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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

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  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
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  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
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How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

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

Last update: 26/08/2026