Unofficial player wiki · checked 13 Nov 2026

Grand Theft Timeline Wiki

Grand Theft Timeline is a co-op time-travel heist game for 1-4+ players by the indie studio REAL PLAYERS. You rob 200+ worlds of history and fiction, drag the people in them home in cages, and farm them for the fuel that powers your time machine.

It comes to Steam Early Access on 19 November 2026, Windows only, at a price not yet announced. This wiki collects what is known before launch, from the store page, official news and the developer’s own replies, and says which is which.

What is Grand Theft Timeline?

The Steam page sums it up in one line: a “1-4+ players time-travel kidnapping-collection dungeon-crawling heist with physics, guns, bosses, arena, homebase, skins, and stocks”. The setup is a joke the whole game commits to. You and your friends built a time machine, “humanity’s greatest invention”, and you are using it “to rob people who haven’t invented police yet”. The machine is a cockpit full of levers, gauges and coloured buttons, and the store warns that every button does something and that your friend is pressing all of them.

The worlds mix real history and pure fiction “from the dinosaurs to Squid Game”: the official screenshots show the Cretaceous, ancient Egypt, Renaissance Florence with the Mona Lisa, the Titanic, Salem on witching night in 1692, Frankenstein’s lab, a pizza restaurant after hours in 1987, Area 51 and a city in 2177. The people in those worlds are what you came for. You knock them down, cage them, and take them home, where they live in a garage zoo and produce paradox.

The game is made and published by REAL PLAYERS, whose developer answers players on the Steam forum and points them to the official Discord. Its name and launch date are a deliberate nod to Grand Theft Auto. It shares GTA 6’s release day, but it is a separate indie game, not a Rockstar product. Steam lists it under Action, Adventure, Casual, Indie, RPG and Simulation, and it supports 12 interface languages.

Before launch, the facts come from three places: the Steam store page and its 40 screenshots (official), two Steam announcements (official), and the developer’s replies on the Steam forum. There is no gameplay footage outside the trailers yet, because the playtest forbids public videos. Every page here tags its facts so you can tell an official statement from a developer’s forum reply or an estimate.

How Grand Theft Timeline works

Seven parts of the game carry most of the questions people ask. Each has its own page or section.

Release, price and platforms

The planned Early Access launch is 19 November 2026 on Steam for Windows 10 and later. No price is set; in July the developer guessed $10-$20 and the store says the price may rise over Early Access. Early Access is planned to last about 24 months, with a full version around late 2028. Minimum specs are modest: an i5-7400 or Ryzen 3 3300X, 8 GB RAM and a GTX 1050 Ti. Release date, price and platforms.

Worlds and theme packs

There are 200+ worlds grouped into 25+ theme packs, each playable as a campaign “like a story, world by world, all the way to its finale”, or as a One Night run that tracks your best. The official “Pick Your Timeline” menu shows packs such as The Arcade Pack, The Cryptid Road Trip and The End of the World, plus a 128-world pack with the whole timeline on one dial. Every visible pack.

Captures, cages and the paradox zoo

More than 2,000 NPCs can be captured. You knock them out, drag them back in cages, and keep them in your garage, where they “drip paradox”. Vacuum it up, feed them so they grow fat and produce more, and use the paradox to fuel the time machine. A bigger garage holds more captures and gets you further along the timeline. Captures can also be shrunk into pets. How captures work.

The Timeline Arena and bosses

Captures fight each other in a Roman colosseum to unlock the next worlds. The arena console takes one cage per corner, red and blue, with optional bets from 1 to 200 before someone rings the bell. Each world also has a boss: find the map to it, then kill it or cage it and take it home. The Timeline Arena.

Co-op and the jump window

Up to four or more friends play online together; solo works as well. There is no matchmaking and no couch co-op, according to the developer. The time machine leaves with whoever is inside, and anyone who misses the jump comes back decades older or as a baby, and loses items. Co-op and multiplayer rules.

The Discord playtest

There is no demo. A free private playtest has run through the official Discord since 25 October: follow the latest message in the #news channel and access for you and your friends arrives within 24 hours. Streaming and public videos are not allowed. How to join the playtest.

Mods and Steam Workshop

A mod kit ships with the game. Community worlds come through Steam Workshop, and you make your own by working with an AI service of your choice, without code. The kit is free; any cost depends on the AI you use. Steam’s AI disclosure says parts of modded content use AI generation. Mods, Workshop and the AI mod kit.

Every page on this wiki

The wiki starts small on purpose: before release, only facts the store, the announcements and the developer have confirmed are published. Gameplay guides follow once the game is out.

Game info

The hub for facts about the game itself, with a reading order and the most-asked questions.

• Release, price & platforms: Grand Theft Timeline comes to Steam Early Access on 19 Nov 2026. Expected price, Windows-only platforms, PC requirements, 12 languages and why it shares GTA 6’s date.
• Worlds, packs & features: What you do in Grand Theft Timeline: 200+ worlds in 25+ theme packs, caging NPCs, the paradox zoo, bosses, the Timeline Arena, stocks and skins, with the pack list.
• Co-op & multiplayer: How co-op works in Grand Theft Timeline: 1-4+ players online, friends only with no matchmaking, no couch co-op, solo play, and what happens if the machine leaves you behind.
• Playtest & demo: There is no Grand Theft Timeline demo; there is a free private playtest on Discord. How to join, how long access takes, the no-streaming rule and where to download safely.
• Mods & Workshop: How Grand Theft Timeline mods work: the mod kit that ships with the game, Steam Workshop worlds, what the AI disclosure says, and whether making mods costs anything.

Updates

Every official announcement, trailer and developer statement since the reveal in July 2026, newest first, plus changes to this wiki.

Latest Grand Theft Timeline news

• 13 Nov 2026 Official

  Steam lists the planned release as 19 November 2026

  The store page shows “Planned Release Date: 19 Nov, 2026” for Early Access, no price yet, and the Early Access answers: roughly 24 months in Early Access, full version around late 2028.

• 10 Nov 2026 Developer

  AI mod creation: bring your own AI

  Asked whether AI mod creation is free, the developer said you use the AI of your choice with the mod kit tools, so cost depends on that AI and how much you ask of it, and no coding is involved.

• 2 Nov 2026 Developer

  No matchmaking: “singleplayer or friends only”

  Asked about a matchmaking queue or public servers, the developer answered that play is singleplayer or with friends only.

• 25 Oct 2026 Official

  Free playtest opens on Discord

  A free private playtest, solo or with friends: join the Discord, follow the last message in #news, and access arrives within 24 hours. Sharing, streaming and public videos are not allowed.

• 22 Oct 2026 Official

  GTA 6 Release Day Reveal Trailer

  A 2-minute trailer on the developer’s YouTube channel, music only, timed to the shared 19 November date.

Older entries: all updates.