Chronigma
C3BGames
Master time in this time-bending sokoban-like puzzle game with a story. You travel back in time to be in two places at once, to solve puzzles impossible to complete alone. Your success hinges on your…
Steam
Best Time-Bending Puzzles
131 Time-Bending Puzzles ranked by a Bayesian score that blends App Store, Google Play and Steam ratings with votes from Mentometry players. Filter further, compare games side by side and rate your favorites.
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5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel
Conor Petersen, Thunkspace, LLC
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…
Steam
Hair of the Dog
Tall Story Games Ltd
Help Cummerbund Bandersnatch in this quintessentially British point & click comedy adventure as he explores the darker side of Victorian England, oblivious to its perils. Manipulate time, talk to…
Steam
Meet me at NooN
Pandaroo Interactive
Could time go backwards? Meet me at NooN is a time manipulation turn-based puzzle-platformer with Tenet inspired mechanics. Control two characters, create perfect time loops and solve brain melting…
Steam
Orten Was The Case
Woodhill Interactive
Orten Was The Case - A free movement puzzle/adventure game where you play as a youngster stuck in a time loop with the simple task of saving the world from literal destruction.
Steam
Fate of Kai
TRYLIGHT GAME STUDIO
Explore a magical hand-drawn comic book, travel through time, manipulate characters’ ideas, and solve visual puzzles in this innovative point-and-click adventure to uncover Kai’s fate.
Steam
The God Unit
Cat Floor Studio
The GoD Unit is a first-person physics-based puzzle game set in a near pre-apocalyptic future, featuring the mass manipulation ability and other familiar and beloved puzzle mechanics.
Steam
REWIND
Damian_Zhao
《REWIND》 is a hardcore text-based detective puzzle game containing nearly a hundred clues. Players need to carefully examine and deduce the clues to find the answer to the case.
Steam
Timebound Demo
Michal Kluz, Patrycja Sagan, Fabien Calabria
An exploration puzzle adventure in mystical ruins. Explore a world filled with puzzles, uncover the magic left behind, discover what's hidden in plain sight, learn the rules and break them.
Steam
Gateways
Smudged Cat Games Ltd
From the creative mind behind The Adventures of Shuggy comes an exciting new retro-styled 2D platformer, a winner of Dream Build Play 2012 and a top 50 game of 2012 according to Game Informer. Grab…
Steam
Chrono
David Simoes
Chrono is a puzzle/platformer game where you control how time affects objects in the world. By freezing time, fast-forwarding, or rewinding objects, you can crack a wide variety of puzzles. The goal…
Steam
Time Chess Demo
无远弗届 Wanderlust
This is a chess puzzle game where you can rewind time to any previous move, but the fate of death is unchangeable. Some pieces are unaffected by time and influence all past moves simultaneously. Use…
Steam
Sandy's Great Escape
Mocha Moose Games
A crabby twist on the sokoban (box-pushing) genre, where you use deaths to create shells and solve puzzles.
Steam
Hexahedra
Sidequest Ninja
Hexahedra is a puzzle game about beautiful efficiency. Design, program, and optimize factories to build cubes, used galaxy-wide as crates, satellite housing, even chic coffins. Rewind the action to…
Steam
Cobots
Subfrost Interactive AB
Manipulate time and cooperate with yourself to solve challenging puzzles! Delve into a colorful world filled with a variety of dangers and unique mind-bending puzzle mechanics.
Steam
Rogum A Cat Match Puzzle
DevGamesRo
Rogum A Cat Match Puzzle is a puzzle adventure where you help a clever cat escape a mysterious dream world. Match blocks, race against the rising water, and face obstacles across mysterious islands…
Steam
Exp10sion
Loopy Games, cortexA233, Koway, Psalms77, Hooke
"Exp10sion" is a pixel-art puzzle platformer. You'll play as a bomb that explodes within 10 seconds. Each explosion respawns the bomb, starts a new round, and generates a "Time…
Steam
Reflection
February scissors
Reflection is a Chinese VR puzzle game. The puzzle is innovative and unique. Players will challenge a multi-dimensional space created by the mirror, and use mirrors to solve puzzles by manipulating…
Steam
Raster
Rchair Studio
Raster is a casual puzzle game about space. Here, you can use a variety of spatial abilities to traverse across diverse terrains, all in search of carrots for the bunny.
Steam
You Can Save Everyone
Caleb Draper
You Can Save Everyone is a heartfelt horror meta-puzzle game. Trapped deep within a facility with only a console to communicate with the others inside, decipher the proper methods to control the…
Steam
Looppip Demo
Petal Twirl Studio
Master time control with Looppip in a challenging platformer puzzle game! Rewind 3 seconds into the past to overcome traps, save beehives, and restore the balance of nature.
Steam
Frequently asked questions
What are the best Time-Bending Puzzles?
Right now the top-ranked are Chronigma, 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel, Hair of the Dog. Rankings use a Bayesian score that blends App Store, Google Play and Steam ratings with votes from Mentometry players, so a game with a handful of votes cannot jump to the top.
How many Time-Bending Puzzles are there?
Mentometry lists 131 games here, and the list grows as new games are added and rated.
Are there free Time-Bending Puzzles?
Yes – 40 of them are free to start, for example Chronigma, Hair of the Dog, REWIND. Use the filters in the directory to narrow by price, platform or age rating.