Time Travelers

Recommendations by Walter Sandsquish

Players get to travel back and forth through their player-characters' time-lines all the time by using UNDO, RESTART, and RESTORE. So, it's only fair that player-characters sometimes get to move back and forth through a time-line also. Here are some games featuring time travelers.

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1. All Things Devours, by half sick of shadows (2004)
Average member rating: (93 ratings)
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The PC developed a time machine. Now it must be used to destroy it.

2. Fifteen Minutes
by Ade McT
(2014)
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

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The PC needs more time to complete a lab for class. The time machine might help.

3. Finding Martin
by G.K. Wennstrom
(2005)
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

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The PC's friend is missing. Travel through his history to find him.

4. Fingertips: Fingertips, by Michael D. Hilborn (2012)
Average member rating: (9 ratings)
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The PC is trapped in a time loop. Decipher a script which will allow him to break free.

5. First Things First
by J. Robinson Wheeler
(2001)
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

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The PC finds a time machine in his yard. See what comes from tweaking his home's history.

6. Jigsaw
by Graham Nelson
(1995)
Average member rating: (81 ratings)

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Someone is messing with the time-line to mess with the PC. Get that mess cleaned up.

7. Lost New York, by Neil deMause (1996)
Average member rating: (19 ratings)
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The PC wants to tour New York City. An unexpected find allows him to explore the city's history also.

8. A Mind Forever Voyaging
by Steve Meretzky
(1985)
Average member rating: (113 ratings)

Walter Sandsquish says:

The PC is an AI with access to a sim of history. See how changing the time-line changes history.

9. Moments Out of Time, by L. Ross Raszewski (2001)
Average member rating: (13 ratings)
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The PC is a historian with a time machine. Learn about an ancient family through their abandoned home before it's destroyed by warfare.

10. T-Zero
by Dennis Cunningham
(1991)
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

Walter Sandsquish says:

The PC gets fired by an awful administrator. Find artifacts through-out time that will mitigate his malevolent machinations.

11. TimeQuest
by Bob Bates
(1991)
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

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The PC's time agency has a rogue agent. Find and stop that time traveler.

12. Trinity
by Brian Moriarty
(1986)
Average member rating: (102 ratings)

Walter Sandsquish says:

A sundial allows the PC to avoid a nuclear holocaust and witness the origins of nuclear weapons.

13. Vicious Cycles, by Simon Mark (2001)
Average member rating: (16 ratings)
Walter Sandsquish says:

The PC must prevent a tragedy. Fortunately, a time-loop ensures eventual success.

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