Zero Time Dilemma is the third game in the Zero Escape series. It was released on the Nintendo 3DS and Playstation Vita in 2016. This game has full voice acting, with dual English and Japanese options available in the options menu (subtitles appear on screen when characters talk).

This game takes place in between 999 and Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward, which may confuse some. At theend of the second game, once you've played through the real ending(s), it's made fairly clear that some time travel is involved. This is what happens here, as we see Sigma and Phi, as well as Junpei and Akane, before the huge virus outbreak.

Instead of numbers and colours, there are simply three different teams -- Q team, C team, and D team. You will control each time separately, and you'll be piecing together different memory fragments through a flow chart. When you complete a different section or make a different choice, new fragments become available for you to play. Of course, just like with the previous two games, you're going to want to make every different choice to get every ending, which will in turn unlock the real ending.

I was a little bit disappointed with this one, to be honest. I can keep up with the time travel aspect well enough, and the different timelines. My problem with this game is that it tries to wrap up all the loose ends that the previous game created, but it never really does this. Sure, there's one timeline which explains how the virus first becomes a big problem. It's the same timeline that follows through to the second game. I just feel like it was done kind of poorly, and there are too many additional story threads that seem convoluted.

I own this game on the 3DS, and I also found that the game didn't run as smoothly as the other two games. The mouths moved really weirdly, the characters were a bit stiff, and there was a fair bit of lag. I've heard the Vita version is much better, so if you get it, I would recommend you play it on that. I played the second game on the Vita and didn't have any of these issues.

I did really enjoy most of the puzzles, and some of the characters were good, so I would still recommend playing it if you've played the other two.