Timespinner
Timespinner is a 2D metroidvania platformer about a young woman who travels through time to destroy the empire that killed her family. At its heart, the game is a child of the great pixelated classics of the…
Timespinner is an adventure developed by Lunar Ray Games, released 25 September 2018 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Xbox One. The main story takes about 8 hrs to finish.
What Timespinner is
Timespinner is an adventure game developed by Lunar Ray Games and released in 2018. It was published by Chucklefish Games. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Microsoft XNA.
The premise, in the publisher's words
With her family murdered in front of her and the ancient Timespinner device destroyed, Lunais is suddenly transported into a unknown world, stranded with seemingly no hope of return. Using her power to control time, Lunais vows to take her revenge on the evil Lachiem Empire, but sometimes the course of history isn’t quite as black and white as it seems...
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 37 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Timespinner holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 11 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 8 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Dual Core, 1 GB RAM and DirectX 9.0c compatible, PixelShader & Vertex Shader 1.1. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.
What it launched against
Timespinner launched on 25 September 2018, within three weeks of Marvel's Spider-Man, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Marvel's Spider-Man and Shadow of the Tomb Raider. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Marvel's Spider-Man, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Marvel's Spider-Man, Shadow of the Tomb Raider.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Timespinner yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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