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
Zajebista gra kooperacyjna dla dwojga
可惜没朋友陪我玩，只好一个人两台设备玩了(T_T)，解密的流程很简单，可能是一个人玩的原因，hhhhhhh😎
Great game to play with a friend.
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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
Güzeldi ama kısaydı. Hikayesi derin değildi, hoş bir kurgusu var ama yeterli değil. Bulmacalar basitti keşke birazcık daha zorlasaydı ama ekip çalışması görevlerini beğendim.
Я очень люблю всю франшизу Rusty Lake. Игра очень атмосферная и саундтреки в ней очень хороши. Мне особенно нравится песня на моменте с маской на половину лица (она называется Rusty Lake Family Tune).
真棒
叽里咕噜就复活了个人 啊？唯一印象深刻的点就是把机器炸了成了咖啡粉，其他地方都在预料之中，解密只要两个人表述不出错就没什么难度。
The way it does co-op is ingenious. I wish more games used this method of cryptographics instead of forcing me to connect to an unstable matchmaking server.
这作比较适合接在roots之后玩，目前没看出来哪一作更适合接在这部后面。 其他没什么，就说写个人感受了。 与其不想联机自己找攻略玩，可能看喜欢的主播的双人录播会更有趣。 其次我感觉以锈湖的脑回路和难度，这个游戏如果两位玩家有一个不懂锈湖的话玩起来可能会无趣，俩个都不懂的话就又无所谓了，单纯卡那了。 锈湖的真人短片做的都非常好看啊。 这作相比整个系列多了个方块解谜的玩法，有点像那个拆炸弹的游戏和最开始的The room，折磨但也有趣。
:)
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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