Multiverse and time travel RPGs
Roleplaying games that involve traveling through parallel dimensions or time are a relatively niche subgenre within the hobby. However, these themes are not obscure to the point of being unsupported – as the following list clearly attests.
While it might be the case that fiction about multiverses and fiction about time travel are two distinct subgenres, each with its own particular set of trappings and history, from the gaming perspective the two kinds of travel are functionally similar to the point that it makes sense to speak about them in tandem.
Whether you favor the terminology of alternate earths, dimensions, planes, or timelines, the overarching framework of such games remains the same: the characters routinely engage in hopping from one kind of setting to another. TV shows such as Sliders, Quantum Leap or Rick and Morty provide a template for this kind of adventures. Similar to their episodic structure, multiverse and time travel games effectively involve switching between multiple genres in the course of a single campaign.
Several games on the list present related, but slightly different scenarios, such as alien dimensions imposing themselves on Earth and transforming the familiar surroundings, or the discovery of a net of portals that allows fast travel through space.
GURPS Infinite Worlds
5 figs out of 5
GURPS Time Travel
5 figs out of 5
GURPS Timeline
5 figs out of 5
GURPS Banestorm
5 figs out of 5
GURPS Fantasy: Portal Realms
5 figs out of 5
The Strange
5 figs out of 5
Torg Eternity
4.5 figs out of 5
Rifts
4.5 figs out of 5
Savage Rifts
4.5 figs out of 5
TimeWatch
4.5 figs out of 5
Parallels (TimeWatch)
4.5 figs out of 5
Continuum: Roleplaying in the Yet
4 figs out of 5
Narcissist
4 figs out of 5
Fringeworthy
3.5 figs out of 5
Luther Arkwright: Roleplaying Across the Parallels
3.5 figs out of 5
Doctor Who
3.5 figs out of 5
Primeval
3.5 figs out of 5
Amber Diceless Role-Playing
3.5 figs out of 5
Planescape
3.5 figs out of 5
Manual of the Planes
3.5 figs out of 5
Lords of Gossamer & Shadow
3 figs out of 5
Feng Shui
3 figs out of 5
EABA Timelords
3 figs out of 5
Nexus the Infinite City
3 figs out of 5
Lords of Creation
2.5 figs out of 5
Broken Rooms
2.5 figs out of 5
Everway
2.5 figs out of 5
Daytrippers
2.5 figs out of 5
Tales From the Floating Vagabond
2.5 figs out of 5
Threefold (Modern AGE)
2.5 figs out of 5
Stargate SG-1
2.5 figs out of 5
Tangents (Alternity)
2.5 figs out of 5
Timemaster
2.5 figs out of 5
Dream Park
2 figs out of 5
H.P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands
2 figs out of 5
Odyssey Prime
2 figs out of 5
Time & Temp
2 figs out of 5
Suzerain
2 figs out of 5
Gatecrashing (Eclipse Phase)
2 figs out of 5
Fate of Cthulhu
1.5 figs out of 5
Transdimensional Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
1.5 figs out of 5
Kult
1.5 figs out of 5
Jumpers
1.5 figs out of 5
Chronomancer
1 figs out of 5
