Time Rift

My YouTube review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo94omYJ5C8 It's a rare thing when I actually finish a puzzle game, even less so when I 100% one. That's mostly because of my lack of ability and patience with the genre. I was expecting to end up in a similar spot with Time Rift but this small game from a small team surprised me with its ability to strike a balance between not being very difficult, but also making you feel accomplished nonetheless. There is a story in Time Rift but it's pretty straightforward. You are a hacker who has been hired to do some security testing on a big company's network, that's visualized in a very cool way that bears no resemblance to what it would really involve. You start off with only a few different mechanics to manage but as you progress through the 60 levels, more and more are layered in, including time manipulation abilities (hence the game's name.) There are no limits to how often you can use these abilities, meaning you can effectively have limitless tries to figure your way around each obstacle. If you want a real challenge, you can force yourself to only use them when necessary, though I don't see many players doing that. There are also optional collectibles tied to achievements and time records you can try to beat, though the lack of online leaderboards makes it so you're only competing with yourself. Time Rift took me about 3 and a half hours to 100% and that's me who is self-admitted to suck at puzzle games. However, I think that's a good length for this type of title. It doesn't overstay its welcome and gives you enough exposure to its different mechanics, without getting to the point of any of them getting tiresome. In a way, this is a puzzle game for people like me who are bad at puzzle games. The time manipulation mechanics make it not particularly brain bending, but it still requires you to think, analyze and deduce on the fly enough that you'll still feel like you accomplished something meaningful with each puzzle you complete. This one surprised me and for the price, I think it was a fun few hours.

A short and refreshing experience with innovative action gameplay and just enough puzzle mechanics to make it interesting. Each level brings its own little challenge, for both new and experimented players, with the collectibles mechanic. A very well polished game that will give you some fun for a few hours :)

Great writing, a fun mechanic, highly recommended!

loved the puzzles

Скоростная головоломка с замедлением и перемоткой времени, всё сделано неплохо, но я от такого устал. https://youtu.be/FB8xQPcc_JQ

The story is alright. The gameplay is uninteresting. The puzzles are almost universally trivial. It took me 2.5 hours to complete with all collectibles (missed only two achievements for doing badly), and of that 2.5 hours I had about 5-10 minutes of enjoying it in total. The same time-rewind mechanic is done in far superior free game "Beret" (not on Steam, available on indiedb) but as an incidental thing to make the game less frustrating, versus here it's the unfun central mechanic of the game.

Excellent and deserves more attention than it got.

J'ai beaucoup aimé ce jeu de labyrinthes : que ce soit la musique, les graphismes ou encore l'histoire qu'il y a autour que je trouve bien sympa également :) On découvre tout le long du jeu de nouvelles mécaniques qui fait qu'on ne s'en lasse pas, on a qu'une envie, le terminer à 100% (ramasser toutes les cryptomonnaies) et continuer d'y jouer encore et encore !! :)