TimeFall — where empathy breaks the path of time.

Arrival in the Past

TimeFall hurls you into history without warning — naked, cold, disoriented, and judged by the logic of another century. You wake with nothing but your instincts and whatever trust you can earn.

• Arrive physically, with no gear, stats, or safety net.
• Feel the cold of stone floors, the itch of straw, the sting of smoke.
• Every interaction matters; every misstep has consequences.

Your Identity Changes the Story

Your name, age, gender, and profession are not cosmetic choices. They shape what you notice, what you understand, and how the people of each era decide to treat you.

• Play as yourself, or as a different version who could have been you.
• A young medic, an older historian, a teacher, a soldier — each is read differently.
• NPCs address you according to their century’s norms, not yours.
• Your profession colours your instincts and the clues you notice first.

The Neuroscience Behind Time Travel

In TimeFall, travel is triggered by emotional resonance. When empathy spikes, your body floods with oxytocin and mirror-neuron activity — and the boundary between your life and another century collapses.

• Strong emotional connection becomes a physical force.
• Travel leaves you exhausted, dizzy, and deeply changed.
• Memories of each jump stay sharp, but the cost of caring is real.

History Judges You

The people you meet are not quest-givers. They are parents, farmers, soldiers, merchants, rebels — living under pressures you barely understand. They judge you through the lens of their own fears and faith.

• Your accent, clothes, posture, and hesitation all betray you.
• A careless word can turn a village against you.
• Kindness at the right moment can earn shelter when you need it most.
• There is no plot armour: if you die in the past, TimeFall simply writes, “GAME OVER: You have died.”

A Mystery Stitched Through Time

TimeFall never flashes a quest marker. Instead, it lets strange echoes accumulate: a face that feels familiar, a phrase you hear in different centuries, a wound that refuses to stay in one era.

• Patterns repeat across wildly different periods.
• Your emotional choices pull you toward the heart of the crisis.
• The past begins to feel as if it is watching you back.

The Sigil That Follows You

No matter where you fall — a mountain village, an industrial alley, a war-torn street — the same mark appears: scratched into wood, inked on paper, etched in metal, reflected in glass.

Someone, or something, is leaving you messages across centuries. You are never told what it wants — but the more you care about the people around you, the more clearly the pattern emerges.

When the Candle Goes Out

TimeFall does not rewind lightly. Every reckless choice, every act of courage, every failure stacks on the body you inhabit. When you finally push too far, history does not flinch.

Death in the past is permanent for that run. The story closes with a simple line: “GAME OVER: You have died.” Your only way back is to begin again with everything you’ve learned.

Questions Players Often Ask

TimeFall is intentionally different from a typical power fantasy. These are some of the questions that come up most when people first encounter it.