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Once Upon A Time In Hollywood was released in the summer of 2019 and was a resounding success. The antics of Dalton and his stuntman Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt), set in the quasi-accurate world of 60s Hollywood, resonated with audiences and critics alike. The resulting positive response to the film saw Tarantino release an extended cut of Once Upon A Time In Hollywood with new scenes later the same year. Four additional scenes culminated in 10 minutes of additional footage for the updated version.

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Much like films and literature, video games have tackled the subject of a "Groundhog Day" style time loop. Deathloop is one such recent example. The game takes place in a time loop and has elements from famous games such as Dishonored and Prey.

However, this upcoming game is far from the first to explore gameplay with time loop phenomena. There are plenty of games out there that have thoroughly investigated how to tell a fascinating story and make a compelling game where time keeps resetting. They range in genre, from horror to adventure-comedy, and vastly differentiate in mechanics. Some are famous while others are a little more obscure.

With its success, players have been hungry for more time-loop games. Luckily for them, there are plenty out there. However, they have a broad range in terms of settings and gameplay genre. In the end, fans will have plenty of options when it comes to finding a game they enjoy that utilizes this trope.

The Zero Escape series is a trilogy of games that puts nine characters in incredibly stressful escape-room, death-game situations. Death is common, but not permanent because the character's consciousness time loops back to the beginning each time they die.

In terms of genre, the games are science fiction and horror. The gameplay is in choice and puzzles. Typical of a time-loop narrative, the story is far from linear and branches out based on different choices. The character learns from those choices and eventually can get the true ending. The games are also decently long for the horror genre.

Elsinore is Shakespeare's Hamlet within a time loop story. The player takes the role of Ophelia, who has a vision of everyone in the castle dying. She relives the same four days over and over and uses this loop to find out how to prevent the tragedy of Hamlet from occurring.

Majora's Mask is among one of the most famous games to use a time-loop narrative. Link has a time limit of three days before the loop resets. Part of what makes this time-loop story unique is that it plays out in real-time.

Three days of in-game time are about 54 minutes of real-time for the player. This mechanic does add a certain amount of stress on the player, as that means they sometimes need to rush to get certain quests done.

Returnal holds similarities with Deathloop in being a new game in the world of time-loop narratives. The story focuses on the protagonist, Selene, crash landing on an alien planet. Every time she dies on the planet, she loops back to the crash. Once she dies and is set on a new time loop, she loses most of her items but permanently gets to keep other things like keys, ether, and gadgets.

Returnal falls into the third-person shooter genre. Being one of the more recent time-loop games, it garnered many fans and high-quality reviews from various publications such as Game Informer and GameSpot.

Released on Steam in 2018, Minit is a time loop game with one of the shortest loops of all, each loop only being 60 seconds long. The adventure indie game is charming and short enough to beat in one sitting. The plot is about the protagonist finding a sword that turns out to be cursed. The curse makes it so they die and respawn in a loop of a single minute.

GrimGrimoire is on the older side, having been released back in 2007 for the PS2. The game is a real-time strategy sidescroller. The plot is basically Harry Potter meets time-loop shenanigans. Players take the role of a trainee witch, Lillet, who is in a time-loop of five days. On the fifth day, teachers and students of her magic school are killed by an evil wizard seeking a philosopher's stone.

Undertale is a famous game, and its time-loop aspects are often in the background of its comedy, characters, and story. This is because the time-loop depends solely on the player and how many times they will restart the game. Undertale views the common game restart through a meta-lens. Some characters will remember your previous actions.

If you once beat the game on a Genocide run, even the perfect ending changes slightly because the story never forgets. To save and load the game is part of the protagonists' special ability, making it a time-loop game.

The Sexy Brutale is an adventure point-and-click indie game that takes place within a 12-hour time-loop of a masked ball where guests are murdered by the staff. The game is considered easy, but incredibly fun. The party is at a casino mansion with 10 interesting guests.

As the player time-loops over and over, players are tasked with sabotaging the attempted murders done by the staff to save the guests. The game is loved for its story, and the main complaints by fans include the game being short and being too easy.

Like Deathloop, The Forgotten City is another time loop game that came out in 2021 with overwhelmingly positive results. It is an adventure indie RPG set in Rome. Players get to make their own character and explore the open world of an ancient Roman city while trying to solve the mystery of a time loop.

Outer Wilds is about a solar system trapped in a time loop. In terms of genre, it is an action-adventure open-world mystery game. You play as a new recruit to a new space program and learn the mysteries of the solar system and whether the time-loop can be stopped.

The visual novel Steins; Gate has won many awards and spawned both anime and manga adaptations. Time travel is at the center of the story and understanding how it works is central to the narrative. The complex story has spawned many fan theories, and many of them have to do with time loops.

12 Minutes is another time-loop game that released in 2021. The loop is just 12 minutes long as the player watches the lives of the inhabitants of a small apartment to solve a mystery from a top-down perspective. It is up to the player to solve the mystery and to keep trying each loop to get the best result.

Along with Returnal and Deathloop, 12 Minutes makes three time-loop games released in one year. The rest are scattered in terms of when they were released. What makes this year so special? A theory to the sudden spike of time-loop games is that it's a self-expression of the feelings of repetitive days of quarantining from the pandemic. Taking place in a small apartment, 12 Minutes certainly does explore such a timely theme.

Over the years, Minecraft has grown in some major ways, some of which are more dramatic than others. Longtime players likely remember when the Nether first debuted, introducing an entirely new reality full of danger and a variety of new blocks to gather. After that, the End offered something similar. Minecraft got its very first boss battle through the End, and later updates have made it a realm really worth exploring. In recent years, however, Mojang hasn't continued expanding the Minecraft multiverse, instead focusing on updating established parts of the game. While recent Minecraft updates have been great, it's about time that another dimension joined the game.

Minecraft should get another dimension because it would encourage Mojang to push the boundaries of the game's mechanics. Each of Minecraft's two alternate dimensions have contributed highly unique mechanics to the game. The Nether supplies fundamental potion brewing components and Netherite, while the End supplies players with an easily repeatable boss battle, as well as gliding via the elytra. A new dimension could spur Mojang to think creatively enough to bring dramatic changes to Minecraft once again, supplying the parts for major new mechanics like magic or a new Minecraft boss battle that serves as a major new objective for fans to complete.

Each new dimension has supplied mobs and blocks with unique aesthetics and properties that ultimately change the game for the better. Normal expansions like the Wild Update do that too, but new Minecraft dimensions come with far more possibilities than adjustments to the overworld. If Mojang has any interest in adding another dimension, fans probably won't see it for quite some time, since there's no release date for the Wild Update yet, and it has a few other planned Minecraft features coming along after that update. Still, a new dimension would be well worth the wait, as long as Mojang fills it with remarkable new features like it did with the Nether and the End. 2b1af7f3a8