Time Rewind Sprint

They took your form. They forgot your time.

You were the fastest runner in the city — until the Fragmenters caught you and tore your shape away, piece by piece. They left you as a cube.

But they missed something. The last few seconds of your time are still yours.

Crash into a missile at full speed and the world doesn't end — it runs backwards. The obstacles retreat, the neon smears, and you're two and a half seconds in the past with a second chance at the move that killed you. Every death is a puzzle you get to un-make.

One thumb. Twenty levels. No mercy.

Time Rewind Sprint is a vertical arcade runner built for one hand and short sessions. Tap to switch lanes, jump, slide, double-jump — then rewind when it all goes wrong.

• Rewind, not restart. Roll back 2.5 seconds of real gameplay mid-run. The whole world reverses with you, exactly as it was.
• 20 hand-built levels across 4 worlds — Basic Runner, Fast Current, Glitch Territory and Overdrive — each with its own soundtrack, hazards and skyline.
• 14 threats that teach themselves. Missiles, pulsing lasers, sawblades, ghost mines, hoppers, skimmers, tentacles and the Maw — each introduced with a single line, then never explained again.
• You evolve as you win. The cube softens, stretches and stands up. By the last level you're running as a human again.
• Endless mode for the score-chasers, with its own leaderboard of one: your best.
• 13 skins, unlocked with the coins you earn — including CHRONO and SPECTRE.
• Three stars per level: finish it, chain an 8 combo, and beat it without a single rewind. That last one hurts.
• Daily missions, feats and lifetime stats — meters dodged, missiles evaded, seconds rewound.

Play World 1 free, right now

The game above is the complete first world — levels 1-1 through 1-5 — plus unlimited Endless mode. No account, no email, no timer, no nagging. Five levels is enough to meet the missile, the laser, the wall, and to need the rewind more than once.

If it grabs you, the other three worlds are one click away.

What $4.99 buys

The whole game. Once. All 20 levels, all 4 worlds, the full cube-to-human evolution, every skin including CHRONO and SPECTRE, and an extra rewind charge on every run.

No ads. No energy timers. No in-app purchases. Nothing locked behind a second payment — ever. Everything I add later is included, free, for everyone who bought it.

Expect two to four hours to clear all four worlds — longer if you chase the three-star runs — plus Endless for as long as you keep beating your score.

It's built for phones: portrait, one thumb, 60 fps on mid-range Android. It runs from your own device and works offline. Create a free account (email code or Google) and your progress follows you to another device — or skip it entirely and keep everything local. Your call.

Made by one person, in the open. If something's broken, say so in the comments and I'll fix it.

Playing the paid version: grab the itch.io app and install the game from your library — it launches downloaded HTML games for you, no unzipping and no local server needed.

Credits

Music: OpenGameArt and fardifferent loops (CC BY 4.0, trimmed) · Vivaldi's The Four Seasons performed by John Harrison with the Wichita State University Chamber Players (CC BY-SA 3.0, unmodified) · 3D reference models and sound seeds: CC0. Everything else — code, prerendered art, synthesized SFX, design — is my own work.

Built with Phaser 4 and TypeScript.