Time Raiders

About

Time Raiders is a 3D top-down shooter with RPG and looting mechanics set in a fractured future. Players travel through time to plunder resources from past and future eras while battling rival raiders and environmental hazards. Combat focuses on fast gunplay and tactical positioning as you navigate shifting timelines filled with ancient ruins, corporate warzones, and experimental tech. Character progression relies on scavenged gear and upgrades that adapt to different historical settings. The game stands out for its chaotic blend of action and time-based strategy. Community feedback highlights the satisfying loot system and the challenge of balancing resource gathering with combat. With both single player and multiplayer modes, it caters to solo runs or team-based raids. Launched in 2022, it maintains a niche following for its frenetic pace and retro-inspired art style. The setting’s cyberpunk-meets-historical mashup offers varied visuals, though some note the story remains secondary to its gameplay loops. PC players looking for frantic, loot-driven shooters might find it worth a try.

Storyline

The year is 2247. As humanity’s technological prowess increased, so did its appetites, and soon consumption far outstripped what the Earth could supply. Resources became scarce, and competition for them intensified. Corporate moves became corporate raids; national manoeuvring turned to war; advancing your career left actual bodies trampled underfoot. Class difference became class divide as the wealthy built gleaming technological towers filled with tech, medicine, and luxury barely comprehensible to the teeming masses left fighting for the scraps. It soon became apparent even to those who controlled empires that the end of humanity would come soon. No technological breakthrough was imminent, no consensus would be achieved to settle conflict, no social solution would put an end to the divisions of the remnants of humanity. Against this looming doom, a mysterious substance was discovered. Seemingly appearing from nowhere and spread among the have and the have-nots without regard for status, this mystifying new material was available to all. This new material, ‘Flux’, allowed people and objects to move through time. Sudden access to the resources of the past offered humanity new hope. This hope caused the rise of a new profession: ‘Time Raider’ Those brave enough, reckless enough, or desperate enough to take the risk could move across time to make their fortunes or meet their fate at the hands of their ancestors.