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.
Modeled estimate, not a reported figure. How we estimate →
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 2,419 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% | #54 | 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
鏽湖作品不用多說 畫風漂亮、氣氛詭譎、解謎設計用心
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bom pra inciantes em cube escape
Media
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| Game | Estimated lifetime revenue | Reviews | Review score | Price |
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| $1.4M | 2.7K | 63% | $19.99 | |
| $1.4M | 2.2K | 74% | $24.99 | |
| $1.4M | 4K | 85% | $14.99 | |
| $1.4M | 1.7K | 83% | $39.99 | |
| $1.4M | 6.2K | 95% | $19.99 | |
| $1.4M | 1.8K | 72% | $24.99 |
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| Game | Estimated lifetime revenue | Reviews | Review score | Price |
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| $971K | 11.9K | 85% | $5.99 | |
| — | 27 | 88% | $3.95 | |
| $0 | 12.2K | 97% | Free | |
| — | 0 | — | — | |
| $4.4M | 18.9K | 90% | $17.99 | |
| $514.7K | 8K | 98% | $4.99 |
Every market we collect.
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
Bu oyun ilk çıktığı zaman birinden çok hoşlanıyordum. Kendisi de benim gibi oyunları seven biriydi. Özellikle Rusty Lake yapımı oyunlara bayılıyordu. Bu oyunun yeni çıktığını, almam gerektiğini ve benimle bunu oynamak istediğini belirttiği için bende satın almıştım... Sonra ne mi oldu? Hiçbir zaman onunla bu oyunu oynayamadım. Çünkü, duygularımı ona açtıktan sonra beni arkadaş olarak gördüğünü söyleyip *friendzone'a atmıştı. Ben ise arkadaş olarak kalabilecek kadar duygularımı bastırabileceğim güçte biri olmadığım için iletişimi kestik. Bir anda yok olmuştuk. Geriye ise kütüphanemin tozlu raflarında yer edinen bu oyun kaldı ve hiç oynayamadım.
好玩，离线联机给人一种实时联机的感觉
Первая игра от Rusty Lake, которую вполне возможно пройти без гайдов и не расшибиться головой об стену в поисках решения. Игра также переплюнула саму себя, сделав игру кооперативной (и у них это получилось на ура)
流程在锈湖系列里算中等，谜题不算复杂，经典的锈湖解谜模式。因为一整个系列都玩过了所以有时候不用看提示就能到下一步，主要是故事性很强，很喜欢这种过去未来互相呼应的剧情。 两个人联机但不用联同一个局域网这点非常好。
good stuff. short but keeps u wanting more frfr
it's alright
I think the concept is good, but the puzzles didn't feel like puzzles. It felt like we were just matching a code one of us had to an interface the other had. Not really fun.
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
The games this title's players most often review too — audience affinity.