Causality is an incredibly clever and minimalist puzzle game that forces you to think in multiple timelines. It takes the concept of 'pathfinding' and adds a temporal twist: you aren't just moving characters through a maze, you are manipulating time itself to ensure they reach their goals without colliding or falling into traps. The level design is deviously smart, often requiring you to purposefully send a character into a 'death' state in one timeline to trigger a switch that saves them in another.
The aesthetic is strikingly clean, with a vibrant color palette and smooth animations that make the trial-and-error process feel elegant rather than frustrating. There is a profound 'Aha!' moment at the end of every level when your convoluted plan finally synchronizes perfectly and every character reaches their exit at the same time. Itβs a quiet, cerebral experience that respects the player's intelligence. For fans of games like 'Braid' or 'Monument Valley,' Causality is a must-play masterpiece of the genre.
Available on: iPhone, iPad, iPod
Version 1.4.8Tue Nov 30 2021
Updated for iOS 15
Causality is a puzzle game about manipulating time, altering the sequence of events and changing the outcome of each level.
Set across strange and alien landscapes, help a group of stranded astronauts find a route to safety. Travel through time, work with your past selves and solve paradoxes as you take on this uniquely challenging puzzler.
Each level represents a brief but hazardous moment in time. Levels are completed by guiding each astronaut to an exit that matches their colour, within a limited time frame. When all astronauts reach an exit the level is complete.
- Control time and change the outcome of each level
- Work with your past selves to solve puzzles
- 60 levels to complete
- 13 achievements to unlock
Requires iOSΒ 11.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPodΒ touch.Causality is a puzzle game about manipulating time, altering the sequence of events and changing the outcome of each level.
Set across strange and alien landscapes, help a group of stranded astronauts find a route to safety. Travel through time, work with your past selves and solve paradoxes as you take on this uniquely challenging puzzler.
Each level represents a brief but hazardous moment in time. Levels are completed by guiding each astronaut to an exit that matches their colour, within a limited time frame. When all astronauts reach an exit the level is complete.
- Control time and change the outcome of each level
- Work with your past selves to solve puzzles
- 60 levels to complete
- 13 achievements to unlock








Causality is a puzzle game about time, altering the past and changing the outcome of each level. Set across strange and alien worlds, you help a group of stranded astronauts find a route to safety. Travel through time, work with your past selves, and solve paradoxes in this uniquely challenging logic puzzler. Each level represents a short period of time where the sequence of events can be manipulated by dragging your finger across the screen.
Innovative time-scrubbing puzzle mechanics
60 levels of increasing complexity and paradoxes
Stunning minimalist alien environments
Sync play across multiple devices
Unlockable secret 'pro' challenges
Later levels introduce time portals. You can send an astronaut into a portal to have them reappear earlier in the level. Use this 'duplicate' to hold down pressure plates while the original astronaut moves forward.
Causality ($1.99) by Loju is a puzzle game that has you manipulating time (but not space) in order to alter the sequence of events to change...
AppAdvice - Mon Oct 01 2018
I'll be honest β I'm only recently getting into the genre of puzzle games. Although I've always enjoyed the environmental puzzles in my...
High Ground Gaming - Sat Jan 01 2022
The bottom of the screen features a time bar. Sliding left or right scrubs through the events. Tap tiles to change directions or toggle switches, then play the timeline forward to see if the astronauts reach their goals.
Yes, because the game is based on a timeline, you can simply scrub the time bar back to any point to change a decision.