Abandonware DOS title

Sci-fi games about time travel

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).

Most popular time travel games

Day of the Tentacle
adventureDOS, Mac OS
Lost in Time
adventureDOS
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Alien Fires 2199 AD

DOS1988 Paragon Software
Alien Fires: 2199 AD is a 1987/88 science fiction RPG (role-playing game) developed and published by Paragon Software for the Amiga, Atari ST and MS-DOS. Players can customize their character’s stats and skills at the beginning of the game. The graphics were considered quite advanced, especially on the Amiga platform.
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Back to the Future Part 2

DOS1990 Images Software
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Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

DOS1990 Off The Wall Productions
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Callahan's Crosstime Saloon

DOS1997 Legend Entertainment
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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 Bernoulli, Hoagie, and Laverne. The trio becomes entangled in a time-traveling escapade caused by the Purple Tentacle, an e...
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Explora 2

DOS1989 SARL Infomedia
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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.
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Future Wars: Adventures in Time

DOS1990 Delphine software
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Guardians of Infinity: to Save Kennedy

DOS1988protected Paragon Software
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Lost in Time

DOS1993 Coktel Vision
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Pepper's Adventures in Time

DOS1993 Sierra On-Line
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Space Quest 4: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers

DOSWindows 3.x1991protected Sierra On-Line
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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 travel has been discovered and is regulated by a temporal security agency called the Temporal Security Annex (TSA). Players...
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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 1998 for Windows and Macintosh.
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Time and Magik: The Trilogy

DOS1988 Level 9 Computing
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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 control a character who must navigate through a series of maze-like levels, battling various enemies and collecting treasure a...
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Time Slaughter

DOS1996freeware Bloodlust Software
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Timequest

DOS1991protected Legend Entertainment
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Trinity

DOS1986 Infocom
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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 periods, each represented by a wax exhibit. Each exhibit serves as a portal to a different time and place, featuring vari...
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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 Sandiego, and her gang across different historical periods.The game was first released in 1989, followed by the TV show in...
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