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Time travel horror games on GOG

In these games the past is a place you can walk into. You step through a mirror, a rift or a ball pit and find the same rooms years earlier, then carry what you learned back to the present. The fear comes from places that are familiar but wrong, and from knowing that what you change in one time can make the other worse.

The top 7 of 7 time travel horror games on GOG, ranked by player and critic scores

The 7 best on GOG

  1. The Past Within key art: the game's title beside a hexagon badge with a dark figure with white eyes, over a blurred dim room PsychologicalThe Past WithinOne player is in The Past and the other in The Future, and what each sees unlocks the other's time 96% on Google Play (49,400 ratings)about 2 hPaidPC, Mac, Switch, iPhone, Android
  2. Tormented Souls key art: a twisted figure stands in a red-lit corridor lined with suits of armour, glowing light behind it SurvivalTormented SoulsBy crossing through mirrors to another time, Caroline can change things that open the way in the present. 90% on Steam (8,283 reviews)12 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  3. Costume Quest 2 art: four cartoon children in Halloween costumes, a candy corn with big glasses, a caped hero in goggles, a bearded wizard and a dinosaur, on a glowing clock circle HalloweenCostume Quest 2The children chase the dentist through portals to before their hometown was founded and to the future 90% on the PlayStation Store (2,633 ratings)about 6 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox
  4. Cronos: The New Dawn art: the Traveler's dented dome helmet marked ND-3576, with a shoulder lamp, before a ruined clock tower and a red rift under a red sky SurvivalCronos: The New DawnThe Traveler passes through time rifts from a ruined future back to 1980s Poland to extract the essences of the dead. 88% on Steam (12,214 reviews)18 h or morePaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  5. Pathologic 3 key art: a young man's face seen through the pieces of a shattered mirror PsychologicalPathologic 3You can rewind to earlier days or look ahead at the worst outcomes, using a scarce substance called amalgam. 80% on Steam (2,839 reviews)25 h or morePaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox
  6. Prisoner of Ice key art: a terrified man lit from below by a glowing open book, over an old map of the Americas and a cloudy sky Puzzle horrorCall of Cthulhu: Prisoner of IceThe store page promises you must master the complexity of time travel during the investigation. 74% on Steam (149 reviews)about 3 hPaidPC, Linux
  7. Dark Fall 2: Lights Out key art: a stone lighthouse on a rock in a teal storm, a big wave breaking at its base under dark clouds PsychologicalDark Fall 2: Lights OutTime portals take you through the lighthouse in four eras, from the Bronze Age to a future research base. 72% on GOG (263 ratings)about 4.5 hPaidPC

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