List of Games Containing Time Travel - Video Games - Time Travel As A Gameplay Element

Time Travel As A Gameplay Element

Name Year Platform(s) Description
Achron 2011 Linux, Mac OS X, Windows Single-player and multi-player free-form time travel. Players can play at different points in time simultaneously and can stop, slow, and fast forward through the flow of time. Players can also send units through time.
Blinx 2002 Xbox Single-player 3d platformer with time travel. Players can exert some control over time itself; slowing, speeding up, recording, reversing or stopping its flow entirely.
Blinx 2 2004 Xbox Single-player 3d platformer with time travel. Sequel to Blinx. Players can exert some control over time itself; slowing, speeding up, recording, reversing or stopping its flow entirely.
Braid 2008 Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, Xbox 360 The protagonist uses many time traveling elements incorporated into gameplay. Each chapter explores a different time travel gameplay effect.
Chrono Trigger 1995 SNES, Nintendo DS, The game contains various modes of time travel transport at the player's free will, including portals called "Gates" and, later in gameplay, a flying time machine called the "Epoch".
Chronotron 2008 Browser The player uses a time machine which can go back to a certain point in time to cooperate with himself to complete puzzles.
Cursor*10 2008 Browser Cooperate with your (past) self to click triangles to advance to each level, within a time limit.
Day of the Tentacle 1993 Amiga, Mac OS, MS-DOS Player is in simultaneous control of three separate characters in the same location, initially at the same point in time. For the majority of the game though, they are at three different points in time. Actions in one time period affect the circumstances in proceeding time periods.
Final Fantasy XIII-2 2011 PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 Player can move across different timelines and reverse them to redo them by the Historia Crux system.
Forza Motorsport 3 2009 Xbox 360 During races, if a player's vehicle is involved in a normally race-ending crash, they are able to use the Flashback feature to effectively reverse time in order to rectify the mistake.
Gateways 2012 Windows Gateways is a 2D platform game set in the lab of an inventor called Ed following an outbreak of a number of his more "creative" experiments. Alongside the traditional platform elements such as jumping on enemies heads, spikes and moving platforms are the gateway guns. The gateway guns allow you to place two gateways on the walls, floors and ceilings of the lab so that when you pass through one you emerge out of the other. One gateway gun doesn't just connect to the others location but also its time, allowing Ed to travel back in time and encounter earlier versions of himself.
The Magic of Scheherazade 1987 NES The game allows time travel between five different time periods.
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 2000 GameCube, Nintendo 64, Virtual Console Playable character Link has only three days in order to avoid a moon crash into the country of Termina. In order to return to the first day, he uses the Ocarina of Time, which also allows him to slow the flow of time (or restore if it was slowed) or advance half a day.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 1998 GameCube, iQue Player, Nintendo 64, Virtual Console, Nintendo 3DS Link can travel back and forth through time via the Master Sword and the Temple of Time, but only his mind is truly traveling through time.
The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages 2001 Game Boy Color Link uses the Harp of Ages to travel between the distant past and the present. Actions in the past can change the present world.
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time series 2003–2005 Game Boy Advance, GameCube, Mobile phone, PlayStation 2, Windows, Xbox A sub-series of Prince of Persia, consisting of The Sands of Time, Warrior Within, The Two Thrones and The Forgotten Sands. The Prince continuously travels back through times to repair his errors, each time causing a disaster. In the first game, the prince travels back through time to prevent himself from unleashing the sands, therefore causing the Dahaka to pursue him, as seen in Warrior Within, he travels through time to prevent the Sands of Time from being created. In The Two Thrones, his stopping the creation of the Sands of Time resurrected the evil Vizier. In The Forgotten Sands, powers of reversing time are bestowed to the Prince by Razia, Queen of the Marid.
The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom 2010 Xbox 360, Windows A puzzle platform game where Winterbottom has the ability to record himself to make multiple replaying clones (which can be used as platforms, grab things before falling to their doom, etc.) and to rewind the events since he started the level.
Race Driver: Grid 2008 Nintendo DS, PlayStation 3, Windows, Xbox 360 During races, if a player's vehicle is involved in a normally race-ending crash, they are able to use the Flashback feature to effectively reverse time in order to rectify the mistake.
TimeShift 2007 PlayStation 3, Windows, Xbox 360 Players can stop, slow, and reverse the flow of time during few seconds to aid them during firefights or in order to circumnavigate environmental hazards such as fire and electrified water.
Singularity 2010 PlayStation 3, Windows, Xbox 360 Players can use a device called the TDM to cause objects to age and revert aging, and at some points to travel back and forth through time.
Super Scribblenauts 2010 Nintendo DS Players can spawn a time machine and travel to either Prehistoric, Medieval, Western, Future and Ancient Egyptian times.

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