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Cooperative puzzle mechanics define the experience in The Past Within, which requires two players to communicate across different time periods. Since its 2022 launch, the game has accumulated 3,785 reviews on Steam. The title maintains a 94% positive rating, indicating a strong reception within the indie market.
Overview
The Past Within is a 2022 Adventure game developed by Rusty Lake and published by Rusty Lake. On Steam it has gathered 16,511 player reviews, 95% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $6. The pairing of developer Rusty Lake with publisher Rusty Lake is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box model estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 644,000 to 1.5 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, The Past Within can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
16,511
Positive
95%
Steam appid
1515210
Engine
n/a
Sales estimate
vv1.0644K to 1.5M
units (median: 1.1M)
≈ $2.2M to $5.1M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for The Past Within at roughly 644,000 to 1.5 million copies, with a median around 1.1 million, derived from its 16,511 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter model (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $3.7M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $3.48Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $3.48 to $5.99, averaging $5.69 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $3.48 on 2026-05-01.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
macwindows
Tags
Co-opPuzzleOnline Co-OpMultiplayerEscape RoomHorrorMysteryPoint & ClickAdventureIndiePsychological HorrorLocal Co-OpStory RichAtmosphericLocal MultiplayerAsynchronous MultiplayerThriller2DSurreal3D
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has The Past Within sold?
- indielist estimates The Past Within has sold between 643,929 and 1,502,501 units (median 1,073,215), derived from its 16,511 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed The Past Within?
- The Past Within was developed by Rusty Lake and published by Rusty Lake.
- When was The Past Within released?
- The Past Within was released in 2022.
- How many reviews does The Past Within have on Steam?
- The Past Within has 16,511 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has The Past Within sold?
- indielist estimates The Past Within has sold between 643,929 and 1,502,501 units (median 1,073,215), derived from its 16,511 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed The Past Within?
- The Past Within was developed by Rusty Lake and published by Rusty Lake.
- When was The Past Within released?
- The Past Within was released in 2022.
- How many reviews does The Past Within have on Steam?
- The Past Within has 16,511 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions The Past Within within the Adventure segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Rusty Lake's other releases and Rusty Lake's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Past Within sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same The Past Within page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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