The Temporal Invasion

I really liked TTI when I first started playing, the two hours I spent on the intro and first chapter were amazing. But, then I got into the rest of the game. Turns out there's a reason so few owners have completed the achievements on this one, let alone even done 25% of them. Temporal Invasion opens with another take on the JFK Assassination, and sees you make use of several in-game tools and real-world searching to find clues. It's mostly doable with a bit of thinking, and leaves you pretty satisfied. It also puts you right near or maybe a bit over that two hour refund mark, funny that. The rest of the game delves into weird topics and entirely overdone tropes such as Slender Man, and the formerly easy or challenging puzzles instead oscillate between stupidly obvious and so hard you'll need a guide to complete them. Add to the above that this is an older Alternate Reality Game, so some of the web sites needed no longer exist or have moved. Things can get interesting lol. The Temporal Invasion was originally released half-finished, the second half of the game has an entirely different play style from the first and feels rushed. Some puzzle solutions are recycled from the first half, and many of the rest are so "out there" you'll only find the answers in a handful of hugely long topics on the game hub. I would only suggest buying this if you want a fairly quick 100% added to your finished games count, as making use of the guides one could easily complete this in about an hour. If you're looking for a fun game, forget it. This had the bones of a really neat experience, but lost itself along the way.

This is a clever and fun puzzle-solver, but you can't finish it! Relies on websites that don't exist!

The Temporal Invasion is a new level of puzzles. The game is definitely not for everyone, but it does not make it bad, on the contrary, it is unique, it is complex, but it's not a complicated plan that you will die time after time, but the fact that you have to think a lot, hold a notebook with a pen, to record what you have discovered for yourself, go to your browser and search for information, and much more. You will feel like a real detective, in a world where the supernatural is not just an invention. Before you will be a lot of reading material, you will read, watch under a magnifying glass, check with ultraviolet, view surveillance cameras, listen to recordings, edit photos, reply to e-mail, and do it all in the second and third round, since most likely on the first attempt nothing will come of it. And so it's up to business, rejoice at the disclosure and get frustrated with failure time after time. A unique game of its kind for the most attentive and far from stupid gamers.

interesting concept, but the writing just too simple and cliche. Expect to see "Shadow governement" "truth" "top-secret" in excessive amounts. Also relies a little too much on photo manipulation.

Interesting as a concept but the game is less about puzzle solving and more trying to follow someone else's train of thought. By the end it just wasn't fun...

2/10 play time is from card farming

I think the basic premise and general production of this game is great, and if it looks interesting to you, certainly give it a try it's not too expensive. But for me I thought the gameplay was a little too tedious and the solutions a bit too obscure to have consistent fun with it. It might be good to sub in for a morning crossword puzzle and play slowly, but that's not what I'm looking for in a narrative game.

I liked the concept and the artwork, but using the outside sources (f.e. search engine) to solve the puzzles makes me lose the feeling that I'm actually still playing. Sometimes the puzzles are very obvious, sometimes I had to look up solution online and to be honest after a while I couldn't care less how the right answer was linked to the puzzle. Nice idea, but IMHO constant leaving the game and looking for answers outside was a big mistake. Not the mention that in some puzzles I need to use tools on in-game computer, but I don't even have access to list of available tools (only simple search tool), so I have no idea what tool I'm actually looking for and without that tool I won't solve the puzzle.

Probably a really horrible game. I dont know I have never played it. I just use it along with other games to pad my playtime in an obvious, maybe satirical way. Top 200 in my country for total playtime. There must be "a glitch in the timeline..".

The Temporal Invasion is a pretty decent arg. Puzzles hold sufficient challenge (you get cryptograms, morse codes, even looking at gmaps among others) and the story is pretty interesting as it does get real history involved. Beware for you could easily get stuck in wiki-land. Alas the game UI could be better, however if you can handle some annoyingly extra clicking, you really can't go wrong for this price.