StrategyFit check
Is Lost Artifacts: Time Machine worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Casual strategy players who want resource management with level-based quests
- Players interested in time-travel stories with comic scenes and fantasy technology
- Players who enjoy facing varied enemies across several distinct environments
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking open-ended strategy may hit a wall at the end of the more than 40-level structure.
- Players looking for complex controls or a steep learning curve may find the basic controls and tutorial too introductory.
- Players seeking strategy built around multiplayer competition may not find that structure here.
Our take on Lost Artifacts: Time Machine
Players who want open-ended strategy may bounce off when the level-based progression ends. The game’s structure centers on completing quests across more than 40 levels and four locations rather than continuing through an open-ended campaign.
What is Lost Artifacts: Time Machine?
Lost Artifacts: Time Machine is a casual strategy game about fixing time paradoxes.
Claire and her friends pursue a villain who uses a time machine to bring back the Priest, the King of Atlantis, and the Ancient Emperor. The game includes more than 40 levels across four locations: rocky mountains, deserts, jungles, and snowy valleys. Players create portals, restore buildings, search for extinct animals, manage resources, and face enemies such as skeletons, mammoths, krakens, drones, and dinosaurs. Bonuses can speed up time, stop time, or increase running speed. The story uses colorful comics and includes varied quests, themed music, and a tutorial covering the basic controls.
How Lost Artifacts: Time Machine plays
- 01Time control bonuses
- Bonuses can accelerate or pause time, or make characters run faster.
- 02Four environments
- The journey covers rocky mountains, deserts, jungles, and valleys covered in snow.
- 03Comic-led storyline
- Claire and her friends pursue a villain who is using a time machine.
- 04Resource management
- Objectives include creating portals and restoring buildings while managing resources.
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Lost Artifacts: Time Machine: platforms & release
Is Lost Artifacts: Time Machine worth it?
It is worth it if: casual strategy players who want resource management with level-based quests. Skip it if: players seeking open-ended strategy may hit a wall at the end of the more than 40-level structure.
Where can I download Lost Artifacts: Time Machine?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Lost Artifacts: Time Machine's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Lost Artifacts: Time Machine on?
Windows and macOS.
