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 2,419 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
通关以后就是一整个“？？？”的状态，唯一知道的是“我”复活了父亲，但是最后发生了什么，我搞不懂啊！（绝望
适合第一次接触绣湖的玩家，可能是考虑到要双人一起玩，难度不高，有些人的朋友也是第一次接触这类玩法，好评吧
[h1] "아빠? 아빠! 아빠?!" [/h1] [b] 난이도: ★★☆☆☆ [/b] [b] 스토리: ★★★★☆ [/b] [b] 추천: ★★★★☆ [/b] 저게 나야? 저게? 조작은 클릭만 하면 되서 어려울 거 없고 난이도도 쉬운 편 친구랑 같이 하는 퍼즐 겜 특이하게 온라인이 아닌 멀티 겜임 친구랑 역할 하나 씩 정해서 하는데 각자 단서 모아서 서로 퍼즐 푸는 형식 이론 상 혼자도 가능하긴? 함 퍼즐 풀다 보면 중간에 서로 역할 바뀌고 다른 시점으로 퍼즐을 품 개인적으로 스토리, 연출 둘 다 좋았음 [spoiler] 과거 안에 미래의 나, 미래 안에 과거의 나.... [/spoiler] 생각보다 완성도도 높고 여운도 있는 편 플탐 1~2시간 정도니까 가볍게 친구랑 하기 좋음 가격도 착함, 할인 하면 여기서 더 싸 짐 사실 한 지 오래 돼서 다 까먹음.. 아무튼 재미가 있었따~
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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
Bom
A languid little puzzle game you can play alongside another friend while resurrecting dad~
双人联机的锈湖作品，我同时用电脑和手机通关了。可能是为了照顾联机玩家的缘故，本作谜题难度不大，可能难度都放在玩家间的交流上了吧哈哈。推荐和朋友在一起玩，自己拿两个设备玩反倒少了很多乐趣。
挺好的 和朋友一起 和彭好友一起通关
解谜难度比较低，但考虑到双人合作游戏，太复杂的话，交流起来稍有偏差更容易卡关，而且能找个朋友一起玩也不容易，所以整体玩下来还不错。单人玩的话好像只能多设备、虚拟机了。
fun hour and a half, the insect mechanic offers two different sets of puzzles and solutions so you can replay as whichever side you didn't play the first time
Absolute gem of a game, i beat it with my girlfriend and this game was an absolute blast. 10/10 just a bit short like every rusty lake game i've played so far.
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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