:52:12 UTC ()
Store Asset Modification Time 5 September 2024 – 16:49:07 UTC () (1725554947)
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Detected Technologies (?) Unity Engine, cURL SDK
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First seen on SteamDB 12 September 2017 – 03:54:27 UTC (), in changelist #3395094

Supported Languages

1 Languages Interface Full Audio Subtitles
English Yes

Tags

🧚 Choose Your Own Adventure 📚 Interactive Fiction 💬 Comic Book 🏽 2D 📚 Story Rich 🧞 Choices Matter 🎨 Hand-drawn ⏳ Time Travel 🗺️ Adventure 🐰 Cartoon 👤 Singleplayer 🌱 Indie

Categories

Single-player Family Sharing

Hardware Categories

Full Controller Support

Assets

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timestamp2 November 2024 – 15:12:15 UTC

Trailer 136124 ↴

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timestamp 4 December 2017 – 22:44:27 UTC

Depots

ID Configuration Size DL.
228989 Windows Shared InstallDepot from 228980VC 2022 Redist No size
714981 Windows 64-bitMeanwhile win32-x64 175.39 MiB 113.14 MiB
714983 Windows 32-bitMeanwhile win32-ia32 164.56 MiB 109.70 MiB
714984 Linux 64-bitMeanwhile linux-x64 175.40 MiB 112.16 MiB
714982 macOS Meanwhile darwin 210.27 MiB 124.64 MiB
777230 DLC 777230Meanwhile - Bonus Poster Art (777230) Depot 50.66 MiB 49.42 MiB
782680 DLC 782680Meanwhile Extra - The Case of the Missing Science Project (782680) Depot 28.60 MiB 22.88 MiB

Total size on disk is 804.88 MiB and total download size is 531.95 MiB.

Total size on disk is 339.95 MiB and total download size is 222.84 MiB, when filtered to Windows, English, no DLC depots.

Branches

Name Description Build ID Time Updated
public 20256600 5 October 2025 – 01:52:48 UTC
beta 20256600 5 October 2025 – 01:18:02 UTC
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