Make your choices carefully, because everything you start in Time Bandit will take time to finish--just like in real life. I'll talk about some of the many unique real-time game mechanics:
- Move boxes, grow trees, build bridges, and compact trash--and wait for them to finish.
- Different guard rotations and different consequences for getting caught during stealth gameplay, depending on the time of day when you play.
- A story that unfolds slowly through conversations that work like real-life phone calls. Characters will only pay you a call periodically to advance the story over the course of days and weeks of playtime.
- Your energy meter goes down while you play, and it takes up to 8 real-time hours of good sleep to fill it up all the way.
- Meet characters at the actual meeting times that you set with them.
- Dynamic music that changes with the hour of the day.
And I'll show off some of the new cutscenes revealing the game's anti-capitalist premise. In Time Bandit, you work as an independent contractor for a mining company, but when you discover they’re trying to take control of time in order to make you work for them forever, you start to steal back.
Happy to answer any questions you have in the chat! :)