The Past Within
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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The Past Within is defined by its tense, async community, local multiplayer, exploration, puzzle solving, and linear story. Games similar to The Past Within share these core gameplay traits — browse the matches below to find your next play.
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Games Like The Past Within
We Were Here shares Tense, Exploration and Puzzle solving with The Past Within.
We Were Here Too shares Tense, Exploration and Puzzle solving with The Past Within.
Inside the Backrooms shares Exploration, Tense and Puzzle solving with The Past Within.
Layers of Fear shares Tense, Exploration and Puzzle solving with The Past Within.
Resident Evil 6 shares Local multiplayer, Tense and Exploration with The Past Within.
Resident Evil 5 shares Local multiplayer, Tense and Exploration with The Past Within.
We Were Here
We Were Here Too
Inside the Backrooms
Layers of Fear
Resident Evil 6
Resident Evil 5
Layers of Fear (2016)
INDIKA
Pacify
OXENFREE II: Lost Signals
Content Warning
Chicory: A Colorful Tale
Life is Strange: Before the Storm
What Remains of Edith Finch
Mundaun
A Way Out
Resident Evil Revelations 2
NORCO
Unheard - Voices of Crime
Zero Escape: The Nonary Games
Outer Wilds
It Takes Two
Little Nightmares II
