Time travel in The Silent Age will help reveal the cause of the apocalypse in 2012. A simple guy, Joe, meets a man from the future, who is on the verge of life and death. He talks about the events that led him to this time. And asks the man to carry out one task. An extremely important task that will prevent the death of humanity. To do this, Joe receives a portable device that can move him in time, starting in 1972 and ending with the last days of his existence.

To help the janitor in The Silent Age deal with all the issues, you need to explore the available locations and collect items. They are needed to solve puzzles along the way. For example, if the door does not open, you can move back to the time where the key was sticking out of it and pick it up. In this way, most riddles are solved, you just have to find the right year and day. All items go into the inventory, from where they can be used or thrown away.

The hero is controlled using the mouse. You need to click on places on the map; if you click several times, the character will run. When finding objects, he will begin to tell its story or share his thoughts about where it might be needed. The plot develops linearly, moving from action to action. To complete the game completely, you can get achievements for completing special goals, there are 24 of them in total.