The Past Within is the new co-op experience from Rusty Lake! Play together with someone you deem trustworthy: one in The Past, the other in The Future. Observe and communicate what you see around you. Solve the puzzles and uncover Albert Vanderboom’s plan.
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Prices
Each in the currency that store quoted — not converted: the gap between two rows is the publisher's pricing, not an exchange rate.
Discounts
Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 3/day in the week to Aug 10 → 5.86/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 24 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 9 places towards #1, and the 2,404 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
About
Note: The Past Within is a co-op-only game. Both players need to own a copy of the game and a way to communicate with each other. Play with a friend or find a partner on our official Discord, which is linked in the sidebar!
The past and future cannot be explored alone! Team up with a friend and piece together the mysteries surrounding Albert Vanderboom. Communicate what you see around you to help one another solve various puzzles and explore the worlds from different perspectives!
The Past Within is the first co-op only point-and-click adventure set in the mysterious world of Rusty Lake.
A co-op experience
Play together with a friend, one in The Past, the other in The Future. Work together to solve the puzzles and help Rose set her father’s plan in motion!
Two worlds - Two perspectives
Both players will experience their environments in two different dimensions: 2D as well as in 3D - a first-time experience in the Rusty Lake universe!
Cross-platform play
As long as you can communicate with each other, you and your partner of choice can each play The Past Within on your preferred platform: PC, Mac, iOS, Android and (very soon) Nintendo Switch!
Playtime & Replayability
The game contains 2 chapters and has an average play-time of 2 hours. For the full experience, we recommend replaying the game from the other perspective. Plus you can use our replayability feature for a fresh start with new solutions to all puzzles.
Genres
Sums Steam only; App Store, GOG, Nintendo publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SteamYou are here | $5.99 | 16.9Kreviews | 95% | — | $1.4M |
| $2.99 | 7.3Kratings | 97% | #63 | not modelled | |
Updates
Build ids and update times come straight from Steam's PICS — the same source SteamDB reads. Patch history grows as we record new builds.
Engagement
Reviews
Themes across 317 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
The Past Within — кооперативная головоломка от Rusty Lake, в которую невозможно играть одному. Каждый игрок видит свою часть истории: один находится в прошлом, другой — в будущем. Один исследует классические двухмерные локации, второй взаимодействует с трехмерным кубом. Продвинуться можно только постоянно общаясь и обмениваясь информацией. Даже если ваш напарник никогда не играл в игры Rusty Lake, разобраться несложно. Конечно иногда приходится немного поломать голову, но именно это и делает прохождение увлекательным. Из минусов — игра довольно короткая, а также для прохождения обязательно нужен второй человек. Нет ни ИИ, ни случайного подбора игроков. Если вам нравятся кооперативные головоломки и вселенная Rusty Lake, The Past Within точно стоит попробовать.
Really great game, I need more co-op games from you guys!
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Stats
All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English*, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil +11 more
| $3.95−34% |
| 27ratings |
| 88% |
| — |
| not modelled |
| $5.99 | — | — | — | not modelled |
Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Hours played at review time, across 318 reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
配置要求最高的一部，得有个人陪你玩（当然也真的是首次使用了3D技术） 伪联机，本质是通过双方选择不同的时间线，并且联线互相传递密码和线索来推进的，设计理念上还是很新颖的 虽然指南中说不推荐互相窥屏，但是我觉得这游戏最适合两个并排的屏幕来玩，语言表述能力实在有限，不如展示图像来的直接 如果真的按照指南所示，仅通过语言文字沟通的话，那本作解谜难度较高，尤其是首次游玩时双方信息差过大 虽然有些推进方式（例如直接传递六位密码）比较刻意，解谜设计也没那么精巧，甚至有些重复，但是整体创新性很强，过去与未来两个时空的谜题相互呼应，需要双方协同才能推进。蝴蝶与蜜蜂两种模式的解谜路线不同，让游戏具备了一定的重玩价值，真的找到个愿意陪你玩的朋友会很有趣
awesome.
好玩
被朋友拉过来玩的解密 两个视角都走了一遍 也算是绣湖解密系列的初见。 这个绘画风格有的地方是有点吓人 让人觉着有点毛骨悚然 但是这种不需要局域网也能联机的方式也还是让我眼前一亮。解密难度不算很高，但是也需要一定的思考。但是相比于网上的吹捧总感觉少了一份惊艳感 可能是我没有完整了解这个系列的缘故。 和另一个朋友感兴趣可以用来打法时间 但是总流程的确偏短了 总体来说还算不错。
beğenilecek bir yanı yok.pcden az çok anlayan birinin birkaç günde yapacağı tarzda bir oyun.beleşe verseler pc de yer kaplamasın diye indirmezsiniz.vasatın altında bir oyun bunu beğenen arkadaşlara güvenip aldım fakat hayatlarında ilk oyunları sanırım oyun görmemiş olmak lazım bunu beğenmek için
内容很有意思啊，算是自己玩的第一个绣湖的作品。讲述的故事也能很好理解，游戏内容脑洞很大做的很好。和亲友第一次的双人游戏游玩！嘻嘻差不多四小时完结撒花ww
goo~ood
Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhh It's cheap
Active players
Estimated daily and monthly active players (DAU/MAU) modeled from peak concurrency.
Players by region
Where this game's players are, estimated from review languages.
Players also reviewed
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