T-Rex Time Machine Demo

Whenever the concept of time travel enters the picture, people are almost always going to think about going back to see the dinosaurs in order to admire them. Naturally, such endeavors are most likely impossible, but the Jurassic Park idea of cloning preserved DNA is a bit more plausible. Still, traveling through time is a neat sci-fi idea that always pops up in movies and video games.

T-Rex Time Machine is a text-based adventure game that puts you in the role of a character attempting to go back to the dinosaur era and study them in order to release a documentary. Given the “choose your own adventure” nature of the game, you are free to customize everything about this character, including things such as gender, sexual orientation, as well as many other personality-related traits.

The main plot kicks off with the main character transforming a Land Rover into a time machine, but the conflict appears when a rival tries to claim your research as his own. Thus, you must also prove that you got the data first, not to mention the fact that once you reach the dinosaurs things get even trickier, survival-wise. Hence, there’s plenty to do, especially since you can approach every situation with a different attitude.

Since every decision you make affects the story, your character or other people, you get a difference experience every time you start a new game. You can also focus on different skills for your character, such as athletics, mechanics or videography, each one of which unlocks new options and branching story arcs. Obviously, romantic relationships are possible too, and there are multiple partners to choose from.

Being a text-based adventure game, you don’t get to see anything but a sea of letters and the occasional radio buttons that allow you to make choices. This shouldn’t be a problem if you know what you are getting into, but newcomers might be a bit perplexed by the whole thing. Hence, at the very least you could play some music in the background to give your imagination a boost.

T-Rex Time Machine is about as exciting as a game about subjects like time travel and velociraptors can be, but it depends on your ability to get over the lack of graphics. Thus, it’s definitely worth a try if you are a fan of malleable stories.