Trope Talk: Timeloops

Steins Gate is an excellent time loop anime. It follows a eccentric young scientist and friends who accidentally invent a time machine that can send one text message back in time. Eventually they develop it into an intentional time loop machine that sends memories back in time. It's a little different than most time loops because it's not a super power or some twist of fate. It's a thing you have to choose to use and you have to build it every loop or be doomed to make this your last try.

I read "All You Need Is Kill", the Japanese novel that "Edge of Tomorrow" is based on, some years ago, and the author points to reloading a save in video games as an inspiration for the time loop premise, saying that when he beat a video game he didn't feel like a hero because he'd gotten to try over and over again until he got lucky. I don't recall if he mentioned Groundhog Day as an inspiration or where he got the name "Rita" from (in the book she was American and "Cage" was a Japanese rookie soldier named Keiji).

Is anyone else mildly sad they don't get to see Red stream outer wilds and experience it for the first time? Watching people play Outer Wilds for the first time is one of my favorite types of video.

One of the best "The Librarians" episodes IMHO is season 2 episode 8 "and the point of salvation" which combines both a time loop and a video game

Mother of Learning is unusual in timeloop fics, in that the loop is ~3 months long. Returnal (a game) uses a time loop to explain the roguelike mechanics; you can find your previous bodies left by other players, implying the millions of total loops by players are canon.

Fantastic video, Im surprised at the lack of mention of Re:Zero which is a fantastic "time loop" story (even if the main character is fairly insufferable at the beginning, which is partially the point)

I am so incredibly excited to watch this, my all time favorite trope!

Serendipitous... I am struggling with a timeloop encounter for a d&d game.