We all love a good time loop, right? Crafted correctly, a time loop can be a great form of Sci-Fi, forcing people to face their inner demons, or other threats. Solo development Studio Koval Games is preparing for the release of their upcoming Time-Looping puzzle adventure.

Forgotten 23 is a Sci-Fi adventure coming to PC via Steam on July 18^th. Players will solve mysteries while contending with a 23-minute time loop. Here is what the press release has to say:

“A distress signal echoes from The Forgotten, a remote space station in decaying orbit above Proxima Centauri b. When engineer Max Novak arrives aboard a rescue ship, he finds the crew missing, and just 23 minutes until the station crashes into the planet’s surface.

As he scrambles to prevent the catastrophe, time resets. Now trapped in a relentless loop, Max must navigate a shifting, hostile station to uncover what happened, repair critical systems, and stop an unseemly, unstoppable end.

Built around a tightly structured 23-minute time loop, Forgotten 23 tasks players with mastering the station’s evolving layout, solving intricate puzzles, and crafting critical tools from limited resources. Whether debugging malfunctioning robots, sealing toxic air leaks, or repairing broken modules, every second counts.

Through corrupted data logs, personal belongings, and haunting environmental clues, players will piece together the lives, fears, and secrets of the missing crew. Discoveries that may have driven them to madness, or worse.

With each reset, the station changes, subtly at first, but enough to raise the question: is time repeating, or is reality itself unraveling? Rooms shift. Systems behave unpredictably. And at the heart of it all is Luna, the station’s AI: calm, efficient, and maybe not entirely honest. Is she protecting Max? Helping him? Or guiding him toward something much darker?

With no combat and no clear enemy, the tension in Forgotten 23 comes from confronting the station’s shifting anomalies, glitches, malfunctions, and forces that defy explanation. It’s constant, internal, and psychological. Drawing inspiration from the science fiction of Stanisław Lem, the game presents a uniquely Polish take on the genre, philosophical, unsettling, and full of unknowable forces. In space, truth is subjective. And some answers are better left buried.”

Solo developer behind Koval Games, Lucas S. Kowal commented on this release reveal, stating: “Forgotten 23 has been an incredible adventure for me. I’d spend my weekdays at my full-time job, then come home every evening—and every weekend—to build this game. From the first idea to the drawings, the station design, the characters, the story, the dialogue… everything came together piece by piece, powered by sleepless nights and way too much coffee. Now that it’s finished, I feel an incredible sense of pride. I made something from scratch—just me, start to finish—for you. For the players.”

July 18^th isn’t that far away, so if you want to pick up Forgotten 23, go wishlist it now on Steam. I think there will be a lot to enjoy with the game, though I think we’ll find out for sure once it is in our hands. A few weeks and a few time loops can’t come soon enough. We all love a good time loop, right?

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