No Time To Explain Remastered
Skip · Action · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Under the fair line today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$14.99Skip
Typical seasonal cut
$2.9980% offFair
- Cost per hour▼
- $5.77/hr
- Reviews▼
- 79% of 2,562
- Genre rank
- Top 22% Action
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 2.6h
- To 100%
- 6.5h 2.5x the story
- Achievements
- 9
Price and sales
- Sales
- 94 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $1.49 April 2020
- Sale every
- 38d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 0 now
- Cheaper than
- 13% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 78% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
8% start to 2% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
94 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 22 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 78 percent. Pikuniku ($12.99, scores 76) outscores it, and so does Life Goes On: Done to Death ($12.99, scores 62). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about No Time To Explain Remastered
Of the 365 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 570 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 43 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 2.6 hours. Doing everything runs 7, 2.5 times as long.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
My introduction to video games and I wouldn't have it any other way. NO TIME TO EXPLAIN myself any more so just buy this REMASTERED gem.
2 more reviews
An absurd kitchen sink sort of game. There are a lot of good ideas and they are presented at a break-neck pace. There are 14 worlds each with their own gimmick taking about 3 or 4 hours to beat in total. The actual platforming is kind of mediocre but it doesn't matter so much because the pace and the creativity means everything always feels fresh and exciting. The story is dumb fun that doesn't try to make sense but...
A version of you from the future tells you there's no time to explain, gets his ass killed by a giant crab 3 seconds in (he deserved it though), and you go on a wild adventure through alternate realities to do something and possibly save the world while your at it. And what exactly is the plot for all this? No one cares, because video games. Also there's a dance button because why not. You travel through colorful...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
"I Am You From The Future! No Time To Explain, Follow m-OH CHRIST!" Chase your future self through time and alternate realities while fighting giant monsters, collecting hats, and eating cake! No Time To Explain Remastered is the remake of tinyBuild's debut game. Now with multiplayer!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 128 MB. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
No Time To Explain Remastered scores 43/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/368730/no-time-to-explain-remasteredReviews 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 20, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.