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Timelie

Urnique Studio · 2020-05-20

SteamGOG

AdventureIndieStrategy

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

Releases: Dec 15, 2021 (Nintendo Switch), May 21, 2020 (Mac), Nov 12, 2025 (Android), May 21, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Nov 12, 2025 (iOS)

Timelie is a stealth puzzle adventure, where you control time like a media player. Perceive future events to plan your escape strategy from the past, sneak an enemy, and manipulate time through this companionship journey of a mysterious cat and a little girl with a precognitive power.

Timelie is a $17.99 Adventure, Indie, and Strategy game released in 2020, with an estimated 200,000 to 500,000 owners and a Very Positive sentiment (94% of 2530 reviews).

1
playing now
94%
positive of 2.5k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
76/100
critic score (4 outlets, IGDB)
71/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
6h
to beat · rushed 5h · completionist 7h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$17.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 13:00 UTC (census sample)

Timelie is a 2020 single-player stealth puzzle adventure game developed by Urnique Studio. The story follows a young woman who awakens in an unfamiliar dimension and is threatened by hostile robots. The player can control time in the form of a media player, which can be used to defeat enemies. The game was released for Windows and macOS in May 2020 and went on to sell over thirty thousand copies, being nominated for multiple accolades and awards. Thai gaming publications and conventions listed Timelie as Game of the Year. The first free DLC Hell Loop Puzzle Pack was released in October 2020.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 43 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~5/week).
  • · Review velocity down 22% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (396 reviews).
  • · Top 8% of 28,763 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-30

Estimated sales: 51k–114k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,533 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$8.99-50%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $7.19 at Steam (2025-06-27) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $17.99 · on sale 39 of 66 observed days · $1.80 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
39139120202026Week of 2020-05-01: 391 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 128 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 82 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 92 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 78 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 67 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

402026-09-14 22:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 06:00 — 1 players2026-09-17 14:00 — 1 players2026-09-18 21:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 11:00 — 1 players2026-09-26 19:00 — 2 players2026-09-28 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 17:00 — 3 players2026-10-02 01:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 08:00 — 1 players2026-10-04 16:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 15:00 — 1 players2026-10-09 22:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 06:00 — 3 players2026-10-12 14:00 — 2 players2026-10-13 21:00 — 2 players2026-10-14 13:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$17.99$8.992020-05-212026-10-142020-05-21 — best price $17.092020-10-09 — best price $16.142020-12-01 — best price $17.992021-02-15 — best price $17.992021-05-21 — best price $8.992021-07-08 — best price $17.992021-12-01 — best price $17.992022-01-31 — best price $17.992022-07-25 — best price $8.992022-11-29 — best price $17.992023-03-16 — best price $8.992023-06-11 — best price $8.992023-08-01 — best price $8.992023-10-09 — best price $17.992023-11-29 — best price $17.992024-01-17 — best price $17.992024-02-20 — best price $8.992024-04-04 — best price $17.992024-05-30 — best price $17.992024-07-22 — best price $8.992024-09-25 — best price $8.992024-12-04 — best price $17.992025-03-19 — best price $8.992025-06-18 — best price $8.992025-09-25 — best price $8.992025-12-18 — best price $8.992026-03-26 — best price $17.992026-07-09 — best price $8.992026-08-30 — best price $17.992026-09-05 — best price $17.992026-09-11 — best price $17.992026-09-17 — best price $8.992026-09-23 — best price $8.992026-09-29 — best price $8.992026-10-05 — best price $8.992026-10-11 — best price $8.992026-10-14 — best price $8.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

8202026-05-31 — 6 pageviews2026-06-04 — 9 pageviews2026-06-08 — 12 pageviews2026-06-12 — 9 pageviews2026-06-16 — 4 pageviews2026-06-20 — 4 pageviews2026-06-24 — 82 pageviews2026-06-28 — 5 pageviews2026-07-02 — 5 pageviews2026-07-06 — 9 pageviews2026-07-10 — 3 pageviews2026-07-14 — 11 pageviews2026-07-18 — 10 pageviews2026-07-22 — 9 pageviews2026-07-26 — 4 pageviews2026-07-30 — 5 pageviews2026-08-03 — 5 pageviews2026-08-07 — 5 pageviews2026-08-11 — 10 pageviews2026-08-15 — 12 pageviews2026-08-19 — 5 pageviews2026-08-23 — 2 pageviews2026-08-27 — 3 pageviews2026-08-31 — 7 pageviews2026-09-04 — 12 pageviews2026-09-08 — 2 pageviews2026-09-12 — 7 pageviews2026-09-16 — 11 pageviews2026-09-20 — 1 pageviews2026-09-24 — 0 pageviews2026-09-28 — 4 pageviews2026-10-02 — 6 pageviews2026-10-06 — 4 pageviews2026-10-10 — 5 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

22
achievements tracked
49.3%
earned "Caged out"
14.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing2 DLC

13 supported languages: English, Thai, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian…

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2020-05-26, latest 2020-10-08 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,15028%22
Switch (Nintendo)250%0
Switch (Nintendo)0—0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

3DCuteIndiePuzzleStealthRelaxingAdventureDifficultIsometricAtmospheric

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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