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The Lifetime
After falling through a void for an entire lifetime, you land in a mysterious underground world, with a mask you can't remove. All you're told is that you need to collect time so you can return to your former life back up on the surface. But time moves in mysterious ways down here...
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Lamplight Forest

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Single-player
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English ✔
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About This Game

The Lifetime combines flowing and super-precise puzzle platforming with adventure-game and disruptive metroidvania elements.

The game is level-based beat-the-clock gameplay, but with a unique time-collection mechanic: 
the key twist is that at the end of each level, any time left over is added to the next. So you can get creative about finding the best order to tackle the non-linear levels in and accumulate gameplay-time across the arc of the game!

You vs Time

At the heart of the game is a race against the clock: master fast and fluid platforming and puzzle solving to succeed. Then take a breath and relax in the calm overworld that offers time-out to devise puzzle solutions and strategise a way forward. This strategic time-collection often involves backtracking to replay levels where extra-time collectibles are easier to find, or that you know you can beat with plenty of time to spare

Puzzle Platforming

Tight, flowing platforming with a huge array of interactions and temporary powerups used to solve dynamic puzzles through non-linear levels

Disruptive Metroidvania Elements

Metroidvania elements further enhance backtracking, where permanent powerups can give access to new paths or areas of previous levels, allowing for faster level completions, discovering even more new abilities, and discovering the game’s many collectibles and narrative paths

Narrative Adventure

Talk to NPCs, find inventory items, get clues to find new places, unravel the story to discover why time is so important to the hero, why they squandered it in their hesitant and insecure former life, and what they need to do to return to the world of the living with enough time to live a full life again!

Non-linear Progression


Branching paths in the overworld allow the player to choose which level to tackle next. Some levels offer multiple exits, some leading to secret levels. Adventure/inventory/NPC interactions are also non-linear, and can lead to secret narrative paths and alternate endings

Find your way back to the surface. Time is on your side!

System Requirements

Windows
macOS
SteamOS + Linux
    Minimum:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS *: Windows 7 or higher (64-bit)
    • Processor: 2 GHz Processor or better
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: 512 MB (DX 11 recommended)
    • Storage: 4 GB available space
    • Additional Notes: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    Recommended:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
* Starting January 1st, 2024, the Steam Client will only support Windows 10 and later versions.
    Minimum:
    • OS: OSX 10.11+
    • Processor: 2.2GHz Dual Core
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: OpenGL 3.2 compatible, 512 MB VRAM
    • Storage: 4 GB available space
    • Additional Notes: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    Recommended:
      Minimum:
      • Additional Notes: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
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