The Time Travel Zone

Games about moving through time, altered timelines, paradoxes, or historical jumps.

Latest Standouts

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

STEINS;GATE RE:BOOT - STEINS;GATE returns! Rebooted for the modern era! Featuring fully updated visuals, UI, and an all-new story that breathes new life into the streets of Akihabara.
Carpet Cleaning Simulator - Clean carpets, earn money, and grow stronger in this incremental cleaning game. Scrub, rinse, and squeegee your way to profit—before time resets and you start again.
Mosaic of the Strange - Mosaic of the Strange is a picross/minesweeper hybrid featuring ENORMOUS interlocking puzzles. Help Special Agents Cullen and Brady investigate a bizarre murder, while discovering 144 real-world paranormal case files.
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.
Rue Valley - Rue Valley is a narrative adventure about a man trapped in a time loop, surrounded by a colorful cast with complex emotional stories, each hiding unexpected secrets. Dealing with mental challenges, the main character must delve into the anomaly to uncover its enigmatic origins.

On Sale Now

Discounted 25% or more right now, limited to well-reviewed games, steepest cuts first.

Eternal Threads - Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.
Braid, Anniversary Edition - Control the flow of time to solve puzzles in this new version of the indie classic, featuring fully repainted artwork, a new world of puzzles, and seriously in-depth commentary.
BioShock Infinite - Indebted to the wrong people, with his life on the line, veteran of the U.S. Cavalry and now hired gun, Booker DeWitt has only one opportunity to wipe his slate clean. He must rescue Elizabeth, a mysterious girl imprisoned since childhood and locked up in the flying city of Columbia.
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Mar 25, 2013
93% 👍
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Broken Pieces - Broken Pieces is a psychological thriller taking place in a french coastal village somehow outside the flow of time. Solve the mysteries by putting the pieces of the story back together by figuring out the enigma behind this mystical place.
Twelve Minutes - An interactive thriller about a man trapped in a time loop. Featuring James McAvoy, Daisy Ridley, and Willem Dafoe.
Raging Loop - The feast has begun, can you escape the village alive?
Doors: Paradox - A relaxing puzzle escape game! Make your way through a variety of hand-crafted 3D dioramas, look for useful objects, find hidden clues and solve fun puzzles! Unravel this mysterious adventure about chaos, order and the surreal.
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Nov 4, 2022
91% 👍
of 2.1k
A Perfect Day - Revisit and repeat the final moments of China's turn of the century in this narrative puzzle adventure. Play a 6th-grade student and greet classmates, explore secrets, play mini-4WD, or just wander around town. Make your choices to create a perfect day for everyone!
ISLAND - Sanzenkai Setsuna awakens on the shore of isolated island Urashima with no memories of his past. Befriending three local girls, Rinne, Karen, and Sara, Setsuna's quest to discover the secrets of Urashima and how they tie into his own past - and future - begins.
Seedsow Lullaby - "My mother, my daughter, and me—three sixteen-year-olds on an extraordinary adventure."After traveling through time to meet their sixteen-year-old counterparts, three generations of women set off on an adventure through the Land of the Gods. What could await them at the end of their journey?
GNOSIA - The Gnosia lie. Pretending to be human, they’ll get in close, trick and deceive, and then eliminate one victim at a time...

Hidden Gems

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

Chrono Gear: Warden of Time - 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!
her tears were my light - a love story between time and space
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.
Chronoquartz - In Chronoquartz, every move matters! You have 10 turns per loop: explore, solve puzzles, and use your past knowledge to progress. Strategy, critical thinking, and time management will be your allies in this unique temporal adventure. Will you succeed in saving time?
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Oct 1, 2025
98% 👍
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The Holy Gosh Darn - Play as Cassiel, a foul-mouthed angel trapped in a time loop with a mission to save Heaven. Use the magical clock bestowed upon you from Death (yes, that Death, from Manual Samuel, stop asking) to jump between timelines across Heaven, Hell, Earth and Helheim to stop Heaven from going boom. Again.
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Sep 26, 2024
97% 👍
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Yet Another Killing Game - You wake up in a house, alone with two beautiful girls... But no one is allowed to leave until one of you DIES. Why is this happening? What is the purpose of this “killing game”? But most importantly...WHO SHOULD DIE?!
START AGAIN: a prologue - timeloop depression station ✦ In Stars and Time's prototype-thingy-thing
Elsinore - Elsinore is a time-looping adventure game set in the world of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Elsinore combines strong social simulation elements, a dynamic story that reacts immediately to player decisions, and a world full of diverse characters with secrets to uncover.
Justin Wack and the Big Time Hack - A cozy 2D Point & Click adventure featuring multiple playable characters and plenty of silliness. Oh, and there's time travel and relationship stuff going down too. And robots – lots of robots...

Top Rated

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

STEINS;GATE - Developed by 5pb. and Nitroplus, STEINS;GATE was awarded Famitsu magazine's coveted annual Game of Excellence award and was voted one of the most emotionally charged “tear-inducing games” ever made, in a Famitsu poll. It is a gripping and moving Visual Novel, which has already spawned manga and anime adaptations.
5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel - 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!
In Stars And Time - Live with the ever-present burden of being trapped in a time loop only you can know about in this turn-based RPG. Create a better future for you and your friends. Find hope where there is none left. Pray to the stars and free yourself from time.
Day of the Tentacle Remastered - Originally released by LucasArts in 1993 as a sequel to Ron Gilbert’s ground breaking Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle is back in a remastered edition that features all new hand-drawn, high resolution artwork, with remastered audio, music and sound effects.
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Mar 21, 2016
97% 👍
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No Time - 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!
STEINS;GATE: Linear Bounded Phenogram - A story for every lab member. Discover a new side of each STEINS;GATE character and get a glimpse of their inner thoughts through 10 new stories.
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Feb 19, 2019
97% 👍
of 1.3k
Life is Strange - Episode 1 - 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.
The Forgotten City - The Forgotten City is a narrative-driven time loop adventure in ancient Rome. Discover the ruins of an ancient underground city, travel 2000 years into the past, and unravel the mystery of who destroyed it by cleverly exploiting the power to wind back time. The fate of the city is in your hands.
Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit - Survive five nights of terror in this chilling adventure game. Travel between time periods to solve puzzles, gather clues, and outrun the threat relentlessly pursuing you. Move swiftly and stay hidden, and you may just survive. But be careful—it's not just your own life that’s on the line this time.
STEINS;GATE 0 - If you can't save the one you love… How can you save humanity? Sequel to the visual novel cult classic. Experience an alternate worldline of STEINS;GATE.
Cats in Time - A relaxing puzzle game in which you explore 3D dioramas, solve puzzles and save cats lost in time! Crazy, right?!
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Aug 26, 2021
96% 👍
of 1.4k
ASTLIBRA Revision - Confront time and fate in the 2D action RPG, Astlibra Revision. Explore meticulously crafted worlds, fight brutal boss battles, and upgrade your skills to take down enemies lurking around every corner.
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Oct 13, 2022
95% 👍
of 31k