Timeliner: Train Through Time

Very fun room! Nothing too hard or serious. The story was funny but in the best way possible.

This is probably my new favorite TEG room. The plot is silly, but silly is good as long as everything about the game just leans into it, and that’s exactly what happens here. You are tourists on a time-traveling train and things go wrong (as things are wont to do). You must recover access cards that give the train the ability to travel to various eras and fix the timeline. The only negative for me are the very first two puzzles which are both unclued locks that fall into the “I have this kind of lock, is there anything visible in the environment that could plausibly fit the pattern” type. This is annoying because it is so easy to clue these with just a bit more graphic design. But, that’s the first three minutes, everything else after that flows smoothly. The sets are high quality with good use of video and there’s a good amount of puzzle density packed into the footprint of the room. My only quibble is that there are a few elements inside the “train” which shouldn’t be there until you reach the appropriate era, but this is minor. The game is quite linear (cue arrow of time joke) so I recommend 2-3 players. 4 would fit but would be a lot for this room. The difficulty is on par with TEG’s other offerings, I’d say on the medium side of easy. We had a ton of fun and I would certainly recommend the room.

Loved the theme of this room there is a lot of back and forth between rooms and it kept you emerged the whole time.

One of our favorites! Some very cool tactile puzzles mixed with traditional locks. Super fun theming and concept!