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Games like Time Travel Shanty

If Time Travel Shanty is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mazgeon, Ashen Blade and Death's Door — 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.

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About Time Travel Shanty: Jump back and forth through time to escape the cursed island. Explore maze-like ruins, hack and slash undead guardians and plunder lost treasure. Gather your pirate crew in this isometric, metroidvania inspired, action-adventure, but beware: your actions in the past can affect the future!

ActionAdventureRPGWindowsby gypynkt
Time Travel Shanty — Steam game cover

Players who liked Time Travel Shanty also play

Steam players who put hours into Time Travel Shanty 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.

  1. Mazgeon

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Time Travel Shanty fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Time Travel Shanty.

    Mazgeon is an old school arcade dungeon roguelike RPG with procedurally generated levels filled with retro pixel art graphics where your only goal is to loot as much as you can.

    2025ActionIndieRPG7.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Ashen Blade

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Time Travel Shanty fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Time Travel Shanty.

    Step into a dark, atmospheric world where every descent brings you closer to doom or glory. Ashen Blade is a high-stakes, fast-paced action game set in a shattered realm overcome by darkness. Explore a cursed, vertical land where danger lurks at every level.

    2027ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  3. Death's Door

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Time Travel Shanty fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Time Travel Shanty.

    Reaping souls of the dead and punching a clock might get monotonous but it's honest work for a Crow. The job gets lively when your assigned soul is stolen and you must track down a desperate thief to a realm untouched by death - where creatures grow far past their expiry.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Mark of the Deep

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Time Travel Shanty fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Time Travel Shanty.

    Shipwrecked on a myth-shrouded island, play as rookie pirate Marcus “Rookie” Ramsey and explore haunting biomes, face unforgiving combat, and unravel a deep-sea curse in search of your lost crew, the Angry Mermaids.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Retrace the Light

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Time Travel Shanty fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Time Travel Shanty.

    Dive into the immersive world of Retrace the Light, a captivating 2.5D action-adventure game centered around the "Spatial Retracing" feature. Assume the role of an Enforcer working for a super AI in a futuristic world, exploring the depths of human consciousness and healing their emotional wounds.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure11.69 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Bonehold

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Time Travel Shanty fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Time Travel Shanty.

    Dungeon Crawler with elements of rogue-like and ARPG games. Kill hordes of enemies, duel mighty bosses, and acquire legendary loot!

    2026ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Xanadu Next

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Time Travel Shanty fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Time Travel Shanty.

    Whenever mist hangs over Lake Orwell, sailors catch sight of a phantom castle just out of reach. As they draw near, it fades away, leaving only questions for all who have seen this “Castle Strangerock.” Now, you must aid your charge in uncovering its secrets...even if it costs you your very soul.

    2016ActionRPG14.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. TUNIC

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Time Travel Shanty fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Time Travel Shanty.

    Explore a land filled with lost legends, ancient powers, and ferocious monsters in TUNIC, an isometric action game about a small fox on a big adventure.

    2022ActionAdventureRPG29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Time Travel Shanty.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Time Travel Shanty.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Time Travel Shanty.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Time Travel Shanty.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Time Travel Shanty.

    NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and RPG with Time Travel Shanty.

    A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Time Travel Shanty.

    A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Death's Door

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Time Travel Shanty.

    Reaping souls of the dead and punching a clock might get monotonous but it's honest work for a Crow. The job gets lively when your assigned soul is stolen and you must track down a desperate thief to a realm untouched by death - where creatures grow far past their expiry.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Mark of the Deep

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Time Travel Shanty.

    Shipwrecked on a myth-shrouded island, play as rookie pirate Marcus “Rookie” Ramsey and explore haunting biomes, face unforgiving combat, and unravel a deep-sea curse in search of your lost crew, the Angry Mermaids.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. TUNIC

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Time Travel Shanty.

    Explore a land filled with lost legends, ancient powers, and ferocious monsters in TUNIC, an isometric action game about a small fox on a big adventure.

    2022ActionAdventureRPG29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Time Travel Shanty

What games are most similar to Time Travel Shanty?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Time Travel Shanty are Mazgeon, Ashen Blade, Death's Door.
Who developed Time Travel Shanty?
Time Travel Shanty was developed by gypynkt.

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 Travel Shanty.

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