Cyclic Warriors

About this game

Enter the mind-bending, adrenaline-fueled world of "Cyclic Warriors,” where time is just as deadly as a gun. With a click of a button, propel yourself through time, or freeze time completely and watch as bullets hover mid-air! But whatever you do, don’t stand still. You might have all the time in the world, but so do your enemies!



Time Travel
Use time travel to flank enemies, dodge bullets or manipulate the world around you.
The world was destroyed and lies in ruins, walls are missing, roofs have fallen out, and devices are on fire. Use this to your advantage. Time travel to the future, where a once solid wall now has a gaping hole. Use the ruins to your advantage to prevent the destruction. Be careful though! Your enemies have sent their own Cyclic Warriors back in time to stop you!



Advanced Movement
Wall-run, slide, bunny hop and kick off walls to build up incredible speed. Source style air-strafe to change directions mid-air! The game is focused on allowing players to chain movement mechanics. The speed limit is your skill.

Multiplayer
Hop into intense multiplayer PVP battles, or play with bots of your skill level! The game is FREE, so there are no official servers, instead any player can host their own game. Anyone in your country can join your game, or you can just play with friends!
Cyclic Warriors Early Access is a very casual experience, currently with no competitive game modes, just to have some quick fun!

Inspiration
The game is inspired by my favorite FPS mission of all time, Effect and Cause, as well as quite a few different arena shooters. I hope you enjoy!

Latest news

• Patch Notes·11 Feb 2026Official

  Game Update 0.9.4

  Today's update brings a new heavy machine gun, a new single player mission and two new Arrogant unlockable weapons! In addition to important bug fixes and game balances.New WeaponFusion: A heavy laser mini-gun with insane amounts of ammo and an unlockable more powerful version!New MissionDrone Factory: An intense single player challenge with a new type of enemy!New Weapon UpgradesTitan: Unlock the Arrogant Titan with an secret alt ability!Fusion: Unlock the Arrogant Fusion with insane damage and a complex fire pattern to learn!Balance ChangesGhost: Recoil increased by 50% and added bloom.Pulling Grenade: Now only explodes once, but with a bigger explosion. Deals more damage. Makes a sound effect when you are hit by it, or when it hits others.Behemoth: Damage reduced from 400 to 340 meaning it requires a more accurate shot to one tap. Decreased reload time from 2.9 to 2.6.Laser Pistol: Decreased charge-up headshot damage and increased charge-up body shot damage to make it more consistent.Paladin: Damage reduced. 35 -> 32 per shot. Shoots 10 shots instead of 8 while unscoped. This makes it more viable to use as a shotgun.Giant Distortion: Now reduces damage from laser weapons by 60% instead of 90% making it viable to kill with a laser gun inside the ult. Projectiles move 2x faster in the ult as well.Time Breach: Ultimate lasts 15 seconds instead of 10 seconds.Shield auto recharges in Night Survival. Hopefully this will make surviving a bit more fair.Bots dodge Vulture bullets. It was a bit too easy to farm bots with the Vulture, so now they will sometimes time travel when being tracked.Bug FixesFixed a major bug where you could not pick up weapons in single player missions.Fixed a major bug where the game would crash if you blocked the Timesight with the Ion Sword.Fixed a where your reload animation would stop if you did a backwards wall kick.Patched out a bug with the tutorial allowing you to spawn bots into the tutorial for an instant win.Fixed Paladin doing less da...
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• Patch Notes·19 Jun 2025Official

  Major Update 0.8.12.3

  Hi everyone! Today's update brings two new guns, two new arrogant weapons, a new single player speed-run level, a new map, a new ultimate ability and a new game mode! Ronin - Primary weapon A powerful sword with four different attack types.Vulture - Primary Weapon Alt fire Shoots out tracking darts. After opponent is tracked bullets heat seek them.New Game Mode: Time Loop Things are about to get crazy. Every round your actions are recorded. Every round there is one more version of you! Save your past selves, or destroy the time orbs to permanently remove the past versions of your enemies!New Single Player mission: Time Loop Prefer single player, but want to get involved in the time mayhem? In this new level you fight YOURSELF! Switch back and forth between assassin and bodyguard. Every time you must be slightly faster, or your past versions will defeat you!Unlock the Arrogant version of the Ronin and Vulture by speed-running this level!New Map: Glass Tower Want to go fast? Want less things in your way? This map features huge open spaces and bounce pads to send you flying. Be careful though, or you'll fall into the energy pits!New Ultimate: Time Breaker Activate to give yourself infinite time energy, and see orbs that reveal enemies in the opposite timeline.Bot Improvements: In CTF, you can now take the Power Core from your bot by walking up to them.Weapon Balances: Timesight: Increased body shot damage by 3, and reduced headshot damage by 1. The gun felt too inconsistent because of the very low body shot damage. This should resolve that, while also keeping it balanced.Bug Fixes: -Fixed navigation on night map, and on Snow City, so bots properly navigate. -Fixed some situations where the Timesight would look like it was shooting, when it was not -Fixed an issue where using the Arrogant Ghost and switching to your pistol would still show the Ghosts over-charge cylinder -Many others
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• Patch Notes·7 Jan 2025Official

  Small Update 0.8.11.10

  Hi everyone! Today we have some bug fixes, weapon changes and bot improvements for you. Weapon Balances: Time sight: +2 headshot damage. Caster: -3 damage. Increased recoil when not scoped. Apologies for buffing the caster too much in the last update. Laser Pistol: Slightly faster charge up for RMB, and visual recoil to show how close you are to firing. Viper: Reduced body damage by 4, resulting in it taking 4 body shots to kill, instead of 3. This will make it much more beneficial to aim for headshots. Vortex: Increased headshot damage, so that it breaks enemies shields with 1 headshot. Other Changes: Switching Ultimate abilities mid game will reset your ultimate points to zero. This is to counter people only selecting expensive ults when they have enough points for them. This will result in more deliberate choices and use of ultimate's. Improved bot navigation in CTF. This will result in them being able to return the powercore faster. Changed slightly how they respond to threats when returning with the powercore to make them get distracted less. Night Survival now displays how many kills you achieved. Bug Fixes: - Fixed a glitch where throwing the daggers straight down would freeze you in place, or hurl you downwards. - Fixed a bug where you would get stuck on the forcefields in CTF comp. - Fixed a bug where Bots would have primary weapons on pistol rounds. - Fixed a nav mesh issue on Night Survival map. - Fixed a nav issue in Snow City, where bots could not get to you if you were on the outside of the map. - Fixed a issue where forcefields were missing from Small Facility in CTF comp. - Fixed an issue where the Night Survival boss would stop glowing blue, making him harder to spot.
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• Patch Notes·8 Nov 2024Official

  Major Update 0.8.11.7

  Hi everyone! Today we have a big update for you. Four new Ultimate Abilities: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44858260/62e280a547e1ab855f848b952ce44c2ad55d656f.png Time Distortion: Deploy a bubble that freezes projectiles, allowing you to dodge them! Super Freeze: Move hundreds of times faster than your opponents! Dash: With a single button propel yourself in any direction! Impulse Lock: Like moving fast? Save your velocity, hit it again to return to your previous speed! Quick melee! Now you can press F to punch! Deals more damage the faster you are moving, so get some speed and one tap your friends! New Playstyle! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44858260/6709f0d2a02aa6406241f5192c65e288caf99dc0.png Vicious: Track your enemies in the opposite timeline. Red orbs will follow them. Shoot the orbs to damage them and pull them into your timeline! New navigation system: Our new navigation system allows the bots to use all the movement mechanics, allowing them to jump between roofs, climb buildings and wall run to get around quickly! Get ready to see bots flying across the sky! Now they can be a real threat at stealing your power core! New single player map: Night Survival You came to try to stop the base from being destroyed, but it was a trap! Survive as long as you can as waves of enemies pursue you, and post your best times on our Discord server! This is also the first single player mission you can jump into with a friend. Put in a password and get them to join, either to help you, or to make surviving a bit more challenging! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44858260/aadb988cfcb66188c02346f6299253b03bcad737.png Arrogant Ghost: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44858260/9fc2d3a857629b5ac3da30532cb06088de83645b.png Arrogant Omega: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44858260/f979c2636f09143005f9e3df0942238191a253ba.png Lunar Base Night: You can also play the standard map on night mode now! Turn off your flashlight with L and sneak in the shadows, or pull the lever, shutting off all the lights! Two New Grenades: Rupture: Now deploys a one way...
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• Patch Notes·22 Jun 2024Official

  Game Update 0.8.10.4

  Today's update brings a new single-player mission and more weapons to unlock! But this time it is a little different. Race to eliminate seven scientists scattered around the city as fast as possible. This means you can invent your own route! Come up with the best path for the fastest possible time. But be careful though, there are hoards of guards protecting the scientists! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44858260/861fa016da2f5842570a8a34f38557ff848f8052.jpg Unlock 2 new Arrogant weapons by speed running this level! Post your best times on our Discord to earn special roles! Arrogant Nemesis: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44858260/e230c626ab749ec03d024afb217e79cf61caf6ab.png Arrogant Paladin: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44858260/32e0251c867aa32592182c7915c6e92a53429766.png Balances: Laser Pistol: Fixed recoil when standing. Now recoil is consistent and no longer extreme. Explosive grenade: Has larger explosion radius. The grenade time travels with the player! After throwing it, if you time travel, so will it. This allows you to do some cool trick throws with it. Paladin: Damage increased by 12 per laser while not scoped in. Decreased Paladin's price by $200. Created a new run animation for Paladin to make it feel better. Nemesis: Fire rate 0.35 -> .38. Increased Nemesis' price by $200. Laser weapons now can shoot down explosive projectiles too! This makes the Time Sight and Paladin very good at shooting down rockets. Bug Fixes: -Fixed an issue where accuracy would recover slower while time was frozen. -Fixed an issue where the Omega's projectiles would slightly change trajectory after going through walls, causing inconsistency and making it hard to wall bang.
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