Games like Timequest
If Timequest is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Crimson Diamond, Subsurface Circular and Stories Untold — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Timequest: Timequest is a classic graphical text-based adventure game of breathtaking scope and astonishing depth. Travel to 80 locations to see the effects of your actions unfold over 3 millennia.
Players who liked Timequest also play
Steam players who put hours into Timequest 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.
The Crimson Diamond
WHY THIS
Top pick for Timequest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Timequest.
Follow amateur geologist and reluctant detective Nancy Maple to the ghost town of Crimson, Ontario to investigate the discovery of a massive diamond in this retro-inspired, EGA text parser mystery adventure!
Subsurface Circular
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Timequest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Timequest.
When the truth is buried, go underground. Step into this new take on text-based adventure from the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Volume. A short story that hands you the fate of the world above, as a detective looking for answers on the Subsurface Circular.
Stories Untold
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Timequest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Timequest.
Stories Untold is a compilation tape of four experimental adventures, including a remaster of the original hit episode “The House Abandon”.
Technobabylon
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Timequest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Timequest.
A cyberpunk adventure game from the studio that brought you Gemini Rue and Blackwell! The year is 2087. Genetic engineering is the norm, and an omnipresent AI powers the city. Take control of three citizens of this world as they struggle to understand a deadly conspiracy.
Whispers of a Machine
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Timequest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Timequest.
Whispers of a Machine is a Sci-Fi Nordic Noir that tells the story of Vera, a cybernetically augmented detective in a post-AI world, who investigates a string of murders and unravels a dark conflict over forbidden technology.
BEAUTIFUL DESOLATION
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Timequest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Timequest.
BEAUTIFUL DESOLATION is an isometric, point & click adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic future. Explore an unscene landscape, solve puzzles, meet new friends and make powerful enemies, mediate conflicts and fight for your life as you unravel the secrets of the desolate world around you.
Resonance
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Timequest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Timequest.
When a brilliant particle physicist dies unexpectedly, the race is on to secure his terrible new technology before it falls into the wrong hands. The lives of four playable characters become entangled as they fight against the clock to find the dead scientist’s secret vault.
The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Timequest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Timequest.
Delouse your room with sage and pack up your travel-sized ouija board, it’s time to re-enter Twin Lakes - America’s 34th most haunted city. Join Detective McQueen as he puzzles his way through 9 chilling cases, risking life and pixelated limb to solve the macabre mysteries that plague the poor town.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Timequest at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under Timequest on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Timequest.
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?
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~46% under Timequest on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Timequest.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Timequest on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Timequest.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~79% under Timequest on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Timequest.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under Timequest on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Timequest.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
A Short Hike
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Timequest on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Timequest.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
Sally Face - Episode One
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Timequest on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Timequest.
Delve into a dark adventure following the boy with a prosthetic face and a tragic past. Unravel the sinister mysteries of Sally's world to find the truth that lies hidden beneath the shadows.
Streets of Rogue
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Timequest on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Timequest.
Fight, sneak, and hack your way through randomly generated cities. It's like Nuclear Throne meets Deus Ex, mixed with the anarchy of GTA. Rogue-lite meets immersive sim, and goes completely insane.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Timequest.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Timequest.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
Tails Noir: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Timequest.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
Trimps
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A text-based incremental idle game with a ridiculous amount of unique content. Automate old stuff as you unlock new stuff to keep things interesting for hours and hours, no spam clicking necessary! Trimps is everything you love about your favorite games, distilled to their purest form.
The Terrible Old Man
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Timequest.
Experience a bite-sized slice of Lovecraftian horror in this updated version of our cult freeware point and click adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's classic short story.
Delores: A Thimbleweed Park Mini-Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Timequest.
Delores is back home and working as a photographer for the Nickel News. Thimbleweed Park hasn’t changed at all in the year she’s been away… or has it? Sample Ron Gilbert’s new adventure game engine in this free prototype that uses “found art” from the award-winning Thimbleweed Park.
Beneath a Steel Sky (1994)
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Timequest.
After being abducted by brutal soldiers and his kinfolk butchered, Robert Foster finds himself in Union City - a vast metropolis under the tyranny of a fascist AI. Alone, save for the circuit board of his best friend, Foster must discover the sinister truth - and why they specifically came for him.
Trap welcome to Beryl Part 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Timequest.
After receiving a disturbing letter from his brother, our protagonist decides to go looking for him at the hotel Beryl. He will soon discover the strangeness of the places, the objects, the paintings, the shadows and the terrifying models moving, speaking, living of their own will.
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More from Legend Entertainment
Other recommendable Steam games by Legend Entertainment, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Star Control III
WHY THIS
Another title from Legend Entertainment, the studio behind Timequest. Shares Adventure with Timequest.
The universe is on the brink of destruction. It’s up to you to embark on an epic adventure of strategy and diplomacy to save thousands of worlds from total annihilation. But no pressure, right?
Eric The Unready
WHY THIS
Another title from Legend Entertainment, the studio behind Timequest. Shares Adventure with Timequest.
Eric the Unready established his reputation by impaling his instructor during jousting class. Then, when Princess Lorealle the Worthy is kidnapped, Eric begins a madcap quest through his hilarious fantasy world packed with horrible beasts!
Mission Critical
WHY THIS
Another title from Legend Entertainment, the studio behind Timequest. Shares Adventure with Timequest.
THE ULTIMATE GAME OF SURVIVAL... The hull of your crippled vessel has ruptured, air is leaking into space, and weapons systems are down. Your mission could have ended fifteen years of interstellar war, but now - as the only remaining crewman - your first order of business is to stay alive...
Spellcasting Collection
WHY THIS
Another title from Legend Entertainment, the studio behind Timequest. Shares Adventure with Timequest.
Steve Meretzky's trilogy of magic-themed collegiate text adventures-with-graphics for Legend. The sometimes-smutty but never-beyond-softcore stories put the player in the shoes of one Ernie Eaglebeak, a wizard-in-training at at Sorcerer University.
Super Hero League of Hoboken
WHY THIS
Another title from Legend Entertainment, the studio behind Timequest. Shares Adventure with Timequest.
The U.S. is a nightmare of toxic waste, melted ice caps, and desperate shortages of oat bran. Horrible mutations roam the countryside. Monsters spawned of radiation, environmental toxins, and unregulated bio-engineering. But a small group of Superheroes band together to the rebirth of a new society.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Technobabylon
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Timequest.
A cyberpunk adventure game from the studio that brought you Gemini Rue and Blackwell! The year is 2087. Genetic engineering is the norm, and an omnipresent AI powers the city. Take control of three citizens of this world as they struggle to understand a deadly conspiracy.
Resonance
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Timequest.
When a brilliant particle physicist dies unexpectedly, the race is on to secure his terrible new technology before it falls into the wrong hands. The lives of four playable characters become entangled as they fight against the clock to find the dead scientist’s secret vault.
The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Timequest.
Delouse your room with sage and pack up your travel-sized ouija board, it’s time to re-enter Twin Lakes - America’s 34th most haunted city. Join Detective McQueen as he puzzles his way through 9 chilling cases, risking life and pixelated limb to solve the macabre mysteries that plague the poor town.
Frequently asked about Timequest
- How much does Timequest cost?
- Timequest is listed on Steam at 6.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Timequest?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Timequest are The Crimson Diamond, Subsurface Circular, Stories Untold.
- Who developed Timequest?
- Timequest was developed by Legend Entertainment and published by Ziggurat.
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