Kill The Clock Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-11-08
- Attractive and fitting art style
- Engaging and interesting story
- Enjoyable dice-based gameplay
- Save system limitations
- Incomplete story and early access
- Poor gift-giving system
Emotions
Archetypes
- Sample precision
- Helpful reviews
- 93%
- Unhelpful reviews
- 8%
- Protest reviews
- 0%
- 84%Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
- 16%Helpful reviews with negative sentiment
- Positive points
- 252
- Negative points
- 106
- Gameplay points
- 215
- Perf. points
- 0
- Rec. points
- 34
- Misc points
- 104
| Point | Description | Importance |
|---|---|---|
Attractive and fitting art style
| The art style is repeatedly praised as beautiful, fresh, and refined, with a simple yet effective retro early-20th-century European composition. It holds up well in-game and perfectly suits the atmosphere. | 38% |
Engaging and interesting story
| The story is described as interesting, hooking players and making them curious about what happens next. The plot is good and interesting enough to dive through. | 29% |
Enjoyable dice-based gameplay
| Players find the dice system tense, fun, and engaging, with dice-rolling TRPG mechanics adding randomness and meaningful character stats. The DnD-style randomization with customizable attributes creates varied outcomes. | 27% |
Game is enjoyable overall
| Players find the game moderately fun, enjoyable, and excellent overall. The game itself is very well done. | 20% |
Compelling characters with roles
| Characters are interesting, enjoyable, and feel like they each have their own role. They are pretty and add to the overall experience. | 18% |
Time loop adds replayability
| The time-loop mechanic lets players replay the same case to find different culprits and methods, adding rich replayability. Players can travel back to identify the culprit. | 15% |
Note-taking feature for characters
| Players can add individual notes to each character and take personal notes on character pages, enhancing engagement. | 13% |
Branching choices affect story
| The game features branching choices, including ones that work off previous chapters, with the story branching continuously based on choices and their success or failure. | 10% |
Fun character customization for disguise
| Character customization for disguise was fun, allowing players to freely change the protagonist's appearance. | 10% |
Helpful daily summary at hotel
| The daily summary at the hotel lists the day's events in detail and summarizes events and next day's plans, making progression smooth. | 9% |