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Michael Frei 🪰
@michaelfrei.io
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Makes games and animated films with his finger
https://michaelfrei.io
Made a video game called Time Flies https://timeflies.buzz
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Michael Frei 🪰 @michaelfrei.io · Jul 31
Time Flies has landed!

Now available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, and Mac/PC.

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househouse.com
🔴🟡🔵 BIG WALK 🔴🟡🔵

Out now on Steam, Nintendo Switch 2, and PlayStation 5.

Hooray!
August 4, 2026 at 1:32 PM
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georgebatch.bsky.social
peak collection
handle.invalid Playables @handle.invalid · Jun 30
ENTIRE Playables Collection.

$20.

Cheap. Buy now!

store.steampowered.com/bundle/60739...
June 30, 2026 at 10:06 AM
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michaelfrei.io
Buy game. Is cheap now. Good value. Worth. Time.
store.steampowered.com/app/2000120/...
Save 50% on Time Flies on Steam
Time Flies is a little adventure about our limited time in this world.
store.steampowered.com
June 29, 2026 at 4:04 PM
michaelfrei.io
Buy game. Is cheap now. Good value. Worth. Time.
store.steampowered.com/app/2000120/...
Save 50% on Time Flies on Steam
Time Flies is a little adventure about our limited time in this world.
store.steampowered.com
June 29, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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mariov.ch
Rakete is out now on Steam! Every button is a thruster, the rest is physics. The 2012 game remastered, now with 60 levels plus local co-op where any* number of friends share one rocket.

🚀 store.steampowered.com/app/3814090/...

*as many as you have buttons
June 24, 2026 at 6:22 PM
michaelfrei.io
«I’d rather the full game give the feeling of being “a little too short” than “a little too long”. I hope that when I face death, the same is true of life.»
handle.invalid Playables @handle.invalid · Jun 18
New interview (in Chinese): Playables co-founder Michael Frei on developing Time Flies, pixel art, short games and publishing. indienova.com/indie-game-n...
Screenshot of the article.
June 18, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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panic.com
Because.... Time Flies (timeflies.buzz)
June 12, 2026 at 9:29 PM
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nintendolife.com
Best Nintendo Switch Short Games.
Best Nintendo Switch Short Games
Blast through these games in a single sitting
www.nintendolife.com
April 4, 2026 at 3:00 PM
michaelfrei.io
Introducing 🎨 Time Flies COLOR!
Game screenshot in color. A fly is sitting on someone’s naked foot. Game screenshot in color. A fly is unrolling toilet paper by walking on it. Game screenshot in color. A fly is clearing foliage off a statue‘s crotch. Game screenshot in color. A fly is flying into the open mouth of a crocodile.
April 1, 2026 at 8:10 AM
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brainblockgamer.bsky.social
🪰 Time Flies 🪰 by @playables.net is a beautiful, funny, short game about life and death.

@panic.com #timefliesgame #Timeflies #indiegames #steamgames #steamgame
February 16, 2026 at 6:54 PM
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vectorpark.com
Seemed like a good day to finally port this to desktop: vectorpark.itch.io/egg
Egg (2005) by Vectorpark
All is change
vectorpark.itch.io
October 30, 2025 at 10:19 PM
michaelfrei.io
playables.itch.io/time-flies-f...
Time Flies Fonts by Playables
A collection of hand-drawn pixel fonts.
playables.itch.io
January 15, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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mariov.ch
Made a little (de-)glitch toy with quadtrees:

Quadraw:
experiments.mariov.ch/quadraw/
January 5, 2026 at 9:40 PM
michaelfrei.io
Happy new year.
January 2, 2026 at 3:16 PM
michaelfrei.io
I think we released a cheeky game in 2025.
katerblossom.bsky.social Kate | No Small Games 💫 @katerblossom.bsky.social · Dec 31
Top 10 Indie Games of 2025 delivery 🫡
1. Keep Driving
2. Skate Story
3. Despelote
4. Many Nights a Whisper
5. Consume Me
6. PEAK
7. Time Flies
8. Is This Seat Taken?
9. ILA: A Frosty Glide
10. Tiny Bookshop
10 screenshots from indie games from 2025 with an apricot and lavender background and stars
January 1, 2026 at 1:44 AM
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whilhorst.bsky.social
9️⃣Time Flies
Such a simple game, but brilliant in its presentation and execution. As a mayfly you have seconds to live before you die and try to complete a bucket list. Great to play alongside a partner especially to see how much mayhem you can cause. The Untitled Goose Game of 2025! @timeflies.buzz
December 31, 2025 at 10:17 AM
michaelfrei.io
Patrick's games were the most magical things on the internet I had ever seen back in the day – and they still are. They inspired me to make interactive things on the internet – and they still do. Reading these words from him really means a lot to me!
vectorpark.com Patrick @vectorpark.com · Dec 26
I waited for some downtime to play Time Flies (timeflies.buzz) and I'm glad I did. It's a quietly amazing thing—charming, clever, tender, and funny, and that's all before the final act hits you unexpectedly in the gut. A game that makes me want to make games, and my favorite in a long time.
Time Flies – A game about our limited time in this world.
Available now for PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Steam, Epic Games Store, and Mac App Store. A game by Michael Frei and Raphaël Munoz, produced by Playables.
timeflies.buzz
December 27, 2025 at 3:28 PM
michaelfrei.io
"Here are the best games you weren’t playing this year…" 🥲
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...
The video games you may have missed in 2025
Date a vending machine, watch intergalactic television and make the most out of your short existence as a fly. Here are the best games you weren’t playing this year
www.theguardian.com
December 25, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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timeflies.buzz
We won an award! 🤍🏆🤍
indiegameawards.gg The Indie Game Awards @indiegameawards.gg · Dec 19
Who knew a fly could pack such a punch? Congratulations to our Bite-Sized Game recipient for 2025, Time Flies!
Time Flies Receives the Indie Game Award 2025 for Bite-Sized Game
YouTube video by Six One Indie
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December 19, 2025 at 6:26 PM
michaelfrei.io
I drew way too many fonts for the game Time Flies…
I drew way too many fonts for the game Time Flies. Guess how many! Eleven! 11 different fonts. One for the title (I made this one for a Playdate project originally), also in a bold variant.Then one for normal text (we used this the most) with a fat variant. After that, a font for small text and one for even smaller text. All these also include Кириллица (Cyrillic). So these are, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 type-faces. 7 more to go: Number 7 is a font used for text in a book that the fly could reveal by walking over. Number 8 is the variant before it is revealed: This one you can't really read, dorry. Number 8 is not really readable by design. Font faces nine, ten and eleven we have not used in the final game. I created them for ideas during prototyping that we eventually abandonded. ;-( Number nine was for small dynamic text in a newspaper lying on the floor. Number ten is called Teacher.It was designed for collectable life-affirming quotes we eventually replaced with puzzle pieces. And number eleven, called Student, is a second version of number ten that looks less neat. That's it! Eleven fucking typefaces made over the course of 5 years.
December 9, 2025 at 7:50 PM
michaelfrei.io
Great trailer. Great game.
December 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
michaelfrei.io
Kinda enjoy filming pixels on screens with my phone.
timeflies.buzz Time Flies ⏳🪰🎮 @timeflies.buzz · Nov 27
It's Black & White Friday: Time Flies is 20% OFF on Steam & PS5! 🔥🖤

Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2000120/...
PS5: store.playstation.com/en-us/produc...
November 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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timeflies.buzz
Time Flies has been nominated for Best Bite-Sized Game @indiegameawards.gg! 🖤
November 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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halfrobot.com
6-year-old: I want to play that kids game with the people again.

Me: ...with people? What were they doing?

6-year-old: You... click the little white people to complete things!

Me: ...complete things? That's lots of games...

6-year-old: NO!! THEY JUMP IN HOLES!

Me: Ohhhh, you want the game KIDS!
November 11, 2025 at 10:45 PM
michaelfrei.io
Beat the New Year’s resolution rush and start NOW!
handle.invalid Playables @handle.invalid · Nov 11
Get fit for cheap! My Exercise is now on sale in the Steam Animal Fest.

store.steampowered.com/app/1004330/...
November 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM