
Time backtracking secret room decryption game, analyze the character dialogue, find the key to decryption, complete the needs to leave the room. In the end all regret, go back to the past, looking for clues to make up for regret.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Time Manipulation, Story Rich, Time Travel, Adventure.

Time backtracking secret room decryption game, analyze the character dialogue, find the key to decryption, complete the needs to leave the room. In the end all regret, go back to the past, looking for clues to make up for regret.

Clocker
The world has been swallowed into the grey void of time and space. The only key to the winding puzzle - a time-controling pocket-watch - lies in the hands of a clockmaker Father. The watch creates a mysterious barrier between the Father and his estranged Daughter.

Eternal Threads
Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.
The world has been swallowed into the grey void of time and space. The only key to the winding puzzle - a time-controling pocket-watch - lies in the hands of a clockmaker Father. The watch creates a mysterious barrier between the Father and his estranged Daughter.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 33.6% ★, Time Travel 17.3% ★, Emotional 13.7%, Hand-drawn 11.2%, Multiple Endings 10.1%
Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 25.7% ★, Time Travel 24.8% ★, Detective 11.6%, Emotional 9.4%, Interactive Fiction 8.7%
This is a text-based deduction game. Your choices will change the development of events, make up different timelines, and lead to different endings. Your primary task is to sort out the cause-and-effect relationships between events from textual descriptions.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 26.8% ★, Time Travel 24.9% ★, Detective 15.3%, Text-Based 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%
The real world no longer exists! I was trapped in this cursed Village made of inkblots on parchment. Every day I'm stalked by an assasin and stuck in a time loop. None of the residents remember me, although I myself have memories. I need to get out of here ASAP
Why similar: Time Travel 34.4% ★, Time Manipulation 26.3% ★, Detective 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 5.6%, Mystery 5.1%
The Sexy Brutale — a never-ending masked ball featuring intrigue, murder and the (quite possibly) occult! Relive the same mysterious day where the guests at the casino mansion are being murdered by the staff over and over again...
Why similar: Time Manipulation 36.7% ★, Time Travel 32.5% ★, Detective 14.5%, Mystery 8.6%, Puzzle 7.7%
This is not what you are looking for. Who knows, he remembers.
Why similar: Time Travel 24.7% ★, Time Manipulation 21.8% ★, Emotional 12.5%, Philosophical 10.8%, Multiple Endings 7.4%
Listen closely. With hand-drawn visuals and the help of a cat named Blinky, escape Dr. Lazarus’s trap and uncover the truth buried in an audio-visual journey through the past.
Why similar: Time Travel 29.5% ★, Time Manipulation 28.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Emotional 10.3%, Hand-drawn 9.5%
Murky is a zany narrative adventure where you cast spells, solve microgames, and alter time to create parallel realities and rediscover your past while escaping a world on the brink of destruction.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 36.4% ★, Time Travel 16.2% ★, Emotional 12.3%, Hand-drawn 11.5%, Puzzle 6.1%
Find notes and clues that will lead to memories. Change the present by manipulating your past. You must save your childhood friend in order to escape the mansion of memories.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 38.5% ★, Detective 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Mystery 8.8%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
Hello Again is a time-looping adventure about mystical ruins, ancient secrets, and goofy weirdos. Play as a hapless ferret shipwrecked on a strange island, stuck inside a strange time loop. Explore forgotten ruins. Befriend silly strangers. Solve time-bound puzzles. Repeat for the rest of eternity.
Why similar: Time Travel 29.9% ★, Time Manipulation 28.1% ★, Detective 9.2%, Interactive Fiction 6.6%, Mystery 6.4%
Five days is a fully open world, no limits time travel puzzle adventure. This game isn't just a time loop of the same day on repeat, this game lets you travel between five different days. Use your knowledge of the future and ability to travel to the past to assassinate a heavily defended king.
Why similar: Time Travel 40.7% ★, Time Manipulation 36% ★, Mystery 7.4%, Exploration 6.4%, Puzzle 6.1%
You're stuck in a time loop ⌛. Whenever you find a dead body, you go back to the past. The only way to escape the loop is to cheat destiny & change the future. Explore the castle and uncover its dark secrets to prevent the next killing.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 35.1% ★, Time Travel 29.7% ★, Detective 13.8%, Mystery 7.4%, Exploration 5.9%
Quirky, top-down puzzle adventure game. You’re trapped in a 12-minute time loop. Try to save yourself and a small town from destruction from a meteorite. Solve intuitive puzzles, interact with the people of the town, and discover the secrets of the town. Discover the 15 different endings!
Why similar: Time Travel 47.4% ★, Time Manipulation 13.6% ★, Mystery 8.7%, Detective 8%, Puzzle 6.4%
Participate in the Death Game "Rising Odds", a psychological horror visual novel, with dark and gore themes. Your choices will decide how this story ends!
Why similar: Time Travel 31.8% ★, Time Manipulation 29.5% ★, Multiple Endings 10.2%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%, Text-Based 7.6%
Master time in this story-rich time-bending puzzle game. You travel back in time to be in two places at once, to solve puzzles impossible to complete alone. Your success hinges on your ability to collaborate with yourself. Can you learn to manipulate time to save humanity?
Why similar: Time Travel 44.6% ★, Time Manipulation 36% ★, Multiple Endings 6%, Logic 6%, Puzzle 5.6%
A Better World Company is hiring! We’re looking for a skilled new recruit to alter the past and reshape the future! Use our Computer to travel back in time, and make game-changing choices to make the world a better place! You decide what to do… as long as you follow our internal policies.
Why similar: Time Travel 33.2% ★, Time Manipulation 32.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Text-Based 11.5%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
Solve puzzles and uncover the secrets of Brentwood in this mysterious point-and-click adventure. The unique powers you hold will lead to moral choices that directly influence the story, the fate of the town, and which of the multiple endings you unlock. Will you follow destiny or fight against it?
Why similar: Time Travel 43.4% ★, Emotional 17.1%, Time Manipulation 12.6% ★, Hand-drawn 10.2%, Puzzle 5.8%
A puzzle game about destroying your past self.
Why similar: Time Travel 33.6% ★, Time Manipulation 33.1% ★, Multiple Endings 8.2%, Puzzle 6.2%, Logic 5.8%
「ナカノ人格移植研究所」は、周回型ミステリー2Dアドベンチャーゲームです。 それぞれの周回でプレイヤーが憑依する対象の登場人物を選択することで、その登場人物を主人公としてストーリーを進めながら謎を解き明かします。 プレイヤーは本ゲームの中で 4 つのパートを行き来しながらストーリーを進めます。 ノベルパートでは、クリックしながら物語を読み進めます。 探索パートでは、画面上のアイテムをクリックしながら物語を読み進めます。 移動パートでは、再度ビューでプレイヤーを操作し、船の中を探索します。 会議パートでは、他のパートで集めた手がかりを利用して他の登場人物と会話します。
Why similar: Time Manipulation 18.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Detective 14.8%, Text-Based 9.7%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
You're stuck in a time loop – and you have five minutes to stop it.
Why similar: Time Travel 35.7% ★, Time Manipulation 32.8% ★, Emotional 11.1%, Mystery 6.1%, Exploration 5.4%
This is a chess puzzle game where you can rewind time to any previous move, but the fate of death is unchangeable. Some pieces are unaffected by time and influence all past moves simultaneously. Use these mechanics, including reality overlap, to checkmate the king in the present or the past!
Why similar: Time Travel 53.8% ★, Time Manipulation 36.1% ★, Puzzle 7%, Casual 3.1%
TimeTrain is a simple but mind-bending puzzle game in which you create train routes through time as well as space. Tamper with temporality and cause chaos with causality across 50 brain-boggling puzzles!
Why similar: Time Travel 38.8% ★, Time Manipulation 19.6% ★, Cartoony 9.2%, Puzzle 8.9%, Logic 6.8%
A game about nurturing friendships and celebrating the changing of seasons, where you play as Sunny, a cute little tanuki with the ability to control the flow of time just by walking around.
Why similar: Time Travel 50.8% ★, Time Manipulation 42% ★, Casual 4.3%, 2D 3%
Surely one change shouldn't change everything, right?
Why similar: Time Manipulation 47.1% ★, Time Travel 46.1% ★, Multiple Endings 4.6%, 2D 2.3%
Hourturn is an atmospheric game that begins inside a large, constantly turning hourglass. You are a tiny grain of sand within it, striving to stop it and escape, but what awaits the grain of sand outside? Is this the only way to measure time?
Why similar: Time Travel 43.3% ★, Time Manipulation 24.6% ★, Mystery 8.4%, Exploration 7.9%, Puzzle 7.1%
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.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 36.6% ★, Time Travel 23.2% ★, Hand-drawn 9.3%, Puzzle 7.4%, Emotional 6.7%
A time-travel mystery visual novel about found-family, connections, and hope in dark times.
Why similar: Time Travel 46.3% ★, Emotional 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Multiple Endings 7.2%, Text-Based 7%
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.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 34.4% ★, Detective 16.6%, Emotional 16.3%, Philosophical 9.5%, Mystery 7.3%
Someone needs your help, but you don't have enough time to save her. Leap into the past to succeed, but don't trigger a time paradox. Time Riggers is a turn-based time-leap puzzle game that will challenge your spatio-temporal logic and memory.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 40.4% ★, Time Travel 40% ★, Puzzle 6.7%, Logic 6%, Stylized 4%
Rock, paper, scissors meet anime turn-based fights and time travel!
Why similar: Time Travel 32.9% ★, Time Manipulation 29% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Emotional 12.2%, Multiple Endings 9%
Just in Crime is a detective video game in which you play a detective dog and a wizard cat. With a twist; you are able to travel back in time and examine the crime scene a few seconds before it happened.
Why similar: Time Travel 40.7% ★, Detective 19.2%, Mystery 7.3%, Hand-drawn 7%, Interactive Fiction 6.9%
A dead man hired you to solve his own murder. You have one day. Fourteen suspects. And as many attempts as it takes. A hand-drawn noir mystery set in 1937 Rio de Janeiro, where every suspect has a life, a schedule, and something to hide.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 32.8% ★, Time Travel 26.7% ★, Detective 15%, Multiple Endings 9.4%, Mystery 6.3%
"After He Was Gone" is a Tactical RPG. NO level-up system. Character's skills and items will change the battle situation significantly. Collect the treasures and lead therianthropes from getting out from the world of board game. Don’t worry. If YOU don’t lose hope, we can rewind the time any time.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 37% ★, Time Travel 26.7% ★, Emotional 17.3%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Psychological 6.5%
A game about Three Pigeons in a Trench Coat stuck in a time loop until they save the world. Pretty Simple.
Why similar: Time Travel 43.1% ★, Time Manipulation 31.3% ★, Detective 15.8%, Exploration 7.2%, Mystery 2.6%
Immerse yourself in Paradox: The Breaking of Time, a top-down puzzle game where you play, create, and share challenges with a vibrant community. Solve time-based puzzles using clones to unlock doors, evade traps, and manage Time Shifts. But beware—seeing your clones triggers a Paradox!
Why similar: Time Travel 39% ★, Time Manipulation 34.3% ★, Emotional 10.2%, Mystery 6.5%, Puzzle 6.4%
Stuck in a time loop, stop the possessed captain's plans in this cooperate-with-yourself puzzle game. Record each pirate’s actions to solve puzzles, interact with adorable animal companions and get to know the brave pirate crew and the bond they share with each other!
Why similar: Time Manipulation 48% ★, Time Travel 37.2% ★, Puzzle 5.6%, Stylized 3.4%, Interactive Fiction 3%
You are a child in the machine.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 45.1% ★, Time Travel 29% ★, Puzzle 7.6%, Exploration 7.6%, Cartoony 7.5%
Lose yourself in a dreamlike journey through memory, time, and friendship. Step into the story of Arina and Frendt as you guide them across surreal islands built from cherished childhood moments. With time in your hands and wonder at your feet, explore an evocative world reimagined for VR.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 42.3% ★, Time Travel 19.3% ★, Emotional 15.6%, Puzzle 8.1%, Multiple Endings 5.3%
Set during a pandemic lockdown in France, The World After is a FMV adventure game experience that tells the story of a man who tries to uncover the truth behind his strange nightmares and the mystery of the village he's living in.
Why similar: Time Travel 32.4% ★, Time Manipulation 30.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Multiple Endings 9.3%, Mystery 7.4%
Dragon Loop is a metroidvania combining time travel and branching map design. Explore the large open world in a five day loop, opening up new worldlines. Explore a 2D, hand-drawn world, engage in fast-paced battles, and retrieve memories to shape the future.
Why similar: Time Travel 44.8% ★, Time Manipulation 35.6% ★, Hand-drawn 8.4%, Multiple Endings 4.3%, Stylized 3.6%
We Are One is a brain-bending VR puzzle-shooter with an unforgettable twist. Record and clone your actions, make time loops and bring the fight to the evils of industrialization. Master 50 meticulously crafted levels in the campaign and limitless new challenges with the Level Creator!
Why similar: Time Manipulation 37.6% ★, Time Travel 36.7% ★, Puzzle 6.6%, Hand-drawn 6.3%, Cartoony 4.8%
Use time travel to cooperate with your past self and conquer seemingly impossible puzzles. Can you craft the perfect timeline without altering history? Design your own escape.
Why similar: Time Travel 46% ★, Time Manipulation 29.4% ★, Puzzle 6.9%, Logic 6.7%, Cartoony 5.4%
Travel through time like never before! Use time-portals leading both to future and past to solve puzzles in this mind-bending platformer and finally find a way to escape the laboratory using time-rewind powers that let you switch between different timelines caused by your choices.
Why similar: Time Travel 39.4% ★, Time Manipulation 36.6% ★, Multiple Endings 10.9%, Puzzle 5.7%, Logic 4.2%
The heroine who lost her memory was trapped in a five-day loop. Connect with your partners to travel through a world with strange time changes, continue to become stronger, retrieve memories, and understand the truth. The game is a time loop Metroidvania.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 46.5% ★, Time Travel 45% ★, Hand-drawn 6.7%, 2D 1.8%
PARADOX is a puzzle-platformer about time traveling and avoiding paradoxes.
Why similar: Time Travel 44.5% ★, Time Manipulation 44.1% ★, Puzzle 7.2%, 2D 4.3%
'틱톡 가디언즈'는 한 명의 플레이어가 세 명의 캐릭터를 “동시”에 조작하는 협동 플레이의 재미를 혼자서도 경험할 수 있는 게임입니다.
Why similar: Time Travel 43.7% ★, Time Manipulation 42.8% ★, Cartoony 5.7%, Puzzle 4.3%, Casual 3.5%
Chiasm blends mind-bending time puzzles with a unique, pensive aesthetic. Learn how to work when time is flowing backwards.
Why similar: Time Travel 33.8% ★, Time Manipulation 23% ★, Hand-drawn 15.2%, Philosophical 12.2%, Puzzle 9.7%
A new mystery arises from the collision of narrative puzzle games and film noir. Investigate a film set full of catty cast and crew in order to deduce and connect their relationships. Debunk or prove those connections using evidence to unravel the mystery of what occurred and who is responsible!
Why similar: Time Travel 23.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Detective 13.5%, Emotional 13.4%, Text-Based 11%
Trapped in a deadly time loop on a remote research facility, a security officer must expose an alien imposter before the day resets. A tense, fully voiced sci-fi mystery where you are stuck in a cycle of life, death, and wrongful accusations.
Why similar: Time Travel 41.5% ★, Detective 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Mystery 10.6%, Multiple Endings 7.4%
A time-looping puzzle ballad of Ozark folk superstition. Reorder events in time to unravel the legend of a weather-making rooster.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 35.3% ★, Text-Based 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Hand-drawn 10.9%, Puzzle 6.3%
In an alternate post-war divided city, players take on the role of Detective Lucas. Use your eloquence, intelligence, the ability to rewind time (or even violence) to investigate and deduce various bizarre cases, unraveling a shocking secret behind them. Justice or love? The decision is yours.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 33.1% ★, Detective 16.8%, Emotional 13.5%, Multiple Endings 10.5%, Mystery 7.8%
You found a new opportunity to save your daughter. The authorities who learned about your situation gave you a job opportunity. You have to be successful in this job, which is your last chance, and save up for your daughter's surgery. Remember, you only have 30 days.
Why similar: Detective 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Text-Based 11.5%, Emotional 10.3%
Chronescher is a challenging turn-based puzzle game in Escher-esque spaces. Use impossible geometries, teleportation and environmental snapshots to navigate your mind and uncover your lost memories.
Why similar: Time Travel 33.7% ★, Time Manipulation 28.7% ★, Emotional 12.2%, Multiple Endings 8.4%, Puzzle 7.9%
A two time manipulation puzzle game. Two robots, Heavy and Light, have their own timelines that can independently record and rewind actions. Solve hundreds of puzzles across 12+ chapters, learning increasingly time-bending mechanics in the process.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 43.4% ★, Time Travel 40.3% ★, Puzzle 7.2%, Logic 3.3%, Casual 3.1%
Collaborate with your past self to change the present and influence the future. Only your vision affects the world.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 40.2% ★, Philosophical 13.9%, Multiple Endings 8.6%, Puzzle 7.6%, Mystery 6.3%
Run, glide, and grapple across an open world filled with floating islands. Armed with an Eye that gives you the power to rewind and accelerate time, use it to solve puzzles, fight enemies, and rescue your dragon friends.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 43.8% ★, Time Travel 41.6% ★, Puzzle 7.4%, Exploration 7.2%
Alter your past and future in this thought-provoking and edgy time travel game. Are you willing to live with the effects that your changes may cause?
Why similar: Time Travel 64.3% ★, Text-Based 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Casual 4.7%
Essence of Time is a story rich, hand-drawn RPG. Craft modular moves in a sphere grid as you build friendships, unravel mysteries, and explore timelines and their consequences during the final days of battle school. While students compete to be the next emperor, can you find a future without war?
Why similar: Time Travel 40.2% ★, Time Manipulation 26.5% ★, Hand-drawn 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Puzzle 5.4%
Use four-dimensional space-time thinking and time travel ability to eat the fish within the specified time and return to the original position, while avoiding the guards' pursuit.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 44% ★, Time Travel 34.4% ★, Logic 8%, Puzzle 7.5%, 2D 3.2%
Time Turned is a time-bending puzzle game where you use time clones to solve puzzles that would otherwise be impossible to complete alone.
Why similar: Time Travel 48.9% ★, Time Manipulation 30.6% ★, Puzzle 8.1%, 2D 4.3%, Logic 3.8%