TSUMIMI TIME Release: Price, Date & Steam Details

Everything about buying this game fits in one paragraph: it is a single-purchase Windows game at $17.99 list, currently discounted 20% to $14.39 in the US and ¥1,584 in Japan, with no in-game currency, no season pass, and no codes to redeem. The demo is free and separate. The rest of this page is about the parts people get wrong — which edition includes what, whether the demo progress carries over, and why "is it free" has a two-part answer.

Source note: Prices and the discount percentage below are read from Steam's store API for AppID 4413070 on 24 October 2026 and stored in this repository. A discount that started after that reading will not appear here until the next sample. Platform and system requirements are quoted from the store listing.

Which page answers your question

Five pages, one per question people actually arrive with. The order below is the order the questions get asked, not the order the pages were written in.

The last row is the one that generates the most confusion, because "global edition" sounds like a content difference and is not one.

Price and versions, sortable

Two store entries exist: the game itself, and a bundle that pairs it with MiSide. There is no deluxe edition, no soundtrack DLC and no cosmetic pack, so "which version should I buy" collapses to "do you want MiSide too".

The last two rows are there on purpose. A lot of buying-intent traffic on new releases is people looking for an edition that does not exist, and answering "there isn't one" is more useful than staying silent.

Is the game free?

No, and also partly yes. That sounds evasive, so here is the split.

• The full game is paid. $17.99 list, $14.39 at the time of writing. There is no free-to-play mode, no ad-supported build and no trial chapter inside the paid app.
• The demo is free and separate. It is its own Steam app, released 7 June 2026, and it is not a time-limited slice — it is a standalone build. Saves do not carry into the full release; see demo save missing.
• There are no codes. This is a buy-to-play single-player game. It has no redeem-code system, so any page offering "TSUMIMI TIME codes" is either guessing or generating traffic from a mechanic that does not exist.

The price page breaks the discount down by region and the free page covers what "free" does and does not include.

Release timeline

The 1.0.1 patch changed the economy, which matters more than it sounds: every money-related guide published on launch day is now slightly pessimistic. If a page tells you the early game is brutal, check whether it was written before 23 October. Our own pages were re-verified after the patch.

What you actually get for the money

One 15-day playthrough is short. Nine endings are the reason the price holds up — the branch structure means a second run is a different set of scenes rather than the same text with a different closing card. If you are weighing it up against a shorter visual novel, the honest comparison is "how many hours until you have seen four endings", not "how many hours is one run".

The gameplay page explains what the loop actually consists of, which is the missing half of any value judgement.

Platform and requirements

Windows only. There is no macOS build, no Linux build and no console release we could verify, so a Steam Deck install is running the Windows build.

The requirement list is modest because the game is mostly 2D art and text. Anything that can run a modern browser will run this.

The questions buyers ask next

Price is rarely the only thing someone wants to know before spending money on a fifteen-day game. These are the four that come up most, with the page that answers each.

One question has no page because it has no answer: whether the price will drop further. We do not forecast discounts. What we can do is keep a dated record of the price we observed, which lives on the player count page alongside the sampling details — so if you come back in a week, you can see whether anything actually moved rather than trusting a memory.

How the money side connects to the guide

An oddity of this game is that its in-game economy and its real price get confused in coverage. They are unrelated. The $14.39 you pay has nothing to do with the starting funds your character receives, and the 1.0.1 patch that raised the latter did not touch the former.

That distinction matters because it explains a specific kind of bad advice. A launch-day guide saying "the early game is brutally tight on money" was accurate before 23 October and is now overstated. The walkthrough was re-checked after the patch; anything you read elsewhere may not have been. If a page does not carry a date, assume it predates the fix.

The same logic applies to gifts: the deadline that ends a run has nothing to do with how much the game cost you. The gift calculator handles the only arithmetic that actually ends runs, and the troubleshooting index covers what to do when a delivery silently fails. For the story side of the purchase decision, the story section and the character pages are the spoiler-light entry points.

Quick index

The pages below cover everything a buyer tends to check after the price.

• All nine endings — what the purchase actually contains
• How long a run lasts — loop length, honestly
• Achievement rates — a proxy for how much content people finish
• Availability record — dated, so you can tell whether the listing changed
• Story overview — spoiler-labelled, safe before buying
• Demo comparison — what the free build shows and hides
• Community section — what the negative reviews actually say
• Open questions — the gaps we would rather admit than fill

Where to buy, and what to avoid

Buy it on Steam. There is one storefront, one price, and no regional keys to hunt. We do not link to key resellers: for a game this cheap, the risk of a revoked key costs more than the few dollars saved.

Before you buy, two pages are worth two minutes. The Steam page notes cover the store-side details a buyer should check, including language support. The global edition page explains what differs between the Japanese and international releases, which is the one question the store page does not answer clearly.

If you want to know whether people are still playing before you spend, the live player count shows today's number with its sample window, and the availability page records whether the game is still purchasable, with dates.