Inspired by Joel’s blog on Snake Puzzle Games, an encyclopedic collection of all things snake-puzzle-related, I’m starting a blog for time travel games. Time travel is a Pandora’s box of paradoxes; each author must choose how to solve or sidestep them. Each set of choices leads to a different model of Time; each model has its own interesting consequences, and it’s my belief that puzzle games are the best way to explore them.

My main goal with this blog is to properly categorize all the different flavors of time travel and how they are used in puzzles. I also recommend this other blog which does the same, for general fiction. This blog will try to be an exhaustive list of all these flavors, but it won’t try to be an exhaustive list of time travel puzzle games (or creating & maintaining it would be a full time job). In no particular order, these are all the unique models I’ve found so far:

Here’s all the games listed on those articles, starting with the most recently added:

And here’s my TODO list: