A cooperative point-and-click quest that can only be played by two people sounds like something rare. But I still found similar games to The Past Within, you'll find them further down the text.

7 Games Like The Past Within For PC (Steam, EGS, GOG)

7. Phasmophobia

similar games to Phasmophobia
  • Buy: Steam
  • Similarity: 30 %
  • Year of release: 2024
  • Game play time: 20 hours
  • Genre: Horrors
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.

Phasmophobia screenshot

6. Portal (series)

similar games to Portal
  • Buy: Steam
  • Metascore: 90
  • Similarity: 40 %
  • Year of release: 2007 - 2011
  • Game play time: 10 hours
  • Genre: Puzzle
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious laboratories of Aperture, Portal has been hailed as one of the most innovative games of our time, and offers hours of unparalleled puzzle action.

Portal screenshot

5. A Way Out

similar games to A Way Out
  • Buy: Steam
  • Metascore: 78
  • Similarity: 50 %
  • Year of release: 2018
  • Game play time: 10 hours
  • Genre: Network cooperative
  • Singleplayer: no
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

A Way Out is a unique team-based adventure where you play as one of two prisoners plotting a jailbreak.

A Way Out screenshot

4. It Takes Two

similar games to It Takes Two
  • Buy: Steam
  • Metascore: 88
  • Similarity: 50 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 13 hours
  • Genre: Adventure
  • Singleplayer: no
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Embark on the craziest journey of your life in It Takes Two. Invite a friend to join for free with Friend’s Pass and work together across a huge variety of gleefully disruptive gameplay challenges. Winner of GAME OF THE YEAR at the Game Awards 2021.

It Takes Two screenshot

3. Escape Simulator

  • Buy: Steam
  • Metascore: 82
  • Similarity: 70 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 5 hours
  • Genre: Puzzle
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: yes
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

First-person puzzler you can play solo or in an online co-op. Explore a set of highly interactive escape rooms. Move furniture, pick up and examine everything, smash pots and break locks! Play thousands of community-made rooms through the level editor.

Escape Simulator screenshot

2. We Were Here

  • Buy: Steam
  • Similarity: 70 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 5 hours
  • Genre: Puzzle
  • Singleplayer: no
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

You and your companion have woken up in the ominous castle of Castle Rock. Have you been betrayed, or are you here by your own folly? Find out the truth in the fourth installment of the collaborative puzzle series We Were Here! Will you be able to resist the dark forces of this kingdom, or will you stay here... forever?

We Were Here screenshot

1. Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes

  • Buy: Steam
  • Metascore: 71
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 10 hours
  • Genre: Puzzle
  • Singleplayer: no
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Find yourself locked up one-on-one with a ticking bomb. Your friends have a guide to defusing it, but they can't see the bomb, so you'll have to explain it verbally and as quickly as possible! Two or more players are needed for this cooperative local game.

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes screenshot

4 Games Like The Past Within On PlayStation 5

4. A Way Out

similar games to A Way Out
  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 78
  • Similarity: 50 %
  • Year of release: 2018
  • Game play time: 10 hours
  • Genre: Network cooperative
  • Singleplayer: no
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

A Way Out is a unique team-based adventure where you play as one of two prisoners plotting a jailbreak.

A Way Out screenshot

3. It Takes Two

similar games to It Takes Two
  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 88
  • Similarity: 50 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 13 hours
  • Genre: Adventure
  • Singleplayer: no
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Embark on the craziest journey of your life in It Takes Two. Invite a friend to join for free with Friend’s Pass and work together across a huge variety of gleefully disruptive gameplay challenges. Winner of GAME OF THE YEAR at the Game Awards 2021.

It Takes Two screenshot

2. We Were Here


You and your companion have woken up in the ominous castle of Castle Rock. Have you been betrayed, or are you here by your own folly? Find out the truth in the fourth installment of the collaborative puzzle series We Were Here! Will you be able to resist the dark forces of this kingdom, or will you stay here... forever?

We Were Here screenshot

1. Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 71
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 10 hours
  • Genre: Puzzle
  • Singleplayer: no
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Find yourself locked up one-on-one with a ticking bomb. Your friends have a guide to defusing it, but they can't see the bomb, so you'll have to explain it verbally and as quickly as possible! Two or more players are needed for this cooperative local game.

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes screenshot

2 Games Like The Past Within On Xbox Series X|S

2. It Takes Two

similar games to It Takes Two
  • Buy: Xbox Store
  • Metascore: 88
  • Similarity: 50 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 13 hours
  • Genre: Adventure
  • Singleplayer: no
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Embark on the craziest journey of your life in It Takes Two. Invite a friend to join for free with Friend’s Pass and work together across a huge variety of gleefully disruptive gameplay challenges. Winner of GAME OF THE YEAR at the Game Awards 2021.

It Takes Two screenshot

1. Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes

  • Buy: Xbox Store
  • Metascore: 71
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 10 hours
  • Genre: Puzzle
  • Singleplayer: no
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Find yourself locked up one-on-one with a ticking bomb. Your friends have a guide to defusing it, but they can't see the bomb, so you'll have to explain it verbally and as quickly as possible! Two or more players are needed for this cooperative local game.

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes screenshot

2 Games Like The Past Within For Switch

2. It Takes Two

similar games to It Takes Two
  • Buy: Nintendo Store
  • Metascore: 88
  • Similarity: 50 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 13 hours
  • Genre: Adventure
  • Singleplayer: no
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Embark on the craziest journey of your life in It Takes Two. Invite a friend to join for free with Friend’s Pass and work together across a huge variety of gleefully disruptive gameplay challenges. Winner of GAME OF THE YEAR at the Game Awards 2021.

It Takes Two screenshot

1. Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes

  • Buy: Nintendo Store
  • Metascore: 71
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 10 hours
  • Genre: Puzzle
  • Singleplayer: no
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Find yourself locked up one-on-one with a ticking bomb. Your friends have a guide to defusing it, but they can't see the bomb, so you'll have to explain it verbally and as quickly as possible! Two or more players are needed for this cooperative local game.

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes screenshot