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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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 25 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 10 places towards #1, and the 2,413 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 |
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SteamYou are here | $5.99 | 14.7Kreviews | 95% | — | $1.4M |
| $2.99 | 7.3Kratings | 97% | #62 | not modelled | |
Updates
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Reviews
Themes across 315 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
满分10分，第一遍打8分，算上第二遍打7.5分，有点太线性了，而且两条线的差异根本支撑不起重复游玩，预计时长2小时，实际第一遍游玩1.5小时，总游玩时长2.5小时，第二遍说是换个角色再来，因为官方也推荐两条线各游玩一遍，但是第二遍体验是非常烂啊，有第一遍的经历，即使第二遍是不同角色也没有新鲜感了，而且解密也大差不差，甚至可以根据前世记忆直接跳关，而且流程短了点，是线性的，26的价格还是对不起这个体验，假如打个5折可以试试
what a banger
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Stats
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Languages: English*, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil +11 more
| $3.95−34% |
| 27ratings |
| 88% |
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| $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 316 reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
Una de las mejores experiencias cooperativas que he jugado. Lo jugué con mi pareja y descubrimos que el verdadero rompecabezas no eran los acertijos, sino nuestra dislexia y la incapacidad para distinguir los colores. La historia es corta pero muy entretenida, lo único "malo" fue el final y que no haya tanta variación entre abeja y mariposa, aún así es lindo y nos reímos muchísimo... <3
I have been a long time Rusty Lake fan and they have yet to disappoint me
The Past Within the future, the future within the past,. use this knowledge to Escape this Cube and get to Rusty Lake., The Past Within is a two player cooperative experience with someone in the past and someone in the future, each player will get the chance to experience the glorious THIRD DIMENSION (Being able to look at all sides of a cube on a table), which is very reminiscent of The Room series. The puzzles within this game aren't very hard, mostly relying on your communication skills with your puzzle partner, but they are very fun to solve, the story is also nice too.
真的很短，巨短，超级短，第一次玩这系列作品，想着二十来块钱怎么着也得三四章吧？结果两章就告诉我结束了？？我难以置信地看着那棵树，好像自己被嘲笑了。 和搭子玩了两遍，总共4h（中间还吃了顿饭）而且玩完完全没有再刷的欲望，就感觉我的钱就这样一次性地消耗了，虽然确实不贵而且我还趁打折买的，但实在是有些失望，这么短的流程到底谁能玩尽兴，作为收集癖我连拿成就都不想管了。 也确实有可取之处，它整体的怪诞诡谲的风格很扣人心弦（也导致结束的时候特别意犹未尽）双人联机方式很独特有趣，剧情可深挖但2个小时就玩完了没欲望再投入时间。 总结：如果是和搭子线下小聚的时候可以玩，但要是准备靠这个游戏度过一个爽快的休息日那（即使只有半天）除非是此系列深度爱好者，否则快跑吧。
好玩!
This game is such a fun take at co-op puzzles, the way I played this with my friend without being directly connected and still be able to see the same stuff at the same time is peak game design!! Thank you very much for this masterpiece!
Great game for it's price. One of the greatest and most entertaining puzzle games I've ever played. Highly recommend this.
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