But soon you start to suspect there might be a dark secret behind the company's activities. The company hired you to carefully manage your money and fuel while solving puzzles slowly over time to collect the time crystals for them. The time it takes to complete depends on how often you check back in on the game. Please note: This is just the first part of the story. Time continues to pass while you're not playing. You can multitask and go work on other puzzles while you wait, or just save the game and come back later. You have a new job that involves moving boxes and starting other tasks that take time-sometimes what seems suspiciously like TOO much time. With a real-time day-and-night cycle, to make the game integrate more with your life.Welcome to the world of Time Bandit, a unique real-time adventure game where things move at a slower pace. You'll find hints on what to do next, details that expand the story, fourth wall–breaking humor, and more.Ī challenge with real consequences: Don't get caught by guards or let yourself fall asleep, or you might end up stuck waiting it out in jail or the hospital.įixed camera angles in gameplay, just like in the old days. Use the realistic radio to call characters anytime for dialogue about whatever situation you're in. Fight for a world where everyone has a right to their time. The company's CEO and shareholders have come up with a scheme to live forever, but it will mean sacrificing the lives of their workers. The prologue chapter of an epic, explicitly anti-capitalist melodrama, told through lowpoly cutscenes and radio conversations inspired by early cinematic games. Your energy meter goes down while you play, and it takes up to 8 real-time hours of good sleep to fill it up all the way.Characters will only call you periodically to advance the story over the course of days and weeks of playtime. A story that unfolds slowly through conversations that work like real-life phone calls.Move boxes, grow trees, build bridges, and compact trash-and wait for them to finish.Manage your money, fuel, and energy while slowly solving puzzles to collect the time crystals and then pull off high-stakes stealthy heists to steal back from your employer.įeaturing tons of real-time game mechanics: You work as an independent contractor for a mining company, but soon you discover they’re trying to take control of time in order to make you work for them forever. You'll just have to go and do other stuff and come back later. Place down one of these automated forklifts to push a box for you, for example, and it'll take an actual half an hour to finish moving it: Make your choices carefully, because everything you start will take time to finish-just like in real life. (I released a new Stealth Prologue chapter for Time Bandit, which jumps you further into the game and lets you experience the retro stealth gameplay for the first time!)ĭiscover the unique real-time mechanics and anti-capitalist premise of Time Bandit in this Prologue Chapter in the style of a classic PS1 demo.Ī dark life sim that unfolds slowly in real time, with an unusual combination of elements from idle, stealth, and puzzle genres. A Game That Takes Time *Wishlist on Steam* (Even if you plan on downloading the game through Itch.io, every wishlist on Steam helps to support development!)
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