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Time Treker

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71%Game Brain Score
Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
Most mentioned negative aspects:music, grinding
71% User Score Based on 86 reviews

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About Time Treker

Time Treker is a single player casual hack and slash game with a science fiction theme. It was developed by Fuse Game and was released on November 12, 2024. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

After a strange race of alien bugs conquered Earth in what was known as the Great Catastrophe, what was left of Humanity had to escape and find shelter in remote parts of the galaxy. The scattered rests of human civilization are now betting everything on their last hope: sending you, the best of their elite forces back in time to infiltrate Earth right before its collapse with the most advanced me…

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71%Audience ScoreBased on 86 reviews
story4 positive mentions
grinding3 negative mentions
  • Engaging bullet heaven roguelike with meaningful meta progression and diverse weapon customization.
  • Fantastic pixel art style with vibrant visuals and an excellent dynamic soundtrack.
  • Short missions with objectives that keep gameplay engaging and replayable, plus multiple characters with unique abilities.
  • Limited weapon balance with a dominant build overpowering others, reducing variety and replay value.
  • Long run times and tedious enemy scaling causing gameplay to feel slow, repetitive, and sometimes frustrating.
  • Some bugs, unclear UI elements, and lack of sufficient enemy and mission variety diminish overall experience.

  • story

    37 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    11% positive mentions, 81% neutral mentions, 8% negative mentions

    The game's story is minimal and unfolds through repetitive mission types across increasingly difficult stages, with limited narrative depth or variety in mission objectives. While some find the campaign engaging due to meta-upgrades and progression between missions, others note mission design can feel repetitive and occasionally frustrating due to spawn issues and RNG elements. Overall, the story serves more as a backdrop for gameplay rather than a rich, branching narrative experience.

    • “With its engaging storyline, addictive gameplay, and stunning visuals, this early access title has already won me over.”
    • “You will undoubtedly fail some missions, especially early on before you have some meta upgrades and that's fine, keep going, you don't lose unless your disaster bar reaches max, and when you go back and redo an old mission, not only does it not scale so you end up stomping it, but you stomp it so hard it becomes a crystal farm so you get massive upgrades from it.”
    • “For starters, you get to go on missions with a specific target and on some levels you get to randomly craft a level along with various random rewards that are possible for you to gain.”
    • “The story is minimal.”
    • “There’s a story?”
    • “But I wish there was more content or variety of missions where it branches off to more timelines.”

  • gameplay

    35 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    31% positive mentions, 60% neutral mentions, 9% negative mentions

    The gameplay of the game is engaging and addictive, blending action, strategy, and roguelike elements with a solid meta-progression system and diverse customization options. However, some issues persist, including weapon balance problems, slow pacing in early stages, repetitive gameplay loops, and occasional bugs that may diminish the overall experience. Despite these flaws, it offers a fresh take on the roguelike genre with high replayability and satisfying mechanics for fans of bullet hell and top-down shooters.

    • “Excellent game if you want a top-down third-person shooter that also serves as a horde survival game with bullet hell mechanics in later levels.”
    • “With the typical survivors and bullet hell gameplay, Time Treker changes the formula with constant progression during a run, allowing for amazing combinations of different weapons and modifications, such as turning one bladed chainsaw into three blades or burning enemies to crisps.”
    • “With a diverse array of weapons and robust customization options, the game excels in delivering flashy, addictive gameplay.”
    • “Inscrutable UI, slow, bland gameplay, mediocre graphics.”
    • “The gameplay is fine, but bugs and balance issues make it a pain to progress.”
    • “It's a roguelite without variety and a gameplay loop that quickly outstays its welcome.”

  • graphics

    12 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    42% positive mentions, 33% neutral mentions, 25% negative mentions

    The graphics receive consistent praise for their vibrant pixel art style, detailed environments, and appealing character designs, which effectively enhance the game's atmosphere. While some users find the visuals engaging and a strong point, a few note the graphics as mediocre or uninspired, indicating mixed overall impressions.

    • “A very good bullet heaven game, with fantastic artwork, exciting music, meta progression and different characters to play with.”
    • “Time Treker’s pixel art graphics are a work of art, with vibrant colours and detailed environments that bring the game’s world to life.”
    • “With its engaging storyline, addictive gameplay, and stunning visuals, this early access title has already won me over.”
    • “Inscrutable UI, slow, bland gameplay, mediocre graphics.”
    • “Graphics are okay.”
    • “The visuals are further enhanced by the game’s dynamic soundtrack, which perfectly complements the on-screen action.”

  • music

    10 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    30% positive mentions, 40% neutral mentions, 30% negative mentions

    The music in the game is generally well-received for complementing the visuals and action, with an exciting and dynamic soundtrack that fans of the trailer will likely appreciate. However, some users found the music unpleasant and a turn-off. Overall, it is considered fitting and decent by most players.

    • “A very good bullet heaven game, with fantastic artwork, exciting music, meta progression and different characters to play with.”
    • “If you like the music in the trailer, you’ll probably like the music in the game itself.”
    • “The visuals are further enhanced by the game’s dynamic soundtrack, which perfectly complements the on-screen action.”
    • “I was not wrong, but in the end not even the music could save me from the oncoming snoozefest.”
    • “The music is horrible.. instant turn off in the settings type.”
    • “Music & background:”

  • replayability

    4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    50% positive mentions, 25% neutral mentions, 25% negative mentions

    The game offers high replayability through challenging gameplay, extensive upgrades, and numerous combination options, making it a rewarding time spender. However, some users feel it falls short as a roguelite due to limited progression variety. Overall, its fun mechanics and infinite replay potential appeal to players.

    • “A challenging bullet hell, lots of upgrades and progression, infinite replayability.”
    • “It's a game with high replayability with its fun gameplay and way too many combinations to try out!”
    • “That’s a failure for the roguelite genre which strives on replayability.”

  • grinding

    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    Grinding in the game can be tedious and time-consuming, especially during long campaigns where players must repeatedly farm currency to enhance abilities. While varied game modes add some variety, the high difficulty scaling often leads to frequent failures that make the extended grinding feel unrewarding.

    • “The issue here is that, like any other roguelike/lite, you must restart with the currency you've been farming to enhance damage and other benefits via the main hub / research.”
    • “The time spent farming for literally hours only to fail a run because the scaling on monsters or towers becomes so high and unfavorable, when you have so many lives and opportunities, feels very unrewarding because not only did you not win, you now have to redo the last several hours to make it back.”
    • “Though I do wish either the individual battles could be faster paced or less tedious per big campaign (in the game's terms, it would be the whole timeline), it can be offset with events that occur within the individual runs of the timeline (game modes like time attack, limited vision or the like).”

  • character development

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    50% positive mentions, 50% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    Character development is considered decent but somewhat generic, with character designs that are visually pleasing yet not particularly distinctive.

  • humor

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The humor is described as light and amusing, especially when equipping two specific passive skills, which enhances the comedic experience. Overall, it adds a fun and entertaining element to gameplay.

  • emotional

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    Users feel a sense of empowerment and satisfaction from mastering the game's missions and weapon choices, enhancing their emotional engagement through strategic progression.

  • optimization

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game features excellent optimization, running smoothly regardless of the number of enemies or animations on screen, ensuring a seamless gameplay experience.

    • “Play around with your pilots in a game that runs smoothly no matter the enemy amount or animations!”
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Play Times

17h Median play time
14h Average play time
7-20h Spent by most gamers
*Based on 2 analyzed playthroughs
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Time Treker is a casual hack and slash game with science fiction theme. Common tags for Time Treker include indie, roguelite, pixel graphics, action roguelike, twin stick shooter and others.

Time Treker is available on PC and Windows.

On average players spend around 14 hours playing Time Treker.

Time Treker was released on November 12, 2024.

Time Treker was developed by Fuse Game.

Time Treker has received mostly positive reviews from players. Most players liked Time Treker for its story but disliked it for its music.

Time Treker is a single player game.

Similar games include Swarm Grinder, Nomad Survival, Tower of Babel: Survivors of Chaos, 20 Minutes Till Dawn, Monsters are Coming! and others.