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Niila · Published by Niila
Last updated 27 Sept 2026
TagTime is a quick and casual party game for up to 8 players. The fairy-tale Monsters want to catch and boil all the puny Runts! To survive, the Runts must harvest resources, build barricades and eat magic mushrooms. It's a deadly game of kick-the-can brimming with action, suspense and wickedness!
Action, Indie, Strategy, Casual · More free games
Join the chaotic fun of TagTime, where up to eight players engage in a thrilling mix of resource gathering and barricade building. Navigate the perilous world of Runts and Monsters with wit and quick thinking in this indie, casual game from Niila.
About this game
TagTime is an asymmetric fast-paced multiplayer game that combines elements from MOBA and Asymmetric Horror.
Two large monsters has to catch all the small fairy tale runts in the big black cauldron. The runts escape the monsters through collaboration, hero abilities and fortifications.
It’s fast-paced casual action, full of suspense, blood splatter and wickedness!
KEY FEATURES
Work Together to Survive
The puny fairy tale runts must work together and harvest resources to build barricades. Will you be able to survive and outsmart the monsters to hatch open one of the mystery eggs?
Wicked Hero Abilities
Use the mystical hero abilities and mischievous power-ups to catch your prey or escape your impending doom! Spray magic moonshine on your prey as the wicked witch, or eat magic mushrooms as the gnome to escape the claws of the beast!
The Big Black Cauldron
Caught runts are placed in the big black boiling cauldron. Destroy it to save fellow runts from getting boiled and eaten!
Down the Rabbit Hole We Go
Explore unique heroes, each with special abilities, progression systems, and enchanted cosmetics. Dive deep into personal strategies and mythical hero combos to outsmart your opponents.
Play with friends or strangers in quick online matches. Jump straight into the action to boil some delicious small fairy tale creatures or try to escape the monsters!
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- OS: 7 (SP1+), 10 and 11
- Processor: x86, x64
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- DirectX: Version 10
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 500 MB available space
Supported Languages
Latest news
AnnouncementsOfficial
Now is Time for Tag!
Everybody keeps telling us that we are complete idiots because we as indie developers are trying to make a multiplayer game for 8 players. And they are absolutely speaking the truth! It has been quite a challenge to get enough players to do proper playtests. Heck, we can’t even fill a lobby ourselves. But but, this time will be different! TagTime is a part of the Steam Multiplayer Festival - Four is A Party! It’s running from now December 9th 19 CET till December 16th. So we will get a bunch of Steam visibility the next couple of days and to top it off we are guns blazing on marketing! And to top it off to the very max, the game is now cross-platform and can be played on both Android and iOS. Hopefully that will give us enough concurrent players for people to see how epic TagTime really is! You just need to play against real players and not shitty bots! So put on some Diana Ross, grab your friends and get some tag time going please! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpx0JKaNXvs&ab_channel=DianaRoss-Topic Mobile links beneath: Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.niila.tagtime iOS: https://apps.apple.com/dk/app/tagtime/id6738966160?l=da Upside, Down. Inside, Out! -NatveRead full article on Community Announcements (Natve)AnnouncementsOfficial
Steam that Deck Up!
Boom-BammaLam you beautiful rando few readers out there. Quick update! Steam Deck Compatible Activated! We finally got our hands on one of the new beautiful white Steam Decks, and are pleased to announce that TagTime runs and plays like a dream on the little wonder. The only caveat being that the GUI isn't navigable with the controller yet. So you have navigate the menu through the touch screen. Controllers online... We also got some generic in-game controller support, and we have currently tested it on an xBox controller and a Stadia controller (why the hell do we have on of those you might think) and it works like a charm (again except the GUI stuff). But we need to test on other controllers, especially PS controllers. So if you have one, do try the game out and let us know how it feels. Engaging Steam Deck... Controllers activated... 3 2 1 Lift off... BOOOMMOOOMWWWOOOGGHGHGHGGOGOGGGHHGOHGOGH! Launch succesfulRead full article on Community Announcements (niila)AnnouncementsOfficial
Finding equilibrium. It's a TagTime
Hello our dearest followers and passerbys! Lets not talk too much about the weather and jump straight into the fray! We’ve been working thoroughly on a few things. First off the game has recently been extremely unbalanced in favor of the monsters. Balance is not something we have been focused on so far. Reason being, the constant introduction of new features continuously changes the balance of the game. And so it seemed like a Sisyphian task to try and balance it. But we have done a minor gameplay feature freeze and been hard at work making the game balanced. The equilibrium has been reached! This means the game is in a prime state and fun as f*ck! Or to be honest, more likely still unbalanced. So we would love for you to smack our equilibrium. We will be opening up TagTime on Thursday and it can be played till the end of Sunday! Please do leave feedback on our Discord telling us how we could miss such an f***ing completely unbalanced OP feature. Do tell us what features you’d like to see, or maybe just tell us in a very polite manner how garbage TagTime is. If you want to make sure to match against other players, bring you friends or join us Thursday 10pm Central European Time for a casual and chill session. If you are a loner or don’t like to play with other people, fear not! We’ve optimized the bots quite a bit, so they should be way better to play with now. We would love feedback on those as well, so for any loner who wants give feedback, but fears the discord, do write an anonymous mail to contact@niila.io. On another note, if you want to know how we fucked up our attendance at the latest Steam Scream Fest, check out this Reddit post. And on a third note, here’s an overview of the changes we’ve done to TagTime recently: Balancing A while back we changed the movement speed and attack power of the monsters, because they felt bad and frustrating to play. This completely changed the dynamics of the game, making it: Way faster overall. Monsters felt more powerful. A...Read full article on Community Announcements (niila)AnnouncementsOfficial
It's TagTime! New Feature coming up!
An eternal night full of ghosts and spectacles! It's November in Denmark, which means two-thirds of the day is utter and complete darkness. It's cold and wet, with a heavy mass of grey clouds suppressing the sky and sun. We haven't seen a beam of sunlight in weeks. This means it's the perfect time to get blasted by the artificial light of the monitors! Get some binging going, surf the net and game that shit up! If you feel like you have completed the internet and are looking for something new, read on. Enough jibberish bullshit and to the point: Testing a new feature! Them ghosts! TagTime is supposed to be a casual and quick take on asym multiplayer, but right now, it feels shitty when you are killed as a Runt and turn into a tame wisp. You feel left out of the game like you are playing some try-hard Counter Strike. To counter this, we're changing what happens when a Runt dies. Now, when killed, a Runt will turn into a ghost. In ghost form, you move faster and can still gather resources and build. However, you cannot break eggs or free the cauldron. If you’re hit by a monster, you become temporarily stunned. The theses are: - Ghosts will make Runts more active despite being dead. - Ghosts can scout the map quickly to locate monsters. - Ghosts, with their speed, can activate the harvest multiplier for living Runts more easily. - Ghosts can help living Runts escape monsters by assisting with barricade building. - Ghosts can begin fortifying an egg or cauldron, making it easier for Runts to break it. Currently, egg capture isn’t very common since Runts want to have enough resources (and power-ups) before attempting it. We hope that ghosts will help build barricades to encourage more egg captures. These more active ghosts will also impact game balance. They should help equalize the power curve, as monsters' power increases with number of dead Runts. If you want to try out the new feature and see how it impacts the game, join us this Friday the 15th of November at 10 pm ...Read full article on Community Announcements (niila)AnnouncementsOfficial
The Last Scream! 🎃
Happy Halloween! We hope you scared the living hell out on some poor kids and ate so much candy you had to game from the couch. Epic video from Nerd Space Games! It’s was a blast, some clutch action! Thanks Ruben! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYH7AF5iFAA&ab_channel=NerdSpaceGames We are doing one last Scream session on Sunday evening @ 10PM CET, before the demo shuts down. Come joins us for some high suspense and oddly chill matches! https://discord.gg/WHAzrWbs?event=1301855465067511892 And If you like TagTime, don't forget to add it to your Steam wishlist! Awooo... ooo…Read full article on Community Announcements (Natve)
