Games Like The Time Machine

This VR Journey takes you to the 'behind the scenes' of the Universe. Beyond a door lies a barren landscape inhabited by strange rocky heads. Here, the maintenance and heavy lifting required keeps existence stable and temporal. You are a tourist. Don't do anything foolish.

Why similar: Experimental 23.6% ★, VR 18.3%, Philosophical 17.6%, Surreal 11.9%, Horror 8.4%

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 44.8% ★, VR 24.8%, Time Manipulation 15.4% ★, Historical 10.3%, Exploration 4.7%

Afterglitch is an experimental third-person exploration sci-fi video game. The player is an astronaut whose multidimensional journey to find an extraterrestrial civilization is more important than the destination!

Why similar: Time Travel 32.1% ★, Philosophical 19.6%, Surreal 12.6%, Time Manipulation 11% ★, Space 7.9%

Sorrow Asylum 2 is a looping horror game, a mix of an abandoned asylum and your mind's prison, as well as a sequel to Sorrow Asylum.

Why similar: Time Travel 22.1% ★, Surreal 13.3%, Philosophical 13%, Abstract 13%, Psychological Horror 9.6%

A devoutly Catholic mother reconnects with her son, Sebastian, through his diary and her imagination. Envisioning a scene from Sebastian’s diary, she imagines him alive and in love.

Why similar: Experimental 22.2% ★, 6DOF 17.9% ★, VR 17.1%, Time Travel 15.1% ★, Historical 12.2%

Ancient Rituals: Stonehenge is a ludic VR experience, where you will experience our interpretation of an ancient pagan ritual. A ritual that is beyond linear time and three dimensional space.You are in an exploration to find yourself

Why similar: Time Travel 24.9% ★, Experimental 18.4% ★, VR 15.7%, 6DOF 14.1% ★, Philosophical 14%

The greate waves destroyed everything in the city, but the mysterious mechanism stopped the time in the game district. For all outside residents, the events within the segment stopped, but for the inhabitants of the district the time continues to go.

Why similar: Time Travel 31.7% ★, Time Manipulation 23.5% ★, Experimental 23.3% ★, Horror 8.9%, Abstract 6.9%

You have invented a Time Watch, and traveled back in time to stop a bomb from detonating in a building in New York City, which started World War 3 and thus destroyed most of humanity. You get 4 loops of the same 2 minutes in which to find the 3 terrorists, find the code, and diffuse the bomb.

Why similar: Time Travel 51% ★, VR 20.8%, 6DOF 11% ★, Sci-fi 8.9%, Realistic 8.3%

Looking for an immersive VR physics puzzler? Chrono Weaver is a single-player co-op game. Work with copies of yourself as you travel through space and time, finding solutions to seemingly impossible tests. Get to work and get lost in this quirky sci-fi world.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 24.5% ★, VR 23.8%, Time Travel 22.7% ★, Sci-fi 8.2%, Linear 7.7%

⚠️VR-only. Your mic is recording. Your actions too.⚠️ Infiltrate a retro space station. Get trapped in a time loop. Your past copies will replay every word you said and every mistake you made. You're the team. You're also the problem.

Why similar: Time Travel 25.5% ★, Time Manipulation 23.9% ★, VR 17.8%, Dark Humor 14.4%, Funny 8.1%

Surely one change shouldn't change everything, right?

Why similar: Time Travel 44% ★, Time Manipulation 37.6% ★, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Horror 5.8%

Change the dim world, fill it with light. Each inky struggle improves your sight. "Sometimes words alone can't paint the whole picture." A VR game about depression.

Why similar: Experimental 31.6% ★, VR 20.1%, Abstract 13.4%, Philosophical 13.2%, 6DOF 12.3% ★

Ride the bus in VR.

Why similar: Experimental 26.3% ★, VR 18.5%, 6DOF 15.3% ★, Surreal 13.6%, Abstract 12.3%

An interactive, history-based, virtual reality experience joined with a digital exhibition about one of the greatest discoveries made at the Giza necropolis. Retrace the steps of famous archeologists and ancient royals to find and restore their lost treasures.

Why similar: Time Travel 28.9% ★, VR 20.1%, Historical 16.2%, 6DOF 13.1% ★, Realistic 9.4%

ChronoTecture: The Eprologue is an indie FPS adventure game created by an architectural designer. Discover a surreal world and story about Cats, Time-Travel, Life, Death, and Dreams. Featuring gameplay with futuristic archery, time-control, exploration, and platforming.

Why similar: Time Travel 31.2% ★, Time Manipulation 25.4% ★, Surreal 13.9%, Philosophical 11.5%, Exploration 7.1%

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 60.5% ★, Time Manipulation 39.5% ★

StarDrone: Sling Star is the Hyper-Kinetic race across the galaxy with a mix of pinball, arcade action, and breakout, now on flat screens and in Virtual Reality.

Why similar: Experimental 31.3% ★, VR 22.7%, Abstract 17%, 6DOF 12.9% ★, Space 7.2%

A Forgetful Loop is a time-based worker-placement puzzle game, where you need to weigh up which nodes are more important at a given moment; To get closer to the core, closer to the finish line!

Why similar: Time Travel 42.9% ★, Experimental 40.9% ★, Sci-fi 8.9%, Abstract 7.3%

You have no health, no mana, no XP. You only have time, and every step spends it. You travel backward from the present day to the Big Bang, through many different periods. Every discovery earns you more time to venture further, and brings you closer to the mystery at the heart of a loop.

Why similar: Time Travel 46.7% ★, Historical 20.7%, Time Manipulation 18.4% ★, Exploration 10.2%, Sci-fi 4.1%

Your future is vaster than the cosmos.

Why similar: Experimental 48.7% ★, Philosophical 29.6%, Surreal 21.7%

Squingle is the ultimate Mixed Reality 3D puzzle game. Navigate glass-like mazes called ‘Squingles,’ guiding orbs while avoiding edges and collecting points. Discover why it’s a critically acclaimed 5-star masterpiece!

Why similar: Experimental 23% ★, VR 19.1%, Philosophical 15.3%, Surreal 14.3%, Abstract 13.7%

You've been tasked with crawling into a crawlspace to retrieve some dolls. what could go wrong? Made exclusively for VR

Why similar: VR 34.4%, 6DOF 25.8% ★, Horror 14.7%, Psychological Horror 12.9%, Realistic 7%

A labyrinth computer program to train you for your new body. A puzzle platformer game set in the future when body transplants have become a reality.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 20.5% ★, Dark Humor 18.6%, Surreal 13.4%, Abstract 12.5%, Philosophical 10.2%

Step into this experimental, story driven escape room genre, and be part of a modern take on the beginning and end of times. Explore unearthly locations starting from small chambers to ending up on a galactic scale, and crack puzzles in every one of them that will help you face THE ANSWER!

Why similar: Experimental 28.9% ★, VR 21.2%, Philosophical 14%, 6DOF 12% ★, Surreal 9.7%

Play as you playing as you.

Why similar: Experimental 33.6% ★, Philosophical 20.9%, Surreal 16.5%, Abstract 15.2%, Space 9.7%

Guildford Castle is a free roaming, narrative VR experience with light interactivity.

Why similar: Time Travel 36.3% ★, Historical 19.8%, 6DOF 16.2% ★, VR 16%, Realistic 9.1%

Inside the art - Cosmic Voyage This VR takes you on a cosmic journey through the universe of OUBEYs paintings. Starting on Earth you are led into the far distant depths of space and back...

Why similar: Experimental 40% ★, Abstract 20%, 6DOF 16.2% ★, VR 9.9%, Exploration 9%

Armed with a neural implant that rewinds time, CIA operative Wolf Cross must save civilization from an eco-terrorist mastermind wielding future technology. As Wolf, use your RECLOCK ability to outflank enemies, resurrect allies, solve physics puzzles, and perform stunts while time runs in reverse.

Why similar: Time Travel 46.6% ★, Cold War 22.1% ★, Time Manipulation 14.5% ★, Military 13.7%, Sci-fi 3%

A short story about a parasitic sunflower and her loyal son. Eat everything you can. Enjoy the sunshine. Do whatever it takes to make her happy. This is a prequel to Siren's Call: Escape Velocity.

Why similar: Experimental 31.4% ★, Philosophical 17.1%, Abstract 16.7%, Psychological Horror 12.9%, Surreal 11.3%

Explore a looping school and reach the rooftop in this VR horror game in the style of The Exit 8. Spot an anomaly? Go up. Nothing unusual? Go down. Simple rules bring you face to face with the school's supernatural horrors.

Why similar: VR 35.3%, Horror 15.2%, 6DOF 15% ★, Psychological Horror 10.1%, Exploration 9.9%

Samsara is a VR reincarnation journey where you inhabit multiple human and non-human bodies across time. Experience shifting perception, altered gravity, and transformed consciousness through embodied existence. What changes is not the world, but how you exist within it.

Why similar: Cold War 29.5% ★, 6DOF 22% ★, VR 20.2%, Surreal 13.3%, Space 7.7%

You've only precious moments before time collapses onto itself to save your family. Warp, jump and rewind through time and space - and pray that whatever lives between it doesn't notice you.

Why similar: Time Travel 39.3% ★, Time Manipulation 19.1% ★, Horror 14.7%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Surreal 4.7%

A collection of tiny experimental games (and "notgames") inspired by travel.

Why similar: Experimental 32.3% ★, Philosophical 20.5%, Historical 19.8%, Abstract 14.2%, Linear 6.7%

Crawl through the darkness in this psychological horror visual novel with multiple endings, where you will traverse a surreal nightmare as you choose your own path and explore strange spaces in an attempt to wake up, if you can...

Why similar: Experimental 27.8% ★, Surreal 17%, Abstract 15.6%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Philosophical 12.7%

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 31.9% ★, Experimental 26.2% ★, Abstract 18.9%, Surreal 10.7%, Sci-fi 6.7%

This is not what you are looking for. Who knows, he remembers.

Why similar: Time Travel 28.1% ★, Time Manipulation 20.7% ★, Philosophical 20.3%, Surreal 16.6%, Abstract 9.7%

B.D.K is a short experimental first person horror game that mainly relies on atmosphere and sounds to create a creepy experience.

Why similar: Experimental 46.1% ★, Abstract 20.7%, Horror 17.2%, Psychological Horror 10.1%, Realistic 5.9%

A girl named Hailey struggles to remember the face of her dead sister for a paintings as a suicidal bunny plush & a shadowy hare monster infiltrate her life.

Why similar: Dark Humor 18.3%, Surreal 15.2%, Philosophical 14.6%, Abstract 14.1%, Psychological Horror 11%

A punishing VR climbing game. Climb a surreal mountain with nothing but a hammer.

Why similar: VR 25.3%, Philosophical 22.8%, Dark Humor 16.6%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Horror 11%

Difficulty is a short, experimental visual novel, about both the difficulty level of stories, and the difficulties of real life. The plot, themes, challenges, and morals all become greater and harder to understand and accept as the difficulty increases.

Why similar: Experimental 49% ★, Philosophical 29.1%, Abstract 14.1%, Realistic 7.8%

The Chronos Principle is a breathtaking journey through a series of intricate puzzles that explore the concept of time manipulation.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 34.6% ★, Time Travel 29.6% ★, Abstract 19.2%, Surreal 11.3%, Linear 5.3%

MaryPark St. is a short story telling indie game, set in a black and white dream-like world. Featuring two interpretations of the same story, The Dream & The Nightmare.

Why similar: Experimental 44.2% ★, Philosophical 19.2%, Surreal 18.6%, Abstract 18%

Collaborate with your past self to change the present and influence the future. Only your vision affects the world.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 32.8% ★, Experimental 22.4% ★, Philosophical 22.4%, Surreal 17.8%, Exploration 4.7%

Uncover cheating optical illusions, with your brain and eyes deceiving you at every opportunity... Experience these popular eyetwisters interactively like you've never seen before! This minimalist, but surreal game will make you question all senses you have.

Why similar: Experimental 38% ★, Abstract 19.6%, Historical 15.2%, Surreal 14.3%, Philosophical 12.9%

Re-live the early days of spaceflight in the accurate, detailed and exciting simulation of the Mercury spacecraft.

Why similar: Cold War 25% ★, VR 23.3%, Historical 20.7%, Space 8.8%, Realistic 6.9%

Struggle. Fall. Triumph. Hold on. A small yet grand journey across life. Simple interactions connect seemingly unrelated moments, from the microscopic to the cosmic.

Why similar: Experimental 43.6% ★, Abstract 22.1%, Philosophical 19%, Exploration 10.8%, Surreal 4.4%

A surrealist indie first-person adventure game based on art and derealization. Explore the idea of a mind losing its grasp with reality, as reality turns into a dream, and that dream turns into a nightmare.

Why similar: Experimental 28.3% ★, Philosophical 18.7%, Dark Humor 18.2%, Surreal 17.9%, Psychological Horror 10.8%

A short experimental visual novel about obsessive counting.

Why similar: Experimental 38% ★, Abstract 20.2%, Psychological Horror 16.4%, Horror 13.4%, Philosophical 12%

Press one button. Regret it immediately. A bite-sized analog horror comedy made to be finished in minutes, streamed for reactions, or gifted to a friend as a tiny act of betrayal. Headphones strongly recommended. Friendship not guaranteed.

Why similar: Experimental 31.9% ★, Dark Humor 26.6%, Horror 18.3%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Surreal 6.4%

Testimonium is a bite-sized, experimental analog horror game designed to push your psychological limits. PLAY THE TAPE.

Why similar: Experimental 34.7% ★, Psychological Horror 16.1%, Horror 15%, Surreal 13.4%, Abstract 12.9%

“Please Wake Up” is a memory horror game. It has simple and accessible, yet engaging, gameplay that gives the player a fear of their own mind. As you look around the room, objects will change when they are not visible. Click on the objects if they have changed.

Why similar: Experimental 32.5% ★, Philosophical 22.6%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Surreal 11.1%, Horror 9.1%

On the remote island of Scirine, Majed, a young biology intern, arrives at Al-Bayan Research Center, expecting scientific breakthroughs. But his journey turns into a descent into mystery as he uncovers terrifying truths, where reality blends with illusions, revealing more secrets with every step.

Why similar: Time Travel 43.6% ★, Philosophical 16.6%, Psychological Horror 14.3%, Horror 12.7%, Sci-fi 7.4%

Based on interdisciplinary research in VR, HYPNOSIS REVERIES takes an abstract and minimalist approach to tell a story about growing. Through a 20-minute experience, you will step into a mental maze, looking back at the important moments that changed you, and see yourself again.

Why similar: VR 25.1%, Philosophical 23%, 6DOF 21.3% ★, Abstract 21.2%, Surreal 6%

Aleph is an enigmatic cube, a repository of human lore and simulacra. After the fall of human civilization, as a traveler, you depart from the space station and eventually reach the ruins of the dilapidated city, searching for scattered cubes to read the images and texts left behind by humanity.

Why similar: Time Travel 30.2% ★, Experimental 22% ★, Abstract 16.5%, Surreal 12.6%, Exploration 9.6%

“The Line” is great for showcasing VR for first-time users. This award-winning experience is a 15-20 minutes interactive story of two figurines who are perfect for each other but reluctant to live out their love.

Why similar: Experimental 26.7% ★, 6DOF 25.9% ★, VR 24.9%, Historical 10.5%, Exploration 6.3%

Feel the beat! A VR rhythm shooter where you kill enemies in beat, as they fly towards you, alternating pistols hand to hand, surrounded by beautiful skies with musical visualization. Created by a solo developer.

Why similar: Experimental 24.8% ★, VR 17.6%, Time Manipulation 17.4% ★, Abstract 16.6%, Surreal 11.4%

A story rich narrative puzzle game in which an artist comes to terms with their grief. Explore an infinitely recursive world of strange fractal beauty and solve mind-bending puzzles. Confront the ineffable and chat with your cat in a search for meaning and hope.

Why similar: Experimental 25.5% ★, Philosophical 18%, Abstract 16.9%, Surreal 16.3%, Exploration 9.8%

Embark on a psychedelic 30 minute VR journey into a mysterious universe of alien architecture, populated by humanoid clones and cryptic symbols.

Why similar: Experimental 33.4% ★, VR 22.3%, 6DOF 18.9% ★, Abstract 17.8%, Exploration 7.6%

You are an insect collector. Wander through old summer memories looking for colors.

Why similar: Experimental 34.1% ★, Philosophical 22.4%, Abstract 20.4%, Surreal 15.5%, Exploration 7.5%