# Meanwhile: An Interactive Comic Book

Summer DB entity ID: 5f80eb75\-c2dc\-4ae0\-8c5e\-22a17bdf1fdd

Steam App ID: 714980

On the way home from the ice cream store, little Jimmy discovers a mad scientist’s wonderland: 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?   Meanwhile  is a comic, but not an ordinary comic\. Follow the paths from panel to panel\. Where the path divides, you decide where to go next\! A thrilling tale of quantum mechanics and self\-discovery with 3,856 story possibilities\.  This is a faithful adaptation of Jason Shiga’s classic choose\-your\-path comic book \(originally published in hardcover in 2010\)\. Our goal is not to make the comic “more interactive”, but to present the interactivity inherent in the story\. We have not attempted to turn the book into an adventure game\. There are no puzzles – except for your understanding of the story, which is entirely up to you\. Just as in a physical book, you are free to browse around, or even jump straight to the end if you want\.  The electronic medium allows us to improve on the book in one way: we can take advantage of Scott McCloud’s “infinite canvas” principle\. Jason has reformatted the book’s pages and tabs into a single enormous spread, in which the story flows in every direction at once\.  But what  did  happen to little Jimmy?

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: Zarfhome Software

- Publisher: Zarfhome Software

- Release date: Jan 17, 2018

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: false

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

- Genres: Indie

- Categories: Single\-player, Full controller support, Family Sharing

- Platforms: windows, mac, linux

- Website: Not collected

- Screenshots: https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/714980/ss\_446d8a7ab9b943296e5511117e459323239e72f9\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1730560335, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/714980/ss\_61734724afb39af293006a80a4859e4dce9bc143\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1730560335, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/714980/ss\_4fe5fafc3fed7a5cec121983a8fd47767f7df7e2\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1730560335, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/714980/ss\_18ca0fdccdcb5f9f57a722ad017f36659d1706e0\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1730560335, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/714980/ss\_d2c1b3ec50ce6ad477ca0e8593948815d2fa78f0\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1730560335

- Price: 999 minor units USD; discount 0%

- Price country: US

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 0

- Steam review count: 16

- Steam positive reviews: 13

- Steam negative reviews: 3

- Steam positive percentage: 81.25%

- Summer DB rating: No native votes

Review filters: \{"language":"all","review\_type":"all","purchase\_type":"all","filter\_offtopic\_activity":0\}

## Player history

[Seven-day chart data as Markdown](/api/v1/entities/5f80eb75-c2dc-4ae0-8c5e-22a17bdf1fdd/player-metrics?days=7&format=markdown) · [JSON](/api/v1/entities/5f80eb75-c2dc-4ae0-8c5e-22a17bdf1fdd/player-metrics?days=7)

Chart values are hourly observed maxima. The sampled 24-hour peak and missing intervals carry explicit coverage; history before collection is unknown.

## Sources and freshness

- Catalog membership: store\_catalog

- Catalog observed: 2026\-09\-24T19:57:04\.362365\+00:00

- Details observed: 2026\-09\-23T03:52:59\.690711\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-23T03:53:01\.001973\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-23T03:53:00\.674268\+00:00

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Steam reviews are not Summer DB votes. Missing data is not zero. Player counts are observations, not historical peaks. A supplemental record does not establish that a game was delisted.

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