Blinx: The Time Sweeper

Time to beat

Main story

49.5 h8 reports

Main + extras

74 h7 reports

Completionist

122 h3 reports

Median of the hours reported by players who completed the game.

Synopsis

Blinx: The Time Sweeper is a 2002 platform game developed by Artoon in partnership with Microsoft Game Studios Japan and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox. Advertised as "The World's First 4-D Action Game", the game focuses on the titular character, an anthropomorphic cat called Blinx, who is on a mission to prevent the end of World B1Q64 and rescue its princess from the evil Tom-Tom Gang. Blinx is outfitted with the TS-1000 Vacuum Cleaner, with which he can slow, speed up, record, reverse, and stop time. Blinx was positioned by the gaming press as a mascot character for Microsoft to use to compete against Nintendo's Mario, Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog, and Sony's Crash Bandicoot, though the character was never used as such officially by Microsoft. The game received mixed reviews. A sequel, Blinx 2: Masters of Time and Space, was released in 2004. The game was made available for Xbox Backwards Compatibility for PC on July 22, 2026; it subsequently became available across all tiers of Xbox Game Pass.

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Details

Type

Game

Release date

October 7, 2002

Genres

platformer

Platforms

Xbox

Created by

Artoon

Countries

Japan

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