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
very good game
Very good game, worth every penny, i was contenplating refunding since i finished the game within the 2h limit. but i will not, the game was too good. take my money!
过于简单，完全不需要任何思考与讨论。 而且因为剧情过于潦草导致和朋友玩的时候连剧情都懒得讨论。唯一让我笑了一下的是听见xd说“卧槽这sb怎么到处乱爬”。 全程在面无表情地高效率配合解谜，让我想起了上学时一人写一部分作业然后互相抄的时光谢谢你 一个机关用四五遍你到底有完没完 但是不联机的设定挺有意思的，最后同时按十秒的时候我和兄弟说自己卡住了然后偷偷自己按完跑路hhhhhhh
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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
依旧是锈湖最经典的解密方式 从不按逻辑制作也令解谜更加有趣烧脑 这次创新性的3D风格亦十分的特殊 在不失锈湖的风格下进行了新的构思和想法 值得游玩 注：手机买来玩过了 故意来steam再买一次给评论
二舅治好了我的精神内耗
难度偏低，最大的难点在于怎么找一个朋友一起玩，这也导致了我只打过一次，剧情都忘了很多了，后期想再重玩几乎不显示，太可惜了
很新奇的非联机合作解谜，也特意放低了难度，两个小时即可通关，讲的是罗斯复活父亲阿尔伯特的过程。二伯手搓金方块真是太逆天了...
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銹湖力作！過去和未來相互合作才能通關游戲，很驚奇不同設備端竟然也可以在一塊耍。游戲最高效的消息傳遞不是語音而是截圖，xx會議，視頻通話，恨不得能一邊看著對方熒幕一邊把自己的給對方看XD，不過因爲答案固定，很容易出現背板操作導致的進度不一致，屬於“只能完整體驗一次的游戲”，期待更多多人合作作品!
Me resulta un juego un poco pretencioso en cuanto a la trama. No termino de entender. Se siente como si la trama fuera una justificación para tener los puzzles dentro del gameplay. Sin embargo, los puzzles y el factor cooperativo es lo que lo hace destacar en gran medida. Es un juego con gameplay interesante y dependes en su totalidad de la cooperación y comunicación de tu acompañante. Este es mi primer juego de Rusty Lake y me llevo una buena experiencia; verdaderamente espero que los demás juegos sigan el mismo hilo cooperativo.
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.
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