Chronology

Chronology

released on May 12, 2014

Chronology

released on May 12, 2014

Chronology is a mind-bending mix of puzzle, adventure and platform game where you defy time by manipulating the past and the future, in order to fix the present. Play as the Old Inventor and his sidekick The Snail, and take advantage of their special abilities - travel back and forth in time, stop time, manipulate objects and solve puzzles.


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Little game with time-related puzzles

It's a OK puzzle plateformer.

Boas ideais, na verdade, o mecanismo do tempo é bem interessante, o resto do jogo é bem abaixo do esperado, tinha potencial mas acaba sendo um jogo mediocre.

Charming puzzle-platformer with a lot of heart and a surprising amount of polish, clearly aimed at a younger audience, but it still compelled me enough to finish it. Essentially "Baby's First Braid".

Thankfully very short, the basic time manipulation couldn't be stretched much further than it was, but there were some really clever moments here and some unintuitively simple answers to seemingly complex roadblocks. I feel like with the right team and given the right amount of time and money, something really special could be built out of the bones of this game! As it stands, it's a cute curio worth looking into if you've got 45 minutes to spare and are a fan of the genre, or if you've got a younger kid who you want to entertain for probably a couple hours.

Couple additional little quibbles. Firstly, the name is so so so uninspired that I literally would have preferred anything else. Call it The Man & The Snail and I'm already more interested in it. Also the jump is very bad, fix that jump, gang. It's too slow and stilted.

Oh also one other thing and the main reason I wanted to check this out, I really liked that the protagonist is an older man. I think we could do with more games where you play a grumpy bastard worn down by years of disillusionment, being slowly won over by a plucky, optimistic, younger deuteragonist.

Super short puzzle/platformer. Game is just kinda meh in every aspect. Definitely meant more for a younger audience, but I would recommend many other games for that demographic before this one.