Games Like No Time

TIME TRAVEL through history to BECOME GOD 🚀 Ride dinosaurs, forge tools, sail dunes, build a colony, siege castles, automate and fly, mine underground, launch to the moon, build a dyson sphere! An insane, unforgettable and revolutionary survival crafting base building open world adventure.

Why similar: Time Travel 35.1% ★, Crafting 23.9%, Open World 15.6%, Survival 12%, Simulation 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game directly mirrors the seed's core premise of traveling through different historical eras to survive and craft.

A dynamic soft-body physics vehicle simulator capable of doing just about anything.

Why similar: Driving 27.6%, Moddable 23.6% ★, Sandbox 13.9%, Physics 12.9%, Open World 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: It provides the high-fidelity physics-based driving and vehicle destruction that serves as a core pillar of the seed game's sandbox fun.

Experience the mind bending power of single player cooperation. Project Temporality is a third person action/puzzle game built around the concept of allowing the player to play with time. Thanks to our propriety engine Sparta 3D we make the fourth dimension as available as the other three.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 73.8% ★, Action 9.3%, Adventure 8.7%, Indie 6.1%, Singleplayer 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person puzzle game that centers entirely on time-manipulation mechanics to solve complex spatial challenges.

Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.

Why similar: Open World 28.5%, Story Rich 20.4%, Sci-fi 16.9%, First-Person 13.3%, Adventure 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers an unparalleled time-loop exploration experience with physics-based flight and deep environmental storytelling.

No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.

Why similar: Open World 25.3%, Sandbox 18.2%, Crafting 14.4%, Sci-fi 12.9%, Survival 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a vast open-world experience focused on flight, crafting, and exploration across diverse environments.

FIGHT THE PAST TO SAVE THE FUTURE. STOP THE SINGULARITY. Learn the truth behind a massive cover-up of the catastrophic SINGULARITY, an event that fractured time and threatens the world as we know it. Armed with powerful, advanced weaponry and the experimental Time Manipulation Device, fight enemies from the past, the present, and...

Why similar: Time Manipulation 47.5% ★, Time Travel 26.1% ★, Sci-fi 10.7%, First-Person 5.4%, Action 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person shooter that heavily utilizes time-manipulation mechanics to alter the environment and combat scenarios.

Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

Why similar: Moddable 39.5% ★, Sandbox 25.2%, Physics 15.2%, First-Person 7.8%, Simulation 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: The ultimate sandbox for physics, modding, and creative freedom, perfectly matching the moddable nature of the seed.

Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!

Why similar: Crafting 18.6%, Sandbox 18.4%, Physics 13.6%, Open World 13.4%, Moddable 13.2% ★

Why You'll Like It: A creative sandbox game that allows for complex physics-based building and mechanical experimentation.

Besiege is a physics building game about constructing medieval machines to annihilate armies, obliterate castles and overcome challenging obstacles. Conquer the campaign or skirmish with friends in Multiplayer!

Why similar: Moddable 34.7% ★, Flight 27.9%, Sandbox 17.8%, Physics 13.8%, Simulation 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on physics-based building and experimentation, allowing you to construct complex machines to solve challenges.

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 63.6% ★, Open World 9.1%, First-Person 8.7%, Story Rich 8.3%, RPG 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven time-loop mystery that emphasizes exploration and the consequences of changing the past.

A catastrophe is about to happen and you have only a limited time to prevent it. Use your time stopping powers to make the most out of what little time you have!

Why similar: Time Manipulation 78.9% ★, Sandbox 6.8%, First-Person 6.5%, Singleplayer 3.1%, Action 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: An action-oriented first-person game that uses time-manipulation as a core combat and movement mechanic.

Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.

Why similar: Open World 24.3%, Sandbox 23.1%, Crafting 20.6%, Survival 16%, Sci-fi 7%

Why You'll Like It: A vibrant sandbox game focused on exploration, crafting, and physics-based building on alien planets.

Prepare the perfect heist in a fully destructible, simulated voxel world. Tear down walls with vehicles or use explosives to create your own shortcuts. Shape the environment to your advantage in the most creative ways you can imagine. Play solo or with up to 12 players in multiplayer.

Why similar: Driving 28.9%, Sandbox 26.9%, Physics 21.4%, First-Person 9.1%, Simulation 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Features high-fidelity physics and total environmental destruction that appeals to the sandbox nature of the seed.

Built from the ground up for VR, Wanderer has a unique blend of escape room style puzzles, tactile hands on interactions and action arcade sequences to bring you the ultimate time travel adventure. Are you ready to walk in the footsteps of those who have gone before you?

Why similar: Time Travel 63.7% ★, Time Manipulation 26.1% ★, Action 4.8%, Adventure 4.6%, Singleplayer 0.8%

Why You'll Like It: A VR-based time travel adventure that focuses on historical exploration and puzzle-solving.

Create & destroy on an unimaginable scale with a realistic physics-based space simulator. Explore the beauty of our universe and the fragility of our planet. Use science to bend the laws of gravity, collide planets, boil away oceans, fire epic space lasers, and customize your universe.

Why similar: Sandbox 40%, Physics 26.2%, Simulation 11.6%, Open World 11.3%, Sci-fi 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: The ultimate physics sandbox for manipulating time, gravity, and space on a cosmic scale.

The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction. Made by Croteam and written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).

Why similar: Sci-fi 31.3%, First-Person 27.7%, Story Rich 22.6%, Singleplayer 5.6%, Adventure 5%

Why You'll Like It: A philosophical first-person puzzle game that incorporates advanced time-manipulation mechanics.

Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.

Why similar: Crafting 24.7%, Open World 20.6%, Survival 16.5%, Sandbox 13.2%, First-Person 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that excels in vehicle exploration and crafting within a mysterious, physics-driven environment.

In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.

Why similar: Moddable 30% ★, Sandbox 26.2%, Physics 18.8%, Simulation 9.5%, Open World 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for physics-based flight and engineering, perfect for those who enjoy the technical side of the seed.

You. Your car. And world under the sand.

Why similar: Driving 33.3%, Sandbox 15.6%, Open World 14.1%, Physics 10.6%, Survival 9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the driving and road-trip aspect of the seed game in an open-world setting.

Embark on an unique and unforgettable journey and guide Sable through her Gliding; a rite of passage that will take her across vast deserts and mesmerizing landscapes, capped by the remains of spaceships and ancient wonders.

Why similar: Open World 36.3%, Sci-fi 21.6%, Story Rich 20%, RPG 9.5%, Adventure 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world exploration game with a strong focus on vehicle travel and atmospheric discovery.

Garbage Day is an open world sandbox game, in which you are stuck in a time loop (meaning you live the same day over and over). In this game you have to explore and interact to find out how to get out of the time loop. You are open to do anything you want, kill innocent people, go to work, watch tv, go to the park, etc.

Why similar: Sandbox 48.5%, Open World 20.7%, First-Person 14%, Action 9.9%, Indie 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: A quirky, first-person sandbox game that shares the experimental, indie feel of the seed game.

You are a time traveller tasked with exploring the Jurassic era and the creatures that once ruled the prehistoric oceans. Use an array of advanced tech tools to track, examine, and discover the scientific secrets of mosasaurs, livyatans, and megalodons, among others!

Why similar: Time Travel 44.2% ★, Time Manipulation 27.1% ★, Simulation 9%, Sci-fi 6.3%, First-Person 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: An exploration-focused time travel game that uses a scientific premise to investigate prehistoric environments.

Nomori is a mind-bending adventure game where you control time and space to journey through a shattered spirit world. Take shortcuts through portals, rotate your perspective, and control the flow of time to move forward, whichever way that is.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 63.2% ★, Physics 25.2%, Story Rich 9.4%, Adventure 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based puzzle-platformer that uses unique spatial and time-related manipulation mechanics.

Be your own teammates in this unique single-player co-op shooter!

Why similar: Time Travel 44.7% ★, Time Manipulation 27.8% ★, First-Person 10.6%, Action 6.8%, Sci-fi 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person shooter that utilizes a unique time-loop recording mechanic to assist yourself in combat.

Time Flies is a little adventure about our limited time in this world.

Why similar: Flight 42.2%, Time Manipulation 23.9% ★, Open World 9.5%, Physics 9%, Survival 6.6%

In Aery – A Journey Beyond Time you are in the role of a flying god-like creature which observes the world and their inhabitants while they grow and evolve through time. Are you ready to explore time itself?

Why similar: Flight 69.1%, Simulation 14.5%, Action 6.1%, Adventure 4.8%, Story Rich 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing flight-based exploration game centered on traveling through different time periods.

You have 9 days before the final fight. At your current state, you do not stand a chance! Explore this Open World to gain new skills and abilities for the battle. Choose where you go, what you do carefully. You cannot waste time! You have 9 days.

Why similar: Sandbox 34.4%, Open World 33.8%, Action 9.8%, Adventure 9.4%, RPG 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world adventure that combines magic and exploration in a way that feels similar to the seed's sense of discovery.

A Story About My Uncle is a first person platforming adventure game about a boy who searches for his lost uncle, and ends up in a world he couldn’t imagine existed. The movement is a crucial part of the games core gameplay – focusing on swinging through the world with a grappling hook that gives the player a wonderful sense of speed and...

Why similar: Adventure 71.3%, First-Person 13%, Story Rich 6.1%, Sci-fi 4.1%, Singleplayer 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person adventure focused on unique movement mechanics and physics-based exploration.

If possible, would you like to go back to ancient times to start a factory, refine oil, or even build a large computer? With the accidental fall of a meteorite, you traveled back to River Town a thousand years ago and became a workshop owner. And the story will begin from here……

Why similar: Time Travel 38% ★, Sandbox 14.4%, Crafting 11.7%, Open World 11.3%, Sci-fi 7%

Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.

Why similar: Crafting 19.1%, Sandbox 17.1%, Open World 13.5%, Physics 12.5%, Survival 9.1%

Warning: This is an Early Access game! Welcome to an enigmatic world, where a new gaming experience in exploring, building and surviving is waiting just for you. Experience a sandbox world with survival elements, and join us in creating a full version of the game.

Why similar: Crafting 22.4%, Sandbox 21.3%, Open World 16.9%, Survival 11.6%, First-Person 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game featuring time-travel elements and extensive crafting systems.

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 49.6% ★, Time Manipulation 30.4% ★, First-Person 8%, Story Rich 5.1%, Sci-fi 4%

If possible, would you like to go back to ancient times to start a factory, refine oil, or even build a large computer? With the accidental fall of a meteorite, you traveled back to River Town a thousand years ago and became a workshop owner. And the story will begin from here……

Why similar: Time Travel 34.2% ★, Crafting 17.5%, Open World 15.4%, Sandbox 8.1%, Simulation 7.1%

Build and fly your own airplane! Complete missions to earn money, upgrade your plane, and discover new locations in an open world.

Why similar: Flight 38.1%, Sandbox 17.5%, Crafting 14.8%, Physics 14.3%, Open World 9.4%

A deadly factory surrounds you. The manipulation of time is necessary to escape this underground facility. Use your wit, your laser blaster, and your time-warping abilities to face your demise head-on and triumph!

Why similar: Time Manipulation 48.2% ★, Time Travel 38.2% ★, Action 7%, Indie 3.9%, Singleplayer 2.7%

A VR puzzle game with sci-fi and escape room elements: control time, solve challenges, fight enemies, and explore worlds across different timelines.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 43.2% ★, Time Travel 43.1% ★, Action 4.2%, Adventure 3.1%, Singleplayer 1.9%

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 41.5% ★, Time Manipulation 40.5% ★, Sci-fi 6.3%, Story Rich 5.7%, First-Person 3.9%

Step into the unknown and embark on an epic, time travel adventure, completely re-imagined. Introducing Wanderer: The Fragments of Fate, a remake of the critically acclaimed VR adventure game - Wanderer. There’s no telling where you’ll go and who you’ll become as you unravel the mysteries of time.

Why similar: Time Travel 36.3% ★, Time Manipulation 32.8% ★, Physics 9.3%, Story Rich 6.4%, Sci-fi 5.1%

This is an experimental project, a sandbox life simulator that gives you the power to suggest how the game should evolve, which features we should focus on, which slice of life to tell and everything you can imagine.

Why similar: Driving 23.9%, Sandbox 19.3%, Crafting 16.3%, Open World 13.3%, Physics 11.4%

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: First-Person 38.7%, Adventure 30.7%, Indie 22.2%, Singleplayer 8.4%

The Bloodline is a sandbox adventure RPG that lets you play your way. Reforge bonds between kingdoms, explore the wilds, craft and plan adventures and wield mighty weapons or magic as you prepare for what is to come…

Why similar: Sandbox 27.4%, Physics 22.1%, Open World 20.1%, First-Person 12.5%, RPG 7.2%

A non-linear first-person action adventure in a pirate setting. A single player time travel simulation game. Unusual gaming experience.Moving in space and time, the player must understand what is happening on the island and how the main character can move away from there.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 55.9% ★, Open World 17.9%, Sci-fi 12.9%, Story Rich 9.2%, Adventure 4.1%

In Spaceflight Simulator, you will get to build your rockets, plan launches and flights, attempt landings, deploy payloads and explore new worlds.

Why similar: Sandbox 32%, Moddable 18.1% ★, Crafting 16.6%, Physics 10.3%, Simulation 9.3%

Embark on an odyssey to a distant alien world through an ancient singularity. Establish your base, engineer indispensable bots, create cutting-edge equipment, and unravel the mysteries of civilizations lost in time. Welcome to a universe where the mind has defeated death.

Why similar: Time Travel 49.6% ★, Crafting 17.5%, Open World 13.7%, First-Person 9.3%, Survival 7.4%

.T.E.S.T: Expected Behavior is a first-person brain twister with a sci-fi plot. On top of logic, you'll need a fast reaction speed, "outside the box" reasoning, and the skill to adapt to unfamiliar situations.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 57.6% ★, Sci-fi 13.8%, First-Person 8%, Simulation 7.2%, Action 4.6%

Post-apocalyptic, Sandbox, Crafting-survival Indie game. Explore at your own pace or team up with your friends in multiplayer. Early access game!

Why similar: Sandbox 31.1%, Crafting 27.4%, Open World 24.1%, Survival 13.3%, Action 4.2%

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

Why similar: Time Manipulation 42.3% ★, Time Travel 40.9% ★, Story Rich 6.9%, First-Person 6.2%, Adventure 2.1%

Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.

Why similar: Sandbox 23.5%, Crafting 19.7%, Survival 12.7%, Sci-fi 11.7%, Open World 11.1%

Make a living for yourself in a city full of opportunity while you meet a variety of locals, explore unique locations, and work your way to the top in this open-world life simulator.

Why similar: Driving 25.8%, Sandbox 19.5%, Open World 14.6%, Survival 9%, Crafting 8.3%

Space Battle VR is an action shooter set in space. It supports VR controllers to give you a real feel how it is to be a spaceship pilot. You can truly feel the cosmos with this game. Jump into an awesome adventure, help mankind, win a war, bring freedom and happiness to the universe. People need you!

Why similar: Flight 31.5%, Physics 12.2%, Open World 11.6%, Sandbox 11.2%, Sci-fi 9.4%

Explore, dig for resources, and build factories in a vibrant open world with quests for both technological and magical progression. Inspired by classic old-school Minecraft modpacks and featuring many new and unique features.

Why similar: Sandbox 26.8%, Crafting 25.5%, Open World 19.2%, Survival 12.1%, First-Person 5.8%

You are going to steal a time machine. In this escape room, you have to travel through time, explore mysterious places and solve puzzles to get priceless treasures. Will you be able to make it back alive?

Why similar: Time Travel 81.9% ★, First-Person 9%, Adventure 5.5%, Singleplayer 3.6%

Everwind is a novel take on RPG and Sandbox Survival genre in First-Person-Perspective. Embark on the adventure with your friends - Build a base on a flying island-ship, gather resources, craft, loot, and fight while you rise above the clouds to uncover the mysteries of this world!

Why similar: Flight 28.4%, Sandbox 19.5%, Crafting 17.5%, Open World 14.9%, Survival 9.9%

Primitier is a highly flexible VR sandbox game, where you can create tools and machinery by freely cutting and connecting objects in a vast world based on physics simulation.

Why similar: Sandbox 26%, Crafting 25.7%, Physics 19.6%, Open World 16.4%, Simulation 5.7%

Time Thief is an action adventure game where leaving your village makes the clock tick. Manage your time to stay alive, stealing seconds from creatures around its overworld with your sword.

Why similar: Open World 43.1%, Action 25.4%, Adventure 20.7%, Indie 5.6%, Singleplayer 5.2%

Explore a world of creative building, interactive machines, and gears - lots of gears. Build all things mechanical: cars, trucks, cranes, tanks, gearboxes, engines, clocks, anything you can think of. Test your creations to destruction in challenging scenarios, and share them in the workshop!

Why similar: Moddable 29.1% ★, Driving 19.9%, Sandbox 16.2%, Physics 13.3%, Open World 7.5%

Yore VR is an open world sandbox game built from the ground up in VR for the HTC Vive. Venture out with nothing but the clothes on your back and empty hands to live Yore medieval life the way you want.

Why similar: Simulation 31.6%, RPG 25%, Action 18.1%, Adventure 16.7%, Indie 8.6%

Rise of Ages is a sandbox game, allowing you to explore, build, found cities, make wars and evolve technologies to reach the highest level of a civilization and then travel to other planets! The game begins in prehistory and will advance ages, one by one, as the player evolves.

Why similar: Open World 26%, Sandbox 24.4%, Survival 18.6%, RPG 11.1%, Action 8.9%