TIME CRIMES

OLD SKIES is a beautiful adventure about love, loss and time travel in NYC

- By Fraser Brown

Time travel is perhaps the most deliciously compelling of all the sci-fi conceits because it taps into something so incredibly human and primal that we're all burdened with: regret. By turning back the clock, we can fix all of our mistakes. A better version of our lives is just one time jump away – at least in Wadjet Eye’s brilliant new adventure game, Old Skies.

Not for Fia Quinn, though. A ChronoZen agent in 2060s New York, she serves as guide, bodyguard and fixer for tourists with enough money to book some time in the past. In this tantalisingly close future, she gets to watch people make their time tweaks, and all the changes they create just wash over her.

See, like her fellow ChronoZen agents - and important historical events, people and even buildings - Fia’s chronolocked. This means she’s unaltered by the changes to the timeline. Everything changes around her, but she’s always the same Fia - immutable, diligent, lonely and dedicated entirely to the job.