Games like Time Rift
If Time Rift is your kind of game, the closest matches are Pengame, 👾 Foreign Frugglers and Valfaris: Mecha Therion — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its firewall creates constant urgency, atmospheric and challenging. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Time Rift: Time Rift is a fast-paced puzzle-shooter. You’re a hacker-turned-security tester, but your skills will only get you so far - to take down global megacorp VaultCo, you’ll have to manipulate the flow of time!
Players who liked Time Rift also play
Steam players who put hours into Time Rift also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
👾 Foreign Frugglers
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Time Rift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Time Rift.
The Fruggle is real! Four brave survivors need to protect mother earth from spacey invaders in this pixelated arcade style 2d shoot 'm up.
Valfaris: Mecha Therion
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Time Rift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Time Rift.
Therion returns as the hunt for Lord Vroll continues. Pilot an advanced machine of death and destruction in this explosive 2.5D side-scrolling shoot ‘em up, and sequel to the critically acclaimed Valfaris. Strap in and unleash mecha hell!
Syder Arcade
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Time Rift.
Ranked #4 for Time Rift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Time Rift.
Killing zombies never gets old, but sometimes you just need a break. Get back to some serious old-school gaming with Syder Arcade! Syder Arcade is a love letter to Amiga games of the ‘90s, no coins, no upgrade grinding, just your tenacity and a motherload of alien invaders.
Super Time Force Ultra
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Time Rift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Time Rift.
Super Time Force Ultra is an insane platformer filled with robots and dinosaurs and fun and time travel... sometimes all at the same time!
LUFTRAUSERS
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Time Rift.
Ranked #6 for Time Rift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Time Rift.
The skies are aflame and the seas will overflow with wreckage in Vlambeer’s stylish arcade shooter LUFTRAUSERS! Take to the skies in customized fighter planes to battle battleships, submarines, and rival aces for glory, honor, and high scores.
Hell is Other Demons
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Time Rift.
Ranked #7 for Time Rift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Time Rift.
Hell is Other Demons is an action-platform shooter, with Roguelite elements. Explore a sprawling, hand-crafted world full of demons, insanely over-the-top boss fights, and a heavy synthwave soundtrack.
SUPERHOT
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Time Rift.
Ranked #8 for Time Rift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Time Rift.
SUPERHOT is the smash-hit FPS where time moves only when you move. No regenerating health bars. No conveniently placed ammo drops. It's you, alone, outnumbered and outgunned. Snatch weapons from fallen enemies to shoot, slice and dodge through a truly cinematic hurricane of slow-motion bullets.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Time Rift at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Time Rift on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Time Rift.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Time Rift on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Time Rift.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Time Rift on Steam right now. Shares Action with Time Rift.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Time Rift on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Time Rift.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Time Rift on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Time Rift.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Time Rift on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Time Rift.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Time Rift on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Time Rift.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Time Rift on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Time Rift.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Time Rift.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Time Rift.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Time Rift.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Time Rift.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Time Rift.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Valfaris: Mecha Therion
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Time Rift.
Therion returns as the hunt for Lord Vroll continues. Pilot an advanced machine of death and destruction in this explosive 2.5D side-scrolling shoot ‘em up, and sequel to the critically acclaimed Valfaris. Strap in and unleash mecha hell!
Super Time Force Ultra
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Time Rift.
Super Time Force Ultra is an insane platformer filled with robots and dinosaurs and fun and time travel... sometimes all at the same time!
SUPERHOT
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Time Rift.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Time Rift.
SUPERHOT is the smash-hit FPS where time moves only when you move. No regenerating health bars. No conveniently placed ammo drops. It's you, alone, outnumbered and outgunned. Snatch weapons from fallen enemies to shoot, slice and dodge through a truly cinematic hurricane of slow-motion bullets.
Frequently asked about Time Rift
- Is Time Rift verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Time Rift is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Time Rift cost?
- Time Rift is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Time Rift?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Time Rift are Pengame, 👾 Foreign Frugglers, Valfaris: Mecha Therion.
- Who developed Time Rift?
- Time Rift was developed by Lightshards, Abiding Bridge and published by Abiding Bridge, IndieArk.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Time Rift.
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