The Time Manipulation Zone

Games where rewinding, slowing, stopping, or bending time drives play.

Latest Standouts

Recent releases that landed well, newest first, filtered to games with enough reviews to trust the score.

Order of the Sinking Star - Players say: Explore four linked worlds as distinct heroes, solving grid-based puzzles whose rules and abilities increasingly combine. Players like: Inventive Puzzle Design · Layered Mechanics · Puzzle Variety ·
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From director Jonathan Blow (Braid, The Witness), Order of the Sinking Star is a massive puzzle adventure set in a realm of magic and enigma. Solve over 1000 interconnected, hand-crafted puzzles, discover unique playable heroes, master evolving gameplay mechanics, and decipher a grand mystery.

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Oct 8, 2026
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Chrono CCG - Players say: Build a deck of evolving agents, trade card plays with rivals, and shift persistent timelines to reshape turn-based battles. Players like: Strategic Card Combat · Timeline Shifts · Agent Transformations ·
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Chrono CCG is an indie game from genre veterans where time-traveling agents battle for control of history. Timelines shift mid-match, agents evolve, and deep strategy meets accessible play. For the community, by the community.

Theta and Paralldox on Worldlines - A lovely logical puzzle game about the many-worlds interpretation and quantum mechanics.
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Feb 3, 2026
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Retrace the Light - Dive into the immersive world of Retrace the Light, a captivating 2.5D action-adventure game centered around the "Spatial Retracing" feature. Assume the role of an Enforcer working for a super AI in a futuristic world, exploring the depths of human consciousness and healing their emotional wounds.
UnLoop - ⚠️VR-only. Your mic is recording. Your actions too.⚠️ Infiltrate a retro space station. Get trapped in a time loop. Your past copies will replay every word you said and every mistake you made. You're the team. You're also the problem.

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Gravity Field - Players say: Solve spatial puzzles in gravity-shifting rooms, walking on walls and reversing time for objects to open new routes. Players like: Original Gravity Puzzles · Time-Reversal Mechanics · Satisfying Solutions ·
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Gravity Field is a spatial-logic puzzle game with time inverted objects, with no top or bottom.

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Feb 22, 2023
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Nobody Wants to Die - Players say: In 2329 New York, Detective James Karra rewinds crime scenes and follows clues to investigate killings among the immortal elite. Players like: Noir Visual Design · Dystopian Worldbuilding · Time-Rewind Investigations ·
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Lose yourself in the dystopian world of New York, 2329; immortality comes at a price that someone has to pay. In this interactive noir story, lead the investigation using advanced technology, as Detective James Karra who risks it all in pursuit of a serial killer targeting the city’s elite.

Lucifer Within Us - Players say: As a digital exorcist in a church-run future, investigate three murders by comparing suspect timelines, evidence, and hidden motives. Players like: Timeline Deduction · Unusual Future Setting · Distinctive Visual Style ·
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Solve 3 increasingly intricate murders by examining the evidence -- find the motive, the means, and the opportunity. Use testimonies of the suspects as evidence by examining every detail for contradictions... and signs of sin. Purify the possessed. Purge the daemons.

Eternal Threads - Players say: As a time operative, explore a burned house’s seven-day past and alter its residents’ choices to save six housemates. Players like: Timeline Manipulation · Character Stories · Voice Acting ·
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Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.

Chronology - Players say: Guide an old inventor and his snail through a changing world, switching eras and freezing time to solve platforming puzzles. Players like: Time-Shift Puzzles · Charming Visual Style · Inventor-and-Snail Duo ·
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A platform-adventure game about time travelling, puzzle solving and a friendship between an Old Inventor and a Snail.

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May 12, 2014
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Twelve Minutes - Players say: A husband trapped in a 12-minute apartment loop tests actions and clues to change events and uncover why the evening keeps restarting. Players like: Time-Loop Mystery · Voice Performances · Tense Atmosphere ·
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An interactive thriller about a man trapped in a time loop. Featuring James McAvoy, Daisy Ridley, and Willem Dafoe.

Katana ZERO - Players say: As katana-wielding assassin Zero, plan lethal 2D missions, bend time through deadly fights, and piece together your past. Players like: Satisfying Fast Combat · Memorable Soundtrack · Intriguing Story ·
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Katana ZERO is a stylish neo-noir, action-platformer featuring breakneck action and instant-death combat. Slash, dash, and manipulate time to unravel your past in a beautifully brutal acrobatic display.

Hidden Gems

Well-liked but under-played: strong scores, small review counts.

MotionRec - MotionRec is a recording puzzle action game where you progress through stages by recording and playing back your own movements.
Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum - Players say: A debt-bound cybernetic corporate agent hacks, fights, sneaks, and bends time through lethal top-down missions. Players like: Flexible Mission Approaches · Creative Hacking · Build Variety ·
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Embody the ultimate cybernetic corporate agent. Master deadly gunplay, time manipulation, and supernatural abilities. Hack computers, people, even the individual bullets flying at you. Confront the future, and die trying.

her tears were my light - Players say: As Time, rewind conversations and revisit moments to shape a branching romance with Space and respond to her loneliness. Players like: Time-Rewind Storytelling · Tender Cosmic Romance · Cute Character Art ·
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a love story between time and space

Advent NEON® - Hyperactive 2D action platformer with wicked fast attacks, omnidirectional dashing, and time-freezing! Play well enough to transform and unleash 100% power!
Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo: Closure Edition - Help the cursed souls of Limbo escape their endless time loop in the afterlife. As Kulebra, a newly-deceased snake, witness their grief and guide them toward closure through point-and-click puzzles, light stealth, and empathy-driven boss encounters.
Super Puzzled Cat - Help Puzzled Cat use jetpacks, portals, bombs, gum, and more to conquer treacherous platforming stages. Play your own way using save states to explore a world full of challenges and secrets - but can you find the way through? Travel through time and space and reach enlightenment.
Loophole - A time-bending puzzle game about working with - and against - your past selves. Subvert the rules of time travel, dodge paradoxes, and find a way to escape the loop.
Time Flies - Time Flies is a little adventure about our limited time in this world.

Top Rated

Defining examples of the genre, all rated 85%+ across 1,000+ reviews.

Chrono Gear: Warden of Time - Players say: As timekeeper Ouro Kronii, slash and platform through varied stages, wield time powers, and recover gears to mend shattered timelines. Players like: Inventive Stage Design · Responsive Movement · Memorable Soundtrack ·
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Turn back the clock and fight to repair Time itself in this cinematic action platformer with fast sword combat and time-based powers. You are the Warden of Time, Ouro Kronii - be proud and fight hard!

Touhou Luna Nights - Players say: As maid Sakuya explores a strange mansion-like world, she uses time control, knives, and close-range dodges to fight through a 2D action adventure. Players like: Time-Stop Combat · Memorable Boss Fights · Detailed Pixel Art ·
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Touhou Luna Nights is a Metroidvania title with a heavy emphasis on exploration and action.  Developed by Team Ladybug, creators of multiple fantastic action games thus far.

5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel - Players say: A chess variant where moves reach into the past or parallel timelines, branching boards and reshaping the path to checkmate. Players like: Mind-Bending Chess · Clever Time Tactics · Satisfying Eureka Moments ·
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It's the first ever chess variant with spatial, temporal, and parallel dimensions. It's 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel! Move pieces back in time to create branching timelines. Send a rook to a parallel dimension. Protect your kings in the present and in the past!

No Time - Players say: Travel across Pine Island’s eras in a modifiable time machine, investigate quests, and avoid meeting your past self or Time Agents. Players like: Free Time Travel · Past-Self Encounters · Era Exploration ·
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Go on a trip through time! Experience the freedom of traveling into any date, hour and minute in time between the years 1 and 3033 AD! Help your best friend Edward in his scientific affairs! Watch out for the Time Agents & avoid yourself!

Tree Simulator 2022 - Players say: Play as a tree in a quiet forest, adjust your view and settings, and invite other players to share a multiplayer grove. Players like: Calming Atmosphere · Absurd Tree Premise · Shared Multiplayer Forest ·
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It's exactly what it sounds like, but now with 100% more multiplayer. You are the tree and so is everyone else! You are equaled by no other, except maybe the forest... Relax and be the best tree you can be.

Life is Strange - Episode 1 - Players say: A photography student discovers she can rewind time, reconnects with an old friend, and begins investigating a disappearance. Players like: Emotional Story · Max and Chloe · Memorable Soundtrack ·
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Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

Waves - Players say: Fight waves of rogue processes in a neon arena, dodging and shooting to build combos, drop bombs, and chase high scores. Players like: Addictive Score Chasing · Multiple Arcade Modes · Combo Bomb Chains ·
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Waves is an Arcade Twin-Stick Shooter that's all about High Scores. Build your combo and drop bombs in pursuit of Leaderboard dominance over seven game-modes!

The Gardens Between - Players say: Guide two childhood friends through surreal memory-islands, rewinding and advancing time to solve environmental puzzles. Players like: Creative Time Puzzles · Distinctive Diorama Art · Gentle Friendship Story ·
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The Gardens Between is a surreal puzzle adventure that follows best friends, Arina and Frendt, as they fall into a mysterious world of beautiful garden islands. Manipulate time to solve puzzles and discover the secrets of each island.

Timelie - Players say: Guide a precognitive girl and her cat through robot-guarded rooms, rewinding and previewing time to plan their escape. Players like: Timeline Rewind · Clever Puzzle Design · Girl-and-Cat Teamwork ·
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Timelie is a stealth puzzle adventure, where you control time like a media player. Perceive future events to plan your escape strategy from the past, sneak an enemy, and manipulate time through this companionship journey of a mysterious cat and a little girl with a precognitive power.

Braid - Players say: Guide Tim through painterly 2D worlds, rewinding and reshaping time to solve platform puzzles and pursue an abducted princess. Players like: Time-Bending Puzzles · Clever Level Design · Painterly Art ·
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This is the original version of Braid from 2009, which may not work well on newer systems. For an updated version of the game with nicer graphics, more levels and a large amount of developer commentary, see Braid, Anniversary Edition.

TheDawn - Players say: In an AI-ruled future, Maya fights robot forces with guns and time powers while hacker Max supports her mission. Players like: Time-Control Abilities · Satisfying Combat · Distinct Visual Style ·
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TheDawn is a third-person shooting game about the journey of Maya, the superpowers who can manipulate time, and Max, the hacker who helps her. Will they be able to save mankind and face a new dawn?

SUPERHOT - Players say: Plan each move in a first-person shooter where time advances as you act, dodging bullets and taking weapons from enemies. Players like: Time-Based Combat · Puzzle-Like Encounters · Minimalist Visual Style ·
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SUPERHOT is the smash-hit FPS where time moves only when you move. No regenerating health bars. No conveniently placed ammo drops. It's you, alone, outnumbered and outgunned. Snatch weapons from fallen enemies to shoot, slice and dodge through a truly cinematic hurricane of slow-motion bullets.

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Feb 25, 2016
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