Games Like Temporal Distortion

Place. Rotate. Chain. Breach.

Temporal Distortion is a single-player board game of hex pebbles, played at a lamplit table on four worlds that want you dead. Every pebble has six edges, and every edge a number. Place a pebble, then turn it to strike: the higher number takes the lower, and every pebble taken strikes on with its own edges, wave after wave, until nothing more falls. Run the chain into the enemy's home row and their HQ cracks. No dice, no hit chances. Every strike is exact, and you see what it takes before you turn. Each campaign level deals the same way every time, so every loss teaches you something.

A stranger, a board, and all the time in the world

The Halcyon came down in the dunes, and you lay down in her shadow to wait for death. It didn't come. Then you noticed a board under your hands, and someone across from you, and that you were already playing. The stranger is in no hurry. Between games it sets a scene: a town in the desert, a girl in her wedding blue, waiting in the square for someone who never comes.

Turn to strike

The captures of Triple Triad and the exact, readable turns of Into the Breach, on a hex board where one turn can set off the whole table.

Four worlds, and time slipping between them

Beat a world, and time slips: the table turns to ice, to spore forest, to ash, and the stranger is already waiting with the next story. You were a trader once. You moved whatever you were paid to move, and never asked what it was for. You'll remember.

A campaign told in tales

Sixteen pebbles, three roles

Who stands next to whom is half the game.

Learn it in minutes, sharpen it for hours

A board game on four worlds

Every match is played on a printed survey map of the world it is set on, at a table among the dunes, the ice, the spore forest or the ash: resin pebbles with printed faces, cards with foil seals, coins that flip as you spend them, tracks round the rim of the board. Bright as a table under lamplight.

What it is not