Games Like Future Proof

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?

Why similar: Time Travel 41.6% ★, Mystery 12.9%, Puzzle 10.3%, 2D 5.7%, Retro 5.6%

Escape a time loop as an overworked office employee by solving cryptic puzzles with alternate reality game elements.

Why similar: Time Travel 40.9% ★, Detective 13.6%, Puzzle 10.9%, Mystery 10%, Investigation 7.4%

Master time in this time-bending sokoban-like puzzle game with a story. 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 63.6% ★, Time Manipulation 16.7% ★, Puzzle 8.2%, Casual 3.5%, Multiple Endings 3.2%

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!

Why similar: Time Travel 42.7% ★, Time Management 18.1%, Investigation 8.6%, Puzzle 7.8%, Adventure 5.6%

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.

Why similar: Time Travel 51.7% ★, Mystery 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Adventure 6.6%, 2D 5.1%

Strike is inadvertently transported into the past while attempting to repair a mysterious, abandoned clock tower. Endeavoring to return to the future, Strike must fix both the time machine and the island’s dysfunctional family who are responsible for much of the clock’s disrepair.

Why similar: Time Travel 64.2% ★, Adventure 9.8%, Funny 8.6%, Casual 7.3%, Indie 6.5%

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.

Why similar: Time Travel 52.4% ★, Mystery 14.9%, Investigation 9.1%, Adventure 6%, RPG 5.8%

Your Future Self is a 1-2 hour long story-driven experimental text adventure with unique conversational mechanics, time loop based gameplay, and an emotionally gripping time travel mystery set against the backdrop of a darkly realistic vision of our world ravaged by climate change.

Why similar: Adventure 22.3%, Mystery 21.7%, Casual 18.7%, Indie 14.7%, Retro 8.2%

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.

Why similar: Time Management 25.7%, Mystery 21.4%, Time Manipulation 19.1% ★, Detective 11.9%, Puzzle 9.5%

Causal Loop is a narrative puzzler that blends mind-bending mechanics with a rich sci-fi story about time, consequence, and survival. Solve intricate puzzles by using the signature “echo” mechanic to record, replay, and interact with up to three versions of your past self. Can you break the loop?

Why similar: Mystery 37.8%, Time Manipulation 22.6% ★, Puzzle 17.8%, Adventure 11.7%, Exploration 8.7%

Complex Loop is a sci-fi themed visual novel. This is a story of time loops between past and future. Within a time limit of 20 minutes, your mission is to save a mysterious girl died from an explosion accident one year ago. Solve puzzles and reveal the truth behind the tragedy. An adventure awaits!

Why similar: Time Travel 62.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Adventure 7.1%, RPG 6.4%, 2D 6.3%

Dragon Maiden is a 2D pixel-art mystery adventure. As Wang Xie, you’re trapped in a time loop on the day of the Mountain God Ceremony. Relive the 22 hours before midnight, uncover the truth behind the village’s destruction, and break free from the cycle.

Why similar: Mystery 22.1%, Time Management 17.7%, Adventure 12.1%, Puzzle 11.2%, Detective 10.6%

Mars Underground is an apocalyptic adventure where you relive the same day over and over. With each cycle new items can be picked up and topics unlocked.​ Explore the possibilities of this timeloop and uncover multiple endings.

Why similar: Adventure 27.1%, Time Manipulation 24.5% ★, Indie 17.4%, Retro 10.9%, 2D 10.9%

An interactive thriller about a man trapped in a time loop. Featuring James McAvoy, Daisy Ridley, and Willem Dafoe.

Why similar: Time Travel 48.5% ★, Mystery 17.2%, Time Manipulation 11.2% ★, Puzzle 9.4%, Adventure 6.5%

Kill the Clock is a narrative time-loop mystery adventure where you relive the same week to solve a murder that keeps changing. Customize your character, roll dice to influence story outcomes, and uncover the truth—before time resets again.

Why similar: Time Travel 35.7% ★, Mystery 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Detective 10.6%, Investigation 6.9%

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 Travel 67.3% ★, Time Manipulation 16.2% ★, Puzzle 10.9%, Indie 4.6%, Singleplayer 1%

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

Why similar: Time Travel 36% ★, Time Manipulation 12.2% ★, Mystery 10.8%, Detective 8.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8%

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 Travel 35.4% ★, Time Manipulation 14.2% ★, Mystery 12.2%, Detective 10.3%, Investigation 7.7%

A narrative-driven puzzle adventure game with the butterfly effect at its core. Board the Babel, a mysterious cruise ship that takes you on a whimsical journey to the afterlife. Use a special pen to help fellow travelers fulfill their wishes by rewriting the past, changing how the future unfolds.

Why similar: Time Travel 39.3% ★, Time Manipulation 14.8% ★, Investigation 9.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9%, Funny 8.7%

Three Minutes To Eight is a mind bending pixel art adventure. A gaming experience threading the edge of consciousness, where everything is possible and yet remains elusive. Players will find themselves in ███ ██ █ ▓ ▒ ░ ¿⊕ξד¶¶¶ Error 0x80070570.

Why similar: Time Travel 44.8% ★, Mystery 16.9%, Detective 8.7%, Puzzle 7.7%, Multiple Endings 6.1%

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.

Why similar: Time Travel 71.2% ★, Time Manipulation 14.3% ★, Puzzle 10.4%, Casual 3.6%, Singleplayer 0.5%

An eternally snowbound town. An inescapable time loop. A group of travelers trapped between memory and truth…You will embody Mo Shi, the amnesiac protagonist, stepping into this enigmatic town known as the "Singularity" , partner with the protagonist to solve murder cases and expose the killer.

Why similar: Puzzle 16.8%, Investigation 14.9%, Mystery 13.8%, RPG 13.6%, Detective 10.7%

Minit is a peculiar little adventure played sixty seconds at a time.

Why similar: Adventure 18.4%, Puzzle 17.3%, Pixel Graphics 13.6%, Indie 11.7%, Funny 10.6%

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 50.2% ★, Adventure 10.8%, Mystery 9.7%, Casual 7.5%, Indie 6.9%

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.

Why similar: Time Travel 55.2% ★, Puzzle 10.1%, Funny 8.4%, Adventure 7.2%, Retro 6.1%

Play as a witch living in secret among villagers in this hand-drawn narrative puzzle adventure. An attempt to change fate traps her in a time loop. Help the witch and her cat escape without getting caught by the inquisition. Your choices shape the outcome.

Why similar: Time Travel 42.2% ★, Time Manipulation 21.7% ★, Puzzle 13.5%, Adventure 7.3%, 2D 5.7%

Can you change Deponia's fate? Do you have what it takes to change Rufus' past, present and future without accidently destroying the whole planet? Fight time itself in this action-packed, platypus-tastic and insanely hilarious story.

Why similar: Time Travel 53.4% ★, Adventure 16.3%, Funny 9.8%, Puzzle 9.5%, Indie 4.4%

A fast-paced Point-and-Click adventure AND an indie platfomer in one! Join adventurer Ben and wannabe indie darling Dan in a race against time to stop all the Apocalypses happening at the same time.

Why similar: Adventure 29%, Casual 20.8%, Indie 19.1%, Funny 13.3%, Puzzle 7.7%

A bonkers time-loop tragicomedy murder mystery thriller featuring multiple casualties and a suspicious cat, from the creator of To the Moon & Finding Paradise.

Why similar: Mystery 26.4%, Funny 16%, RPG 14.6%, Adventure 11.5%, 2D 10.6%

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.

Why similar: Time Travel 51.5% ★, Time Manipulation 16% ★, Puzzle 7.5%, Funny 7.4%, Adventure 5.8%

RePete is a pixel art puzzle platformer about time travel and self-cooperation. You play as Pete, a special guy that can loop back in time to help his past self solve problems, collect gems, and reach new heights.

Why similar: Indie 50.5%, Casual 49.5%

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 Travel 64.9% ★, Time Manipulation 21.9% ★, RPG 4.5%, Adventure 3.5%, 2D 2.5%

A unique mix of adventure and idle game. Plan and optimise your loops carefully and let the grind happen automatically. Explore this unique world, meet strange characters and escape the loop. A high-quality idle game that elevate the mechanics through an old school pixel-art adventure.

Why similar: Time Management 25%, RPG 17.1%, Adventure 14.6%, Exploration 11.1%, Pixel Graphics 10.9%

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

Why similar: Time Travel 38.5% ★, Adventure 17.1%, Puzzle 15.9%, Time Manipulation 15.4% ★, Indie 9.9%

Embark on an adventure with Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson on this surprising and elastic point-and-click game. Grab, pull, and release to help them solve a bizarre investigation full of humor and meta-time travel!

Why similar: Mystery 24.8%, Funny 15.9%, Puzzle 15.7%, Detective 15.4%, Adventure 14.4%

Change the future of Edmond, a desperate guy who failed his life. In this simulation, improve the town of Thésye, earn money, buy a castle, and collect cattails.

Why similar: Time Travel 38.9% ★, Time Management 23.3%, Funny 9.5%, Mystery 7.2%, Multiple Endings 6.2%

Think in reverse. Outsmart the impossible. A mind-bending first-person adventure where you solve ingenious and complex puzzles by rewinding objects through time.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 32.9% ★, Puzzle 22.9%, Funny 22.8%, Adventure 12%, Exploration 7.6%

A time-traveling adventure game on a tropical island. 🌴⛱️ Talk to animals, solve puzzles, and save the island from destruction . . .

Why similar: Adventure 43.5%, Indie 28.7%, Puzzle 25.2%, Singleplayer 2.6%

TEMPUS is a puzzle adventure game with time travel. Each time you advance, you will see the island where you live change over thousands of years. You can only travel forward so it is a one way trip, how far will you go?

Why similar: Detective 26%, Investigation 20%, Exploration 13%, Mystery 11.4%, Adventure 11.1%

Run, jump, rewind, and avoid a time paradox? A time-traveling gal changes the past where she drank tapioca to prevent the extinction of humanity in this time-loop action puzzle game!

Why similar: Time Travel 68% ★, Time Manipulation 17.3% ★, Puzzle 8.4%, Indie 3.8%, Adventure 1.7%

Kelvin and the Infamous Machine is a hilarious point-and-click adventure in which you stumble irresponsibly through history to help legendary geniuses complete their masterworks!

Why similar: Time Travel 56.6% ★, Puzzle 8.9%, Funny 8.7%, Adventure 7.1%, Retro 6.4%

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 Travel 32.3% ★, Time Manipulation 20.4% ★, Puzzle 10%, RPG 7.8%, Multiple Endings 7%

Explore a magical hand-drawn comic book, travel through time, manipulate characters’ ideas, and solve visual puzzles in this innovative point-and-click adventure to uncover Kai’s fate.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 28.7% ★, Puzzle 22%, 2D 10.7%, Time Management 10.6%, Adventure 9.1%

Investigating a time-loop during the Cold War, light years away from Earth. Neoproxima is a text-based adventure game that combines exploration and simple RPG and survival mechanics. Plan your next loop carefully, and go as far as possible before time catches up with you.

Why similar: Mystery 40.7%, Investigation 21.3%, RPG 15.4%, Adventure 11%, Exploration 10.4%

An exciting adventure through space and time awaits for you in the newest hidden object game! Immerse yourself into a real investigation, full of intrigue and mysterious temporal anomalies!

Why similar: Time Travel 42.8% ★, Detective 11.7%, Investigation 11.1%, Puzzle 10.4%, Adventure 7.3%

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 51% ★, Time Manipulation 16.3% ★, Funny 9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.9%, Multiple Endings 5.7%

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.

Why similar: Time Travel 58.2% ★, Adventure 16.2%, Funny 11.5%, 2D 9.7%, Indie 3.9%

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.

Why similar: Time Travel 44% ★, Mystery 17.8%, Puzzle 11.6%, Multiple Endings 6.8%, Adventure 6.6%

MUTROPOLIS is a lovely sci-fi adventure set on the abandoned Planet Earth. Play as Henry Dijon (hero, nerd, detective) in search of a legendary lost city. Uncover weird ancient artifacts. And PLEASE don’t get obliterated by an ageless evil. You’ve been warned.

Why similar: Mystery 25.8%, Detective 20.9%, Puzzle 12.4%, Funny 11.3%, Adventure 10.1%

Break the Loop is a turn-based Rogue-like RPG. Compose your team and create a timeline by selecting the events you'll go through. Each decision will bring you one step closer to the ultimate threat, but will you have accumulated enough power to stop the apocalypse?

Why similar: Time Travel 55.4% ★, RPG 18.2%, 2D 11.7%, Indie 8.9%, Adventure 4.1%

Enjoy an adventurous vacation to a 1960's parallel universe! A Sci-Fi-Mystery Adventure Game with handmade scenery.

Why similar: Adventure 25.7%, Time Travel 24% ★, Puzzle 10.8%, Indie 8.7%, Classic 8.1% ★

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 62.2% ★, Time Manipulation 16.1% ★, RPG 7.4%, Adventure 4.7%, 2D 4.3%

A relaxing puzzle game in which you explore 3D dioramas, solve puzzles and save cats lost in time! Crazy, right?!

Why similar: Time Travel 64.3% ★, Puzzle 16.6%, Casual 7.4%, Adventure 7.3%, Indie 3.8%

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.

Why similar: Time Travel 67.8% ★, RPG 14.8%, 2D 7.6%, Pixel Graphics 5.2%, Indie 3.3%

Crime O'Clock is a hidden objects investigation and time exploration game with a deep storyline. Investigate cases through time and evolving maps by unveiling a multi-eras linked story. Will you be observant enough to solve the mysteries? Crime waits for no man!

Why similar: Mystery 20.1%, Detective 16.9%, Investigation 15.1%, Funny 13.2%, Puzzle 12.2%

Future Unfolding is an action adventure that is all about exploration. Your goal is to unfold the mysteries and solve the puzzles hidden in the beautiful landscapes around you.

Why similar: Adventure 26.7%, Puzzle 21.3%, Indie 20.4%, Exploration 15.2%, Mystery 13.7%

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.

Why similar: Time Travel 51.7% ★, Adventure 12.4%, Time Management 11.8%, Indie 8.4%, Investigation 6.2%

Patch me if you can is a puzzle adventure where you dive into a game world and manipulate objects however you want. Equip blocks to shrink boulders, move the sun, and thwart Lord's conspiracy. This broken world needs your 'patch'!

Why similar: Puzzle 21.4%, Funny 21.1%, 2D 12.8%, Exploration 11.9%, Casual 10%