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Top Time Travel Games

60+ time travel games ranked by player tags and tunable re-ranking. Related tags include Singleplayer, Adventure, Story Rich, Great Soundtrack.

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  1. #1 Life is Strange - Episode 1
    98% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 172,233 reviews2015
    Developer: DONTNOD EntertainmentPublisher: Square Enix
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 4.8hMean: 21.0h≥1hr: 83%

    Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

  2. #2 STEINS;GATE
    96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 25,378 reviews2016
    Developer: MAGES. Inc.Publisher: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 6.5hMean: 66.2h≥1hr: 81%

    Developed by 5pb. and Nitroplus, STEINS;GATE was awarded Famitsu magazine's coveted annual Game of Excellence award and was voted one of the most emotionally charged “tear-inducing games” ever made, in a Famitsu poll. It is a gripping and moving Visual Novel, which has already spawned manga and anime adaptations.

  3. #3 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel
    91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 8,762 reviews2020
    Developer: Conor Petersen
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 1.7hMean: 5.6h≥1hr: 62%

    It's the first ever chess variant with spatial, temporal, and parallel dimensions. It's 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel! Move pieces back in time to create branching timelines. Send a rook to a parallel dimension. Protect your kings in the present and in the past!

  4. #4 ASTLIBRA Revision
    88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 30,051 reviews2022
    Developer: KEIZOPublisher: WhisperGames
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 19.5hMean: 44.5h≥1hr: 86%

    Confront time and fate in the 2D action RPG, Astlibra Revision. Explore meticulously crafted worlds, fight brutal boss battles, and upgrade your skills to take down enemies lurking around every corner.

  5. #5 STEINS;GATE 0
    84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 7,939 reviews2018
    Developer: MAGES. Inc.Publisher: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.7hMean: 124.0h≥1hr: 88%

    If you can't save the one you love… How can you save humanity? Sequel to the visual novel cult classic. Experience an alternate worldline of STEINS;GATE.

  6. #6 The Forgotten City
    82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 13,031 reviews2021
    Developer: Modern StorytellerPublisher: Dear Villagers
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 6.0hMean: 7.7h≥1hr: 74%

    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.

  7. #7 Digimon Story Time Stranger
    80% matchVery Positive90% of 20,446 reviews2025
    Developer: Media.Vision Inc.Publisher: Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc.
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 30.3hMean: 40.2h≥1hr: 95%

    The latest in the Digimon Story series is finally here! In this RPG, unravel a mystery that spans across the human world and the Digital World, collecting and raising a wide variety of Digimon to save the world.

  8. #8 CHRONO TRIGGER®
    78% matchVery Positive88% of 12,795 reviews2018
    Developer: Square Enix
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.0hMean: 31.5h≥1hr: 78%

    The timeless RPG classic returns loaded with upgrades! Journey to the forgotten past, to the far future, and to the end of time. A big adventure to save the planet, now begins…

  9. #9 Twelve Minutes
    76% matchMostly Positive73% of 7,850 reviews2021
    Developer: Luis AntonioPublisher: Annapurna Interactive
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.3hMean: 6.0h≥1hr: 88%

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

  10. #10 Cronos: The New Dawn
    72% matchVery Positive88% of 9,818 reviews2025
    Developer: Bloober TeamPublisher: Bloober Team SA
    Platforms: Windows, Linux
    Median: 14.1hMean: 22.6h≥1hr: 90%

    A whole new breed of survival horror emerges with Cronos: The New Dawn. Survive the brutal wastelands of the future, fight nightmarish merging creatures and jump back in time to harvest souls as you seek to uncover the origins of the apocalypse that wiped out humanity.

  11. #11 Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit
    72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,691 reviews2024
    Developer: Mega Cat Studios
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.8hMean: 17.3h≥1hr: 87%

    Survive five nights of terror in this chilling adventure game. Travel between time periods to solve puzzles, gather clues, and outrun the threat relentlessly pursuing you. Move swiftly and stay hidden, and you may just survive. But be careful—it's not just your own life that’s on the line this time.

  12. #12 STEINS;GATE ELITE
    72% matchVery Positive90% of 1,627 reviews2019
    Developer: MAGES. Inc.Publisher: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.1hMean: 272.4h≥1hr: 66%

    STEINS;GATE ELITE follows a rag-tag band of tech-savvy young students who discover the means of changing the past via e-mail using a modified microwave.

  13. #13 In Stars And Time
    71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 8,095 reviews2023
    Developer: insertdisc5Publisher: Armor Games Studios
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.5hMean: 11.3h≥1hr: 82%

    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.

  14. #14 The Sexy Brutale
    71% matchVery Positive92% of 4,073 reviews2017
    Developer: Cavalier Game Studios
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 5.1hMean: 6.2h≥1hr: 87%

    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...

  15. #15 Wanderer
    70% matchVery Positive84% of 1,059 reviews2022
    Developer: Mighty Eyes
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.5hMean: 4.4h≥1hr: 59%

    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?

  16. #16 STEINS;GATE: Linear Bounded Phenogram
    70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,225 reviews2019
    Developer: MAGES. Inc.Publisher: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.1hMean: 129.0h≥1hr: 88%

    A story for every lab member. Discover a new side of each STEINS;GATE character and get a glimpse of their inner thoughts through 10 new stories.

  17. #17 GNOSIA
    69% matchVery Positive94% of 4,733 reviews2022
    Developer: Petit DepottoPublisher: PLAYISM
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 7.2hMean: 15.4h≥1hr: 90%

    The Gnosia lie. Pretending to be human, they’ll get in close, trick and deceive, and then eliminate one victim at a time...

  18. #18 Day of the Tentacle Remastered
    69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 4,615 reviews2016
    Developer: Double Fine Productions
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 3.6hMean: 4.9h≥1hr: 88%

    Originally released by LucasArts in 1993 as a sequel to Ron Gilbert’s ground breaking Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle is back in a remastered edition that features all new hand-drawn, high resolution artwork, with remastered audio, music and sound effects.

  19. #19 Deponia Doomsday
    69% matchVery Positive86% of 3,992 reviews2016
    Developer: Daedalic Entertainment
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 4.0hMean: 7.0h≥1hr: 93%

    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.

  20. #20 FINAL FANTASY® XIII-2
    70% matchMixed58% of 6,164 reviews2014
    Developer: Square Enix
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.7hMean: 32.2h≥1hr: 87%

    It is no longer about facing destiny. Create a new future and change the world! Now enhanced for Windows PC.

  21. #21 Multiverse Loot Hunter
    67% matchVery Positive81% of 2,607 reviews2025
    Developer: 游戏养家工作室
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 57.4hMean: 204.8h≥1hr: 95%

    This is a brush treasure adventure game across the heavens. The protagonist awakens his powers and freely passes through different planes such as Xiuxian, history, Wuxia, magic, and future. Collect equipment, spirits, characters and cheats distributed across all planes through battle.

  22. #22 Prince of Persia: Warrior Within™
    67% matchVery Positive83% of 3,948 reviews2008
    Developer: Ubisoft
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.4hMean: 8.8h≥1hr: 55%

    Enter the dark underworld of Prince of Persia Warrior Within, the sword-slashing sequel to the critically acclaimed Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time™. Hunted by Dahaka, an immortal incarnation of Fate seeking divine retribution, the Prince embarks upon a path of both carnage and mystery to defy his preordained death.

  23. #23 No Time
    65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 2,071 reviews2019
    Developer: Lost in Days Studio
    Platforms: Windows, Linux
    Median: 3.3hMean: 24.4h≥1hr: 79%

    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!

  24. #24 her tears were my light
    64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 796 reviews2022
    Developer: NomnomNami
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

    a love story between time and space

  25. #25 Pesterquest
    63% matchVery Positive90% of 1,529 reviews2019
    Developer: What Pumpkin Games, Inc.Publisher: Fellow Traveller
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 1.9hMean: 16.5h≥1hr: 59%

    Embark on a quest of epic importance in Pesterquest, a grimsical episodic visual novel adventure set in the darkly funny Homestuck / Hiveswap universe, created by American author and artist Andrew Hussie.

  26. #26 Omensight: Definitive Edition
    63% matchVery Positive89% of 1,510 reviews2018
    Developer: Spearhead Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 5.6hMean: 6.5h≥1hr: 89%

    Omensight is an Action Murder Mystery game. In order to prevent the apocalypse, you are fated to repeat the last day of the world until it can be saved. Investigate clues, fight enemies, and solve the murder of the Godless-Priestess.

  27. #27 DRAGON QUEST VII Reimagined
    61% matchVery Positive89% of 2,337 reviews2026
    Developer: Square Enix
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 16.4hMean: 27.7h≥1hr: 88%

    Unravel the mysteries of the past in DRAGON QUEST VII Reimagined! Gather your companions and travel beyond the shores of your small kingdom to discover why it is the only remaining island in the world.

  28. #28 Tick Tock Isle
    63% matchVery Positive86% of 330 reviews2015
    Developer: Squiddershins
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.4hMean: 4.0h≥1hr: 91%

    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.

  29. #29 Original War
    62% matchVery Positive95% of 2,131 reviews2014
    Developer: Altar GamesPublisher: Bohemia Interactive
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.0hMean: 14.6h≥1hr: 51%

    An American geological expedition, under a UN mandate, assesses the natural resources in a distant part of Siberia, deep in the trackless steppes of Eastern Russia. But instead of oil, they discover a deposit of a hitherto unknown mineral.

  30. #30 ISLAND
    62% matchVery Positive95% of 1,748 reviews2018
    Developer: FrontwingPublisher: Frontwing USA
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 5.6hMean: 154.6h≥1hr: 85%

    Sanzenkai Setsuna awakens on the shore of isolated island Urashima with no memories of his past. Befriending three local girls, Rinne, Karen, and Sara, Setsuna's quest to discover the secrets of Urashima and how they tie into his own past - and future - begins.

  31. #31 Induction
    63% matchVery Positive90% of 187 reviews2017
    Developer: Bryan Gale
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 42mMean: 6.1h≥1hr: 43%

    Induction is an abstract puzzle game about time travel and paradoxes. As you master its logic, Induction will rewire how you think about cause and effect.

  32. #32 Cats in Time
    61% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,369 reviews2021
    Developer: Pine Studio
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.1hMean: 4.6h≥1hr: 90%

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

  33. #33 ANOTHER EDEN
    62% matchMixed68% of 2,011 reviews2021
    Developer: WFS, Inc.
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.3hMean: 185.0h≥1hr: 75%

    [Single player JRPG] Take your cat on a time-traveling adventure!

  34. #34 Reminiscence
    61% matchVery Positive85% of 1,502 reviews2021
    Developer: Reminiscence Project
    Platforms: Windows

    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.

  35. #35 Time Clickers
    61% matchVery Positive87% of 5,103 reviews2015
    Developer: Proton Studio IncPublisher:
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 3.4hMean: 121.4h≥1hr: 69%

    Time Clickers is what's called an 'incremental game'. There's always a fun upgrade to look forward to, and the numbers keep getting bigger! Hire a team to fight for you, even when you're offline!

  36. #36 RewindGirl
    60% matchVery Positive92% of 87 reviews2025
    Developer: べすとまん
    Platforms: Windows

    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!

  37. #37 Chrono Gear: Warden of Time
    59% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 901 reviews2025
    Developer: Team Chrono GearPublisher: holo Indie
    Platforms: Windows, Linux
    Median: 3.7hMean: 7.6h≥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!

  38. #38 River Town Factory
    59% matchVery Positive89% of 1,328 reviews2024
    Developer: iFAction Studio
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 5.8hMean: 17.3h≥1hr: 84%

    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……

  39. #39 Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones™
    61% matchVery Positive80% of 2,640 reviews2008
    Developer: Ubisoft MontrealPublisher: Ubisoft
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.2hMean: 7.0h≥1hr: 53%

    The Prince of Persia, a seasoned warrior, returns from the Island of Time to Babylon with his love, Kaileena. Instead of the peace that he longs for, he finds his homeland ravaged by war and the kingdom turned against him.

  40. #40 DragonLoop
    59% matchVery Positive92% of 525 reviews2025
    Developer: 沙因
    Platforms: Windows

    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.

  41. #41 Chronigma
    58% matchNo user reviews100% of 286 reviews2025
    Developer: C3BGames
    Platforms: 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?

  42. #42 No Time To Explain Remastered
    60% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,540 reviews2015
    Developer: tinyBuild
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 3.2hMean: 5.5h≥1hr: 82%

    "I Am You From The Future! No Time To Explain, Follow m-OH CHRIST!" Chase your future self through time and alternate realities while fighting giant monsters, collecting hats, and eating cake! No Time To Explain Remastered is the remake of tinyBuild's debut game. Now with multiplayer!

  43. #43 D4: Dark Dreams Don’t Die -Season One-
    60% matchVery Positive80% of 1,971 reviews2015
    Developer: Access GamesPublisher: PLAYISM
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.6hMean: 6.1h≥1hr: 89%

    This is the story of a man with a very strange fate. His name is David Young. Two years ago, his wife was murdered by an unknown assailant, and Young suffered a blow to the head that cost him his memory. His wife's final words: “Look for D.”

  44. #44 Kraken Academy!!
    59% matchVery Positive90% of 1,023 reviews2021
    Developer: Happy Broccoli GamesPublisher: Fellow Traveller
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 3.2hMean: 5.4h≥1hr: 82%

    Make friends, free spirits and make sure that the world doesn’t end! Welcome to Kraken Academy, a technicolor fever dream that for legal reasons can only be described as "technically a school." Join forces with a magical kraken to save the world!

  45. #45 Kelvin and the Infamous Machine
    60% matchVery Positive91% of 983 reviews2016
    Developer: Blyts
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 3.3hMean: 3.8h≥1hr: 93%

    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!

  46. #46 START AGAIN: a prologue
    58% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 632 reviews2021
    Developer: insertdisc5
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 2.1hMean: 6.0h≥1hr: 66%

    timeloop depression station ✦ In Stars and Time's prototype-thingy-thing

  47. #47 Daikatana
    60% matchMixed53% of 1,134 reviews2013
    Publisher: Square Enix
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 12mMean: 13.0h≥1hr: 26%

    In 2455 AD, Kage Mishima used the magical powers of Daikatana, the most powerful sword ever forged, to alter time and establish himself as supreme dictator. You are Hiro Miyamoto, one of the few people on earth who knows what happened.

  48. #48 What Lies in the Multiverse
    57% matchVery Positive92% of 705 reviews2022
    Developer: Studio VoyagerPublisher: Untold Tales
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.2hMean: 7.6h≥1hr: 66%

    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.

  49. #49 Loop Queen-Escape Dungeon 3
    57% matchVery Positive84% of 611 reviews2024
    Developer: Hide Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac

    The queen may have Fiara's protection, but the Misty Forest is a dangerous place. Any mistake could cause the queen and her captors to appear in massive Live2D animated CGs. You may even be forced to participate...

  50. #50 The Great Perhaps
    57% matchVery Positive81% of 838 reviews2019
    Developer: Caligari GamesPublisher: Daedalic Entertainment
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 2.2hMean: 3.4h≥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.

  51. #51 Starstruck: Hands of Time
    56% matchVery Positive94% of 270 reviews2024
    Developer: Createdelic, LLC
    Platforms: Windows

    Starstruck: Hands of Time is a story-rich rhythm adventure game where you play guitar and abuse time travel! Control a giant hand destroying a miniature town, or play as the two guitarist kids living in it. For extra fun, optionally plug in a Guitar Hero controller!

  52. #52 Through Abandoned: The Forest
    58% matchMostly Positive76% of 455 reviews2016
    Developer: Igor KrutovPublisher: Conglomerate 5
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.6hMean: 5.0h≥1hr: 96%

    You continue your journey in worlds of Abandoned.

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