From the introduction: End Times is a pencil-and-paper role playing game where players play Survivors. Survivors are people who will be some of the last humans left at the end of the upcoming apocalypse(s). Somehow, Survivors have gained the ability to send their consciousnesses back or forth ten years in time. The future version of each Survivor has given some warning about a coming apocalypse to their present-day selves. It is those young-adult pre-apocalypse selves that the players play as. The goal of the game is to figure out what will cause the apocalypses and, working with other Survivors, prevent them from happening.