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Project Temporality
Developer Defrost Games
Experience the mind bending power of single player cooperation. Project Temporality is a third person action/puzzle game built around the concept of allowing the player to play with time. Thanks to our propriety engine Sparta 3D we make the fourth dimension as available as the other three. From the Steam store page
69 reactions from 1 source (Steam reviews) · newest Jun 7, 2025 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
80
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55 positive · 14 negative
95% range 69–88%
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Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
83 of 107 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
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Reactions
60 of 69 · most liked firstIf you have photosensitivity issues, such as migraines and seizures, you may want to be cautious when playing this game. The lights, textures, and movement can cause problems. Personally, I got a migraine every time I tried to play, and other games of this type (Portal 2 immediately comes to mind due to the similar mechanics, and Dead Space due to the style) don't cause that sort of reaction. The concept is fun, and as a puzzle game, it's definitely good. Just use caution if you're susceptible…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The idea of this game (creating time clones) is interesting, and that's what made me buy it. However, the implementation is so poor that I couldn't enjoy the game and gave up after forcing myself into a few play sessions. The controls are clumsy. This game would probably play easier if the camera were just looking from inside the eyes of the character, not from behind. In the first few minutes of the game the camera is even locked at fixed angle, you can't look around the room. The constant…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I spent 7.49 Euro on Project Temporality, and I'd honestly say it was worth it. The game is short, though. The game runs about as long as the original portal and has more than enough puzzles to be interesting, with some of them requiring very abstract thinking. It looks pretty good technically, though it's very samey, and I wouldn't with the story if I were you. But should you get it? Well... If you like puzzle games, DEFINITELY buy this. It's one of the better puzzle games I've played in a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Project Temporailty looked promising but quickly became tedious. The storyline falls flat and the puzzles just aren't fun to solve. My full video review is located here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n63-FLvsXtA
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →3rd person action/puzzle game, owes a lot of its inspiration to games such as Antichamber or Portal. Project Temporality challenges you to think in four dimensions and rely on yourself to solve puzzles based on different timelines. The game manages to impress with clever puzzles and rewarding gameplay. It forces you to carefully plan ahead, but because you can simply rewind time to rectify mistakes it rarely becomes frustrating. There is also a deeper story lurking behind all the puzzle solving…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you gave Portal a time machine, you'd end up with Project Temporality. Third person puzzling using time travel mechanics. It can be tricky to get your head around the concept, but once you do, it's good fun. It also manages to look absolutely stunning to boot. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=263255110 Okay, you can stop all telling me about Thinking with Time Machine. I know it exists, it launched almost the same time as this game and it crashed on the first level…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →RECOMMENDED. This is some kind of mix between The Swapper and Thinking with Time Machine (which is free). From The Swapper, it takes the idea of cloning yourself to achieve the goals of each level. From Thinking with Time Machine, the time roll-out concept. Graphics are a tad odd, better than in The Swapper and not so charming as in TWTM (which, in fact, uses Portal 2's toolbox). I would try both mentioned ones first to this one but, once you are done with those, this is a curious blend. If you…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Its a unique puzzle game with time manipulation that could even rival Valves Portal series. With a very interesting story and puzzles that could even give a Time Lord a hard time. This is a game that will challange gamers to think long and hard than rewind if they screw up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pgVpjIxngo [url=gamers-haven.org]Gamers-Haven
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I would recommend this game to anyone who likes quirky puzzle games. While the production values are not up there with the AAA titles it's still pleasing to look at and play. The pacing of the puzzles kept me moving forward through the game with only occasional hikcups. While sometimes frustrating I really enjoyed watching my clones carrying out my tasks and once I got my mind into thinking with time it really started to get intressting. If you liked games like Portal,Braid and The Swapper you…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I haven't played anything so fresh and enjoyable since Portal2 ⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⢀⢀⣴⣿⣿⣷⣶⣤⣄⡀⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄ ⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⢀⣤⡶⠿⢘⣥⠢⠐⠗⣹⣿⣿⣿⣤⡀⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄ ⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠘⣅⣂⠹⣪⣭⣥⣶⣿⡿⠿⢭⡻⣿⣷⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄ ⠄⠄⢀⣤⣤⡀⠄⣭⣧⣾⡿⠿⡋⢅⡪⠅⣢⣿⡿⠟⢁⣶⣶⣶⣤⣠⣄⡀⠄⠄ ⢠⣴⣿⣿⣟⣤⣤⡉⠭⣑⡨⢔⣊⣵⣶⡿⠛⢉⣴⡾⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣎⠻⣿⣦⡀ ⣼⣧⢻⣿⣿⣿⡈⣿⢰⢰⠌⣻⣭⣭⣶⡷⣠⡤⠶⠾⠛⢓⣒⣮⣝⡻⠸⣼⣿⣿ ⣿⣝⢶⣿⣿⣿⡃⠄⢏⣸⡄⢻⡿⣿⣟⣵⠶⢛⣛⣛⣛⡒⠦⣝⠿⣿⣦⡙⣿⡿ ⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⣜⡿⣿⣄⢓⡘⠃⣴⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⢹⣯⣶⣅⢺⣿⡇⠻⠁ ⠄⠈⠛⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡾⣿⣷⣾⣝⣻⢿⣿⣿⣿⠸⣛⣿⡟⣢⢻⣿⠄⠄ ⠄⠄⠄⠄⠘⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⣭⣿⣿⣿⣦⣵⡾⢃⣾⣿⣿⢱⡿⣸⠋⠄⠄ ⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⢻⣿⢿⣿⣿⠻⣿⣿⡿⠿⣟⣛⣉⣰⣿⣿⣿⠇⠛⠃⠄⠄⠄⠄ ⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠉⠲⣝⣫⣓⡙⣿⣜⣛⣛⣛⣻⡯⠹⠛⠁⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄ ⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠈⠙⠛⢻⡈⢿⡿⠟⠛⠁⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The story might be bland, but the mechanics and level designs are great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6nYc2zaPiY
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Seeing this game while browsing the store did not impress me much but after I took the time and had a second look at it I really liked it and gave it a shot and I have to say that this is one of the best puzzle games I've ever played. The premise is simple. You are a person with the power of time manipulation (due to a prototype device) which you can use to turn back time and make a clone that does what you did before in order to solve puzzles and go to the next level. That means you can do…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Every jump needs to be precise, if the tread of your boot contacts the side of a ledge, you may as well have jumped at a wall because you will lose all momentum and fall strait down. Second level has a jumping puzzel and the third requires a PERFECT jump at the begining. I was unable to make it past here. 2/10 might be a good game if the jumping was tolerable.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's not really breaking any new ground, but it's certainly worth wasting a few hours with.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is amazing! A puzzle game in the vein of Portal. The controls are spot-on and the story is intriguing. This NEEDS to be in your collection.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love this game! the serious way in which the narrator/lab person describes what you did wrong and what to do is hilarious. the gameplay is really good, the main thing I was afraid of when I heard about it was that it would be another silent, story-less (or pratically story-less) puzzle game, but it delivers in the story, there are little easter eggs about what happened where you are, and why throughout the game and the story so far is pretty good. I was also afraid that you be allowed so few…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great fun. Sense of time in RL now utterly destroyed.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Mindblowing. It takes time to get used to making your copies, but when you figure it out the game come with something more challenging. Great puzzle game since Portal. Must have!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Project Temporality is a cool concept and I was very excited to try it out, but after only about an hour of play I found it nearly impossible to wrap my head around. I’ve never been a huge puzzle game fan, but games like Antichamber absolutely swept me off my feet. Project Temporality gives you traditional platforming challenges where you must push a button to make a platform move, but rather than dropping a cube on the switch, you must create a new timeline and duplicate your actions in order…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Why is this 15 dollars!? IT SHOULD BE 30! This is an AWESOME game. you can die and rewind your death and do it over again 11/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Phalanx takes a look at the innovative single-player co-op (yes, you read that right!) experience from Defrost Games. http://youtu.be/W1T9IahEdac
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a great third-person puzzler, challenging, but not overwhelming. The idea of using time clones to solve the test tracks makes it feel like Portal and Braid mixed together. There are a few nitpicks, but only in the details. Some of the controller movement felt wonky and the story starts out interesting but toward the end becomes painfully bad. But apart from that a fun indie title that deserves more attention than it gets. Rating: 7.5/10 If you like puzzle games, this is definitely…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Requires very percise movement This in turn means knowing how to solve the puzzle, but not getting the timing right which means rewinding time to perfect it. Doesn't help the controls suck Overall it's a meh( Neat premise though) My Score: D Paid: Included in Humble Bundle: Plug In Digital($6) Main reason for dislike: Puzzles are tedious with the little wiggle room given Games similar that are better: The Talos Principle Quantum Conundrum Gateways Time Rifters
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This was a fun game to play. I recommend trying it if you have a few hours to spare. This game's environment is similar to Portal's, but instead of using portals, the game uses elements like time reversal (Braid) and the ability to create multiple timelines (Nicolas Cage movie called Next). Although the puzzles are relatively challenging (occasionally requiring you to go back in time by more than a minute or two), there are only 14 levels in total, and each of them doesn't need more than…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Main "cloning" concept is very fresh and enjoyable, however a little confusing at the beginning. But once you figure it out in your head, most puzzles will provide a lot of fun! The game could do a better job at teaching you some "tricks" which you need to know to solve some puzzles, but with a bit of perseverance and "trial and error" tactics you can discover it yourself. The music, story and the way story is told could be more polished, but these do not overshadow general fun of playing the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →To start: I used to add a header to these reviews, but since it often times made the review too long to submit, I've opted to leave the header on my Backloggery. Gameplay: I gotta be honest; the comparisons between this and Portal are entirely superficial in my eyes; this game's puzzle design really doesn't have much to do with Portal's; for better and for worse. Well... for worse, honestly. As you've probably figured out by now, this game is about time travel. You can also clone yourself and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good but it silently cries out for a voiceover Project Temporality is a really cool idea but it desparately needs somebody to download a copy of Audacity and record a voiceover for it. The way you're constantly stopping to read text boxes completely negates any sense of immersion the game creates stylistically. But the graphics are solid and the mechanic it's based on is clever. Also, a first person camera perspective might be nice to have as an option, because butt-staring is soooo 2003.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →thought this would be fun. turns out it's super repetitive, and gets old so fast.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Beat the game in 6.9 hours. Even though it's a high $2.14 per entertainment hour, it was a lot of fun. Would play again!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A nice game which can be described as a cousin to Braid and Portal. The aspects of manipulating time to create several different timelines has been the bread and butter of Science Fiction stories for decades, but apart from Braid this is the first game I've ever seen that explores the possibilities. Since this is a 3D plattform game, the aspects of timetravel that are most explored are of course the purely spatial and temporal, having to go through ways of getting past obstacles by manipulating…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is 100% broken under Windows 11. Not only do none of the suggested fixes work, none of the standard compatibility fixes work either. Haven't seen the dev post anything since late 2014, so don't expect this to work at all. Avoid at all costs.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is awesome. Great puzzles with mind-bending solutions.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →An awesome concept turned into a fun puzzle game. Project Temporality puts the player on a futuristic space station and has you go through 14 chapters, each with its own set of puzzles that require you to use time clones to be solved. It might seem like a confusing mechanic at first, but don't let your first impressions deceive you. You perform a route that you'd want a clone to take, then you rewind back and create an alternate timeline. At this point, the action you've done already will be…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of the best puzzle games I've played in a long time. There's a lot of Portal about this game - a humorous overlord, a set of intro levels that do a great job of teaching the basic mechanics and a good challenge in a world with unfamiliar rules.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After playing around with Temporality for a while I can heartedly recommend it. While I have not come so far into the game yet I still feel I have gotten a good view of the basic concepts. The idea of spawning clones of yourself through time feels booth novel and new. And the quality of the puzzles so far are entertaining. Simply put I am enjoying myself while playing it. Though there are some hickups here and where especially when it comes to animation it doesn't get in the way of the actual…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Broken under Windows 11, AVOID!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I thought it was decent the puzzles were actually pretty good the music was decent I thought the generals ending dialog was funny there were a few bugs and some annoying things such as -if you went by both a laser and a wall you would get stuck in the wall and have to rewind back out -often when restarting an area your power bar would show that you have less power than you should (a fix for this is putting down a clone and rewinding to before you put it down and it recalibrates how much power…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A good sci-fi themed puzzle. Everybody must have ever wondered if one could have more than one body at different places, or rewind the time to get things undone. The game system comes from these common ideas. It's easy to grasp at first but puzzle is getting harder as you progress, finally becomes a big complex obstacle that tests your brain. Graphics is fine. I can't say it's amazing nor top-notch but it has certain aesthetics. Even the highest resolution in game doesn't quite fit in the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great, different, mind bending puzzle game!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Project Temporality is to Time what Portal is to Space. Excellent concepts which they've pulled off wonderfully, amazing visuals, and a setting that is both fantastic and confronting.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hello, This game presented itself very well, I was so into it, a game like portal, where you create clone(s) and play with time to resolve puzzle seemed really fun. It seemed like like until I played it. I kinda bought it blindly from the video footage and I didn't spent that much time looking into review of walkthrought, maybe that would have prevent me from buying this game. I do not recommend this game for a certain numbers of reasons, which make me regret to have bought this game and this…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really want to recomment this game, but I can't. The puzzles are cool, and it's nice how the manipulation of time is part of the puzzle. However, I hate it when precision is required in time based puzzle. To solve a puzzle in a good puzzle game, you gather all the information you need, apply you intuition, and then you can test your solution. Becausing timing is essential in the puzzles in this game, you probably have to rewind multiple times to get it right. Surely, trial and error is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Play time ~9 hours (Originally recommend No, so that developers see this). I am very grateful that the developers have put out a game with the intention to raise awareness of the injustices in today's human society. The game portrays that injustice very well, but I believe more effort could have been placed in condemning the injustices and fixing it also, rather than simply placing the protagonist (and others) in the shoes' of a victim. Moreover, there are some references to animal…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a pretty good game, especially on sale. I didn't get very far, and I didn't beat it, and I probably won't because it reminded me a lot of a 2d game I just played called The Swapper--but with a less interesting story. If I didn't just play that, this game would have been cool, though.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's really cool. It can be really confusing sometimes because you're messing with time, but that's what makes it a great puzzle game. The backstory is also great, and you have to learn about it by reading notes left behind by the researchers and other people working there, which is really cool.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A fun puzzle game about manipulating clones and time in a space station. Rough around the edges, but enjoyable mindbending puzzles.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is not simply a mind bender. This game will take your brain, squish it flat, roll it up, twist it into a pretzel, and then use it to play a game of Twister. But yeah, it's fantastic. I've been following Project Temporality since before it got on Steam, through IndieDB. I finally got around to buying and playing it after the winter sale. What makes this game different from, say, Thinking With Time Machines? The idea behind Project Temporality is this - what if you could wind time back…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just to start out with this: This game took me 7 hours for a rookie run. If you like The Talos Principle, you will enjoy this. If you enjoy this, you will like The Talos Principle. Some of the concepts in this game seem to have slipped into TPP, but it's a good game in its own right. The music is great and relaxing. The puzzles are quite challenging at times. The resource management isn't needed though, UNLESS you hold shift while running and jumping all the time, like I did. You might run…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not played much yet <1hr but so far great game. Been looking for something similar to Portal after really enjoying those and this would appear to be it. Great challenges and interested to find out more about the story line too!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What an amazing Experience! I would like to start off by saying that when I bought this game, I did it for the soundtrack and did it right after I saw the steam trailer that had that one epic song. After purchasing the game I couldn't find that song anywhere so I went back to youtube to listen to that song every day. I randomly decided to leave a comment about it in the comments section and lo-and-behold the Game company Defrost Games replied back to me. Astonishing! I was being told that they…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A brain bender and the visuals are good, though the player animation is pretty awkward. Walk down a hall and step on a button, go back in time to before you did that, and you'll become a new clone of yourself, watching your old clone walk down the hall and step on the button. A downside of this game is it can get slow, sometimes just waiting for things, going back and redoing the timing, and waiting again.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Use Time Paradox duplicates of yourself to help solve puzzles and circumvent test chambers. Be careful not to approximate any of your previous selfs.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you don't have Portal 2 get that. If you do have Portal 2 then get the free mod "Thinking with Time Machine". This game isn't bad per se. It just that the story and characters....well their aren't any really. Comparing it to Portal may not seem fair but really that's the standard now. And the story and characters that had help you not get so fustrated at the game for those times the 'ah ha' moment hasn't quite hit. In the long run though if you have Portal 2 played it plus "Thinking with…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Doesn't run under Win 11, at least out of the box. No reviews since 2020.. suggests I'm not the only one who can't get it to work. Forum activity suggests there were problems with the game not loading since even Win7, but the mitigation suggested don't work any longer. I'd be happy to prove this wrong but this only runs for about 3 seconds before locking up, not much to go on, and it's clear the devs have long since moved on.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I got the game on sale via humble bundle for $1.50 and I'm currently on puzzle 5. It's honestly pretty fun. Yes, the jump physics are floaty but they are pretty funny. A more concerning issue is the weird collision physics when you try to turn a tight corner around a railing or stairs. I guess your hit box is slightly wider than it seems, leading to some feelsbad moments where you have to rewind to save time for seemingly no fault of your own. I'd recommend the game if you plan to play at…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →RUBBISH , i dont recommend, its tottally rubbish graphics are great, music is will sort what ok. the whole game it self of playing is rubbish
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game is really good, i cant believe that such a small team was capable of making their own engine and the game. the game is not perfect tho, what really makes it shine is the level design and game mechanics! 8/10 its worth the buck.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Advantages: +good graphics +good gameplay +interesting enough story Disadvantage: -some bags (for example your clone fly in ceiling, you stuck in different things, etc.) Like conclusion good enough puzzle game with scientific atmosphere. 7/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A very interesting concept for a puzzle.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is an exceptional, slow-paced puzzle/platformer for gamers of all skill levels. The gameplay is solid, the story is simple, and the music is excellent. If you like to challenge your puzzle-solving skills, give this game a go.
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