Games like Back In Time
If Back In Time is your kind of game, the closest matches are Always The Same Nightmare, ChronoBreach Ultra and Vision Soft Reset — 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 Back In Time: Back In Time is a fast-paced time travel action adventure where you travel through time to prevent disasters. Rewrite history by making critical choices, unraveling mysteries, & manipulating time itself. Explore real-world locations, and uncover secrets in a twist-filled story with evolving gameplay
Players who liked Back In Time also play
Steam players who put hours into Back In Time 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.
Always The Same Nightmare
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Top pick for Back In Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Back In Time.
A fast, dynamic die-and-retry style platformer with varied levels and gameplay. Is a passage too difficult? Stop time! Is a boss too strong? Gain experience and upgrade your weapons! Can you escape this dark and perilous dungeon?
ChronoBreach Ultra
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Second-strongest match for Back In Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Back In Time.
Dash through dangerous levels, warp time, and blast enemies in this time-bending action platformer! Manipulate the crumbling dimension of time to escape a deadly factory. Use your wit, your laser weaponry, and your time-warping abilities to face your demise head-on and triumph!
Vision Soft Reset
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Third-strongest match for Back In Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Back In Time.
Perceive the future in this time-loop metroidvania.
Chrono Gear: Warden of Time
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Ranked #4 for Back In Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Back In Time.
Turn back the clock and fight to repair Time itself in this cinematic action platformer with fast sword combat and time-based powers. You are the Warden of Time, Ouro Kronii - be proud and fight hard!
MotionRec
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Ranked #5 for Back In Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Back In Time.
MotionRec is a recording puzzle action game where you progress through stages by recording and playing back your own movements.
Braid
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Ranked #6 for Back In Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Back In Time.
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.
PSYCRON
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Ranked #7 for Back In Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Back In Time.
A fast-paced 2D handcrafted metroidvania with strange sci-fi environments. Something is roaming the halls, watching your every move.
Froggo's Adventure: Verdant Venture
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Ranked #8 for Back In Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Back In Time.
A Simple and Bite-sized retro 2D Platformer about a frog on another side-scrolling adventure
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Back In Time.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Back In Time.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Back In Time.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Back In Time.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Back In Time.
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.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Back In Time.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Vision Soft Reset
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Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Back In Time.
Perceive the future in this time-loop metroidvania.
Braid
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Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Back In Time.
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.
Froggo's Adventure: Verdant Venture
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Back In Time.
A Simple and Bite-sized retro 2D Platformer about a frog on another side-scrolling adventure
Frequently asked about Back In Time
- What games are most similar to Back In Time?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Back In Time are Always The Same Nightmare, ChronoBreach Ultra, Vision Soft Reset.
- Who developed Back In Time?
- Back In Time was developed by Omnaya 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 Back In Time.
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