The Past Within
BANGER · Multiplayer · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $3.35.
- Cost per hour
- $1.76/hr
- ReviewsS
- 95% of 16,988
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Multiplayer
Watch this gameAlready a BANGER on sale. Pick a lower price.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 1.9h
- To 100%
- 3.7h 1.9x the story
- Achievements
- 24
Price and sales
- Sales
- 33 on record
- Typical cut
- 40% off
- Steam low
- $1.79 December 2025
- Sale every
- 45d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 66 now
- Recent reviews
- 91% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 60% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
59% start to 12% rarestA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.79, set in December 2025. It has been discounted 33 times in the 4 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 40 percent, about 6 weeks apart.
Its score sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. Among the games closest to it, Tick Tock: A Tale for Two ($2.99, scores 66) and We Were Here Together ($12.99, scores 58) both come in lower.
More about The Past Within
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 15 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2022 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 93 percent of the 4,126 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 28 percent of everything written about it.
At 1.9 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Amazing 2 hour experience. It is really just like an escape room for 2 people. Such a great and unique little game. #DLGBump
2 more reviews
Great game to play with a friend. We used WhatsApp to call and it worked really well. There is enough to keep both people busy and my advice would be to do a lot of clicking to check things out. Well designed and smooth game play.
My biggest gripe with this game is that it cannot be played alone and two copies are needed to play with a friend or partner. Thankfully it's not an expensive game and it's enjoyable enough that one can forget this complaint. I liked the puzzles and found them logical and not overly difficult or easy, I also liked that there can be jumpscares to this game depending on how high one's fear tolerance is. I admit, I did...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 9800 / ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Past Within scores 87/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1515210/the-past-withinReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 8, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.