Time Trax is a sidescroller screen-by-screen action game where you pick up objects in order to find items which are found in each room that is connected by doors and ladders in order to seal portals.

Dark forces have set out to destroy the fabric of time, by opening eight space-time continuum portals. Each one is guarded by a great mind, who must have a relevant object returned to them before they will allow you to seal the portals. Doing this requires formulating a spell from the runes the Minds give you.