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When The Past Was Around

94% positive of 3,935 Steam reviews

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Released
2020
Steam Deck
Verified
Platforms
Steam

Made by Mojiken. Published by Toge Productions.

About the game

When the Past was Around is an adventure point-and-click puzzle game about love, moving on, letting go, and the joy and pain of everything in between.

Tagged by players

  • Music
  • Philosophical
  • Surreal
  • Hidden Object
  • Abstract
  • Interactive Fiction
  • Romance
  • Female Protagonist
  • Point & Click
  • Hand-drawn
  • Relaxing
  • Cute

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Overwhelmingly Positive

What players say

  • Recommended
    Sometimes the smallest games manage to tell the most heartfelt stories, and this is one of them. ♡ Through fragments of Eda's past and her relationship with Owl, you slowly uncover a bittersweet journey about love, loss, grief and learning to let go. It's short, beautifully hand-drawn and tells everything without a single line of dialogue. The gameplay itself is simple, mixing point-and-click puzzles with hidden…

    1.9 h played when written. 20 found it helpful.

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  • Recommended
    Small but beautiful game made me contemplate my life, 10/10 It's very beautiful, it's very sad. Playing this game makes me feel grief, or think back on times I felt grief, and fear for grief in the future.

    1.3 h played when written. 2 found it helpful.

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  • Not recommended
    the full game doesn't properly support touch controls... a point and click that doesn't support touch... According to another player, the demo does support touch. What happened?

    18 min played when written, mostly on Steam Deck. 1 found it helpful.

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