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Key of Recall
Rewind time a few seconds.
A mistake is part of the game — undo death, erase frustration, master the platforming.
Action Adventure · Metroidvania
KUTO: The Lock of Time
Cast out by the gods and bound to the titan Kronos, you cut your way back through a collapsing Rome — and every era after it. The Scythe is your weapon; his command of time is everything else. Die, learn the run, go again.
Every Era
One outcast. Every era.
Your way out is through time itself — and time isn’t one place. Fight from a falling Rome to ancient Egypt, the Viking age, the Old West, a neon city, and the ruins of the far future. Each era is a new battlefield with its own enemies and rules.
Worlds to cross
The Time Keys
Five powers. Two at a time.
Kronos’ essence gives you command over time itself — five distinct powers, each bending one rule of it. You channel two at once and swap your loadout between runs, so every descent is a different way to fight.
Gameplay in motion
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Key of Dilation
Slow the whole world to a crawl.
Bullet-time for precise jumps, dodges, and duels with the fastest enemies.
02
Key of Leap
Dash forward through time.
An extended double-jump — chain combos and reach zones that should be impossible.
03
Key of Fracture
Break gravity and direction.
Walk the ceiling, flip the arena, and tear open paths no anchor was meant to hold.
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Key of Stillness
Stop time — you keep moving.
Cross falling debris, slip past frozen traps, and walk through enemies caught mid-strike.
∞
The Scythe of Kronos
Always in your hand.
Your two powers change every run. The Scythe never does — heavy, fast, and always swinging.
The Game
Cut. Rewind. Survive.
The Scythe of Kronos
You carry the titan’s own weapon. Combat is fast and physical — cut through hordes of gods’ servants and the wreckage of history with a scythe that hits as hard as the legend it came from.
Time is the second weapon
Kronos’ essence runs through you, so time bends to you. Drop the room into bullet-time, rewind a fatal hit, tear forward through space. The blade does the damage; time decides whether you live.
Outrun the gods
Betrayed and cast out, your only way forward is through time itself — era by era, with a story that earns its dark, dry sense of humor about the whole ordeal.
Die, adapt, push back
Run-based at heart. Death costs you the run, not everything — you come back sharper, into a world that has shifted while you were gone.
A 2.5D Metroidvania
Interconnected ground to learn, hidden ways to find, and new powers that open paths that were closed before. The map rewards the players who go back and look again.
Every era is a battlefield
Time travel is literal here. Fight from a falling Rome to ancient Egypt, the Viking age, the Old West, a neon city, and the ruins of the far future — each with its own enemies and rules.
Trailer
See time break.
The Blog
Guides & lore
Guides to the Time Keys, the lore of the broken oath, and notes on the time-bending action adventures we love.
The Anatomy of a Corpse Run: From Dark Souls to KUTO
A good corpse run gives the player one more decision after death. KUTO makes that decision personal by letting your own loadout stand between you and the loot.
Designing Enemies That Can Handle Time Travelers
A player who can bend time changes the rules of every encounter. Good enemy AI has to stay dangerous after the rewind, not just before it.
Art Direction for a Shattered Timeline
A timeline can jump eras if the game keeps one set of shapes, materials, and colors alive across every age.
Before you wishlist
Quick facts
- What is KUTO: The Lock of Time?
- A single-player 2.5D action adventure with a Metroidvania structure. You play Jokoan Kuto, an outcast bound to the titan Kronos, fighting forward through the eras of history with the Scythe of Kronos and command over time.
- When does it release?
- It is coming soon to Early Access on Steam. There is no public date yet — wishlist it to be notified the moment it launches.
- What platforms is it on?
- PC (Windows), via Steam.
- How much will it cost?
- The price has not been announced yet.
- What languages does it support?
- English and Ukrainian.
- Is it single-player or multiplayer?
- Single-player only.
- What sets it apart from other action adventures?
- Time is the core mechanic, not a gimmick — you carry two time powers per run (slow, rewind, dash, and more) and swap them between runs, and every run travels through a different era, each with its own enemies and rules.
Coming to Steam
Bound to Kronos. Cut your way out.
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