Ring ring, it's your future cawing! In Caw Across Time, you play as a curious crow attempting to solve the mystery of a strange ancient clocktower.

Request items from your future self to solve puzzles, but be sure to close each time loop to maintain the law of caw-sality!

Originally made in 96 hours for the GMTK Game Jam 2025!
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CONTROLS:

WASD	Move and jump
Left Click	Call / Request Objects
E	Interact
P	Skip level
R	Restart Level
Q	Drop Key
F	Switch Selves
ESC	Menu / Hang up phone

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CREDITS:

Antidissmist - Programming, Design, SFX
Leko – Design, Art, Music, SFX
Natanco - Art, Design
TheGreenDS - Design, Music, SFX
Haasio - Art, Playtesting

More information

Status	Released
Platforms	HTML5, Windows
Rating	Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars (26 total ratings)
Authors	Antidissmist, Leko, natanco, TheGreenDS, Haasio
Genre	Puzzle
Made with	GameMaker
Tags	Cute, Puzzle-Platformer, Time Travel
Average session	About a half-hour
Inputs	Keyboard, Mouse
Content	No generative AI was used

Download

Caw Across Time 1.0.1 8.2 MB

Download

Caw Across Time (jam version) 9.2 MB

Install instructions

Windows Defender might incorrectly flag the game as a virus, and you'll need to allow it to run. Sorry for the inconvenience!

Development log

How to make your own levels
Sep 08, 2025
Changelogs
Sep 08, 2025

Comments

pizza is gud7 days ago

nice game 👍

dartP30 days ago(+1)

loved the ending, classic time travel shenanigans

R3DV0RT3XX74 days ago(+1)

Gameplay: A+

Story: A++

Ending: A++++

Ending was peak

Tooriri90 days ago(+3)

Hello! played the game and its so goooodd!!! the puzzles are nice and actually solvable shdvihsb

littlebird26106 days ago(+1)

I didn't expect that ending! Nice loop game. I really liked the 2D design and the puzzles.

I got stuck at map 11 and couldn't clear it no matter what. I gave up and watched a walkthrough and realized how stupid I was www the answer was so simple.

mycynicalromance238 days ago

Plz publish on steam with more map and more art..!

awesomedude9295 days ago(+3)

This was definitely one of those "crap that was clever puzzle games.

This game has such a unique concept that I truly believe could be expanded into a bigger game. I hope to see more levels (the cleverer the better!)

There were a lot of levels where it felt like I had tried everything, saw something blatantly obvious I should have done, and felt stupid and smart at the same time. Thank you for that.

One thing I genuinely love is that you have to HOLD the R button down to restart. I'm always accidentally hitting R in games like this when I try to hit the E button to do... whatever. Thanks for this feature.

Thane9009313 days ago(+2)

Wait a minute, the strange guy that had the cloak thingy from the beginning was my future self???

oliver332 days ago

When I ran the Web version in chrome the iframe turned black but downloading worked.

Antidissmist332 days ago

Weird. If you press Ctrl+Shift+I and look at the chrome console, are there any red error messages?

anotherananas332 days ago

I also had problems in Edge (chromium). Works perfectly in Firefox.

It errors and refuses to continue at 'Press SPACE to start' or any of the 4 following 'Video playing event called's if there's no user input in a very short period prior to the call, even with the frame in focus. 'Press SPACE' shows at the same time as a video call, hence the lockup there.

Console error:
"Uncaught (in promise) NotAllowedError: play() can only be initiated by a user gesture. (anonymous) @runner.js:49"

You can get past it by clicking or pressing space constantly from end of loading til the game level appears, but I expect it'll happen again with any future video call.

oliver329 days ago (3 edits)

Sorry for the late reply but this is the console (when the black screen appeared):

video_open failed. User must interact with the page before video with audio can be played. Attempting to play the video muted
runner.js:44 Adding unmute listener
runner.js:45 Done unmute listener
index.html:1 Uncaught (in promise) AbortError: The play() request was interrupted by a call to pause(). 
runner.js:45 Calling onvideoframeupdate
2 index.html:753 focuscb:::blur event received
Pause event has been registered for this frame

the AbortError was in red and linked to: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/play-request-was-interrupted

Mahasino350 days ago

Really unique take on the whole loop idea

ooooggll351 days ago(+2)

This is probably my new favorite game from the jam. I absolutely love the concept, it makes for super interesting puzzles. When sending yourself back in time was introduced, my mind was blown. Well done including a story as well. I'd definitely play more of this.

SeldomOliver351 days ago(+1)

I'd also buy a full version; you've got something good going on here.

JamesOFarrell352 days ago(+2)

This was amazing! I would 100% buy more levels for this game. Double Plus Good

DanmakuGrazer353 days ago(+1)

Really cool mechanics! I'd absolutely buy an expanded version.

yanivede353 days ago(+2)

great ending! love the puzzles!

GmtDT364 days ago(+2)

amazing!!!

Haasio1 year ago(+4)

huge!!!