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Time Commando
Developer [2.21], Adeline Software
Time Commando is an action-adventure video game developed by Adeline Software and published by Electronic Arts in Europe, Activision in America (United States and Brazil), and Virgin Interactive Entertainment (IBM PC compatible and PlayStation) and Acclaim Entertainment (Saturn) in Japan. It was originally released for the PC on 31 July 1996 in Europe, the United States and Brazil, and was later ported for… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
63 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Oct 24, 2026 · last updated Nov 4, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
98
LovedLoved
45 positive · 1 negative
95% range 89–100%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 45 | 1 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 3 | 1 | 13 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
49 of 50 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
98% recommend · 45 yes, 1 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 46 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (102 of 108 positive).
Many reviewers highlight the game's unique concept, varied time periods, and engaging combat system as standout features. [1][2][3] Some players note that the Steam version lacks the original intro narration but still runs well on modern systems. [4][5][6]
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Representative posts
- [9]
The year is 1996. I am 6. The disc for Time Commando comes free with Windows 95. I have never played a videogame before. My mind... is blown. Almost 30 years later, this game still goes hard. Soundtrack? Slaps. Stanley's skin-tight yellow future suit? Baller. Punching and kicking cavemen and Conquistadors to death? Absolute aces. I no longer have to call in my dad to play the level with the space zombies (because …
- [1]
This game reminds me of my late father. He introduced me to gaming with this, Heretic, MDK, Duke Nukem 3D and Descent. Extremely nostalgic. Anyways, if you are planning on playing this for the first time you're probably a retro gamer and you probably know you'll be playing a 90's game, which comes with all the limitations from that time. Aside from that, Time Commando offers: Great exploration gameplay. Every stage …
- [2]
Really unique action game from the creator of the original Alone in the Dark, Frederick Raynal. I love how cinematic the action feels with those great FMV scenarios and excellent camera placement and movement. The combat system is the same from Alone in the Dark, but polished, expanded and perfected; it's really versatile and has lots of creative variations depending on the weapon you are using, and believe me, …
- [10]
Time Commando is a distinctly mid-1990s action title whose ambition and identity are inseparable from the era in which it was created. Originally developed in the 1990s and re-released on Steam by [2.21], the game stands as a time capsule of early 3D action design, combining experimental camera work, pre-rendered environments, and relentless combat into a fast-moving journey across human history. It is a game that …
- [3]
Time Commando is a great game for those who want to revisit the past and see what gaming was like back in the early 1990s for 3D Action titles. The game's concept is simple enough: you are a Time Commando who has been dispatched to go through different periods of time to defeat a virus that was inserted in a Time Machine by an evil scientist. You go through multiple time periods, fighting and killing whatever is in …
Summarised from 34 of the 63 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 13, 2026. How summaries are made
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Time Commando sits at 98% positive across 46 opinionated reactions from 2 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
By August 1999, Time Commando had sold above 500,000 units. The four reviewers of Electronic Gaming Monthly liked the game's concept and the weapons the player can use in each era, but criticized the animations and the difficulty in hitting enemies due to the poor controls and full motion video scrolling. Crispin Boyer and Sushi-X in particular remarked that the game is mainly enjoyable due to the unintentionally humorous animations. GameSpot also mentioned problems with the controls and animation but were otherwise more positive, summarizing that "Time Commando's stunning 3-D graphics and innovative gameplay bring action and adventure on the PlayStation to dizzying heights." Atomic Dawg of…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 63 · most liked firstI used to play this game as a kid and remember it with pleasure. SUMMARY OF THE PLOT Because the game was released in 1996, the story takes place in the near future (in 2020). The military has, with help from Historical Tactical Center, developed an advanced AI-system that allows every combat technique through history. One day, a person from a rival company breaks in and install a predator-virus in the main computer, which causes that the whole mankind are sucked into a vortex. Stanley Opar,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i own it on CDROM now I own it on SteamROM if u want the DOSBox to be in windowed mode with higher resolution, you have to go to the steam folder you installed it, like "X:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common\Time Commando", find "TC.conf" and change the window resolution to something like "windowresolution=1280x960" then either "fullscreen=false" or just Alt+Enter when it opens
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've been playing this game since I was about three years old. It's most likely the first video game I ever played. I have no idea where my parents got the disk but it made me love computers and programming for the rest of my life. It also had an effect on my perception of history. Here's how: - I permanently and irreversibly believe that Neanderthals looked like Batman but with orange-ish clothes - I'm afraid of women because the first person you meet in the Roman Ages - I will forever…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The year is 1996. I am 6. The disc for Time Commando comes free with Windows 95. I have never played a videogame before. My mind... is blown. Almost 30 years later, this game still goes hard. Soundtrack? Slaps. Stanley's skin-tight yellow future suit? Baller. Punching and kicking cavemen and Conquistadors to death? Absolute aces. I no longer have to call in my dad to play the level with the space zombies (because they don't scare the peepee outta me anymore), so that's a bonus. However, I do…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Is Time Commando (1996 | D: Adeline Software P: Activision | PS1) good? Lord no, but it IS peak video game.
neutral · AI labelView post →Welcome back to another edition of the NOW BLUESKLUSIVE random playstation game wednesday! Today, we'll be talking about Time Commando, a fairly early (1996) ps1 action-adventure game featuring resident evil style pre-rendered backgrounds
neutral · AI labelView post →Name a video game or two you played a lot as a kid that you haven’t heard other people talk about. I’ll go first: - Smart Ball (1991, SNES) - Time Commando (1996, PC)
neutral · AI labelView post →If you get 100% chips in the first Modern Wars level, you're a pro.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I started my video game programmer career on this machine almost 30 years ago. 😅 You rarely see "Time Commando" or "Little Big Adventure" in the lists of people's top 10 PSX games, but I'm still proud of what we managed to do on this machine back then! 🎉
positive · AI labelView post →This game is Childhood. Rest is Silence.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I think tonight we stream some weird games and demos like - Time Commando, a PS1 3D Beat Em Up which looks real jank - Team Innocent, a PCFX (?) Survival Horror game with fixed camera angles that looks real jank - Hariti, A body/survival horror indie game - Evil School twitch.tv/slowbeef
neutral · AI labelView post →This is the first video game I ever played, at about 3 years old. It came with the Windows 95 PC my parents bought. The purest of nostalgia. Only thing that is missing from the original is the narration from the opening scene, which is easily found on Youtube. If you're into retro gaming, its a good purchase at $6.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game reminds me of my late father. He introduced me to gaming with this, Heretic, MDK, Duke Nukem 3D and Descent. Extremely nostalgic. Anyways, if you are planning on playing this for the first time you're probably a retro gamer and you probably know you'll be playing a 90's game, which comes with all the limitations from that time. Aside from that, Time Commando offers: Great exploration gameplay. Every stage will reward you for finding hidden objects and rooms. Great concept. The game…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Gamedev quote post: I'm Mickaël, been working as a programmer (game code, tools and tech) on games professionally for about 28 years, and had my hands mainly in LBA, Time Commando, The Smurfs, Hexplore, VRally, Kya: Dark Lineage, AitD, TDU, Age of Conan, TSW and recently Conan Exiles and Dune.
neutral · AI labelView post →If this type of topic interests you, you may also be interested in how we did the video encoding for the game sequences in the game Time Commando. blog.defence-force.org/index.php?pa...
neutral · AI labelView post →I own the original PC Big Box released for Windows 95, the Playstation version and of course I could not miss the digital versions like the Steam. If you are looking for a challenging game full of difficulty levels don’t look further. Time Commando is a gem for is time and if you haven’t tried it yet go for it and you won’t regret. It is a tough one if you are looking to speedrun it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am playing more Time Commando what a fun French game by the developers of Little Big Adventure 1 + 2 using their unique animation style to create tons of enemies with many combat moves and fun battles with multiple weapons and puzzle-like combat!! twitch.tv/RetrogradeTom
positive · AI labelView post →What a masterpiece. Even after all these years, I’m still in love with this game. Back in the days when there was no Half-Life 1, and John Carmack with id Software hadn’t released Quake 1 yet. Maybe back then, we were all wondering what could be more impressive and better than this game — little did we know, we were just 1-2 years away from having our minds blown by a new era of stunning full 3D games. I think Time Commando was one of the last great titles of the retro era. The music, game…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The first game I ever played. Now, a beautiful retro gem.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Time Commando I don't even know why that game freaked me out so much
neutral · AI labelView post →this is the first game i ever played as kid. its still a masterpiece
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Really unique action game from the creator of the original Alone in the Dark, Frederick Raynal. I love how cinematic the action feels with those great FMV scenarios and excellent camera placement and movement. The combat system is the same from Alone in the Dark, but polished, expanded and perfected; it's really versatile and has lots of creative variations depending on the weapon you are using, and believe me, THERE ARE TONS of different weapons. The journey through time is just EPIC, you…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Time Commando is a great game for those who want to revisit the past and see what gaming was like back in the early 1990s for 3D Action titles. The game's concept is simple enough: you are a Time Commando who has been dispatched to go through different periods of time to defeat a virus that was inserted in a Time Machine by an evil scientist. You go through multiple time periods, fighting and killing whatever is in your path. Apparently, Time Commandos don't think about what kind of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Published initially back in 1996, Time Commando was developed by Adeline Software International and re-released on Steam in 2021. Using a combination of pre-rendered backgrounds and 3D models for the character and enemies, this game is a fun, action packed adventure game. In the game you control Stanley Opar, a special agent of the Special Action for Virus Elimination or S.A.V.E., sent to the Historical Tactical Center to enter the time vortex generated by a corporate spy that installed a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A true childhood classic and my favorite PC game of all time. My friends and I used to pass the controller (or keyboard!) every time one of us died. I never finished the game, but the variety in stages like Feudal Japan and the Wild West kept me coming back. That was a golden era where innovative gameplay mattered far more than high-end graphics, no DLC, no seasonal passes, just pure fun.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →♥♥♥♥ after all these years i finally finished this awesome game sadly this is the one version with out the viced intro but its still a great old game forgot to add you can kick as smilodon to death in this game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Best game ever made. It is too far beyond its creation date.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Since somebody asked about it earlier, I'll repost it again: If you were interested in the game Time Commando back then, I wrote a series of articles about it on my blog, about how we made the game, the structure, video file format, scripting, etc... blog.defence-force.org?tag=Time%20C...
neutral · AI labelView post →Nice 1996 nostalgia.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game, along with Tyrian was one of my first PC games. Man i'm getting old... anyway, I still have the CD for TC, but no PC with a CD Drive to play it on. It makes me really glad to be able to play this game again. And while this version seems to run perfectly on modern PCs, a remake would be awesome!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Time Commando is a work of art from the director of the first Alone in the Dark game
neutral · AI labelView post →childhood memories game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Time Commando is a distinctly mid-1990s action title whose ambition and identity are inseparable from the era in which it was created. Originally developed in the 1990s and re-released on Steam by [2.21], the game stands as a time capsule of early 3D action design, combining experimental camera work, pre-rendered environments, and relentless combat into a fast-moving journey across human history. It is a game that values spectacle and variety above refinement, and while its mechanics show their…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Well back then when I got it, I saw Activision's logo on it and the guy in the cover had a bunch of guns and the game is called TIME COMMANDO, so I thought it would be a FPS through time. It's definitely not😅 It's halfway a beat em up/shooter. Though there isn't backtracking but I think->
neutral · AI labelView post →This game brings back so many memories... Used to play it back when I was a kid and still fascinated with it up until today. I wish there were a bigger community to preserve the game's memory and (why not?) remaster it somehow!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A classic game from Windows 95's PCs in 1990s.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →first game i ever got for the ps1 when first come out, never did finish it lol
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you can get past the jankiness it's a really solid game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Another reason I guess is that that the game started on PC, and since Little Big Aventure had this type of control, it's what Time Commando started with. The PSX version was started a few months after the PC one, we were not really console gamers to be honest :D
neutral · AI labelView post →Fantastic idea of storyline and epic music! Of course its pure nostalgia to the players who grow up with the PC revolution in the 90s. This game aslo needs a remaster for sure!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Adeline Software really dont age well...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →IT WORKS! got for the pure nostalgia $1 USD no complaints from me
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Such a fun game. Hard mode is incredibly difficult tho, so for all you achievement hunters, the hundo is going to be harrrd.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was on the ground, shooting it out with guys on the roof of a Western saloon. Then my dad popped up and broke my CD. Just a little memory fragment.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Amazing game! I'm playing again after 30 years. My brother bought a Multimedia kit for our computer and this game come as bonus. Love it !
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →NO GOOD SOMETHING IS WRONG SOUND IS CH0PPY AN AND VIDE0.... WHO DO I CONTACT TO GET THE UPDATE OR FIX FIX THIS PROBLEM I REALLY LIKE THIS EASY GAME AND REMEMBER IT 20 YEARS AGO
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →🎮 Time Commando (1996) – Personal Review Replaying Time Commando really reminded me of something important: 👉 a good game doesn’t need perfect, shiny modern graphics to be memorable. What really makes Time Commando special is its heart. The story flow, the idea of traveling through different eras, the cool environments, unique weapons, and varied enemies are the true strengths of this game. Every new age feels fresh, forces you to adapt, and keeps the experience exciting. You’re not just…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you see this, QTP with a video game that transports you back to your childhood: Time Commando
neutral · AI labelView post →Perfect Weapon another game that asks you to collect an arbitrary number of things to win At least for how much of an impossible slog Time Commando is, at least it has cheats so you can see the goofy stuff
negative · AI labelView post →A fun and weird beat 'em up that plays like the first three Alone in the Dark games but with only the funny janky action. Sometimes you have to use the items in your environment, so try that use key on things you see to find hidden items or a way to progress. The game has more chill than Ecstatica while being equally ridiculous.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You've kinda got to admire their guts in then producing Time Commando, a game all about combat.
neutral · AI labelView post →It would have to be between Pokemon R/B, Time Commando, Medieval TW2 or MGS. I will go with Time Commando though because I grew up really poor and the only video game I had access to was a demo for TC. I played it over and over again. Then I got the full version for Christmas.
positive · AI labelView post →Nice retro fun. An old type of combat and movement system, but it's good if you enjoy 3rd person adventure games.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First game I ever played!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Recommended only for people who played this 27 years ago :D Played this as a kid in 1996 and finished it multiple times. Except for the camera movement being very choppy (was it like that in 96? Probably was...) and the initial cutscene not playing for me for some reason - the gameplay and music still have this magic! I remembver that even in 1996 this games graphics were a bit weird, a little bit sub-par (when you compare it to Tomb Raider 1 that released in the same year, which aged a bit…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Some of the best use of pre-rendered image in a game. For a 1996 game, the effect is really impressive. Specially at the later stages. The combat is a bit clunky, but the theme variety and enemies make it a better experience than I tought I would have. Go with a retro-focused-mind and you can have a blast. The difficulty is unforgiven in the early stages, but for those who remain the good part is really at the end.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Timeless classic, still holds with awesome idea and execution.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Really loved the game, it shows its age, but is such a gem, and very innovative
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Would love to experience the "remastered" and new versions of this game...
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Definitely a game you should buy if you wanna feel like a time commando
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