The game uses a top-down, tile-based view for outdoor travel and towns, with separate first-person dungeon and special-area sequences. The main objective is to find a way through the world’s historical eras and defeat Minax, while gathering information, equipment, transportation, and access to restricted areas.

Players move between towns, castles, shrines, wilderness, dungeons, and time portals. Combat is turn-based and involves positioning, weapon use, spells, and resource management. Progress depends on exploration, conversations, purchases, character improvement, and discovering which locations or eras provide the items needed to continue.

Explore methodically and record the purpose of towns, castles, gates, and unusual landmarks. Time gates and transportation routes are central to progression, so revisit earlier areas after gaining new equipment or information.

Protect supplies and avoid unnecessary fights while learning the limits of each weapon, spell, and vehicle. Save before entering unfamiliar dungeons or using a newly discovered portal, and keep notes about clues because the game rarely explains its progression directly.