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No Time To Explain is a platformer created by Tinybuild Games, in which you must rescue your future self who barges in while you're playing Kinect and gets captured by a giant crab using a beam cannon. Things only get weirder from there.

Currently has two seasons in its full release on Steam.

This work provides examples of:

• Advancing Bossof Doom: Evil You's third fight has him chasing Future You in a Robotnik-esque death machine.
• Beard and Goatee of Evil: Evil You has a thin beard and a goatee.
• Beam-O-War: Done against the boss of Season 1, Mecha-Squirrel, and Evil You's fourth fight.
• Catch Phrase: "I am you from the future!"
  • "I am you... from the EVIL future!"
• Checkpoint Starvation: Why the Caves are so hard.
• Clone Degeneration: Evil You is an evil clone of Present You who was released at the end of the Caves, and Evil You creates a malformed "Reject Clone" in the Castle Intermission stage.
• Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Present You wears a shirt and pants, but five Future Yous wear red, orange, green, blue, and purple spandex. The red one interacts with Present You the most.
• Evil Laugh: Evil You does this when he's not plotting to give everyone diabetes.
• Evil Twin: Evil You.
• Exactly What It Says on the Tin: The Most Famous Guy In The World, one of the Future Yous.
• Eye Beams: Mecha-Squirrel.
• Fusion Dance: Of Present You and The Most Famous Guy In The World so that the beam cannon/shotgun combo can break into Evil You's castle.
  Present You: I hate this ide-
  TMFGITW: I HATE YOU!
• Hard Levels, Easy Bosses: While the bosses are classic platformer bosses who would normally be quite hard, your character will respawn instantly after being hit, so most of the boss fights are more of a spectacle than a straight challenge. Some of them, particularly in Season 2, are capable of causing a Puzzle Reset when you get killed, though.
• I'm A Humanitarian: Present You eats Delicious Muffin You in Candy Land's intro.
• Incendiary Exponent: Blue Spandex Future You suggests a helicopter full of lava to break into Evil You's castle.
• Nice Hat: You can collect 60 of them.
• No Time to Explain - As per the title.
• Omega Cast - There's you... and you... and you.
• One Hit Point Wonder: Thankfully you respawn on the last hazard-free tile you touched.
  • Unless you die of fire, acid, or some sets of spikes, which causes a Puzzle Reset.
• Only Sane Man: Present You.
• Overdrawn at the Blood Bank - Lampshaded by your future self.
• Palette Swap: Evil You is Present You with a black shirt and a beard/goatee combo.
• Power-Up Food: Cake makes Present You fat and capable of rolling off cliffs (and surviving a hit from spikes,) but reduces his jump/beamjump height and makes him slower.
• Beam Jump: The primary mechanic of the game.
• Set Right What Once Went Wrong
• Spikes of Doom: Many of them.
• That One Boss: Mecha-Squirrel due to its ability to knock you across the screen, plus the second phase has Puzzle Reset-causing lava.
• Take That: The climactic "artsy level" just before The Very Definitely Final Dungeon is a rather funny jab at indie games in general; Future You breaks into Artistic You's house and asks if games are art, and a series of 8-bit Yous reply with comments like "games are art if they're made today but use NES graphics" or "games are art if there's a hidden meaning you read about on the message boards two months later".
• Unexpected Gameplay Change: The dinosaur shoot-'em-up.
• Unwinnable by Mistake - It's quite possible to leave your house without the rocket-thingy. It's not possible to get back in, nor to get past the next house. Luckily at this point you're only about five seconds into the game.
  • Falling into the pit in Mecha-Squirrel's first phase as he's about to fire his lasers at you renders hitting him with his eye beams impossible.
• Wave Motion Gun: The beam cannon.
• Womb Level: One level has Future You send Present You into Past You's body to prevent Evil You from giving him diabetes.
• You In Distress - You'd think your future self would know a bit more about escaping, given what you're doing to rescue him.

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