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Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure
Developer DigiTales Interactive
Between Horizons is a narrative 2.5D sci-fi detective adventure. 33 years into the Zephyr's journey, its mission is suddenly jeopardized. Can you find the culprit before it's too late? Experience an enthralling story set in a semi-open world that branches and ends based on your choices. From the Steam store page
196 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Lemmy) · newest Oct 2, 2026 · last updated Oct 9, 2026 · How this works
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84
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162 positive · 31 negative
95% range 78–88%
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Steam's own rating
Very Positive
477 of 543 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
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60 of 196 · most liked firstBecause the game doesn't let you save nor does it let you make the last choice yourself - your character does it based on your actions, not your decision - I seriously can't recommend this game. I completely disagreed with my character's choice at the end. It did not reflect how I was playing or felt. And because there's no saves - no dialogue skip, even - you'd need to do it all over again to see a different ending. **** that. And it's short as hell! (Gorgeous, good story, good characters,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There's a lot to like about this game, and it SHOULD have been a much better game. But thumbs down is the way it tilts for me because of, first, a series of obnoxious quality of life decisions made by the developers that were either deliberately bad design choices or mistakes should have been recognized as problems during QA or fixed in response to negative player feedback after release, and, second, a couple of really, really badly designed puzzles (or cases as they call them) towards the end…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is like someone wanted to make a detective game, but either didn't see how other popular games had designed their interfaces and level layouts, or, they had played them, but didn't understand the benefits of those design choices. Everything is tedious and awkward. You're running around this huge ship looking for clues. That's fine, but its a little tedious to run around back and forth. So, you add a fast travel system, but, instead of fast travel to specific locations, you travel to the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a well-made game, with great graphics and UI design. However, the idea that there are no save slots, and the game-play involved mostly running back and forth for new information really killed the enjoyment for me. I don't understand the thought process behind those decisions, besides wanting to increase time played.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Between Horizons is a great adventure game! It's well-written and the story is interesting. I heartily recommend it to anyone who likes good stories and solving cases. The story explores life aboard a generation-ship in a way that is interesting even to adults with experience of real-world societal concerns. I enjoyed the game a lot! What really makes it shine is that you can solve the puzzles just by using logic and thorough investigation. You don't need to guess what the designer was…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Between Horizons had all the ingredients to be a game I’d love: sci-fi setting, detective mechanics, player-driven case progression. Unfortunately, the execution turns what could have been a compelling space noir into a slow, tedious, and often frustrating experience. Let’s start with the most immediate issue: the loading times. They’re everywhere, and they’re BAD. Riding an elevator? 5–6 seconds of loading. Using “fast travel”? Not really. It takes you to the closest train station to your…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game if you enjoy a severe lack of quality of life features such as: - fast travel except not really. The game has fast travel points and going to a location typically means you travel to the nearest point, and walk to the room you want to go to, and sit through the same elevator/stair animations and loading screens, which don't take long, but they do add up to an excruciating amount of time over the course of the game. I suspect maybe 50% of the average players playtime will be going…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Are you wanting to fulfill your desire to play as a law enforcement officer on a spaceship in the future? Well, Between Horizons will meet that aspiration, though possibly not in a way that's satisfying. This is a game that I'd say gives a good first impression that unfortunately didn't sustain that enjoyment. You play as Stella, the daughter of the chief of security on a ship that's part of a generations long mission to send humans to a different planet to terraform and colonize because…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Disclaimer: This review will contain spoilers and include a bit of analysis. Dive into the world of Between Horizons, a thrilling sci-fi detective adventure where your choices shape the destiny of the Zephyr's inhabitants. Unravel mysteries, navigate intriguing dilemmas, and witness how your decisions alter the future of humanity. The story begins captivatingly, revealing a mystery and secrets aboard the ship. I encountered characters who harbored ideas about freedom, even though they feared…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I recommend this game and disagree with some of the complaints about the way inventory is handled and how much backtracking you have to do. I have my own complaints though. The way this game is set up is not intuitive at all. You don’t ever interact with your environment, you collect evidence/items and present them to people to get information. In one case I got a tool to get logs from some computers, There was no computer screen that popped up or anything, I just got weirdly abstract icons…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In Between Horizons, you take on the roll of Stella, head of security on a colonial starship en route to a planet on a faraway star. You need to find clues and solve cases surrounding apparent sabotage in order to complete your mission and eventually bring humanity to a new world. I found the story in Between Horizons to be pretty good overall, but after a few hours, it becomes quite clear just how dreadful the gameplay is. You'll spend the majority of your time running around the ship, going…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In this game, you are the head of security on a spaceship as it’s traveling towards a planet 100 years away to establish a colony, meaning only your grandchildren will ever reach it. It has a strong setting, but poor gameplay. The narrative and characters are weak and underdeveloped, and they are the key elements for this type of game. I particularly didn’t enjoy it much, 5/10. It’s worth to buy it on promotion if you like investigative games. Pro: Interesting sci-fi premise involving…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love mystery games. I like being able to deduce an answer, and actually have to think about why that is the answer. It's fun, it's satisfying, and it brings me joy. This is not that. Oh lord, is this not that. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3547319274 Between Horizons is a sci-fi detective story set aboard an interstellar spaceship. You play as Stella, the head of security, as she investigates increasingly disruptive activities which threaten to derail the ship's…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game has a cool premise and slick art, but playing it is a slog. The ship is slow to navigate, the UI is clunky, saves are limited, and several cases rely on guesswork rather than clear deduction. Good ideas buried under frustration. Wait for a big sale if you’re a Sci-FI fan (like me) and still curious. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3611109061 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3611529691 Unlocked all achievements!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really wanted to like this game. Sci-Fi crime mysteries? You add some time travel into that and you'd be talking about my favourite genre ever. However after seven hours without a walkthrough I come to the end a little underwhelmed. This is NOT a bad game. If Steam had a 'neutral' rating it'd be sitting there at about a 6 out of 10. - The game takes place on a generation colony ship as your character serves as the head of security. From that line alone you're more than likely able to guess…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →95% of the time, very cool! I loved LACUNA so it was great to dive back into and support this studio who do really interesting detective stories. + Really cool ship design + Intriguing cases with multiple paths and wrong / right deductions + Memorable characters and protagonist + Vibey music - The last 5% I was completely stuck and had to just walkthrough the final case guess, which sucked. I legit walked everywhere on the ship, talked to so many NPCs about so many topics and nothing…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really loved the first game that the devs made, so I was very excited to see they had made another game. However, this game took so many steps backwards. The overall story quality was just not good, Lacuna was not a masterpiece but it was at least enjoyable. I can't say the same for Between Horizons. There is just so much going on at such a fast pace that I didn't fully process everything. Lacuna had so many moments where we were just walking with our main character with his thoughts, here…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →7-8 hours when taking your time, and easy to 100% in just a few runs. The setting is interesting and pragmatic, which kept me invested. It was exciting to play a detective game locked in ironman mode while still being forgiving enough to safeguard you from bricking a save. The deductions are a comfortable difficulty that welcome some out of the box thinking without an overwhelming amount to keep track of, and choices that branch the story are few but impactful. While not revolutionary, very…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's not the same as Lacuna and I didn't feel as invested as Lacuna, but it was still pretty good.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Between Horizons is almost brilliant. It's another sci-fi detective game by the makers of Lacuna, which was also great. This time the setting is a generation ship. You play a security officer who has to investigate a series of events that seem like they might destabilize the whole community, which would likely be catastrophic given your final destination is still over 100 years away. The graphics and music are fantastic. It's mostly pixel graphics but with parallax scrolling and occasional…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not good enough. Mediocre at best. Heads up. I'm getting into spoilers. Getting to the point, the presentation is decent. The sprites look nice, but lack life. There's very few animations and almost everyone has the same default stance. 3D environments look alright, but don't have much animation in the backgrounds to make them stand out. I give praise to some of the more detailed locations and colorful visuals. The soundtrack is pleasant and varied. It never got old or was annoying. Very…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have some mixed feelings about this game. Pros: For a detective game it is pretty solid and has some really unique puzzles. I love the unusual setting and pixel graphics. Cons: The inability to manually save or have multiple save slots was really frustrating. A couple of the final puzzles were frustratingly difficult. I didn't like having to physically get out paper to draw a map to work out one of the essential cases. The answer for the final case also felt like a massive leap.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Between Horizons is a gorgeous narrative game with investigation mechanics and while it pales in comparison with Lacuna, I still recommend it. The story is well thought of and even though it leaves you wanting more, the way the game reveals the scope of the plot through every case like peeling the layers of an onion is cleverly executed. How it lets itself down, especially when compared to Lacuna, in my opinion is the amount of backtracking and running around the ship in search of this person…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →[GOG] Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure ($4.79 / 70% off). Same price on Steam and it's part of the DigiTales Detectives Bundle https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/39850/DigiTales_Detectives_Bundle/
unlabelledView post →I found the game's core narrative deeply unbelievable, which ultimately hurt my enjoyment. Even the fundamental science and internal logic of the setting felt questionable in many cases. It was especially frustrating that you couldn't use the PDA to communicate with other crew members, despite the setting being a confined generation ship.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →[Fanatical] Platinum Collection - Build your own Bundle - April 2025. Buy 3-4 games for $3.33 ea | 5-6 games for $3.00 ea | 7+ games for $2.85 ea - Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure - Bramble: The Mountain King - Bravery and Greed - Dance of Cards - Death Trick: Double Blind - DreadHaunt - King Of The Castle - Koboo: The Tree Spirit - Moons Of Darsalon - My Lovely Daughter + Reborn DLC Double Pack - Parkasaurus - SteamWorld Build - Tales from Candleforth - Terraformers - The Lord…
unlabelledView post →Well designed puzzles that escalate in difficulty as the cases grow more complex. The game offers minimal guidance in how to solve the cases which did result in me getting stumped a few times, but I actually greatly enjoyed that. It felt truly like a detective game. The story is also one I enjoyed. The twist at the end was not the one I was expecting which was a pleasant surprise! I got one ending but only solved 7/10 cases fully so I'll have to try again next run! One thing of note: The…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Overall somewhat boring, There are a few bugs in the interface, like not being able to scroll down to important bits in the comms section. And the name of the thing you're clicking on being wrong. Everything is divided up in a way that's unintuitive, looking at cases, evidence and comms here. Overall the story was meh. I'd give it a neutral rating, but not possible so I'm picking "No" to recommending it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Recommended with the caveat that this is NOT super friendly to people with ADHD or who don't like replaying a game. I thought i had the solution a couple times but it turned out to be a coinflip that i got wrong. Still, the world is great, the writing is good, and the gameplay is solid. It is a hardcore mode only game, which i think is its biggest flaw. Let people savescum. It's an accessibility issue.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure is a narrative-driven investigative game developed by DigiTales Interactive and published by Assemble Entertainment. Blending elements of classic point-and-click adventure games with a more modern investigative framework, the title places players in a complex science-fiction setting where solving mysteries is closely tied to moral judgment and narrative consequences. The game stands out for combining a structured detective system with a story that…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Generally, I want to say this is a good game, but there are a few core aspects which lead me to not rate this positively. First;y, the UI and general game-play of the game is at times cumbersome and outdated (as others have noted, so I won't expand upon it). Secondly, and this is my main issue with the game, but the writing is quite lacking for many cases and for many elements of the story. Crucially, I find that the motivations for the actions of two of the characters is at best…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This has all the ingredients of an otherwise good game, but the lack of manual saving quickly soured the experience for me. I don't enjoy stressing about getting it right on the first try. I have real life for that. If you don't mind being wrong, or repeating the game, or consulting guides, then you may not mind, but I do.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Between Horizons is a puzzle game that follows the usual pattern of combining inventory items, items in the environment, and dialogue options to solve mysteries. As with all of these games, the story is really the draw. This one is set on a generation ship during the middle of the voyage. The resulting story is decent though not especially memorable. I think someone looking for decently difficult puzzles will be satisfied with this game. They could get annoying because there's a lot of travel…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A fun little game for what it is. Not actually a point and click game despite having the tag. Instead it is a logic and deduction game where you solve cases by collecting clues and then through the process of elimination figure out the answer. There is no hunting for items and then figuring out how they work in puzzles. The game is so simple it can be easily played with a controller. Positives + The 2.5D graphics are nice and bring depth to the game. + Most of the puzzles aren't too hard and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Really excellent mystery/sci-fi game. The setting is intriguing and the central issues around which the various mysteries circulate is genuinely not black-and-white and required serious consideration. The mysteries too are solid, but set up in a way that makes them very solvable (with the exception of the server access code that I did look up). I highly recommend this.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i wish i could recommend this one, because its by no means a bad game. but it has major issues. first of all i don't feel like there is enough here, i don't mean its too short as i find it difficult to put a price tag on "time spend with media" alone...its just lacking compared to its spiritual predecessor lacuna, which does everything better somehow. feels like a step back imo, so i cant even say you'll enjoy this one if you liked that one. and then there are a lot of annoying issues like…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is just meh. Really short, the cases are too easy and lack depth and the overall story is predictable and linear. I would skip this one unless it was on a super clearance or something as there are many better adventure game options out there.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Loved the predecessor (Lacuna) and looking forward to the next one (From Ruins), but this one is... Meh. Great story premise and resolution but dreadful gameplay. I feel like the setting of a space ship is interesting but the execution makes it a slog to get to places, find the correct NPC to talk to, having to show the exact item to a person to be able to move the story forward, etc. I ended up running around this space station just talking to everyone and not finding the way forward without a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It was enjoyable enough. Not super long, took me a bit over 6 hours. Some of the solutions felt like a bit of a stretch to get to or at least were finicky with the detail. $4 on sale though it was worth it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It started out strong, but somehow lost me along the way. I took a break for a couple of days and couldn’t bring myself to play again afterwards. I think it's because exploration started to feel tedious after a while and the UI where you put together evidence and look at information is very clunky. The story also became increasingly hard to believe. The people there are essentially living in utopia and every reason given so far for the unrest feels really constructed and easily solvable. When…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I rarely, if ever, post a negative review (and this is an obligatory if they had a "maybe" or "middle" button I would do so.) Between Horizons did not live up to my expectations as an investigative game. It was a very linear visual novel with some choices for the ending. I love detective games and I was hoping this would scratch that itch - unfortunately it fell short as well as did not create a complete narrative nor tie up any loose ends. Not to mention that the game is short 3-5 hours.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →give me hints bro i am not that smart
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's hard to put this game into a box. It doesn't have the traditional puzzles or explorations of a point-and-click adventure. It isn't as verbose as a visual novel. There's hardly any player action at all. It almost qualifies as more of an interactive story. Whatever it is, I found this game completely engaging. It's the perfect length for what it is: quick enough to keep me riveted the whole time, but not so short where it cannot have depth and weight. The graphics are perfect: a simple pixel…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Recommendable game for fans of sci-fi, mystery, and roleplaying! The story is layered and a cut above; you won't see all of it coming. The one thing that bugged the hell out of me was the lack of actual fast travel; it made traversal tedious. Otherwise, thumbs up!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great adventure with a very unique art style and a thrilling story. Even better than Lacuna in my opinion. It also runs very well on the steam deck.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →On the whole, it's a good game with a few issues that I feel let it down. - Good cases - Decent cast - good puzzles - Lots of hidden secrets to pull out Bad stuff - Evidence and discussing evidence is a shambolic mess. You've got over 50 items in your evidence list with no formatting or sorting, and many of them are very similar-looking character portraits that you literally never use to discuss evidence. - The ping puzzle actually has multiple possibilities and no clear way to easily…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What would at first glance seem to be a plain adventure game actually turns out to have a lot of player agency. It's decent, though kinda short.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Loved this game. Great story. Well written. Loved the puzzles. Quick pace. No filler. Loved the last game, Lacuna as well. Loved it so much I bought this one without a second thought. Wasn't disappointed. Both games have a demo. Easy recommend.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A very interesting detective game. Each case is fun, the cases feel a bit more puzzle-like than in most detective games. The puzzle-like feel is less present as the game progresses and likely due to the game's relatively novel way of allowing you to solve a case. The game is structured similarly to a Quantic Dream or Supermassive Game where there aren't really fail states each decision, or solution to a case, directs the game toward one of its varied endings. As such even if you give the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I loved this game! A solid detective story with lots of secrets to uncover. Well-written. Probably the most annoying part was getting around (fast travel only to train stations was tough) but I eventually got the hang of it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played this and Lacuna (an earlier, similar game by DigiTales) in the span of one weekend and loved them both. Whilst they are fundamentally similar as 2D point & click detective games, Between Horizons differs in a few ways. This game is set on a spaceship instead of a planet colony, and unlike its predecessor you can roam freely (excepting some areas which become locked or unlocked by story events). Once again the gameplay consists of exploring to collect clues, interviewing people and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I enjoy almost everything about this game. Personally I always feel I'd like to know about things people noticed negatively about a game and discover the positives myself. So here are the only two things I didn't like. The game really lacks a mechanism to find out where a specific person is on the ship at any given time which in some cases means you just litterally have to just check every conceivable place they could be, workplace, public zones, residential areas. For some people like…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun Odo from ds9 simulator
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Started well, and not a terrible game, but ultimately unsatisfying and felt like a missed opportunity. The story felt underwhelming and while its themes are interesting, those weren't really explored, but instead were just used as a backdrop for the mysteries/cases to be solved. In the end they made it feel like most of the characters were very self-serving, wanting to get their own way, but in the bigger picture such control over one's life is just an illusion, so it didn't really hit home.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cool story. Great reactivity and freedom of agency but some of the puzzles are a little obtuse. There is one glaring plot hole but oh well, doesn't ruin the impact of the story much at all. Decent exploration of your role as police chief in a dictatorial system.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A fun detective game. I liked thinking through the cases and gathering evidence - in most cases, it was pretty clear how to put the pieces together. The UI and movement is clunky (why can't we just teleport to a room?) - it didn't ruin the game for me or anything, but it did detract from my enjoyment. The game is also very linear - despite the constant claim that the story would react to your choices, I never felt that was really happening. Maybe more optional dialogue that wasn't directly…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Around a quarter of the dialogues are bugged with the "missing translation" error. Therefore you are not able to see the dialogues in a dialogue-based game. This makes the game unplayable.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A good game all in all. You need to make real deductions in order to solve cases. It's not just a matter of brute forcing your way forward by trying to click randomally on stuff. I wish it was possible to go back to certain checkpoints or chapters and try to play them differently, instead of having to start the whole story again, which isn't interesting enough for me to do.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As both a huge sci-fi space opera fan and someone who's recently been getting into detective games, I was so excited when I saw this game - and it didn't disappoint. The story is so interesting and addictive, I basically couldn't put it down once I started. The puzzles are tricky but if you find enough clues you can find the answer (with the exception of the server room location - I still don't understand how to get the correct answer to that, but maybe I missed something). I loved the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fantastic atmosphere and very cool story, with quite a few ways to influence the ending. Visual and audio design are great and made it a pleasure to play! Only two points of criticism I can think of: 1) Sometimes I would've liked more clues and interactions to corroborate a case. Felt like I had to do a bit of educated guessing sometimes, and what seemed to me to be pretty obvious things to question people about wouldn't even get a response at all. 2) You do spend a lot of time running…
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