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9 of the best games with time travel

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And with that we are another year closer to the eagerly anticipated cooling of all matter. You may have read that the concept of weeks, months and years is the culmination of humanity s collective understanding of a complicated astronomical pattern. It’s an interesting take. However, the correct hypothesis was posited by your stoner housemate Jed from university. Time is, like, a construct, he said, with the deep wisdom and clarity only three tins of San Miguel can deliver. The Chinese have a totally different calendar, y know. Do you want to order takeaway?

So let s chronicle games about time, specifically those that prove the passing of years is nothing but a directionless tumble through the jelly-like substance of spacetime. Here are 9 games about time travel. But which of them would you undo?

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