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Games like Time Hollow

2008PEGI 7

A Nintendo DS-style adventure in which you use a magical pen to alter past events and fix the present while searching for Ethan's missing family. It thrives on time-travel puzzles and a twisting mystery story.

  • Choices with consequences
  • Strong, story-driven narrative
  • Puzzles and brain teasers

In short: Games like Time Hollow

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Time Hollow special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You

93 %Match

2016PEGI 12PC, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck playable90 % positive9.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Time Hollow: choices with consequences, a strong story and a relaxed difficulty.

You work as an investigator for a government surveillance program, combing through chats, files and profiles of citizens and deciding which information to pass on. It makes the moral cost of mass surveillance tangible within a gripping thriller story.

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Orwell: Ignorance is Strength

Puzzles and brain teasers

You work as an investigator in the Orwell surveillance program, combing through chats, files and profiles for clues, with the power to manipulate the information you find. A dark surveillance thriller where your decisions carry real moral weight.

Replica

Accessible and relaxed

You dig through a suspected terrorist's smartphone, reading messages, photos and apps, and decide how to judge them. A short, dark thriller about surveillance, morality and manipulation.

Lamplight City

Puzzles and brain teasers

A point-and-click detective adventure set in an alternate steampunk-tinged 19th-century city, where investigator Miles Fordham solves cases and hunts his partner's killer. Wrong accusations have real consequences, since cases carry on even when you reach incorrect conclusions.

Dry Drowning

Accessible and relaxed

A dark detective visual novel in a dystopian future city: as a morally shady investigator you hunt a serial killer inspired by Greek myth, solving evidence puzzles while your decisions shape the ending.

Eternal Threads

Puzzles and brain teasers

A first-person puzzle story in which you rewind through the moments before a tragedy in one house. You rewrite the fates of seven housemates by manipulating their past and making choices with real consequences.

Shinrai: Broken Beyond Despair

Puzzles and brain teasers

You investigate a murder at an isolated mountain resort where one of ten friends is the killer. Interrogating suspects and presenting evidence drives the story, and your deductions decide whether you uncover the truth or blame an innocent person.

Blacksad: Under the Skin

Accessible and relaxed

A noir detective adventure starring cat private eye John Blacksad, who is pulled into a murder case around a boxing club. It focuses on investigation, dialogue and choices in a comic-inspired world of anthropomorphic animals.

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