10 GENIUS Time Travel Levels In Video Games

10. A Crack In The Slab - Dishonored 2

The Dishonored series loves to explore interesting concepts with the help of your character’s supernatural abilities. The first game features abilities like teleportation and freezing time, and its sequel kicks things up a notch with an entire level designed around the premise of time travel.

The mission “A Crack in the Slab” takes your character to the abandoned manor of a missing baron, Aramis Stilton, in order to investigate the circumstances behind his mysterious disappearance.

To help you with your investigation, Dishonored 2 provides you with a special device called the Timepiece, which allows you to instantly travel back and forth between the past and the present, giving you the opportunity to explore the manor both when it was still filled with life and extravagance and when it has become a dilapidated ruin.

The time-travel mechanic is done seamlessly and plays an important role in the level’s design. You can use the changes between the past and the present to your advantage to slip past guards and gain access to areas that were locked or destroyed in the other time period.

The mission is an absolute blast, which is why it’s a bit of a shame that the timepiece doesn’t make a reappearance afterward.