The best time travel games
Time travel is a recurring theme in science fiction and speculative fiction. Movies, books, comics used extensively time travel in every imaginable way. Video games followed with original - often twisted - plots or games licensed from popular movies (Back to the Future).
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Time Bandit
DOS1989 MichTron
Time Bandit is a classic top-down arcade-style video game that was released in 1982 for various home computer systems, such as the Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, and others. It was developed by MichTron. In Time Bandit, players contro...
The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS1998protected Presto Studios
The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time is the third chapter in The Journeyman Project series. It's a science fiction adventure game developed by Presto Studios, designed by Phil Saunders and published by Red Orb Entertainment in...
Space Quest 4: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers
DOSWindows 3.x1991protected Sierra On-Line
The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time
Windows XP/98/95Mac OSWindows 3.x1995protecteddemo Presto Studios
The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time is a point-and-click adventure game developed by Presto Studios, released in 1995 as a sequel to The Journeyman Project. The Journeyman Project series is set in a future where time tra...
Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego?
DOS1989 Broderbund
Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego? is an educational computer game and television game show franchise created by Broderbund. It focuses on teaching geography and history while players try to track down the infamous thief, Carmen Sa...
Future Wars: Adventures in Time
DOS1990 Delphine software
WaxWorks
DOSMac OS1992protecteddemo Horror Soft
Waxworks was a horror-themed first-person role-playing game developed by Horror Soft, a subsidiary of Adventure Soft, published in 1992. The game is set in a wax museum where players must travel through different historical p...
Timequest
DOS1991protected Legend Entertainment
Flying Tigers
DOS1994 Ticsoft
Flying Tigers is an abandoned vertical-scrolling sci-fi themed shoot 'em up game developed and released by Ticsoft in 1994 for MS-DOS only. Flying Tigers is the first chapter of the two parts Flying Tigers video game series.
Day of the Tentacle
DOSMac OS1993protected LucasArts
Day of the Tentacle is a point-and-click graphic adventure game developed and published by LucasArts. It was released in 1993 as a sequel to the game Maniac Mansion. The storyline revolves around three main characters: Bernard Ber...
Time and Magik: The Trilogy
DOS1988 Level 9 Computing
Trinity
DOS1986 Infocom
Time Slaughter
DOS1996freeware Bloodlust Software
Pepper's Adventures in Time
DOS1993 Sierra On-Line
Callahan's Crosstime Saloon
DOS1997 Legend Entertainment
Imagine Cheers met Quantum Leap and got weirdly philosophical. That’s Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon, a narrative adventure based on Spider Robinson’s sci-fi stories. You’re Jake Stonebender, a pun-slinging ti...
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
DOS1990 Off The Wall Productions
Based on the film that made air guitar cool (briefly), Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure is a time-traveling puzzler where history class meets stoner logic. Gather historical figures, survive bizarre puzzles, and pray that your k...
Lost in Time
DOS1993 Coktel Vision
Back to the Future Part 2
DOS1990 Images Software
1990’s Back to the Future Part 2 for DOS is a game that tries very hard to be as confusing as time travel itself. You’re Marty McFly, zipping between timelines, avoiding paradoxes, and trying to not get arrested for pi...
Alien Fires 2199 AD
DOS1988 Paragon Software
Released in 1988, Alien Fires 2199 AD looks and plays like someone tried to translate a fever dream into a sci-fi RPG. You control some dude with a chin of steel and a crew that seems perpetually confused. The interface is clunky,...
Chrono Quest II
DOS1989 SARL Infomedia
Guardians of Infinity: to Save Kennedy
DOS1988protected Paragon Software
Mario's Time Machine
DOS1993 The Software Toolworks
L'Eternauta: Gli Invasori della Città Eterna
DOS1994 Holodream Software
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