Time Trax

About

In Time Trax, you navigate a grid of interconnected rooms linked by doors and ladders, collecting scattered objects to progress. Each space holds puzzles that require specific items to unlock paths or disable barriers. Combat elements add urgency as you shoot obstacles while solving layout-based challenges. The goal remains constant: find and retrieve key artifacts to shut down time-warping portals. Movement is confined to a side-scrolling plane, with each room acting as a discrete puzzle tied to the next. The game’s strength lies in its layered problem solving. Every portal requires a sequence of actions, gathering items, deciphering layouts, and using them in the correct order. While the 1980s era graphics keep visuals minimal, the structure emphasizes logical flow and resource management. Played on Commodore and Amstrad systems, it caters to fans of cerebral action hybrids willing to tackle its deliberate pace and retro control schemes.

Storyline

Dark forces have set out to destroy the fabric of time, by opening eight space-time continuum portals. Each one is guarded by a great mind, who must have a relevant object returned to them before they will allow you to seal the portals. Doing this requires formulating a spell from the runes the Minds give you.