Time Loader
Fair · Action · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $7.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 2.9h 5.1h to 100%
- Value
- $2.76/hr
- Reviews
- 83% of 578 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Time Loader is a story-driven puzzle-platformer with tiny robots, alternate realities, nostalgic music, and primitive tech from the 90s!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
50 discounts in the 5 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 9 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 85 percent of its genre. Moonleap ($8.99, scores 83) outscores it, and so does Agent A: A puzzle in disguise ($19.99, scores 61). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Time Loader
Steam's global achievement data puts about 8 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 2.9-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 362 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written November 2021 to August 2026.
At 2.9 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
61% start to 8% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 7, 18:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Playing this game feels like I'm watching a cool sci-fi film. The story and gameplay are very engaging and I like the movement for the robot too.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
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I wanted to like this game but unfortunately it has been one of the most disappointing games I have ever played. First, after downloading the antivirus in act 2, I then encountered a bug which prevented me from going into the kid's room in act 3 which I needed to go to get all the achievements. I then replayed the all levels where I couldn't finish earlier only to encounter another bug where the camera wouldn't...
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Cite this score
Time Loader scores 55/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1301950/time-loaderReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 1, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.