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The Past Within

Rusty Lake · 2022

  • Puzzle
  • Co-op
  • Point & click

A short game, but one that makes for a great experience! The puzzles are very good and intuitive, without being so easy that the game gets boring. If you have someone to play with, it's absolutely worth it!

Recommended
  • 3.2 h played
  • Review published on Jan 20, 2025
  • 1 min read

Loved

  • Intuitive, fun puzzles
  • Each player sees a different room: it all comes down to talking
  • Short, but time very well spent

The review

If you like puzzles and have someone to play this with, just go! (If you already know and like the Rusty Lake games, this might be the best of them all.)

What a beautiful game, what a wonderful game, what a sweet-smelling game (okay... it probably wouldn't smell nice).

The game is VERY short, but it's time very well spent.

The puzzles are interesting, fun and very intuitive. You could say the game is easy, but not in a bad way (I hate puzzles that leave you stuck for hours on something that makes no sense at all, just so people will say the game is "hard"). I think a good puzzle is exactly one where you understand what needs to be done, but still have to think, or in this case, know how to communicate.

The game's strength is the communication between the players, since each one sees a room completely different from the other's. So you need to communicate properly to know the next step.

I recommend it, no doubt about it!

Published on Steam on January 20, 2025. Read the original

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