{"id":5487,"date":"2022-06-27T09:13:27","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T09:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/uncategorized\/move-over-time-loops-2022-is-the-year-of-the-multiverse\/"},"modified":"2022-06-27T09:13:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T09:13:28","slug":"move-over-time-loops-2022-is-the-year-of-the-multiverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/thegamer-originals\/move-over-time-loops-2022-is-the-year-of-the-multiverse\/","title":{"rendered":"Move Over Time Loops, 2022 Is The Year Of The Multiverse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/move-over-time-loops-2022-is-the-year-of-the-multiverse_62b974b7c52b5-1000x600.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/move-over-time-loops-2022-is-the-year-of-the-multiverse_62b974b7c52b5-1000x600.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/move-over-time-loops-2022-is-the-year-of-the-multiverse_62b974b7c52b5-400x240.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2021 was a banner year for time loops. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegamer.com\/thegamer-game-of-the-year-2021\/\">TheGamer&#8217;s official Game of the Year was a time loop game: The Forgotten City<\/a>. Yes, we are that cool and chic. This year it&#8217;ll probably be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegamer.com\/tag\/elden-ring\/\">Elden Ring<\/a>, just like every other site&#8217;s will be &#8211; how gauche and predictable. Alongside The Forgotten City, we had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegamer.com\/tag\/returnal\/\">Returnal<\/a> (which used bullet hell roguelike mechanics to explore the loop of defeat, victory, and self flagellation), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegamer.com\/tag\/deathloop\/\">Deathloop<\/a> (which sets fascinating time traps but never fully explains itself), Lemnis Gate (Halo, but if it was time loop chess), and 12 Minutes (incest). In 2022, the time loop fad is out, baby. All I want in my life right now is multiverse. Multiple multiverses, all versing in multiple ways!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegamer.com\/2022-year-of-the-multiverse-time-loops\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 was a banner year for time loops. TheGamer&#8217;s official Game of the Year was a time loop game: The Forgotten City. Yes, we are that cool and chic. This year it&#8217;ll probably be Elden Ring, just like every other site&#8217;s will be &#8211; how gauche and predictable. Alongside The Forgotten City, we had Returnal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thegamer-originals"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5489,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5487\/revisions\/5489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}