Best Time Attack Games on Steam
Games about beating levels, laps, puzzles, or goals as quickly as possible.
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1Super Meat Boy - The infamous, tough-as-nails platformer comes to Steam with a playable Head Crab character (Steam-exclusive)!
Nov 30, 2010
In this game, you can…
- leap off walls over buzz saws and needle pits to rescue Bandage Girl from a fetus in a tuxedoed jar.
- finish a level and watch every failed attempt replay at once, until only the winning run makes it across.
- unlock and play as indie-crossover characters with totally different movement, letting you tackle the same level in a new way.
- touch a hidden portal that vanishes fast, then get thrown into a warp zone that's either three brutal stages or a character challenge.
- clear a stage with an A grade to unlock its Dark World version, then beat the same layout turned nastier.
- die, instantly restart, and be back in motion in seconds with no load screen or penalty.
- pick up a bandage by backtracking to the level's start, then still finish the stage clean to keep it.
- hit keys that delete lock blocks immediately, then ride conveyors and portals that twist the route into a different finish.
2Severed Steel - An intense single-player FPS featuring a stylish movement system, completely destructible levels, and an acclaimed OST.
Sep 17, 2021
In this game, you can…
- blast holes through walls, floors, and ceilings to make new routes mid-fight.
- run out of bullets, then punch someone and steal their gun without ever reloading.
- collapse a ceiling by shooting a support beam and drop it onto a sniper.
- go invincible while wall-running, sliding, diving, and flipping.
- shoot upside down in slow motion while mid-backflip.
- slide a riot shield guy off-balance, steal his shield, or shoot him through the eyehole.
- chain a wall-run into slow-mo headshots, somersault over a shield enemy, steal his holstered pistol, and shoot him from behind mid-air.
- play aggressively because kills restore your health and your slow-mo power.
3Motor Town: Behind The Wheel - Enjoy realistic driving in the open world. Relaxing cargo deliveries or driving buses and taxis will give you enough money to buy new cars and parts. You can test your driving skills at the race track. It's all about pure driving pleasure!
Dec 17, 2021
In this game, you can…
- deliver fuel to gas stations so gas prices drop for everyone on the server.
- deliver logs to a lumber mill so it makes planks, haul planks to a furniture factory, then see stores and new customer requests appear from that supply chain.
- run co-op coal deliveries where escort vehicles winch your loaded truck up hills, and a rotator flips you back upright when you tip over.
- chain 8 tow trucks together into one working convoy.
- pick up a hitchhiker, swap into tow work, haul a fuel tanker, run a bus route, then end the night drifting rainy mountain roads and uncharted desert back roads.
- get out to crank trailer landing legs up by hand, then later pull the hitch pin yourself to unhook.
- start a taxi ride, accept a street race mid-trip, win, and then get paid less because your passengers hated the driving.
- build a V12 Mini Cooper for a ridiculous custom car.
- set up bus or truck routes that AI workers run automatically while you collect passive income.
4100 Asian Cats - 🏮🐈 100 Asian Cats - Join the cutest adventure in the Asia! 😻 🌸 Explore the charming hand-drawn artwork of Asian temples 🏯 as you embark on a quest to find 100 adorable cats hidden throughout the game. 🕵️♂️❌ Can you find them all? 🕵️♂️🐈✅
Dec 17, 2023
In this game, you can…
- unlock an achievement for every single cat you find, complete with its own name.
- flip the whole scene between color and black-and-white to make different hidden cats pop out.
- click a cat to hear a real meow, build a combo, and watch the cat light up to mark it found.
- hunt down 100 cats hidden inside a single hand-drawn temple scene.
- zoom in and pan around until you catch a tail, paw, or cat butt blended into the background lines.
- earn a reusable hint that highlights where unfound cats are hiding once you've found enough already.
- turn on a timer mode and race to clear the entire 100-cat scene as fast as you can.
5Hot Lava - The Floor is Hot Lava! Run, jump, climb, and surf across nostalgia-packed environments flooded with hot molten lava. Explore alone, or join your friends. And whatever you do, don’t touch the floor.
Sep 19, 2019
In this game, you can…
- carry a tiny dog named Buddy to the finish by throwing him across gaps and onto platforms when he slows you down too much.
- learn a vault jump tech where dashing into an object at the exact moment gives you a huge burst of speed.
- skip checkpoints by inventing shortcuts, abusing level geometry, and sequence breaking to shave hundredths off your time trial runs.
- chain wall-runs, monkey-bar swings, pole climbs, boosts, and surf lines in first person without ever touching the lava floor.
- switch between movement abilities like double jump, slide jump, boost jumping, and vault jumping to completely change how you clear levels.
- race friends in the same lobby while everyone attempts the course in real time, turning every shortcut into a tiny duel.
- replay familiar stages with special objectives like hidden stars, golden pins, no-death clears, and exact time targets.
- watch your ghost runs and chase better lines over and over, optimizing momentum and corners like a personal time-attack puzzle.
- play community workshop maps people build and share as new routes, challenges, and speedrun playgrounds.
6Sonic CD - It’s time to usher the past into the future in this enhanced recreation of Sonic CD! Sonic travels to the distant shores of Never Lake for the once-a-year appearance of Little Planet - a mysterious world where past, present, and future collide through the power of the Time Stones that lie hidden within it.
Jan 19, 2012
In this game, you can…
- play the same stage across four versions—present, past, bad future, good future—with different layouts, enemies, music, and atmosphere.
- go into the past, hunt down hidden robot generators and hologram projectors, smash them, then return to see the future of that stage permanently cleaned up.
- race Metal Sonic while Dr. Robotnik chases you with a laser, turning an act into a full-on pursuit run.
- warp to the past or future by hitting signposts, then keeping your speed up until time snaps you into another era.
- finish a stage with 50 rings, jump into a giant ring, and enter a trippy 3D UFO hunt to win a Time Stone.
- collect all the Time Stones as an alternate path to the good ending, without doing the past cleanup in every zone.
- choose between US and Japanese soundtracks, and hear the mood of the same stage shift across past, present, and future.
7Cyber Hook - Speed through a gorgeous retrowave world using parkour skills and a grappling hook to scale and ride walls in this fast-paced, 3D platformer. Blast enemies, manipulate time and abuse physics to avoid falling to your death.
Sep 24, 2020
In this game, you can…
- hook once at the start and stay airborne for the entire level.
- download top players' replays, watch their exact path, then chase their leaderboard times.
- chain double jumps, bunny hops, wall rides, and hook-cancels to drop, regain speed, and launch again in one run.
- swing off tiny grapple points and land the next platform by a hair.
- build momentum with grapples, then whip around corners so fast you skip whole sections.
- take an off-route line through open air that cuts huge chunks of a level for a better time.
- hit restart and be back at 3-2-1-go instantly after a near-miss.
- slow time to rescue a bad swing or extend your hook reach without slowing the timer.
8100 Capitalist Cats - 🐱💼 100 Capitalist Cats - Join the cutest adventure in the Wall Street! 😻💰💵 Explore the charming hand-drawn artwork of New York, heart of Capitalism, as you embark on a quest to find 100 adorable cats hidden throughout the game. 🕵️♂️❌ Can you find them all? 🕵️♂️🐈✅
Jan 21, 2024
In this game, you can…
- hunt for 100 hidden cats in one dense Wall Street scene.
- trigger a hint that draws a cat-head-shaped circle around the right area, not the exact cat.
- turn on a timer and race the whole hunt as a 5–12 minute speedrun-style run.
- zoom way in to spot cats that are just a tail tip or tiny piece peeking out.
- watch each found cat light up and 'poof' with a meow instead of just disappearing.
- hit a late-game shift where the last stretch turns into a tense zoom-and-scan scramble.
- unlock hints only after you've found most cats, turning the final ten into a guided problem set.
- earn achievements with cat names that sound like currencies and finance terms.
9HYPER DEMON - HYPER DEMON is an FPS like no other. a pearl of lightning. a dream from the future. a drop of poison. a swan song. The faster you slay demons, the harder the game and the higher your score. There is an end. Will it see you?
Sep 19, 2022
In this game, you can…
- let a spider suck up gems until it spits out a bomb, then grab it and throw it into an enemy for an instant kill.
- hold a charge to fire lasers, then shoot your own gems to spawn homing attacks all over the arena.
- lose score every second you aren't killing, so you have to keep chaining kills to stay alive on the clock.
- see behind you with a rear-view hologram that outlines threats creeping in from your blind side.
- collect gems to power your shot, then stop shooting to stack them on your wrist into extra daggers.
- chain dashes, slides, stomps, air slams, and dagger jumps into movement routes that turn the arena into a trick line.
- hit last-second dodges that trigger slow motion, then land the kill anyway to keep your run going.
- use weird visual and audio glitches as signals, like enemy afterglow warning what's coming from behind and bass hits when you drift out of bounds.
10Trackmania United Forever - TrackMania is the most entertaining car racing game ever. Millions of players play it in single or multiplayer modes. TrackMania United Forever is the ultimate TrackMania edition thanks to the numerous additions and innovations it has to offer.
Apr 16, 2008
In this game, you can…
- hit 1000 km/h, brake in midair, and keep driving upside down
- play a mode where you're given limited blocks, build the fastest route, then have to drive the thing you just designed
- slam a wall, fly 10 meters, land on your nose, then gain 200 km/h in a second and keep going
- race other players with no collisions, so nobody can bump you off your run
- restart instantly and grind the same track for milliseconds until the perfect line finally clicks
- win multiplayer by posting your single fastest run, even if you only nail it once at the end
- build your own tracks from scratch, including an on-track guide that shows racers where to go
- push through loops, rails, ramps, and track-breakers in one continuous run without ever slowing down
