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The Past Within

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The Past Within
The Past Within cover
Developers
Rusty Lake
Engines
Unity 2020[Note 1]
Release dates
Windows November 2, 2022
macOS (OS X) November 2, 2022
Reception
Metacritic 68
OpenCritic 69
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Multiplayer
Controls Point and select
Genres Adventure, Puzzle
Art styles Cartoon
Themes Detective/mystery
Series Rusty Lake
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The Past Within is a multiplayer adventure and puzzle game in the Rusty Lake series.

General information

Developer Discord server
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
macOS (OS X)
itch.io
DRM-free
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Steam
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Windows
macOS (OS X)

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1515210/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1515210/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unity page for more details.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music and sound, toggle mute only.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Czech
Danish
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Latin American Spanish
Swedish
Turkish
Vietnamese

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
2 Players communicate instructions to each other outside the game, similar to Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes. Each player must have their own copy of the game running on their machine.
LAN play
Online play

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 11
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Middleware

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 8
Processor (CPU) 2.4 GHz Dual Core
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 9800 series
ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT
DirectX 10 compatible
A 64-bit operating system is required.
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.13
Processor (CPU) 2.4 GHz Dual Core
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1 GB
Video card (GPU) Intel Iris Graphics 540


Notes

  1. Unity engine build: 2020.3.41f1[1]
  2. 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References

  1. Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2024-04-23