Released Aug 21, 2026 $4.99 Positive Not counted on Steam profiles yet

Negative Time

By Round Owl

Top-Down Shooter IndieTime ManipulationDifficult Action Bullet Hell Roguelite Pixel Graphics Action RoguelikeTwin Stick ShooterFast-PacedTime Travel

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Negative Time is a game tagged Top-Down Shooter, Indie and Time Manipulation by Round Owl, released Aug 21, 2026. It has 16 Steam reviews (Positive). The Steam games most like it include Planetary Dustoff, Woodpunk and Odinfall.

Negative Time is a top-down shooter with bullet hell and roguelike elements where each time you get hit, you are sent further and further back in time, until you are sent into the past they tried so hard to erase. Maybe in there lies the key to your escape?

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Planetary Dustoff 74% match · Top-Down Shooter, Indie, Difficult
Woodpunk 70% match · Top-Down Shooter, Indie, Difficult
Odinfall 70% match · Top-Down Shooter, Indie, Difficult
A Contusion 70% match · Top-Down Shooter, Indie, Difficult
Lost Potato 69% match · Top-Down Shooter, Indie, Difficult
UBERMOSH:OMEGA 69% match · Top-Down Shooter, Indie, Difficult
Danger Gazers 69% match · Top-Down Shooter, Indie, Difficult
UBERMOSH:SANTICIDE 67% match · Top-Down Shooter, Indie, Difficult
Spent Shells 67% match · Top-Down Shooter, Indie, Difficult
SYNTHETIK: Legion Rising 67% match · Top-Down Shooter, Indie, Difficult

Steam data

Everything Steam lists for Negative Time · record updated 21 hours ago

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Overview

App ID4229150

Release dateAug 21, 2026

Last change number40198298

Last record update21 hours ago

App type: Game
Developer: Round Owl
Publisher: Round Owl
Steam profile: Not counted yet: Steam is still getting to know this game, so it doesn't add to game counts or achievement totals · checked 22 hours ago
Technologies: Unity detected

Windows

Controller: Full support

Single-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFull controller supportPlayStation controllersXbox controllersPlayStation controller BluetoothFamily Sharing

Prices

Price · US$4.99

On sale0 of 41regions right now

Lowest seen · US$4.99Oct 23, 2026

Checked7 hours agoin 41 regions

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Patches

Sep 17, 2026 PATCH 1.06
A few issues have cropped up over the last week, here is a quick patch to fix them. Boomerang was misspelled as "Boomarang" You could teleport into certain walls with rapier if you aligned yourself just right Fixed a bug where Temporal End…
Sep 10, 2026 PATCH 1.05.2
Another super quick patch fixing one small bug Enabling virtues didn't actually disable achievements. Now it does (oops lmao) That's it! If you find any bugs in the demo or full version please report them in the Discord. Thanks! :)
Sep 9, 2026 PATCH 1.05.1
Quick fix on the last patch Just fixed one bug where roguelike mode would break when going back-and-forth Check the last patch notes for a more thorough overview of what has changed recently If you find any more bugs in the full game or th…
Sep 8, 2026 PATCH 1.05
Hello everyone! This is a little bit of a larger patch. Sorry it took a while to come out. College just started back up for me so I've been a bit busy. But hopefully this addresses most of the remaining bugs. ALSO - The demo has finally be…
Aug 24, 2026 PATCH 1.04
More bug fixes! If you find any more, please let me know in our Discord :) Added a button prompt explaining how to swap weapons using controller Fixed an issue where controller would get stuck selecting a play button that wasn't there Fixe…
Aug 23, 2026 PATCH 1.03
End of day 2 patch! Make sure if you find any more bugs to report them in our Discord linked under this post, I'd really appreciate it. :) The game now saves after beating final boss, so it's actually possible to 100% scripture (oops) Fixe…
Aug 22, 2026 PATCH 1.02
Another quick patch to end off launch day! :) Fixed Portal weapon Fixed save preview not showing weapons above tier 3 Fixed an enemy spawn location inside a wall and adjusted some other spawn locations
Aug 22, 2026 PATCH 1.01
I hope everyone is enjoying the game so far! It seems some bugs fell through the cracks, so here is the day 1 patch :) Support enemies can no longer take up more than half of a room Fixed Temporal Endurance playing its animation after deat…

Build	Branch	Updated
26179703	public	Oct 24, 2026

Depots

ID	Name	Systems	Size	Download	Manifest
4229151	—	Windows	1.83 GB	97.5 MB	4268544491439910992
4229152	—	Windows	1.82 GB	92.9 MB	9153005736896268015

Branch	Build	Updated	Access
public	26179703	Oct 24, 2026	Open

Configuration

Install foldersteamapps/common/Negative Time

Executable	Arguments	Systems	Description
Negative Time.exe		Windows

Space per player97.7 KB

Filesup to 4

Save locations1

Root	Path	Pattern	Systems
WinAppDataLocalLow	Round Owl/Negative Time/	*.sav	All

Achievements

Achievements212 hidden

Most unlocked27%Rewrite History

Rarest2%Break the Bindings

Rewrite History Regenerate Negative Time using the Rewrite History blessing 27%
Butterfly Effect Regenerate Positive Time using the Butterfly Effect blessing 22%
Sick Collateral Kill 3 enemies with one bullet 20%
Court Adjourned Defeat the Judge 15%
Break the Cycle Defeat the Executioner and free your people 14%
Mad Dash Enter room 12 with 2 minutes or less on the timer 11%
Full Arsenal Have all weapons at once 9%
Annihilation Hidden achievement 9%
Mad Marathon Defeat the Judge with 6 minutes or less on the timer 8%
Time to Kill Get the Positive Minister kill quote 8%
Electrocution Kill 6 enemies with one lightning rod shot 7%
Fast Forward Have the game running at 300% speed 7%
Collector Have 15 or more active blessings of the same category 6%
Ice Age Have 5 stasis slots 6%
Conquest Clear all of Negative Time preceding the locked room 5%
Hoarder Have 20 or more active blessings 4%
Exploit Hidden achievement 4%
Connoisseur Collect all unique blessings 3%