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Chronigma

2025

Should you play it?

Master time in this time-bending sokoban-like puzzle game with a story. You travel back in time to be in two places at once, to solve puzzles impossible to complete alone. Your success hinges on your ability to collaborate with yourself. Can you learn to manipulate time to save humanity?

What works

  • Innovative time travel puzzle mechanics
  • Engaging story with multiple endings
  • Polished presentation and smooth performance
  • Helpful hint system and accessibility options
  • Free to play with no ads or microtransactions

Things to keep in mind

  • Some ui inconsistencies
  • Minor difficulty spikes
  • Limited character customization
  • Story could be expanded in endings
  • No multiplayer or social features

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Can of Wormholes

  • Paquerette Down the Bunburrows

  • Chronoquartz

  • Slider

  • Isles of Sea and Sky

  • Tetrobot and Co.

More survival-focused

Games that feels like Chronigma but with a stronger survival pressure

  • Shattered Pixel Dungeon

  • Environmental Station Alpha

  • Escape Goat 2

  • Chip's Challenge 1

  • Mimic Logic

  • Void Stranger

Less story-driven

Games that feels like Chronigma but with less narrative immersion

  • Linelith

  • Patrick's Parabox

  • Maxwell's puzzling demon

  • Gateways

  • Recursed

  • 100$

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Chronigma: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Fantasy, Thrill, Story. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Story, Fantasy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Expression.

Last update: 21/08/2026