Trying to is a hard thing to define in the game. The fact that it can flat out rewrite time shows an absurd amount of power, while I didn’t watch the sequels I’m assuming it’s motives aren’t known, and the fact that it has as much power as it does, and never resulted in killing a player, and in fact due to time travel schenanigans actually saved 2 lives would lead me to believe that it could be all knowing and altruistic.

Or possibly just neutral, or a game for survival training. Maybe everyone dying is just “losing”, which would also trigger a rewind and reset just like winning does.