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Time Treker
Developer Fuse Game
Choose your pilot and build your own custom mecha with 17+ weapons and 55+ attachments, then jump to the battlefield against hundreds of enemies to save spacetime itself in this thrilling sci-fi bullet heaven! From the Steam store page
85 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Mastodon, Bluesky) · newest Sep 25, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
70
Fresh
57 positive · 25 negative
95% range 59–78%
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| Steam reviews | 57 | 25 | 0 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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3 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Mixed
340 of 486 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 85 · most liked firstNo Time for Time Treker Overview Hear that music in the trailer? Yeah, it got me too. It’s pretty dope and so I figured, hey even though the game has mixed reactions at least it will be fun to listen to for a while. I was not wrong, but in the end not even the music could save me from the oncoming snoozefest. It’s a roguelite without variety and a gameplay loop that quickly outstays its welcome. Story There’s a story? I didn’t get the game for one, so that’s fine that it left zero impression…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pros: - good setup ( mech vs alien ) - build method ( modding weapons ) - missions in every round ( not only staying alive ) - fair price Cons: - not much variation of everything ( feels more repetitive then other survivors ) - not enough statistics to test different builds - very bad translations 6/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Check out our [url=store.steampowered.com/curator/36364102-Horny-Hentai-Festival/]Steam curator , [url=www.youtube.com/curatorhhf/]YouTube channel and [url=x.com/hhfcurator]X(Twitter)! [EA/Anime/Action] Popular Survivors-genre game with various weapons/add-ons. Beat foe hordes by talented companions including cute anime girls. Looking forward to future updates. [早期/ACT]…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Awesome game. Very happy that I stumbled across this little gem. Played the heck out of the demo and a lot of great updates were made to the full game. Even just noticed an option for manual aim! Only negative is that you can't save your progress mid-run, since they are on the longer side. Would be nice to have this added down the road, but I'm not complaining...it's a good one!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is Vampire Survivor style game with a campaign mode. Pros: It's Vampire Survivor style with a campaign mode. As in... Vampire survivor's "Adventure mode" that was added, but better in every way. You can change your weapons any time you want, yes that's right, you can set the weapon combination you like at any time, not working? Change it! You can tweak each weapon as you want. You get the obvious upgrades like +Damage, +Attack Speed, etc., but also modifiers to make the weapon fire…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Honestly a pretty solid survivors game. While it follows the same core gameplay as other survivors, there are a number of good iterations on the pattern here that make it a worthwhile addition to the genre: The weapon upgrade system is interesting and flexible while staying easy to understand; you slot up to 4 mods into each power, with each mod buffing and altering the weapon behavior in some simple way, like more projectiles or splitting lasers or adding a burn effect. The individual maps…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Overall not a great execution, but it's got style and it's not horrible. Would be neutral on the game, but they took away one of the characters and decided to make them paid dlc so I won't be putting and more time or effort into this one.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After mulling it over for a while, I feel this bullet heaven is just a bit too ‘Plain Jane’ for me to recommend anyone check out, especially amongst the several other popular and niche ‘Vampire Survivors’ clones. The game does have some neat ideas in giving the characters unique ‘ultimate’ type abilities that lend into their strengths and having a few different forms of progression in and out of run you need to learn to focus your efforts between. There’s also the feature to turn off auto-aim…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's definitely a fun game, and honestly, ignore the negative reviews saying the game is too difficult or unbalanced because it's not, I think what a lot of these reviews are failing to realize is that there is a mechanic to go back and replay missions while in a timeline which is basically a campaign. You will undoubtedly fail some missions, especially early on before you have some meta upgrades and that's fine, keep going, you don't lose unless your disaster bar reaches max, and when you go…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It is fun for few runs, until you find your best set of weapons, then every run becomes the same. Not roguelike. Need much more variety or excluding options, so you can't stuck all you want in single playthrough. Maybe add more diverse relics, relic sets, weapon synergy for different builds, level/monster mutators. All characters feel the same, except maybe one with dash, but it's irrelevant. When full built, you can just stay afk every map. Nothing to say about balance as there is still a lot…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Probably one of the less good Garlic-likes played. At first it seems cool but... The stages all feel the same The difficulty scaling feels either way too easy or way too hard By taking stat upgrades you can scuff your movement speed so much that you cant dodge or get away anymore You dont really feel upgrades to weapons and such Maybe there is a good game somewhere deeper once you are ready to invest more time into it, but I won't be doing that. There is many other games of this genre on…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Some interesting concepts but overall needs more time to cook. I don't think an in-depth review makes sense for a game so early in it's lifecycle. It is a promising game and worth checking back in a few months and seeing where it goes.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First thought after finish my first rewrite (aka 1st success run), there is a few pros and cons i have with this game: *Pros: - New interesting mechanic to rougelike. - Music, environment, character design were all decent. - You can test build mid-run and play out how you want. - The game is light as my potato laptop can run it without making the fan sound. *Cons: - It's a new game so still not very polished as the enemies designs are still quack and not in theme (flying mob is literally duck…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Losing interest by the 2nd play through, done by the 4th. There are only 3 different playable characters, all with very minor differences. There few weapons and weapon augments so it't not a lot of RNG, its not a "what will i play this round?", its a "when will I get my build?" You max out on crystals 60% through the run with nothing else to upgrade, with no further upgrades so you just feel weaker and weaker as the run progresses. Game becomes ridiculously easy after the first 2 runs when…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A survival game you can play while humming and tapping your foot :)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Too many people sleep on this game. It is a simple game, but it is an addictive game. One of the best Vampire Survivor-likes. My only wish is for more characters, more more more.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I won't be as hypercritical as others. There's room for improvements in terms of variety, but its a terrible game by any means. If anything, people are so mad because this has the potential to be GREAT and its hampered by some choices. All of which an be fixed with patches.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I like the concept of the game as a survivors-like, but the difficulty spike is ridiculous and makes the game hard to enjoy after a few rounds. This one definitely needs some tweaking. Can't recommend in it's current state.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The first impression of the game is good. Fun weapons, interesting upgrade system. Then it just starts dragging on and on and on. Once you start finding strong upgrade combinations, the game isn't challenging at all. The maps and enemies quickly become repetitive. It takes a long time to finish an entire timeline trek and the rewards for doing so are bland talent trees that are entirely superfluous because everything is so easy. This game is for you if you like bullet heavens, you're looking…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This could be a cool game. Maybe one day it will be. Right now it's just not as fun as it could be. I don't know if the developers are trying to make "the hardest survival game" or what, but just throwing TONS of enemies that are bullet sponges at the player isn't fun. Getting overwhelmed no matter how many times you upgrade a weapon doesn't feel good.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a fun bullet heaven. Considering it's in early alpha it's in a really good state. Below notes are for the developers: * Progression towards the final boss is way too long. I felt that I've been repeating the same stuff over and over again. * Roulette is a really cool and simple mechanic - it's like looking under the hood of RNG engine. * Mission objectives are cool, because it forces you to clear the objective and finish the mission. That said, what are the differences between "kill…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Small role differences，boring build，wasting time
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"Time Treker" is a sci-fi bullet heaven. Similarly to Vampire Survivors, you auto shoot enemies that come non stop towards you and you are upgrading to become stronger and stay alive a little longer! This game offers a lot more though! For starters, you get to go on missions with a specific target and on some levels you get to randomly craft a level along with various random rewards that are possible for you to gain. Imagine a wheel of fortune but with rewards and enemies; this will decide what…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game has a lot of potential and is fun. Some of the requirements for unlocking characters are ludicrous (like killing the boss 30 times) and the single run can take up to 2.5 hours, but in spite of that it's still a good game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →[url=https://youtu.be/Xy-btmRe69U?si=B_TqEn085pDyZcw5] First 20 Minutes Gameplay Here First is first: On the early stages of the levels the game can actually get quite boring since you get more upgrades than you shoot which just slows the rythm of the gameplay! On the other hand: The game offers a visually engaging and action-packed experience for fans of the bullet heaven genre. With a diverse array of weapons and robust customization options, the game excels in delivering flashy, addictive…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →TL;DR: It's not a bad game, it's just not a particularly great game. Maybe on sale. Good things first: I like the art style. The setting concept is fun and fits well with a roguelite experience. The character designs are nice, if generic. The core ideas aren't bad. I really liked that the gameplay is set up in 3-5 minute bites. I only ran into one major bug, and it was due to some weird combination of keypad and keyboard buttons being hit at the same time. Now the bad: It feels wholly…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I like the game and mechanics but has a few flaws that will keep me from enjoying it. The large text box when your character is speaking and the large damage numbers on the screen make it near impossible to see half of the enemies on the screen. Please make a settings to be able to turn those off.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Starship Troopers meets Vampire Survivors! With the typical Survivors and Bullet Hell gameplay, Time Treker, changes the formular with constant progression during a run, allowing for amazing combinations of different weapons and modifications, letting us either change the one bladed chain saw into three blades, burning our enemies to crisps, to name one of the many examples. My short 3 minute review can be seen here: https://youtu.be/qZ4vAnQ2jII?si=RUNl5CehfMWVm60x
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Inscrutable UI, slow, bland gameplay, mediocre graphics. There are so many of these, and this one is bad.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Excellent game if you want a top down third person shooter that also servers as a horde survival game with bullet hell mechanics in later levels. Very fun and entertaining. It starts out slow-paced in early levels and as the player progresses it gets much more fast-paced and intense. Combat is mostly automated firing at the directions the player points, with certain specific weapons, items, and specials needing to be used and deployed by the player manually. Tons of upgrades exist in this…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As an avid fan of the genre, I really really like this game. The weapon system, passives and relics add a really unique twist on the genre, and the characters with their individual skills and skill trees add a lot of complexity. I completely disagree with other reviewers that all runs end up feeling the same. My builds were highly dependent on what relics and passives I got, fine tuning my weapons to suit my relics/passives. My first successful run, I got a relic that continually…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →a challenging bullet hell, lots of upgrades and progression infinite replayability.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game isn't much to write home about for the genre and they just bit they hands of the few ppl who were playing by taking previously free DLC out of their libraries in favor of making it paid content. Whether that specifically was a mistake is not super relevant to me as at this point, any company who switches a previously free product to paid later on instantly loses my trust personally as it speaks to a level of dishonest marketing and tactics with their consumers. If I could refund it I…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Shovelware, the dopamine rush ends after first few level ups, every map layout is the same.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I know this is a Rogue Lite extraction shooter X bullet heaven but damn BRUH! Why is the difficulty so flucking high?!? Game is still fun P.S. the music is horrible.. Instant turn off in the settings type ♥♥♥♥ update: it took me 20 hrs of playing time to beat it! I think that's fair all thing considered (and honestly preferred imo). You have to plan out your runs but a bit of meta progression HELPS A LOT! I recommend spend your in game currency on EXP gain on a failed run (that's honestly how…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is really good. ----------------------------- Das Spiel ist echt gut.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I HATE MUTATED RHINOCEROS I HATE MUTATED RHINOCEROS I HATE MUTATED RHINOCEROS. WHY ARE THEY TOUGHER THAN THE BOSSESS!? 7.9/10 - Great game but with crazy balance issues. Gameplay: pros - Clean interface, fun campaign undergoing that involves multiple runs with slightly differing objectives. Though I do wish either the individual battles could be faster paced or less tedious per big campaign (in game's terms, it would be the whole timeline) it can be offset with events that occur within the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →YESN'T. Yes it's the very textbook definition of a bullet heaven. Not technically though is it bullet hell. The different weapon attachments are great. Mutator + Fission Device is just the most amazing combination. Grading Scale: B+
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Time Treker’s gameplay is a symphony of action, strategy, and exploration. Pilot your custom-built mech, equipped with 10+ weapons and 15+ attachments, as you face off against hundreds of enemies in intense, bullet-hell battles. The game’s endless mode is a particular highlight, challenging players to survive for five minutes while completing side objectives and upgrading their mech. The sense of progression and improvement is incredibly satisfying, making it impossible to put the game down.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Gameplay is decent, weapon upgrade logic is different for the genre and fun albeit there's not many options since half of the weapons and upgrades are way too ineffective to be used. The characters have not much meaning to them which is making this game miss the mark on that part. Most important thing that is missing from the game in my opinion is, manual level-up option. After I finished my first run and got bunch of extra experience upgrades, what happened was I would attack once and then…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm not sure what the goal of this game is. To have fun is obvious, but whats it trying to do? You traverse a map, one tile at a time. As you go you either battle mobs in a Vampire Survivor -esk manner, or get some random bonuses. When you do one of the battle tiles, you will get weapons and other passive bonus to power you up. These stages also have mini-quests for you to do, such as clear with over 50% HP, kill X amount of baddies, etc. What happens if you die? Well...you leave the stage.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This has the potential to be a fun sci-fi rouge-like, it looks and sounds great, and seems to have all the typical features of other rouge-likes, but is certainly more unique in ambition. I love the customisation upgrade slots and figuring out which upgrades work well together, though I do find it difficult to understand a lot of stats and how they alter the weapons and your character. At current I only have unlocked 2 characters of the available 3, one with dash unique skill and another with a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Really enjoying the mix of surviario with a campaign structure of a rouge-like. Few things I'd love to see added, be able to turn off the character speech bubbles in level, and turning off damage numbers. Both really get in the way when you reach the late levels.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →great on steam deck
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →good concept but for 1 run is take too much time really burn out me
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fresh twist on the genre. Lots to do. Excellent value for money.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The gameplay is fine, but bugs and balance issues make it a pain to progress. Enemies needed to complete a mission may not spawn, or units you need to activate will spawn outside of the map and can't be reached. A fully kitted and maxed out character may still struggle to beat the final boss, despite a perfect run and tools specifically focused on killing the boss. Weakness in translation aside, the game is a struggle even when you're past the point of trial and error and know what you're…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Neat idea with some crazy balance issues. starts off way too hard and then gets way too easy. Basically unplayable with the way enemies spawn in the later parts of a run.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A horde survival game with enough of its own personality to stand apart from similar entries. You know the genre, you know if you're going to like this. I'm having a blast. Love the art style, the mixture between auto weapons and manual is a nice touch, and the skill tree makes you feel like you're growing in power even when the weapons you want aren't dropping. Though the ban system remedies that after a run or two. I've seen some criticism around the difficulty, with complaints that it…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Mecha Bullet Heaven game Time Treker is now out of Early Access #gamenews #indiegame #steam www.nettosgameroom.com/2024/11/mech...
unlabelledView post →A very fun experience, though still incomplete. I am curious what happened to the 4th character, as i hadn't unlocked him before he disappeared. Other then the limited options as it is still in development i cant really say anything overly bad. its quite good.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Punished for not being able to no-life the game So much of the game balance relies on you on having a high level of progress in the research hub; Without some significant levels in the research (several runs which are right from the get go doomed to fail simply because you don't have good enough upgrades). For example in Nikkes' survivor mode, Para+Bellum, Wings, and lot of other survivor games there is still very much a sense of progress in the early game, A sense of "Pride and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Now, the game sucks hard. A lot of numbers for our characters, none of them really matters. Some runs in the second mission, you simply will not have enough damage to destroy the mission target nests, have to walk a lot to find ranged/flying enemies that doesn't spawn enough in the time window. Enemies have a LOT of HP, when the special/mutant appears, is a guarantee fail... and can't recover at all, or you just keep playing and failing to end the run or just abandon the timeline aka give up…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The gameplay is slow, the runs are SO LONG. Enemies at the end have so much health. I made it to the last guy and he couldnt kill me, but i couldnt kill him before the time ran out. So i played for a couple hours completing everything on the map just to lose by timer on the last boss ( i needed maybe 5 more seconds). Prior to that I wasnt enjoying the game. Something is there but it needs refined. The game is a chore to play.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a really fun take on the Survivors genre! it gives, what I and so many people had been complaining about, actual objectives and thing to do and reason to explore the map. I am enjoying this game very much even tho as of yet i have not had a success in a timeline. Deffo one of the best games yet for me. Here is my first impressions video for the game https://youtu.be/H-cflwgELhk
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →不太喜欢像素风格，不过之前玩过Demo，感觉游戏类型很不错，适合快节奏生活下临时玩一下。正式版发现玩法改进特别大，强烈推荐。另外强烈建议开发团队早点出Switch版或手机版的，一定是蹲坑神器。
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What do you mean all chainsaws is inefficient?
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →a very good bullet heaven game, with fantastic artwork, exciting music, meta progression and different characters to play with. There are several types of missions that occur randomly through different stages of the game. Each stage is harder, but the types of missions stay relatively the same. RNG can make the game harder or easier, but overall the game can be as hard or as easy as you choose, because it all depends on your own weapon choice. After several playthroughs, I found that there is…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There are a lot of Survivors-type games, and this is one of them. The difficulty is pretty slack. The story is minimal. It's... ok? It's probably worth the $5 they want for it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Middle option Time Treker is a horde survival game like Vampire Survivors. Its fun, but not that polished, unfortunately. Hence why I'd wish Steam had a recommendation option beyond yes and no. It takes a LONG time to get off the ground, but even with the dlc character there's not much variety in pilots, enemies, maps, etc.. Worse is that the unbalanced nature of the game makes you faces foes WAY beyond even the best load-out options you have in the early game. Die and try again I suppose. It's…
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