Games like Timespinner
If Timespinner is your kind of game, the closest matches are Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, Indivisible and Touhou Luna Nights — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and epic. 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 →Timespinner is a 2018 action-adventure RPG that combines time manipulation with metroidvania structure, published by Lunar Ray Games at 19.99 USD and verified for Steam Deck. The game centers on time-stopping abilities as a core mechanic, enabling players to navigate a vast interconnected world through backtracking and strategic sequence breaking. A familiar companion system and orb-weapon combat system provide additional layers of depth alongside branching narrative paths and multiple endings that adapt based on player choices. Reviewers highlight the branching narrative and orb weapons as offering varied combat options, while players describe the experience as atmospheric, contemplative, epic, and retro, with the pixel art and soundtrack evoking nostalgia. A secret boss adds replay value for those pursuing all content within the medium-length campaign. The game holds an 85% positive rating from over 1600 Steam reviews.
About Timespinner: Travel back in time to change fate itself, in this beautifully crafted story-driven adventure, inspired by classic 90s action-platformers. Join timekeeper Lunais on her quest for revenge against the empire that killed her family, using time-bending powers to explore a vast, connected world.
Players who liked Timespinner also play
Steam players who put hours into Timespinner 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.
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Timespinner.
Top pick for Timespinner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Timespinner.
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is an exploration-focused, side-scroller action RPG by Koji Igarashi. Play as Miriam, an orphan scarred by an alchemist's curse that slowly crystallizes her body. Battle through a demon-infested castle and defeat its master to save yourself, and all of humanity!
Indivisible
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Timespinner.
Second-strongest match for Timespinner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Timespinner.
Indivisible is a hand drawn action RPG platformer from Lab Zero, creators of the critically acclaimed Skullgirls! Set in a huge fantasy world, Indivisible tells the story of Ajna, a fearless girl with a rebellious streak who sets out on a quest to save everything she knows from being destroyed.
Touhou Luna Nights
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Timespinner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Timespinner.
Touhou Luna Nights is a Metroidvania title with a heavy emphasis on exploration and action. Developed by Team Ladybug, creators of multiple fantastic action games thus far.
Momodora: Moonlit Farewell
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Timespinner.
Ranked #4 for Timespinner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Timespinner.
"Momodora: Moonlit Farewell" is the latest installment in the Momodora series. Join Momo, High Priestess of the village of Koho, as she embarks on a divine mission to save her people from imminent destruction at the hands of the demon hordes summoned by a malevolent bellringer.
Axiom Verge
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Timespinner.
Ranked #5 for Timespinner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Timespinner.
Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.
Iconoclasts
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Timespinner.
Ranked #6 for Timespinner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Timespinner.
Join renegade mechanic Robin and uncover the secrets of a dying planet. Explore a big world filled with intricate puzzles, interesting characters and menacing bosses in a beautiful platform adventure that tells a personal story about faith, purpose and the challenge of helping people.
Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Timespinner.
Ranked #7 for Timespinner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Timespinner.
Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight is the fourth installment in the beloved Momodora series of 2D platformers. Unleash ravaging combos against a variety of formidable monsters and deftly dodge your way through a cursed land to seek audience with the Queen and dispel the evil that threatens all life.
Chasm
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Timespinner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Timespinner.
Explore the depths below a remote mountain town in this procedurally-generated Adventure Platformer. Taking inspiration from hack 'n slash dungeon crawlers and Metroidvania-style platformers, Chasm will immerse you in a fantasy world full of exciting treasure, deadly enemies, and abundant secrets.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Timespinner at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Timespinner on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Timespinner.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Timespinner on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Timespinner.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Timespinner on Steam right now. Shares Action with Timespinner.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Timespinner on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Timespinner.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Timespinner on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with Timespinner.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
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 and Adventure with Timespinner.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Timespinner.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Timespinner.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Timespinner.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Timespinner.
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!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Timespinner.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Timespinner.
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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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.
Indivisible
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Timespinner.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Timespinner.
Indivisible is a hand drawn action RPG platformer from Lab Zero, creators of the critically acclaimed Skullgirls! Set in a huge fantasy world, Indivisible tells the story of Ajna, a fearless girl with a rebellious streak who sets out on a quest to save everything she knows from being destroyed.
Axiom Verge
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Timespinner.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Timespinner.
Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.
Iconoclasts
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Timespinner.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Timespinner.
Join renegade mechanic Robin and uncover the secrets of a dying planet. Explore a big world filled with intricate puzzles, interesting characters and menacing bosses in a beautiful platform adventure that tells a personal story about faith, purpose and the challenge of helping people.
Chasm
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Timespinner.
Explore the depths below a remote mountain town in this procedurally-generated Adventure Platformer. Taking inspiration from hack 'n slash dungeon crawlers and Metroidvania-style platformers, Chasm will immerse you in a fantasy world full of exciting treasure, deadly enemies, and abundant secrets.
Frequently asked about Timespinner
- Is Timespinner verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Timespinner 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 Timespinner cost?
- Timespinner is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Timespinner have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Timespinner supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Timespinner?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Timespinner are Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, Indivisible, Touhou Luna Nights.
- Who developed Timespinner?
- Timespinner was developed by Lunar Ray Games and published by Chucklefish.
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 Timespinner.
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