$19.99Timespinner Revenge across two timelines
Stop time, swap between past and present, and carve a path through an empire in a pixel art metroidvania.
Is Timespinner worth it?
Timespinner is worth it if…
- you grew up on 90s action-platformers and want that tight, pixel art feel again
- you like exploring one big connected map and unlocking it piece by piece
- you want a story with a female lead and choices that shape the ending
- you have a friend who wants to join in locally without learning a whole second game
- you prefer a run you can finish in a handful of evenings over a hundred-hour grind
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A second player on the couch
Local co-op works in an unusual way: a friend picks up a controller and plays as Lunais' Familiar, the creature that fights at her side. Lunais keeps running, jumping and casting, while player two darts around the screen lending a hand in battle. It turns a solo adventure into something shared, without changing how the game plays. If your Familiar is a dream dragon, so much the better: now two people are piloting the cutest part of the party.
Time as a tool
Lunais' power over time is more than a story hook. Stop time and frozen enemies become platforms: jump off a foe's head mid-freeze to reach a ledge no jump can clear, or slip past an attack that would otherwise land. The world itself runs on the same idea. You travel between the barren present of Lachiem and its lusher past, and what happens in one era shapes the other. Burn away vines in the past and the same spot opens up in the present.
Orbs, familiars and bosses
Combat runs on Magic Orbs scattered through the world, each with its own element, and they grow stronger the more you use them. Swap between them to hit enemy weaknesses, pair them with spells, and mix and match until the build feels right. Along the way you befriend Familiars like Meyef, the dream dragon, and train them to fight beside you. Boss battles lean on skill and timing: learn the patterns, dodge, and work your way up to the Emperor himself.
What should you know before playing?
Can you play it solo?
Yes, and that is the default way to play. The local co-op mode, where a second player controls your Familiar, is an optional extra on top of a single-player adventure. Everything from exploration to the final fight with the Emperor works on your own.
Do your choices matter?
They do at the end. The story has multiple endings, and how things resolve depends on what you have done and the calls you make. You can also reload your save after finishing to try a different ending without replaying the whole game.
What is the story about?
Lunais watches her family killed and the ancient Timespinner device destroyed, then lands stranded in an unknown world. She sets out for revenge against the Lachiem Empire, but history turns out less black and white than she expected, and the game keeps asking what changing the past is really worth.
How does it look and sound?
Detailed pixel art carries the whole world, from the lush past to the barren present, and the soundtrack is a gothic, PS1-style score by Jeff Ball, who also played violin for Steven Universe. The music shifts as you move between areas, so no one track wears out its welcome.
