Displaced
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A time-travel text adventure

Displaced

Two men fall out of a broken machine and into your century, speaking a language you've never heard. You're the one who finds them.

Play episode one — free → Meet the travellers ↓
eight episodes · every century a stranger · free on telegram
Two stranded travellers and their brass machine at dusk in a torchlit old-world square
Who falls into your life

Meet the Travellers

Two men who built a machine that works — a little too well — and the stranger who keeps having to decide what to do about them. That last one is you.

J

Jack

The reluctant one · didn't ask for this

"I went to Keith's garage to say the wiring looked dodgy. That was the last thing that made sense. Where — when — are we?"

K

Keith

Built it in a garage · from car parts

"It works. That's the good news. The bad news is it works, and I can't yet make it work the way I'd like — namely, backwards, and toward home."

You

You

A different local · every single time

A Roman farm girl. A Norse trader. A newspaperman in a shaking city. Each episode, you're someone new — and you're the only one who can decide whether these two lunatics live to jump again.

On the phone you already own

How It Works

A text adventure that plays entirely inside Telegram as a Mini App. No downloads, no installs — just tap and play. Eight episodes, eight centuries, branching choices that actually cost something — and a machine that never once lands where it means to.

01

Open Telegram

Tap the link. The game opens right in the app you already have. Nothing to download.

02

Land somewhere new

Every episode drops you into a different century as a different local — Rome, a fjord, a shaking city, a bright morning in Dallas.

03

Decide what to do with them

Hide them. Help them. Turn them in. The machine will take them onward regardless — but not before you've made your choice.

Different century. Different you. Same two lost men.

Somewhere on the road to Rome

Take a few steps

field-journal — displaced · loc: unknown

a 30-second taste. the real thing spans two thousand years.

The first season

Eight Episodes, Every Century

One machine, one impossible fault, eight places it never meant to stop. Each episode stands on its own — a whole life you step into, and out of. Episode one is free.

I FREE

The Road

Roman dust, an olive grove, and two men who fell out of the sky speaking gibberish.

II ★ STARS

The Longhouse

Smoke, salt, and a firepit with strong opinions about strangers.

III ★ STARS

The Shaking City

Cable cars, a newspaper date, and a floor that will not stay still. 1906.

IV ★ STARS

The River and the Sand

A river that gives everything and forgives nothing. The brass hates the heat.

V ★ STARS

The Question

A century too clean, a light too white. Someone is asking what you are.

VI ★ STARS

The Man Who Knew

Padua. A burned pamphlet, a frightened scholar, a truth it's dangerous to have seen.

VII ★ STARS

Dealey Plaza

A bright morning in Dallas. You know exactly what day it is. They don't.

VIII ◆ FINALE

The Grove

Back under the same olive trees where it began. This time you understand the language.

Testimony, collected across the ages

What the Witnesses Say

Nobody who met them ever quite got over it. Reviews gathered from several centuries, none of them contemporary with each other.

★★★★★
"Two strangers fell into my father's grove and left before the third dawn. I taught one of them the word for 'friend.' I have told this story for forty years. No one believes me. I do not care."
— Lucia · a farm near Rome
★★★★★
"They arrived in the middle of the earthquake and were, frankly, the calmest thing in San Francisco that morning. I ran the story. My editor spiked it. My editor was a coward."
— a reporter · San Francisco, 1906
★★★★
"Harrowing and tender in equal measure. Docked one star only because the older one drank all my mead and the younger one apologised for six hours straight."
— a trader · the northern fjords
★★★★★
"I have measured the heavens and been threatened for it, so believe me when I say: these two had seen further than I ever will, and understood it far less. Extraordinary."
— a scholar · Padua
★★★★★
"Met two fellas in Dealey Plaza who kept asking me the date like it mattered a whole lot. Wouldn't stop looking at the sky. Real nice, though. Real sad."
— a bystander · Dallas, November 1963
★★★★★
"For the record: the machine was NOT built to a professional standard, the wiring was a disgrace, and I would get in it again tomorrow without a second thought."
— Jack · location & era unknown