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Time Flies

PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Mac, Nintendo Switch • 2025

Should you play it?

Time Flies is a little adventure about our limited time in this world.

What works

  • Unique and charming art style
  • Thoughtful and humorous thematic design
  • Engaging exploration and puzzle-solving
  • Short, replayable gameplay loops
  • Meaningful reflection on time and mortality

Things to keep in mind

  • Short overall playtime
  • Some players find price high for content length
  • Limited depth in gameplay mechanics
  • Lack of multiplayer or social features
  • Occasional cryptic objectives causing frustration

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feel the closest overall

  • Thought Experiment Simulator

  • While Waiting

  • Purrgatory

  • BirdGut

  • The White Door

  • Return of the Obra Dinn

  • and Roger

  • Submachine: Legacy

  • The Room Syndrome

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Hidden Gems

Less popular games with surprisingly high similarity

  • Hidden Cats in New York

  • Bat to the Heavens

  • Little Problems: A Cozy Detective Game

If you liked…

Recommendations by what you enjoyed most

  • Exploration

    Submachine: Legacy
  • Autonomy

    While Waiting
  • Escapism

    Another Adventure

Similarity map

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How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the game’s motivation profile. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

  • Purple star: this page’s game — everything on the map is relative to it.
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers (hidden on purpose).

Time Flies: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Expression, Fellowship, Cooperation, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Exploration. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Violence, Value.

Last update: 25/07/2026