Time Stalkers is a role-playing video game with party members consisting of Climax characters as well as in-game enemies that can be collected and trained.

The enemies appear on screen and transition to individual arrangements for RTS style combat.

Sword furiously refuses to play any longer, even going so far as to distract Master from watching his precious story unfold.

He concluded by advising gamers to instead get the "vastly superior" Evolution: The World of Sacred Device (the Dreamcast's only other RPG at that time).

However, like GameSpot, he took issue with the resetting of experience points and also complained of the game's concise dialogue and short length.

[12] Jeff Lundrigan of NextGen said of the game, "It ain't bad, but the Dreamcast RPG audience needs more than this generic fix.

[7] GamePro summed up the review of the game by saying, "RPG aficionados looking for that great adventure for the Dreamcast will have to wait—Time Stalkers isn't it.