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Games like Timeworks

If Timeworks is your kind of game, the closest matches are Beta MAX, Timeless Tesseract and Braid — 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 Timeworks: Timeworks is a time-traveling 3D puzzle platformer with a bouncy cartoon style. Work along past versions of yourself to solve puzzles, create unique Items, and fill out your quotas for your mysterious employers.

2024ActionIndieCasual14.99 USDWindowsby Starworks Studios
Timeworks — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Timeworks 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. Beta MAX

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Timeworks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Timeworks.

    Use four-dimensional thinking to manipulate time and navigate through this mind bending retro inspired realm. Solve puzzles to help Max find his way home in this atmospheric first-person puzzle platformer.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Timeless Tesseract

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Timeworks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Timeworks.

    Introducing Timeless Tesseract - The First 3D Parkour Platformer That Lets You Control Time! By Captain Tesseract

    2024IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. Braid

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Timeworks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Timeworks.

    This is the original version of Braid from 2009, which may not work well on newer systems. For an updated version of the game with nicer graphics, more levels and a large amount of developer commentary, see Braid, Anniversary Edition.

    2009StrategyIndieCasual14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Watch&Run

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Timeworks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Timeworks.

    Learn speedrun mechanics such as moves, glitchs and bugs and exploit them to make the best time possible.

    2020ActionStrategyIndie5.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Transpose

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Timeworks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Casual with Timeworks.

    Transpose is a dreamlike and gravity-defying time manipulation puzzle game in VR. It challenges players to solve increasingly complex physics puzzles as they explore an extraordinarily surreal world.

    2018ActionCasualSteam ↗
  6. Quantum Conundrum

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Timeworks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Timeworks.

    Find and rescue your uncle by using his newest invention to work your way through a crazy complex mansion as you switch between dimensions and solve puzzles!

    2012StrategyCasual8.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Prince of Persia®: The Sands of Time

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Timeworks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Timeworks.

    Amidst the scorched sands of ancient Persia, there is a legend spun in an ancient tongue. It speaks of a time borne by blood and ruled by deceit. Drawn to the dark powers of a magic dagger, a young Prince is led to unleash a deadly evil upon a beautiful kingdom.

    2008ActionAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Arise: A Simple Story

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Timeworks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Timeworks.

    Embark on an emotional journey of losing the love of one's life. Manipulate time, solve puzzles, reshape surroundings as you push forward into the bittersweet recollections of a past life. This is a story about happiness and hardship, joy and sorrow. A story that all of us will one day experience.

    2020IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Timeworks at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Timeworks on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Timeworks.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Timeworks on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Timeworks.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~53% under Timeworks on Steam right now. Shares Action with Timeworks.

    An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Timeworks on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Timeworks.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Timeworks on Steam right now. Shares Action with Timeworks.

    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.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Timeworks on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Timeworks.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Timeworks on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Timeworks.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Timeworks on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Timeworks.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Timeworks.

    The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  3. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

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

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Timeworks.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. 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 Timeworks.

    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 ↗
  7. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Travellin Cats in Paris

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Timeworks.

    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!

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Timeworks

How much does Timeworks cost?
Timeworks is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Timeworks?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Timeworks are Beta MAX, Timeless Tesseract, Braid.
Who developed Timeworks?
Timeworks was developed by Starworks Studios.

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 Timeworks.

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