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60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Puzzle Platformer, Adventure, Indie, Singleplayer.

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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.

Reviews: Very Positive — 83% — of 283 reviews
Released: 2019-02-14
Developer: Wild Kid Games
Publisher: indienova
Genres: Adventure, Indie, RPG
Platforms: Windows, Mac
Median playtime: 3.3 hrs
Mean playtime: 5.5 hrs
Players ≥ 1 hr: 88%

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  2. #2 Chronology
    96% matchVery Positive87% of 986 reviews2014
    Dev: Bedtime Digital Games
    Windows
    Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    A platform-adventure game about time travelling, puzzle solving and a friendship between an Old Inventor and a Snail.

    Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 34.7%, Time Manipulation 25.1%, Platformer 9.8%, Time Travel 9.2%, Puzzle 8.5%

  3. #3 The Watchmaker
    96% matchMixed49% of 81 reviews2018
    Dev: Micropsia Games SpA
    Windows
    Median: 18 minMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 35%

    The Watchmaker is an action adventure set in a strange steampunk world of giant clock mechanisms, where time has gone mad. Join Alexander, a clock tower keeper, on his quest to restore time to its natural rhythm!

    Why similar: Time Manipulation 38.1%, Puzzle Platformer 26.2%, Puzzle 11.3%, Platformer 9.8%, Adventure 7.7%

  4. #4 Chronescher
    94% matchVery Positive86% of 58 reviews2022
    Dev: PurpleSloth
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    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 Manipulation 31.6%, Time Travel 16.8%, Puzzle Platformer 14.8%, Emotional 12.4%, Multiple Endings 9.4%

  5. #5 Clockwork
    95% matchMixed61% of 76 reviews2016
    Dev: Gamesoft
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 95%

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    Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 79.5%, Adventure 11%, Indie 9.4%

  6. #6 Arise: A Simple Story
    94% matchVery Positive92% of 2,975 reviews2020
    Dev: Piccolo StudioPub: Untold Tales
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    Embark on an emotional journey of losing the love of one's life. Manipulate time, solve puzzles, reshape surroundings as you push forward into the bittersweet recollections of a past life. This is a story about happiness and hardship, joy and sorrow. A story that all of us will one day experience.

    Why similar: Time Manipulation 38.2%, Puzzle Platformer 17.6%, Emotional 16.4%, Platformer 6.8%, Drama 6.6%

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    93% matchMixed56% of 402 reviews2020
    Dev: One More Dream StudiosPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
    Windows
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    Ageless is a story driven puzzle platformer where you must alter the age of animals and plant life around you to progress. Play as Kiara, a young girl who braves through heartache and loss as she journeys across a mysterious world to discovers its secrets and herself.

    Why similar: Time Manipulation 25.7%, Puzzle Platformer 21.3%, Emotional 10.5%, Platformer 8.9%, 2D Platformer 7.2%

  8. #8 In His Time
    91% matchVery Positive86% of 51 reviews2023
    Dev: TearyHand StudioPub: Kodansha
    Windows · Mac

    Enter the hauntingly beautiful shadow world of In His Time, a 2D puzzle-solving adventure game. There you will meet Olly and join him to solve puzzles throughout each step of his emotional journey of growth and self-discovery.

    Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 33.3%, Platformer 10.7%, Drama 10.1%, Story Rich 9.1%, 2D Platformer 8.7%

  9. #9 Lost Words: Beyond the Page
    91% matchVery Positive95% of 823 reviews2021
    Dev: Sketchbook DevelopmentsPub: Sketchbook Games
    Windows
    Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    A short, fully voiced, story-first adventure across two worlds. Rearrange words into platforms in Izzy’s diary, then wield word magic to shape your path in the fantasy she writes. Gentle puzzles, watercolour wonder, and a bittersweet story of family, loss, and healing.

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    89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 2,877 reviews2022
    Dev: Starbeings Studio
    Windows

    Pages of Time: Prologue is a 2D platformer puzzle game. Play as the witch who controls the magic of time, in a beautiful and magnificent magic academy, utilize the skills of recording and rewinding time, solve all kinds of puzzles, and look forward to the adventure of the future.

    Why similar: Hand-drawn 18.2%, Puzzle Platformer 17.6%, 2D Platformer 11.5%, Puzzle 11%, RPG 8.4%

  11. #11 Tyd wag vir Niemand (Time waits for Nobody)
    89% matchMixed57% of 91 reviews2017
    Dev: Skobbejak GamesPub: Skermunkel
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    Manipulate time to your will at any moment to solve challenges, avoid deadly traps and make it to the end of this strange journey.

    Why similar: Indie 48.5%, Adventure 46%, Singleplayer 5.4%

  12. #12 Time Master
    86% matchVery Positive96% of 74 reviews2022
    Dev: MorpheusZ
    Windows · Linux

    Zeno has accidentally banished his sister, so what now? Create paradoxes to help him complete trials and bring her back, obviously. Take on a wide variety of puzzles while collaborating with your past self and experiencing a fully-voiced cinematic story as you help Zeno bring her back.

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  13. #13 The Inner Darkness
    88% matchMostly Positive73% of 107 reviews2017
    Dev: Nauris Amatnieks
    Windows
    Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    A lone man's journey through a strange world. Dimension switching mechanic - switch between the dimensions to traverse the world and solve puzzles.

    Why similar: Time Manipulation 48.5%, Puzzle Platformer 23%, Puzzle 8.6%, Retro 7.9%, Platformer 6.3%

  14. #14 YesterMorrow
    87% matchMixed68% of 65 reviews2020
    Dev: Bitmap GalaxyPub: Blowfish Studios
    Windows

    YesterMorrow is a single-player time travelling 2D platformer, mixing action sequences with puzzle elements. Follow the engaging story of Yui, who travels back into the past to save her family and the remnants of a world now trapped in Never-ending Night.

    Why similar: Time Travel 17.1%, Platformer 16.8%, Puzzle Platformer 15.9%, Adventure 15.7%, Indie 14.2%

  15. #15 Super Puzzled Cat
    84% matchVery Positive98% of 192 reviews2025
    Dev: Penguin Mug Games
    Windows

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    85% matchVery Positive90% of 390 reviews2021
    Dev: Cyberwave
    Windows

    In Hourglass you can create a time-clone of yourself to solve challenging puzzles. You will play as Aywa, a young adventurer who is traveling to Egypt to find her missing father - an archeologist, who never returned from his latest expedition.

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    84% matchVery Positive100% of 52 reviews2024
    Dev: Starworks Studios
    Windows

    Timeworks is a time-traveling 3D puzzle platformer with a bouncy cartoon style. Work along past versions of yourself to solve puzzles, create unique Items, and fill out your quotas for your mysterious employers.

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    Windows
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%

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  19. #19 The Gardens Between
    83% matchVery Positive94% of 2,728 reviews2018
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
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    82% matchVery Positive85% of 1,802 reviews2022
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    Windows · Mac
    Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%

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    82% matchVery Positive94% of 193 reviews2020
    Dev: Stone Lantern GamesPub: PQube
    Windows
    Median: 36 minMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 40%

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  22. #22 Carto
    81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 9,158 reviews2020
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    Windows · Mac
    Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%

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  23. #23 Timespinner
    81% matchVery Positive86% of 3,099 reviews2018
    Dev: Lunar Ray GamesPub: Chucklefish
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    Travel back in time to change fate itself, in this beautifully crafted story-driven adventure, inspired by classic 90s action-platformers. Join timekeeper Lunais on her quest for revenge against the empire that killed her family, using time-bending powers to explore a vast, connected world.

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  24. #24 Eternal Threads
    80% matchVery Positive86% of 817 reviews2022
    Dev: Cosmonaut StudiosPub: Secret Mode
    Windows
    Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 58%

    Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.

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    77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 18,750 reviews2021
    Dev: Hello Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 83%

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    Why similar: Emotional 28.3%, Puzzle Platformer 23.8%, Puzzle 16.1%, Story Rich 9.8%, Cute 8.1%

  26. #26 Souls of Chronos
    79% matchMostly Positive79% of 165 reviews2023
    Dev: FUTU StudioPub: Astrolabe Games
    Windows

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  27. #27 Braid, Anniversary Edition
    77% matchVery Positive93% of 1,697 reviews2024
    Dev: Thekla, Inc.
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 54%

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  28. #28 Once Again
    78% matchVery Positive91% of 1,001 reviews2022
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    Windows · Mac
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    79% matchVery Positive95% of 135 reviews2021
    Dev: Sokpop Collective
    Windows · Mac

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    75% matchVery Positive99% of 437 reviews2025
    Dev: Infinite Stairs
    Windows

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  31. #31 Tick Hop
    76% matchVery Positive80% of 197 reviews2025
    Dev: 小磊又饿又困
    Windows

    "Tick Hop" is a time-based puzzle platformer where players control the Guardian of Time. Navigate through levels made of time fragments, solving challenges and unlocking the past to restore the future. Manage a dynamic countdown and use time-altering items to overcome obstacles.

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    78% matchMostly Positive77% of 989 reviews2018
    Dev: Mazen GamesPub: GrabTheGames
    Windows
    Median: 48 minMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 47%

    OneShift is a puzzle platformer where the player has the ability to freeze/unfreeze time and shift through worlds to collect blue cubes. But only one world can be active at a time. Later in the game, a world rotating mechanic is unveiled, which makes everything more complex!

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  33. #33 Chrono Recorder
    76% matchMostly Positive75% of 68 reviews2024
    Dev: ChronoGames
    Windows

    "ChronoRecorder" is a 3D puzzle game. Players can manipulate time and gravity. And you have to use that ability to solve problems. You might think this game is difficult if you don't use your brain.

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  34. #34 Chronigma
    72% matchNo user reviews100% of 286 reviews2025
    Dev: C3BGames
    Windows · Mac

    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?

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  35. #35 Read Clock Time
    75% matchVery Positive90% of 61 reviews2022
    Dev: Five Percents
    Windows

    Everyone knows the dial of a mechanical watch, but sometimes the position of the hands makes you wonder!?

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  36. #36 Reviver
    73% matchVery Positive92% of 217 reviews2025
    Dev: Cotton Game
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%

    A narrative puzzle game with themes of love, fate and time. Follow the life stories of the two main characters and influence their destinies through interactions and choices. The game combines hand-drawn style and an immersive interactive experience to explore a profound journey of love and choice.

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  37. #37 Timelie
    73% matchVery Positive94% of 2,501 reviews2020
    Dev: Urnique Studio
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    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.

    Why similar: Time Manipulation 50.9%, Puzzle Platformer 25.8%, Puzzle 9.6%, Cute 5.5%, Adventure 3.6%

  38. #38 Aarik And The Ruined Kingdom
    73% matchVery Positive93% of 72 reviews2024
    Dev: Shatterproof Games
    Windows · Mac

    Guide Aarik through wreck and ruin in this relaxing perspective puzzle adventure where the puzzle is your environment. Using your fathers crown repair, rework and rewind to mend your broken world.

    Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 49.1%, Puzzle 22.5%, Cute 13.2%, Adventure 9.6%, Indie 3.7%

  39. #39 OneShot
    71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 61,459 reviews2016
    Dev: Future Cat LLCPub: KOMODO
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    Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 27.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.

    Why similar: Multiple Endings 22.9%, Story Rich 21%, Puzzle 16.1%, Cute 11.2%, Indie 7.9%

  40. #40 She Remembered Caterpillars
    74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 552 reviews2017
    Dev: jumpsuit entertainment UG (haftungsbeschränkt)Pub: Ysbryd Games
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%

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    Why similar: Puzzle 46.6%, Hand-drawn 36.1%, Indie 17.4%

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    71% matchVery Positive92% of 78 reviews2025
    Dev: 沙因小分队
    Windows

    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 51.5%, Time Travel 22.5%, Hand-drawn 8%, 2D Platformer 5.7%, RPG 3.4%

  42. #42 Future Proof
    74% matchVery Positive88% of 74 reviews2018
    Dev: Silhouette Valley Games
    Windows

    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!

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  43. #43 Orten Was The Case
    71% matchVery Positive96% of 147 reviews2023
    Dev: Woodhill Interactive
    Windows · Mac

    Orten Was The Case - A free movement puzzle/adventure game where you play as a youngster stuck in a time loop with the simple task of saving the world from literal destruction.

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  44. #44 Candleman: The Complete Journey
    72% matchVery Positive92% of 1,247 reviews2018
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    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    Despite only being able to burn for 10 seconds, a little candle journeys into the darkness, with the purpose of seeking light.

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  45. #45 A Void Hope
    70% matchVery Positive94% of 63 reviews2024
    Dev: Elden Pixels
    Windows · Mac · Linux

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  46. #46 Loophole
    68% matchVery Positive99% of 138 reviews2025
    Dev: Levi Pinkert
    Windows · Mac

    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.

    Why similar: Time Manipulation 50%, Time Travel 30.6%, Puzzle 11.1%, Indie 4.4%, Cute 2.6%

  47. #47 Little Gods of the Abyss
    68% matchVery Positive88% of 73 reviews2026
    Dev: PLAY MephistowaltzPub: GRAVITY
    Windows

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    67% matchVery Positive99% of 69 reviews2025
    Dev: kakuhitoPub: michikusa
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    "The Path Home" is a 2D pixel-art puzzle game where you explore a strange world with a girl. Use panels to "flip" black and white tiles and reshape the puzzle world. The girl always searches for the "shortest path to the goal," but avoiding fake goals and reuniting her with the crow is up to you.

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    69% matchVery Positive87% of 252 reviews2021
    Dev: Orbit StudioPub: SuperGG.com
    Windows
    Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 55%

    Retro Machina is a single-player action and exploration game set in a retro-futuristic universe. Experience the journey of a little robot as it solves intricate puzzles and begins unraveling the mysteries of a world long forgotten.

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    70% matchVery Positive86% of 56 reviews2021
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    Windows

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    69% matchMostly Positive78% of 939 reviews2021
    Dev: Studio FizbinPub: Assemble Entertainment
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    Explore strange and wonderful islands and dark labyrinths below in this narrative puzzle platformer. Guide young mechanic Mo on her quest to repair a world on the brink of collapse. The powerful Omni Switch at your disposal may not be enough to fix the damage that hides beneath the surface...

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    65% matchVery Positive92% of 991 reviews2024
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  54. #54 In Between
    70% matchVery Positive85% of 473 reviews2015
    Dev: GentlymadPub: Assemble Entertainment
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    In Between is set inside the mind of a man hit by a cruel twist of fate. Together you are on a journey through the protagonist's head, a world that doesn’t obey the laws of physics.

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    67% matchVery Positive92% of 705 reviews2022
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    Windows
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    A bombastic puzzle platformer about worlds turned inside out. Shift dimensions at the push of a button, solve brain-twisting logistical riddles, and race through the wilds of the multiverse in a bleakly hilarious (and hilariously bleak) story where everything you know can turn on a dime.

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    69% matchVery Positive81% of 838 reviews2019
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 71%

    The Great Perhaps is a time travel puzzle game about an astronaut returning to Earth destroyed by natural cataclysms. There, among the ruins he finds an unusual artifact — an old lantern, in the light of which you can see glimpses of another time and travel to the past.

    Why similar: Time Travel 37%, Cartoony 13.4%, Adventure 12.1%, Puzzle 10.9%, Indie 10.5%

  57. #57 The Mensional
    68% matchVery Positive92% of 62 reviews2022
    Dev: Delil Timurtaş
    Windows · Mac

    Adventures of different characters with their unique atmosphere and puzzles.

    Why similar: Time Travel 32.8%, Platformer 18.2%, Puzzle 17.5%, 2D 8.3%, Indie 8.2%

  58. #58 Chrono Gear: Warden of Time
    62% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 901 reviews2025
    Dev: Team Chrono GearPub: holo Indie
    Windows · Linux
    Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 67%

    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!

    Why similar: Time Manipulation 55.2%, Time Travel 18.4%, 2D Platformer 12.9%, Platformer 7.3%, 2D 3.1%

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