Games Like Project Temporality

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 63.5% ★, Puzzle 22.4%, Adventure 11.8%, Singleplayer 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person puzzle-platformer that relies heavily on rewinding time to solve environmental challenges.

Immerse yourself in the multidimensional universe of Desordre. Solve intricate puzzles, push the boundaries of 4-dimensional thinking. Get ready for a unique experience where reflection takes on a whole new dimension. Created by one-man development studio SHK Interactive using Unreal Engine.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 58.2% ★, Puzzle 17.6%, Action 10.6%, Indie 6.8%, Adventure 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: Directly mirrors the time-manipulation and physics-based puzzle gameplay found in Project Temporality.

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: Puzzle 70.6%, Adventure 12.6%, Indie 7.9%, Singleplayer 4.5%, Action 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: A premier sci-fi puzzle game that features recording mechanics and complex temporal logic puzzles.

Super Time Force Ultra is an insane platformer filled with robots and dinosaurs and fun and time travel... sometimes all at the same time!

Why similar: Time Manipulation 80.5% ★, Puzzle 19.5%

Why You'll Like It: An action-packed game where you cooperate with your past selves to overcome overwhelming odds.

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 77.4% ★, Action 15.3%, Adventure 4.5%, Singleplayer 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features a time-manipulation device that allows you to age or restore objects and enemies in real-time.

This is the original version of Braid from 2009, which may not work well on newer systems. For an updated version of the game with nicer graphics, more levels and a large amount of developer commentary, see Braid, Anniversary Edition.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 59.2% ★, Puzzle 25.7%, Indie 12.5%, Singleplayer 1.3%, Adventure 1.2%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive time-manipulation puzzle game that challenges players to rethink their actions through temporal control.

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

Why similar: Time Manipulation 68.8% ★, Puzzle 18.8%, Adventure 10%, Singleplayer 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven puzzle game where you manipulate time to alter the outcomes of past events.

Master time to become the ultimate weapon! Dr. Aiden Krone has made a Time Jump across the space-time continuum - a reckless act with frightening consequences. Now, a disturbing alternate reality has evolved within the bleak and rain-soaked Alpha District.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 81.6% ★, Action 16.7%, Singleplayer 1.7%

Why You'll Like It: An action-focused shooter that allows you to slow, stop, and reverse time to gain a tactical advantage.

Find and rescue your uncle by using his newest invention to work your way through a crazy complex mansion as you switch between dimensions and solve puzzles!

Why similar: Time Manipulation 48.2% ★, Puzzle 45.5%, Adventure 4.2%, Singleplayer 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based puzzle game where manipulating time and dimensions is essential for navigating complex environments.

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: Puzzle 40.6%, Adventure 29.8%, Indie 18.5%, Action 6.1%, Singleplayer 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: An exploration-heavy game built entirely around a time-loop mechanic that requires deep investigation and puzzle-solving.

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 58.7% ★, Puzzle 19.7%, Adventure 11%, Indie 9%, Singleplayer 1.7%

Why You'll Like It: A murder-mystery puzzle game centered on a repeating time loop where you must observe and manipulate events.

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 59.5% ★, Puzzle 21.2%, Third Person 13.2%, Adventure 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: Utilizes spatial and temporal-like mechanics to create mind-bending puzzles in a 3D environment.

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 37.3% ★, Puzzle 17%, Adventure 16.7%, Action 14.7%, Indie 14.4%

Why You'll Like It: A time-themed puzzle-platformer that requires you to manage the flow of time to survive a mechanical world.

Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, the classic puzzle-solving mystery adventure directed by Ace Attorney creator Shu Takumi, is back! This long-awaited HD remaster features upgraded visuals and sound and new gallery content.

Why similar: Puzzle 47.2%, Adventure 28.9%, Action 19.9%, Singleplayer 4%

Why You'll Like It: A clever puzzle game where you manipulate objects in the past to change the outcome of the future.

In the future, giant city-states have emerged, separated from each other by indestructible barriers. Most professions have been taken over by machines. People work mainly as mechanics, programmers or operators.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 55.9% ★, Puzzle 14.6%, Action 9.3%, Adventure 9%, Indie 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the clone-based puzzle mechanics that define the core appeal of Project Temporality.

Time Loader is a story-driven puzzle-platformer with tiny robots, alternate realities, nostalgic music, and primitive tech from the 90s!

Why similar: Time Manipulation 72.2% ★, Adventure 13.4%, Indie 11.7%, Singleplayer 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer that explores the consequences of time travel through an investigation-heavy narrative.

"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.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 68.9% ★, Puzzle 22.4%, Indie 6.9%, Singleplayer 1.7%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer that explicitly uses time-recording mechanics to help the player solve environmental obstacles.

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 Manipulation 65.1% ★, Puzzle 23.9%, Action 9.5%, Singleplayer 1.4%

Why You'll Like It: A 3D platformer that incorporates time-travel mechanics into its puzzle-solving loop.

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

Why similar: Time Manipulation 49.5% ★, Puzzle 20.9%, Adventure 14.5%, Indie 12.7%, Singleplayer 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down interactive thriller that forces you to solve a complex puzzle within a repeating time loop.

Carefully capture tracks of your actions, then play them back to solve puzzles with the aid of your recorded ghosts. Immerse yourself in a cerebral first-person puzzle platformer, where strategically thinking several steps ahead is the key to success.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 66.6% ★, Puzzle 14.3%, Indie 10.1%, Action 8%, Singleplayer 1%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging puzzle-platformer centered on recording and playing back your movements to overcome traps.

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 Manipulation 39.7% ★, Puzzle 23.3%, Adventure 20.2%, Action 15.7%, Singleplayer 1.1%

Why You'll Like It: An adventure game that uses time travel as a primary mechanic to solve puzzles across different historical eras.

Freeze time and manipulate the world with endless possibilities: build the solution YOU want where nothing is scripted and levels can be solved in multiple ways. When Super Meat Boy meets Braid, you may die repeatedly and enjoy it!

Why similar: Puzzle 34.6%, Indie 34.1%, Action 17.5%, Adventure 13.8%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer that allows you to pause time to manipulate objects and navigate levels.

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

Why similar: Adventure 32.8%, Puzzle 30.6%, Indie 26.8%, Action 6.2%, Singleplayer 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: A unique adventure game where you must solve puzzles and progress within a strict sixty-second time loop.

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 48.8% ★, Puzzle 23.7%, Action 10.2%, Adventure 10%, Indie 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-focused experience that uses time-based mechanics to solve hidden-object challenges.

Time Rift is a fast-paced puzzle-shooter. You’re a hacker-turned-security tester, but your skills will only get you so far - to take down global megacorp VaultCo, you’ll have to manipulate the flow of time!

Why similar: Time Manipulation 64.3% ★, Puzzle 19%, Indie 9.1%, Action 6.9%, Singleplayer 0.7%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle game that uses time-manipulation mechanics to navigate through retro-styled environments.

Welcome to a breathtaking storyline full of portals, solving puzzles with an energy-absorbing weapon, and other adventures in a sci-fi atmosphere! Can you travel through parallel dimensions and uncover the secrets of your past?

Why similar: Puzzle 45.1%, Action 25.1%, Adventure 24.7%, Singleplayer 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi puzzle game that explores complex temporal themes through exploration and environmental interaction.

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

Why similar: Time Manipulation 45.2% ★, Action 23.8%, Indie 15.7%, Puzzle 12.1%, Singleplayer 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: A shooter that uses a time-recording system to allow you to fight alongside your past selves.

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!

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

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox game that offers a unique take on time travel and its impact on the game world.

In this logic based puzzle game, switch between Orbs to solve puzzles and light up your world. Play co-op with yourself, freeze time, fly drones, play with sound… and overcome the evil shadow interfering with your quest.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 64.1% ★, Puzzle 19.5%, Adventure 8%, Third Person 6.3%, Singleplayer 2.1%

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 Manipulation 75.5% ★, Puzzle 18.7%, Indie 5%, Singleplayer 0.8%

Dive into the immersive world of Retrace the Light, a captivating 2.5D action-adventure game centered around the "Spatial Retracing" feature. Assume the role of an Enforcer working for a super AI in a futuristic world, exploring the depths of human consciousness and healing their emotional wounds.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 56.4% ★, Puzzle 18.9%, Indie 11.4%, Third Person 10.6%, Singleplayer 2.7%

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: Adventure 48%, Indie 47.8%, Singleplayer 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric adventure game that explores the concept of time through a unique, stylized lens.

Malediction is a third-person puzzle/platformer that gives the player the ability to control space and time! Use your magic to solve puzzles, navigate through a cursed city, and fight magic clones to reclaim your powers.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 25.2% ★, Adventure 24.1%, Action 21.5%, Indie 20.7%, Puzzle 8.4%

.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 47.3% ★, Puzzle 22.6%, Indie 11.9%, Adventure 9.1%, Action 8%

A single player metroidvania 3D game with cooperative gameplay. Find out what's going on by taking control of distinct characters and change between them whenever you want. An unique mix of 3rd person shooter and challenging puzzles!

Why similar: Adventure 37.6%, Indie 31.8%, Action 30.6%

FPP puzzle game where the TIME is the COLOR. The colors you see are not just the art style, they represent the time in specific point on the level. Time and space are connected and moving through a level changes the time. Learn more about the unique mechanics from the second video.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 43.9% ★, Adventure 18.1%, Action 15.9%, Indie 14.7%, Puzzle 7.4%

Solve puzzles by creating portals and manipulating time. Inspired by Valve's Portal and Portal 2.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 60.8% ★, Puzzle 18.5%, Action 11.4%, Indie 7.3%, Singleplayer 2%

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 63.8% ★, Puzzle 21.8%, Indie 11.7%, Singleplayer 2.8%

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 70.8% ★, Adventure 14.8%, Puzzle 14.3%

What could you accomplish if you had the ability to stop time? Become a master of time and space as you take on temporal puzzles in this first person puzzle platformer.

Experience a fast-paced, single-player adventure mixing fluid motion, split-second decision making, stylized machine-age visuals, and a dynamic soundscape.

Why similar: Adventure 35.3%, Action 33.6%, Indie 31.1%

Prevent Doomsday AFTER it happened! Designed by the co-creator of Sang-Froid - Tales of Werewolves and featuring both a single-player and co-op campaign, TimeMelters is a strategy hero defense where you go back in time and fight alongside your past selves.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 63.5% ★, Puzzle 19.3%, Third Person 9.5%, Indie 7.7%

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 69.4% ★, Puzzle 19.3%, Action 9.9%, Singleplayer 1.4%

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: Adventure 46.6%, Indie 25%, Puzzle 24.8%, Singleplayer 3.6%

AeternoBlade II: Infinity, new patch in 4K is a hardcore action-puzzle game of Time-Manipulation Combat. Control the flow of time, amend the past, foresee the future, convolute with alternate timelines to fight otherwise undefeatable foes and circumvent the impossible.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 55% ★, Action 15.5%, Puzzle 15.2%, Indie 13.1%, Singleplayer 1.1%

Iron Danger is a tactical combat puzzler with a unique time manipulation mechanic. A never before seen combination that blends the tactical depth of turn-based games with the exciting action of real-time games.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 66.3% ★, Puzzle 23.6%, Action 10.1%

Particulars is a game with a unique combination of arcade-action and puzzle gameplay, set in the mysterious world of subatomic particles.

Why similar: Indie 50.8%, Puzzle 49.2%

Polarity takes it to the next level, demanding all of your wits and reflexes. Full-featured local co-op campaign.

Why similar: Puzzle 54.8%, Indie 18.1%, Adventure 13.9%, Action 10.4%, Singleplayer 2.9%

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: Puzzle 57.3%, Adventure 22.9%, Indie 15.3%, Singleplayer 4.4%

This atmospheric, Metroidvania hacking adventure lets you take control of a semi-sapient program struggling against deletion. In the sprawling 3D world of a Mainframe, Recompile features intense combat, tight 3D platforming, super-powered abilities and an environmental logic-based hacking mechanic.

Why similar: Adventure 27.4%, Third Person 24.3%, Indie 22.9%, Action 21.7%, Singleplayer 3.7%

EXPERIENCE this Story-Driven Alternate Reality Game (ARG) that blends Your Real Life with Science Fiction as it explores the Dark Limits of Conspiracy, Alternate History, The Supernatural and Fringe Science.

Why similar: Adventure 37.6%, Puzzle 32.5%, Indie 30%

From Remedy Entertainment, the masters of cinematic action games, comes Quantum Break, a time-amplified suspenseful blockbuster. The Quantum Break experience is part game, part live action show—where decisions in one dramatically affect the other.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 69.2% ★, Action 12.9%, Third Person 9.6%, Adventure 6.2%, Singleplayer 2.1%

Adventures of different characters with their unique atmosphere and puzzles.

Why similar: Puzzle 37.6%, Indie 24%, Adventure 21.1%, Action 12.9%, Singleplayer 4.5%

Take control of the seasons and use them to solve puzzles, defeat enemies, and discover the beautiful world of Valdi in this award-winning indie adventure.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 42.3% ★, Adventure 17.5%, Puzzle 16.1%, Action 15.6%, Third Person 8.5%

Dive in Project Tower, a third-person shooter mixing intense bullet hell combat with a unique morphing ability. Imprisoned by the "Hiks", fight to the top of their deadly tower for freedom. Will you outsmart them and make your way out ?

Why similar: Puzzle 31.8%, Adventure 24.2%, Action 20.9%, Third Person 20%, Singleplayer 3.1%

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.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 73.8% ★, Puzzle 14.3%, Adventure 10.1%, Singleplayer 1.7%

Chromatic Conundrum is a first person puzzle game where you manipulate light. Combine different colors and form shadows to illuminate your way through an enigmatic world.

Why similar: Puzzle 55.7%, Adventure 25.7%, Indie 14.7%, Singleplayer 3.9%