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Time Bandit cover art

Time Bandit

MicroDeal Ltd. · Pixel Games UK · 2023-05-16

Steam

ActionAdventure

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: May 16, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

In this unique top-down shooter with text adventure elements from the 1980s, take on the role of a time traveller seeking wealth and adventure across a number of different eras of time. Play with 1 or 2 players. Players can choose to work together, or against each other!

Time Bandit is an Action, Adventure game released in 2023, priced at $4.99, with an estimated owner base of 0 .. 20,000 and a review sentiment of Negative (10% of 10 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-09-27

10%
positive of 10 reviews
Negative
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$4.99
steam price (US)
Time Bandit is a maze shoot 'em up written for the TRS-80 Model I by Bill Dunlevy and Harry Lafnear and published by MichTron in 1983. It was ported to the TRS-80 Color Computer and Dragon 32, but enjoyed its greatest popularity several years later as an early release for the Atari ST. It was also released for the pseudo-PC-compatible Sanyo MBC-55x with 8-color display. Amiga and MS-DOS versions were ported by Timothy Purves.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Top 98% of 27,712 Action games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

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2220232026Week of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPShared/Split Screen PvPCo-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudRemote Play Together

1 supported languages: English

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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