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Games like When The Past Was Around

Mojiken · 2020 · 95 % positive of 4,049

24 games that play like When The Past Was Around and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: When The Past Was Around - Prologue, Leila and Old Man's Journey.

Player tags

  • Cute
  • Hidden Object
  • Female Protagonist
  • Relaxing
  • Surreal
  • Interactive Fiction
  • 2D
  • Singleplayer

At a glance

What games like When The Past Was Around have in common

  • The tags they share most often with When The Past Was Around: Female Protagonist (16 of 24), Puzzle (14) and Point & Click (8).
  • They came out between 2013 and 2025, 10 of them after When The Past Was Around (2020).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Until Then (97 % positive of 9,868).
  • When The Past Was Around - Prologue both plays and looks like When The Past Was Around.

By gameplay

Plays like When The Past Was Around

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. Stranded In Time76 % positive of 261Shared: Female Protagonist · Puzzle · Point & Click
  2. Keepsake83 % positive of 342Shared: Female Protagonist · Puzzle · Point & Click
  3. The Star Named EOS96 % positive of 456Shared: Hidden Object · Surreal · Interactive Fiction
  4. Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery94 % positive of 6,910Shared: Hidden Object · Female Protagonist · Relaxing
  5. Last Time I Saw You97 % positive of 224Shared: Story Rich · Romance · Hand-drawn
  6. Long Dream98 % positive of 872Shared: Puzzle · Point & Click · Romance
  7. Ever Forward Prologue86 % positive of 413Shared: Female Protagonist · Puzzle · Casual
  8. Arise: A Simple Story91 % positive of 2,468Shared: Relaxing · Surreal · Story Rich
  9. Until Then97 % positive of 9,868Shared: Interactive Fiction · Story Rich · Romance
  10. Ever Forward82 % positive of 270Shared: Female Protagonist · Relaxing · Puzzle
  11. Know by heart89 % positive of 776Shared: Point & Click · Story Rich · Romance
  12. Amphora78 % positive of 202Shared: Female Protagonist · Puzzle · Stylized

By look

Looks like When The Past Was Around

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. A Raven Monologue94 % positive of 2,657
  2. Garden of Oblivion86 % positive of 193
  3. While Waiting83 % positive of 250
  4. Underground Blossom98 % positive of 6,204
  5. One Night Stand89 % positive of 732
  6. My Child Lebensborn Remastered96 % positive of 948
  7. Milo and the Magpies98 % positive of 3,132
  8. 彼岸画廊/Nether Gallery86 % positive of 203
  9. Room 301 NO.690 % positive of 198
  10. Rusty Lake Hotel95 % positive of 9,219
  11. Mindlock - The Apartment97 % positive of 404
  12. Rusty Lake: Roots96 % positive of 7,743

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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