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
Such a fun co-op puzzle game! It's the perfect difficulty level to play over a call and is short enough to be done in a single setting. Absolutely adore the vibes and can't wait to see more from the devs :)
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친구와 같이 하기 딱 좋은 게임입니다. 어릴 때부터 lusty lake를 시리즈 별로 즐겨했던 사람으로써 2인용 게임이 나왔다는 소식에 바로 구매했습니다. 친구와 화면을 공유하는 게 아니라 음성으로만 소통하면서 퍼즐을 풀어나가는 과정이 참신하면서도 재밌었습니다. 조금 짧아서 아쉽지만 완전 추천합니다!!
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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
Единственная игра из антологии Rusty Lake, которая мне зашла, и лишь из-за действительно продуманного коопа. Как по мне, так этот формат как раз полностью раскрывает задумку серии и не делает всё прохождение игры бездумным кликом по всему. Крайне рекомендую попробовать если хотите с другом\партнёром пройти в коопе что-нибудь необычное
Too short (2 chapters, wtf), too easy. Il liked all the other Rusty Lake games, but this one is a joke. I mean, it's always something like "tell the other to press the red button" there's not even a riddle, what were the devs thinking ?
Casi separa mi familia. 10 puntos
벚꽃이 되었습니다. 근데 스토리에서 뭘 말하고 싶은건지 모르겠어요. 게임 자체는 난이도도 너무 괜찮았고 연인이 하면 절대 안 싸우고 재밌게 할 수 있는 게임
Muy grata experiencia para jugar en pareja, crea momentos divertidos al intentar coordinarse con la otra persona :D
挺好玩的
very good game
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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