2020Juliana Chang, Kenny Heidt, Teresa Ho, Lee Ho
- Videos
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- Creators
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Reviews and unboxings
2 - 8 players15 - 45 min
Timelancers
2025Juliana Chang, Kenny Heidt, Teresa Ho, Lee Ho
- Videos
- 32
- Creators
- 19
Mainly reviews. Timelancers is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 15 reviews, 5 how-to-play guides, 8 recorded sessions, and 4 unboxings.
1 - 4 players
45 - 70 min
Medium weight: Teach it in one sitting
From BoardGameGeek
Time travel exists in the 22nd century, and warring political factions hire freelance time travelers - a.k.a., timelancers - to change the past in order to reshape the future. In Timelancers, you become one of these freelancers and travel through time to capture events for your faction. Collect the resources you'll need for your mission from locations in the city of the future, Janusburg, then use your time machine to revise or repeat historical events from different eras. Of course you're not the only one working to reshape the future. Other timelancers will affect your progress based on their actions. It's a race against other timelancers in order to be the first to accomplish your goals! Timelancers is a time travel-themed, set-collection board game that utilizes worker movement and a modular game board. Players gather resources and travel back through time collecting real historical events in order to earn victory points. -description from the publisher
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Which Timelancers video should I watch?
Timelancers has 32 videos from 19 creators: 15 reviews, 5 how-to-play guides, 8 playthroughs and 4 unboxings. They date from 2023 to September 2025.
To learn the rules, start with "Timelancers - Kickstarter Tutorial" by Before You Play, which runs 14 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Rahdo Previews►►► Timelancers" by Rahdo Runs Through. 13 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "Timelancers Full Playthrough - Time Travel Board Game" by Party Tails Games, one of 8 playthroughs.
If you like it, try Party Tails, also by Juliana Chang, or Everdell: The Complete Collection, Encyclopedia and Welcome to Everdell, which share several of its mechanics.
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About Timelancers
From BoardGameGeek:
Time travel exists in the 22nd century, and warring political factions hire freelance time travelers - a.k.a., timelancers - to change the past in order to reshape the future. In Timelancers, you become one of these freelancers and travel through time to capture events for your faction. Collect the resources you'll need for your mission from locations in the city of the future, Janusburg, then use your time machine to revise or repeat historical events from different eras. Of course you're not the only one working to reshape the future. Other timelancers will affect your progress based on their actions. It's a race against other timelancers in order to be the first to accomplish your goals! Timelancers is a time travel-themed, set-collection board game that utilizes worker movement and a modular game board. Players gather resources and travel back through time collecting real historical events in order to earn victory points. -description from the publisher
Designers
Juliana Chang, Kenny Heidt, Teresa Ho, Lee Ho
Artists
Harry Bui, T. Sterling Little
Publisher
Party Tails
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Mechanics