This demo was presented in GDC 2025 playbooth. It has 5 levels (~15 minutes) that demonstrates the game's core gameplay.

Brief

Tale of Time is a non-euclidian top-down puzzle game that revolves around teenager on a mission to travel back in time to retrieve his long-lost family heirloom.

You can create portal spells that reveals the same place 8 years ago. Multiple spells can be stacked up to increase the time-travel potency exponentially (64, 512, 4096 years...)

With these powerful spells, you will solve intricate puzzles, travel back to the past, and unravel secrets no one  have heard of...

Controls

- WASD to move the character.

- LMB to move the portals.

- RMB to stack the portals; only works when the player is in the overlapped area.

- Space key to ineract.

- Esc to pause; numbers key to skip levels.