Chronigma

Chronigma

C3BGames · November 25, 2025 · Time Manipulation, Sokoban, Puzzle, Logic, Sci-fi

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About Chronigma

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Chronigma is a time-bending puzzle game where you manipulate temporal mechanics to create past and future versions of yourself that must work together to solve impossible sokoban-style challenges. By mastering the ability to exist simultaneously across different time periods, you'll uncover a story about saving humanity through clever self-collaboration.

Master time in this time-bending sokoban-like puzzle game with a story. You travel back in time to be in two places at once, to solve puzzles impossible to complete alone. Your success hinges on your ability to collaborate with yourself. Can you learn to manipulate time to save humanity?

Chronigma — game info

Platforms
Windows, macOS
Player modes
Single-player
Controller
Full controller support
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Chronigma is a polished free puzzle game that impresses players with its creative time-travel mechanic, intuitive controls, and retro aesthetic, successfully building complex puzzles from simple foundations. While most players praise the clever puzzle design and appreciate optional accessibility features like hints and story toggles, some feel the main campaign lacks difficulty compared to similar games in the genre and that the story conclusion feels anticlimactic.

Recommended Aug 20, 2026
honestly with how polished it is kinda wished it had a price tag, its a really well made puzzle game that takes great advantage of its time travel gimic to make a really unique puzzles
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Recommended Sep 15, 2026
The idea of working together with your past self is really clever. Some of the puzzles had me staring at the screen for a while before everything finally clicked 😂 The time travel mechanic makes the usual puzzle formula feel pretty fresh, and the story gives you a nice reason to keep going. Really enj
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Recommended Aug 31, 2026
It's a good puzzle game, I really do like the time travel mechanic, but it feels like it's missing stuff in the ending... ***spoilers I guess*** The game spends all this time telling you it's preparing you to go to past and do the thing and there's even achievement's about having success or failing to save humanity, but it's literally just a choice. if you refuse you get the robot achievement, but if you choose to go try to help humans you just get both the "failed to save humanity" and the "saved humanity" achievements... it's kinda weird. It's still a fun game to play, but it ends in a anticlimatic way.
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Recommended Aug 21, 2026
For a free game, this is fantastic, both as a puzzle game and a time travel/manipulation game. Some puzzles aren't the best being pure trial & error, but most are really good and the time travel mechanic is great fun and having to manage both timelines with interactions work well. If you go for the story route (which you can disable to just do puzzles) that also gives you an interesting narrative in-between levels.
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Recommended Aug 18, 2026
Very fun little game! It isn't very long, but also doesn't overstay its welcome. The story was pretty predictable, although it didn't twist in quite the way I expected. Although I didn't use it, I enjoy that there are options to turn on hints, and to skip the story to only play the puzzles. The settings pages of this game are great. That said, if you've played other games around working with your past selves (In The Company Of Myself is a classic), you may find this game a tad on the easy side. The bonus levels present a good bit of challenge - often revolving around doing something superfluous as your past self so that your future self can turn that action into a meaningful one - but the main levels are actually pretty straightforward. Fun, but not very difficult. This game is definitely worth the time. Also, I like the QoL that getting the 100% good ending still awards you the achievement for what I presume is the non-100% bad ending.
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Recommended Aug 13, 2026
It was great, very polished for a free game. with the time travel mechanics I was looking forward to some more clever feeling puzzles but there was only one that really felt like I was at all stumped and that was more because I was being really stupid than the puzzle itself. It did feel like there was more potential to the puzzle system it was a lot of like, new stock puzzle mechanic introduced, use it a couple times, and then next stock puzzle mechanic. Still highly recommend it as a short free solid game that's a good combo.
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