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The Temporal Invasion
EXPERIENCE this Story-Driven Alternate Reality Game (ARG) that blends Your Real Life with Science Fiction as it explores the Dark Limits of Conspiracy, Alternate History, The Supernatural and Fringe Science.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28.
“I played around 10 hours of the DRM free version before thus the low playtime on steam. It seems like a decent ARG so far. This type of game is for people who do not get easily frustrated. If you have a low attention span and don't like sitting in front of your PC googling…”
— a player, Steam review · 28 hrs played“Conspiracies & Puzzle Hunting The Temporal Invasion is a story-driven, riddle-based game that encourages the player to utilize any available resource needed to solve the provided puzzles. This may involve fine-tuning your Google searching skills, gathering friends, or even…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“Temporal Invasion certainly is worth getting if you are into sleuth, riddle-solving, and mind-boggling puzzles; as long as you can bear with the overly present grammar errors--which is ironic given that the game is text-driven, you would think that the studio would have allotted…”
— a player, Steam review · 18 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. History through 2023-03 via SteamCharts; self-collected from the Steam API since Aug 2026.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-28.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-28.
| Genres | Adventure, Indie, Simulation |
| Player tags | Adventure · Indie · Simulation · Puzzle · Alternate History · Mystery · Surreal · Sci-fi · Story Rich · Historical (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English |
| Achievements | 12 |
| Official site | https://hybriona.itch.io/mystery-puzzle-hunt |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows XP SP2 and Later Processor: Dual Core 1.75 GHz and Later Memory: 2048 MB RAM Graphics: Video Card with 512 MB or VRAM DirectX: Version 9.0 Storage: 1 GB available space Sound Card: Stereo Sound Required Additional Notes: One Tool (and so some chapters) needs Internet access