Watch “Timelancers - A Worker Placement, Set Collection Time Travel Game,” a board game review for Timelancers from Board Game Nook on BoardGameVideo.
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In the 22nd century, time travel is real — and it's the battlefield of choice for rival political factions. These groups hire freelance operatives known as timelancers to rewrite the past and reshape the future to their advantage.
As a mercenary it's your job to travel back in time to alter historical events (or prevent tampering) at the request of your benefactors. Completing assignments earns you merit, the more merit you have, the more you can charge for your services. Do you have what it takes to become the most famous or infamous Timelancer?
0:00 - Intro
0:24 - Overview: General Gameplay & Turn Structure
4:43 - How to Win: Most "Meritorious" Mercenary
7:13 - Our Experience: Go With the Flow
17:25 - Strategy? Clarity in Chaos
22:14 - Final Thoughts: Timeless? Or Time, Less.
25:19 - Bloopers: Thanks for Watching!
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2025·Juliana Chang, Kenny Heidt, Teresa Ho, Lee Ho
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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
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