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That Time You Killed Me

Hop across past, present and future boards to murder your rival time traveler before they erase you.

You and your opponent are rival time travelers trying to erase each other from history. To prove you invented time travel, you must find your enemy in time and murder them before they get you. The catch: your enemy has strewn copies of themselves across the timeline, so you may have to do the terrible deed many times before it sticks. Three 4x4 boards in a row stand for past, present and future, and a move on one affects the others. It is an abstract narrative game of time and murder, and it introduces new scenarios with unique rules and components as you play, in a strict, unalterable order. Two players, about half an hour a game, with a sharp sense of humor under the logic.

Three 4x4 boards for past, present and futureNew scenarios unfold in strict orderPure two-player abstract duel

Who it's for

You want a compact two-player abstract with a time-travel twist and a narrative campaign of scenarios.

Not for you if…

You want more than two players or a game with lots of randomness. It is a deterministic head-to-head.

Vibe's take

Clever and slightly wicked. A move on one board ripples through the others, so you have to think in three timelines at once and smile when you pull a nasty trick.

#1,475 on BGG

of over 30,000 ranked board games

Published 2021 · 5 years ago

newer than 63% of games

In 5,650 collections

collected more than 63% of games

2 players · ages 10+

Best with 2

15–30 min

shorter than 69% of games · typical 30–90 min

Complexity: medium

One warm-up round · 2.3 out of 5 · heavier than 64%

Opinions: usual spread

A normal range of ratings

Language: no text

Playable without the language

Play style: competitive