#timeloop

[toxicmizuena]

what if ena is stuck in a timeloop hell! where she constantly have to redo her life starting from mainstory's ending.

[zubzooks]

playing isat has taken a toll on my mental state

[the-real-timeloop-tourney]

WE HAVE A WINNER!

It was a hard fought battle but I would like to officially crown The Princess from Slay The Princess as the winne- wait. Who is that

IT'S MR ARIMNAES WITH THE STEEL CHAIR! Many people thought that Arimnaes would be happy just to see the person who knocked him out of the tournament finally defeated, but as a true member of the Arimnation I know he will never be satisfied until he gets the victory that he sees as his. I don't know if he has what it takes though- UNLESS

IT'S SIFFRIN FROM THE TOP ROPE!

That's right folks, Arim's once bitter rival turned secret teammate is back and all out in the open to help Arimnaes in this upheaval of the order! By all tournament regulations this is illegal! Once eliminated you can't just come back! And certainly not with 2 character in the same spot! But we should have known that Arimnaes doesn't care about laws!

So that leaves us with this final title defense match. Can The Princess defend her crown from this tag team power duo? That's for you to decide!

Best Character Stuck in a Timeloop

Final Round

The Princess (Slay The Princess)

Siffrin & Mr Arimnaes, fighting as one!

Voting ended onMay 28, 2025

[autumndragon]

timeloop au but it's written from the pov of the character not stuck in the loop. one day you wake up and someone you know is acting different. things are happening and somehow they seem to be in the middle of it. they seem to know everything. it doesnt feel right. they won't answer any questions, saying it should work 'this time'. you don't know what 'this time' means. you try to go along but you're always ten steps behind. they tell you things, don't drink that, go left, let's stay home today. the day feels like a dream, like they planned it out for you.

maybe it's your friend, who seems to break under the weight on their shoulders, staring at you with hollow eyes, full of fear. maybe it's your enemy, showing a strange amount of care for someone they vowed to destroy only a single day ago. and they know things about you, things you're sure you never told them, things that were your secret. how do they know? something bad is happening, or is going to happen, you can feel it.

but nothing happens. the day, the mission, the event, it passed. you worry the threat is still there, but the other person is relieved beyond compare, ecstatic. you don't know about what. nothing happened. they won't tell you, but things are different now. things aren't like they were before, and you have no idea what happened.

[th3-dark-abyss]

timeloop protagonist that knows how to escape, but keeps restarting on purpose because they crave the familiar and are terrified of what waits for them if they decide to move on

[justalilolfrog]

on the first day of the timeloop, Avery tries to repeat everything he did. he makes different mistakes, but rectifies old ones. he treats it like a video game. if he can do things quickly, if he can convince Derek that they can find a different way, then surely it will be fixed? in the end it means nothing, and Derek pushes him off to the audience of a thousand eyes.

on the second day he does the same. so does Derek.

the cycle continues. over and over. the third, the fourth, the fifth, the sixth. he gets faster and faster, and Derek dies over and over.

he has lost count of which number it is when he finally tells Derek about the loop. he is surprised. this is not something the King knows about. this is not something his endless knowledge encompasses.

he forgets the next time of course. Avery explains it every day, every time. they travel in circles for days.

and then Derek asks him why? why does he care so much about a man he has never met before? why is he so determined to spend an eternity trying to free him from a death he is destined to die, and why doesn't Avery walk away from the computer, leave behind the King and his worlds entirely?

and the more Avery thinks about it the more he doesn't know.

he spends hundreds of loops trying unsuccessfully to save Derek. every time he questions more and more what the point of it all is.

he begins to ask questions about Derek. he learns he lives in New York. he graduated college the year before. he has a younger sister. she and their parents live in Boston. he can't remember the last time he saw them. his favourite colour is red, and he was born on the fourth of january.

he doesn't remember when he falls in love with him.

perhaps he has loved him since the beginning. perhaps it began when he learned more about who he was. perhaps he has loved him since they first met. perhaps it was when Derek hit him off the ledge for the first time. perhaps it was inevitable. after all, how could someone spend near eternity with another and not?

Derek dies a hundred times over. Avery does too.

[insertdisc5]

TIMELOOP GAMES REAL!??!??!!

hi i made a timeloop game called In Stars and Time and this is a whole post about other timeloop games you can also play.

some i liked. some i loved. some i didnt like. all are worth playing and like also listen the second friends and family heard i was making a timeloop game, i got bombarded with timeloop media recs. so here is a sampler in no particular order! NOTE: knowing some of those games are timeloop games is a spoiler. but. you are here. for timeloop games. so timeloop games you shall have

Outer Wilds

If you need to play one timeloop game, it's this one. Please play it blind. I swear to god you won't regret it. it's timeloops in space!!! it makes you think!!! there are so many "HOLY SHIT WAIT I GET IT NOW" moments!!! please just go play it please please please. some of the best environmental storytelling in a game. so many hints in plain sight. JUST PLAY IT

[way more timeloop games under the cut]

Oxenfree

I didn't actually like Oxenfree very much. But also it stayed in my mind for weeks after I finished playing it. that's how you know it's a good game. I really enjoyed the dialogue system in this, and how much the loop affected the characters. and it got so spooky!!!

Hikeback

i'm in the credits for this one because i was one of the inspirations heehee <3 i loved playing it… short little game about trust, self-sabotage, and never-ending cycles. highly recommend it

The Stanley Parable

Listen babes it absolutely counts. I replayed it a bunch while making ISAT, and I got immensely inspired by the dialogue, and how it catches you off guard sometimes? You get SO SO used to the narrator's "All of his coworkers were gone. What could it mean?" at the start of every game, and then for no reason instead it says "A soft wind blew outside and perhaps rain started, and if it did it stopped shortly after. Stanley hoped that he would one day see weather." like WHAT THE FUUUUCK IM GETTING CHILLS JUST THINKING ABOUT IT

12 minutes

ok i know we all made fun of this game when it came out because the story is batshit insane HOWEVER!!!!!!!! i REALLY REALLY LOVED how doing the same actions multiple times would have slightly different outcomes. If you battle someone, the first time you get knocked out in one hit and the loop restarts. the second time you try, you evade the first hit, but get knocked out. the third time, you last a little bit longer, and a little bit longer, until you can pretty much hold your own against your enemy. And it applies to so many things in this. Retrying different things to see how they would change was a delight.

this game is also so bad its almost good, and if you're interested you HAVE to play it with friends so you can yell about how bad it is together.

Zero Escape

it's just a good series ok. escape rooms, and also time loops! the 3rd game in particular goes deep into The Math of how timeloops would work, which i think is interesting. sometimes timeloop games just go "yeah you can timeloop dont worry about it" and others go "OK HERE'S THE HOW AND WHY IT WORKS" and both are interesting!

START AGAIN: a prologue

this game has almost everything i could wish for in a timeloop game. depression. lines repeating. dying brings you back. you get new levels and skills because you're aware of the loops but your party members don't. so you get overpowered next to them and they Notice. just. party members who dont know about the loops still noticing something is wrong. you are acting differently than yesterday. you look sad. you are acting weird. you know too much. how did you know where the keys were? how did you know this would happen? what's wrong? talk to us. and oh my god this game has a sequel? which will probably have Actually Everything i could wish for in a timeloop game? i can't wait. who made this? (its me i made this)

Ghost Trick

ok its not really time loops and more time travel and only for 4 minutes HOWEVER!!!! you should play it. you know you should play it because everyone says so. so go play it

Elsinore

im sure its a great game but ive never seen/read hamlet. so thats a failing on my part. because. you absolutely need to know hamlet to understand this game lol i did like the whole "make sure to find out which events are Important and which ones aren't so you can have The Perfect Loop"! very fun. or it would be. if i. knew. hamlet

The Forgotten City

a friend kept recommending it to me and i didn't like it. its good! just not for me. but if you like to think a lot you should play it. another "make sure to find out which events are Important and which ones aren't so you can have The Perfect Loop" game

Gnosia

Gonna be real. I didn't like the story very much, in part because the game lets you choose your gender but still acts like youre a straight dude. HOWEVER the gameplay was very inspiring to me. Every loop is pretty much just an among us meeting, and you have to find out who the imposters are or everyone dies and you loop again. and sometimes you ARE the imposter, so you need to make sure no one finds out. or you loop again. rules get added as time goes on too. i REALLY loved how quickly the loops stacked up. seeing "loop 100" was such a nice moment. ive been here so long! i tried to recreate that somewhat for my own game…

Loop Hero

Technically not a timeloop game, but a loop game. It still absolutely counts because it's about loops and memories, and what are loops and memories together if not a timeloop. You have your little guy going through a closed loop, battling enemies, getting cards, and making the world whole again by using those cards to make forests, towns, lakes come to life. I am famously a Story First Gameplay Second kinda player, but I did play this 45h for the gameplay alone. I learned a lot about battle balancing and randomness by playing this!

You and Me and Her: A Love Story

you know doki doki litterature club? this came before. and one might say. it's. better. in some parts (and i say that as someone who LOVED ddlc!) i won't say much except it's a dating sim but with timeloops. with a lot of what it implies. why are you dating this girl a second time? a third time? a fourth time? choose another one already! it was such a fascinating game to play, and is incredibly meta in the way it talks about dating sims and visual novels. had a lot of very impactful moments however, i played the hentai version. some of the worst, most cringy sex ive ever read and heard. however, one might say the sex is an integral part of the game and its deconstruction of hentai/dating sims…? no. just play the steam version which doesnt have the horrible sex scenes and you will have a great time i think (or play the hentai version. if you like. to watch. horrible sex scenes???)

Higurashi

knowing this is a timeloop game is a massive spoiler. however, this game is more than a decade old, so,,, honestly if you havent played higurashi what are you doing. i know i just spoiled you on it but i was also spoiled on it and i can GUARANTEE YOU that you will still have an amazing time. one more thing. you gotta play with the original sprites or you're a fake fan

I Was a Teenage Exocolonist

starts as a visual novel/management sim/dating sim kinda thing, until you realize that every replay is a new timeline. so the main character can save people, because they remembered about them dying in a previous one. i wish the timeloop would affect the game/story more (let me find a certain character quicker once ive found them in a previous playthrough!!!), but timeloop aside, it's a very fun game to play!!!

that's it! hope you will find a nice timeloop game you like