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.

Gawr Gura: Quest for Bread - Embark on a journey to reunite with your bread in this bite-sized 3D action-platformer featuring everyone's favorite shark!
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Aug 27, 2026
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Whirlight - No Time To Trip - In the heart of Verice Bay, a brilliant idea takes shape in the hands of an eccentric inventor and an eclectic artist. Follow Margaret and Hector in a point-and-click graphic adventure that will take you to the edge of space and time to help them avert imminent danger.
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May 14, 2026
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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.

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Cybernetic Fault - Players say: As an inept scientist in a failing research complex, investigate an experiment gone wrong by exploring, fixing systems, and solving puzzles. Players like: Sci-Fi Atmosphere · Absurd Humor · Interesting Puzzles ·
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Prove your ability to read names next to the big red buttons! Show your ability to fight for life in a science center that is falling apart from the consequences of an insane scientific experiment!

Pesterquest - Players say: Play the MSPA Reader in 14 episodic visual novels, traveling between Earth and Alternia to reconnect with Homestuck characters. Players like: Character Development · Homestuck Callbacks · Absurd Humor ·
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Embark on a quest of epic importance in Pesterquest, a grimsical episodic visual novel adventure set in the darkly funny Homestuck / Hiveswap universe, created by American author and artist Andrew Hussie.

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Sep 4, 2019
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Life is Strange Remastered - Players say: Photography student Max can rewind time; with her estranged friend Chloe, she investigates a classmate’s disappearance in Arcadia Bay. Players like: Emotional Story · Memorable Characters · Meaningful Choices ·
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Experience the BAFTA award-winning story of Life is Strange now beautifully remastered with enhanced visuals and vastly improved animation using mocap technology.

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.

Time Warpers - Players say: Ride a hover bike through enemy waves in an incremental FPS, building weapon perks and upgrades across repeated runs. Players like: Satisfying Upgrade Loop · Fast Early Progress · Shooter-Clicker Mix ·
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Time Warpers is the evolution of the popular incremental game Time Clickers. With features like gun customization, optional permadeath & co-op with friends, it combines a first person shooter with the seemingly endless progression & upgrades of a clicker game.

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Jan 16, 2020
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Broken Pieces - Players say: As Elise, investigate a time-displaced French coastal village, solving puzzles and planning each day before nightfall. Players like: Eerie Village Atmosphere · Engaging Puzzles · Cassette-Tape Storytelling ·
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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 - 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.

Kraken Academy!! - Players say: A new student uses a Kraken-given time-rewinding amulet to explore a bizarre school, solve club quests, and avert disaster. Players like: Offbeat Humor · Quirky Characters · Time-Loop Story ·
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Make friends, free spirits and make sure that the world doesn’t end! Welcome to Kraken Academy, a technicolor fever dream that for legal reasons can only be described as "technically a school." Join forces with a magical kraken to save the world!

ISLAND - Players say: An amnesiac who claims to be a time traveler befriends three islanders and follows branching stories to uncover Urashima's secrets. Players like: Plot Twists · Layered Mystery · Emotional Story ·
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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 - Players say: A teen reunites with her sixteen-year-old mother and daughter to journey through a mythic realm in a linear visual novel. Players like: Family Relationships · Emotional Storytelling · Cinematic Presentation ·
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"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?

A Tower Full of Cats - Players say: Climb a tower spanning history and beyond, finding more than 1,400 hidden cats while uncovering secrets and side quests. Players like: Cute Cat Artwork · Relaxing Search · Historical Era Variety ·
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A Tower Full of Cats is a hidden object game where you need to gather cats through the whole history of catkind... and beyond!

Old Skies - Players say: As ChronoZen agent Fia Quinn, escort clients through New York’s past, solve point-and-click puzzles, and navigate timeline shifts. Players like: Emotional Character Story · Thoughtful Time Travel · Strong Voice Acting ·
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A time travel adventure spanning two hundred years! Dive into the past with time agent Fia Quinn as she embarks on seven trips through time. History is up for grabs, from the speakeasies of Prohibition to the vicious gangs of the Gilded Age to the World Trade Center on September 10, 2001.

Hidden Gems

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

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

Chronoquartz - Players say: Plan ten-turn loops, explore a world under threat, and use what you learn in each reset to solve puzzles and move forward. Players like: Satisfying Puzzle Reveals · Ten-Turn Loop Design · Logical Puzzle Solutions ·
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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
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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.
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 - Players say: As Siffrin, relive a doomed castle quest, exploring with companions and fighting turn-based battles while seeking a way out. Players like: Emotional Story · Character Writing · Time-Loop Themes ·
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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.
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
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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...
Rail of Möbius - It is an adventure game with multiple endings. An original script written by a well-known light novelist with a total of 400,000 words. With reasoning, suspense, love, and science fiction elements, it allows players to embark on a highly immersive journey of salvation on the submarine train.

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!

STEINS;GATE - Players say: Guide a student inventor and his labmates through a time-travel mystery using a microwave and choices made on a phone. Players like: Emotional Story Payoff · Memorable Character Development · Time-Travel Mystery ·
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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 - 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!

In Stars And Time - Players say: Only Siffrin remembers each reset as the party repeats its quest to stop a king, exploring, solving puzzles, and battling foes. Players like: Emotional Story · Memorable Characters · Clever Time Loop ·
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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 - Players say: Guide three friends stranded in different eras through a point-and-click puzzle adventure to stop a world-threatening tentacle. Players like: Absurd, Witty Humor · Time-Bending Puzzles · Memorable Characters ·
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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
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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!

STEINS;GATE: Linear Bounded Phenogram - Players say: Read Steins;Gate side stories from the lab members’ perspectives as alternate timelines reveal their private struggles. Players like: Fresh Character Perspectives · Emotional Side Stories · Expanded Character Backstories ·
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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
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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.

The Forgotten City - Players say: Investigate an ancient Roman city bound by a deadly rule, using a time loop to uncover its mystery and change events. Players like: Compelling Story · Engaging Mystery · Time-Loop Progression ·
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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 - Players say: As Oswald, cross a ball pit into a past pizzeria, solving clues and evading a pursuing animatronic across five nights. Players like: Detailed Pixel Art · Eerie Atmosphere · Story Adaptation ·
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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 - Players say: In an alternate timeline after failing to save Kurisu, Okabe faces AI and time-travel threats in a branching visual novel. Players like: Emotional Storytelling · Expanded Character Arcs · Strong Soundtrack ·
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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 - Players say: Travel through time-themed 3D dioramas, solve small environmental puzzles, and find cats hidden in each scene. Players like: Cute Cats and Scenes · Relaxing Low-Pressure Play · Approachable Puzzles ·
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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
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