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Time Bandit – Part 1: Appendages of the Machine

Joel Jordon · 2023-07-24

Steam

AdventureCasualIndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person, Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Jul 24, 2023 (Mac), Jul 24, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A who̴͊leso̶̬̙̍me real-time adventure with a dark secret. At your relaxing new job managing resources and collecting crystals, everything you do seems to take ... much, MUCH longer than it should. In retro 3D cutscenes, uncover a company's conspiracy--and sneak around at work to steal back your time.

94%
positive of 72 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$9.99
steam price (US)

Steal back time from your employer in this anti-capitalist melodrama.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 36% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 54% of 21,064 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.4k–3.2k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 72 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
191920232026Week of 2023-07-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2023-07-24 (Steam store data)

Player tags

IdlerIndieCasualPuzzleSokobanStealthStrategyAdventureNarrativeReal-Time

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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