Time After Time is a two player game about a person who is unstuck in time reattaching themselves to linear time in order to be with a mysterious person they have decided they cherish.
The PDF is 11 pages, with a consistent and readable layout that also feels a little intentionally disorienting. It's not a super pronounced effect, but it's still neat.
Gameplay-wise, Time After Time is based on Carta. You use cards and tokens to build a gamescape and then navigate across it. Each player gets one move of their token per turn, with the first player representing the time-traveler and the second player representing the person they care for. When you move onto a card, you trigger its prompt, which can give you Time Sickness. Accumulate enough Time Sickness, and you become a living vortex, destroying the board as you move. If both players can find a joker and land on it together, you win.
Story-wise, this is a non-linear narrative, and you have to flex some brain muscles to tell it. The prompts on the cards are all interesting, but the real trick is storytelling in such a way that the whole continuum makes sense. To that end, you're listening to what your partner is saying and trying to build on it or build a foundation under it. And that degree of cooperation and focus on your partner makes a lot of sense in a romance game.
Time After Time has both positive and negative endings, depending on whether someone hit 5 Time Sickness or not, but neither ending is wholly good or wholly bad. You can tilt them in either direction to align with the story you've been telling.
Overall, I think this is a fantastic concept that's predisposed to create tight, compelling stories. The nonlinearity is a challenge, but it's a good challenge, and with the mechanics being so simple you can devote a lot of energy to it. I would definitely recommend this to anyone who likes the kind of not-quite-a-drama-or-a-romance-or-a-thriller story that anchors itself into the bedrock of a character relationship and then uses that relationship to make you think. Time After Time is a solid game, and a great addition to your duo game library.