StrategyFit check
Is Temporian worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Players who enjoy turn-based survival without combat
- Strategy fans who want crafting and settlement decisions
- Friends seeking cooperative or competitive multiplayer campaigns
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players looking for combat-focused survival or action systems
- Players who prefer a linear story instead of decisions leading to numerous endings
- Players seeking a fast-paced game rather than planning and resource allocation
Our take on Temporian
Rather than centering survival on combat, the game replaces fighting with invention, card-based crafting, settlement trade-offs, and decisions that alter the ending. Its multiplayer structure also allows cooperation or competition within the same time-travel campaign.
What is Temporian?
Temporian is a turn-based survival game about a time-traveling inventor stranded in a prehistoric world.
Players gather food, establish a settlement, develop technologies, and create more than 100 items while working toward repairing a time machine. Progress depends on combining cards to discover recipes, meals, and inventions. Settlement growth creates dilemmas involving infrastructure, equipment, health, and limited resources. Decisions affect the story and can lead to numerous endings. Combat is absent; the main systems focus on experimentation, planning, resource allocation, and time-altering choices. A multiplayer campaign supports cooperation or competition, including sending tools, food, and resources, or racing another player to return home.
How Temporian plays
- 01Recipe Discovery
- Card combinations are used to develop technologies, meals, and more than 100 crafted items.
- 02Settlement Dilemmas
- Expansion presents choices about infrastructure, equipment, healing settlers, and other uses for limited resources.
- 03Multiple Endings
- Inventions, decisions, and changes to history influence the game's outcome.
- 04No Combat
- Survival is handled through experimentation, planning, and consequential decisions rather than fighting.
- 05Multiplayer Campaign
- Two players can cooperate, compete, exchange supplies, or race to return to their own time.
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Temporian: platforms & release
Is Temporian worth it?
It is worth it if: players who enjoy turn-based survival without combat. Skip it if: players looking for combat-focused survival or action systems.
Where can I download Temporian?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Temporian's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Temporian on?
Windows and Linux.
