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15 Great Games Like When The Past Was Around

Our experts have spent time searching for great games similar to When The Past Was Around. We also offer games selected by matching genre and age rating.
 

When The Past Was Around is a short adventure puzzle game, where you point and click on items to gather clues, unlock doors and unraveling the secrets of its silent narrative. Without any words it tells the tale of a young woman, Eda, and her love, the mysterious Owl man, in a surreal world consisting of disjointed rooms from memories and times past. The music from Eda's violin accompanies the story.

Unfortunately, When The Past Was Around is not available on Android, PS5, Xbox Series X|S or iOS. However, we recommend the following games that offer a similar experience or theme:

When The Past Was Around

DetailsGame Details

Rating: Not rated by PEGI

Release Date: 22/09/2020

Price: 30% off

Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

Genres: Adventure and Puzzle

Accessibility: 10 features

Developer: @MojikenStudio

Players: This is a single player game

Costs: Purchase cost

Hand Picked Games Like When The Past Was Around

These are our hand-picked games similar to When The Past Was Around. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we identify games that are good to play if you have enjoyed When The Past Was Around. These selections also include games that offer a different experience but address a similar theme or topic.
 

Shady Part of Me
PEGI Rating 7+ for Shady Part of Me

Shady Part of Me

Rating: PEGI 7+

Release Date: 10/12/2020

Price: 33% off

Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

Genres: Narrative and Puzzle

Developer: @ShadyPartOfMe

Players: This is a single player game

Shady Part of Me is a narrative platform game where you play as a young girl and her shadow. You help her overcome emotional struggles through solving 2D and 3D puzzles. The game world is based within the young girl's dreams. The young girl is afraid of...

Gris
PEGI Rating 7+ for Gris

Gris

Rating: PEGI 7+

Release Date: 06/10/2019

Price: 60% off

Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and iOS

Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Platform

Accessibility: 14 features

Developer: @NomadaStudiobcn

Players: This is a single player game

Gris is a platform game where you guide a young girl through a crumbling world. Through beautiful metaphoric landscapes and soaring music, the game touches on emotions of loss and longing but doesn’t resolve to a firm narrative. Although not hugely...

Coffee Talk
PEGI Rating 12+ for Coffee Talk

Coffee Talk

Rating: PEGI 12+

Release Date: 29/01/2020

Price: 60% off

Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

Genres: Adventure, Creative, Narrative and Role-Playing

Developer: @TogeProductions

Players: This is a single player game

Coffee Talk is an interactive story about a barista working in a coffee shop in Seattle. You listen to customer's concerns about life and love, in a retro pixilated world backed with lo-fi chilled hip-hop music.

Assemble With Care

Assemble With Care

Rating: Not rated by PEGI

Release Date: 19/11/2019

Platforms: PC and iOS Apple Arcade

Genres: Narrative and Puzzle

Developer: @UsTwoGames

Players: This is a single player game

From the makers of Monument Valley, this puzzle game is a unique way to consider how physical objects become meaningful and hold our memories. You play a restorer who repairs people's favourite possessions: from family heirlooms to broken statues to...

Florence
PEGI Rating 3+ for Florence

Florence

Rating: PEGI 3+

Release Date: 14/02/2018, updated in 2020

Price: 50% off

Platforms: Android, Nintendo Switch and iOS

Genres: Narrative

Developer: @MountainsGames

Players: This is a single player game

This is a little puzzle game that tells the story of a relationship, following the usual stages of loneliness, meeting, dating, falling for and moving in with another person. At first, the puzzle interactions seem trivial and the game doesn’t change...

Open Roads

Open Roads

Expected Rating: PEGI 7+

Release Date: Coming soon

Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Genres: Adventure and Narrative

Developer: @FullBright

Players: This is a single player game

Open Roads is an adventure game about a girl who finds out that her grandma has a different past than she thought. The girl and her mother go on a journey to look deeper into her grandma's life by revisiting abandoned family properties and looking...

Before I Forget

Before I Forget

Rating: Not rated by PEGI

Release Date: 01/07/2020

Price: 10% off

Platforms: Mac and PC

Genres: Adventure and Narrative

Accessibility: 9 features

Developer: @3FoldGames

Players: This is a single player game

Before I Forget is an exploration adventure, where you play Sunita, a woman alone in a house with early-onset dementia. As you wander from room to room, you discover mysterious objects, each holding a fleeting, fragmented memory. Examine faded...

A Space for the Unbound
PEGI Rating 12+ for A Space for the Unbound

A Space for the Unbound

Rating: PEGI 12+

Release Date: Coming soon

Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle

Accessibility: 11 features

Developer: @MojikenStudio

Players: This is a single player game

A Space For The Unbound is an adventure about everyday life where you explore your location, chat with people and solve puzzles. Unusually, you do this by stepping into the mind of people you meet and helping them solve their stuck and knotted...

Luna The Shadow Dust
PEGI Rating 3+ for Luna The Shadow Dust

Luna The Shadow Dust

Rating: PEGI 3+

Release Date: 13/10/2020, updated in 2020

Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch and PC

Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle

Developer: @LanternStudio_

Players: This is a single player game

Luna The Shadow Dust is an adventure game where you play two companions drawn together in a hand-animated world. Each part of the game is beautifully realised and presents a puzzle to solve.

Dordogne

Dordogne

Expected Rating: PEGI 3+

Release Date: Coming soon

Platforms: PC

Genres: Creative, Narrative and Puzzle

Developer: @Cedric_Babouche

Players: This is a single player game

Dordogne is a narrative adventure where you play as Mimi, a 32-year-old woman who returns to the house of her recently deceased grandmother. You explore the house and area to find letters and puzzles that bring back memories of the past.

Ete

Ete

Rating: Not rated by PEGI

Release Date: Coming soon

Platforms: PC

Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Simulation

Players: This is a single player game

Ete (été, which means summer) is a gentle adventure where you discover memories by exploring with your camera, music and paint. The screen starts almost entirely blank, and as you move around and interact you create vivid colourful memories.

Tree

Tree

Rating: Not rated by PEGI

Release Date: 13/08/2018

Price: Free

Platforms: PC

Genres: Narrative

Accessibility: 13 features

Players: This is a single player game

Tree is a short 15 minute game that tells the story of a boy who plants a small tree. You control the planting, watering and how the tree grows each season. As you do this the years pass and the boy...

Hindsight

Hindsight

Expected Rating: PEGI 12+

Release Date: Coming soon

Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC and iOS

Genres: Narrative and Puzzle

Developer: @McDJoel

Players: This is a single player game

Hindsight is a narrative puzzle game where you memories combine with objects to transport you into the past. Rather than a fantastical adventure, this is a gentle game that asks you to slow down and pay attention to the little things left behind. Piece...

Song of Bloom

Song of Bloom

Rating: Not rated by PEGI

Release Date: 07/12/2019

Platforms: iOS

Genres: Puzzle

Developer: @Kamibox_ph

Players: This is a single player game

Song of Bloom is a narrative puzzle game where you explore chalk drawn animations to discover a melancholy story. Working through these moving pictures you interact with clue elements highlighted in red that unlock the next chapter of the story.

Games Like When The Past Was Around Based on Genre

These are games of a similar genre mix to When The Past Was Around. This includes games from the Puzzle and Adventure genres. We pick out games of a similar PEGI rating to further hone these generated suggestions.
 

The White Door
PEGI Rating 12+ for The White Door

When The Past Was Around is in These Lists

In addition to the similar games listed above, which have been linked to this game specifically in the database, you may find games with a similar theme to When The Past Was Around in the following lists:

Walk in Someone Else's Shoes

While many games include characters to interact with, some are specifically designed to make relationships a central element. Whether this is during the rounds of a puzzle game amidst a zombie outbreak or as we race cars around a circuit, they can offer a unique way to think deeply about how we relate to each other and to the games people play.

In contrast to films or books, characters and relationships in video games need to be discovered by the player. Some of my favourite relational moments in games happen amidst other action. Often these other actions – whether shooting, puzzle-solving, or fetching and carrying – serve to underline the difficult, awkward and snatched nature of interpersonal interactions.
 

Somerville

Horizon Forbidden West
PEGI Rating 16+ for Horizon Forbidden West

One Night Hot Springs
PEGI Rating 3+ for One Night Hot Springs

Fate of Kai

Octopath Traveler
PEGI Rating 12+ for Octopath Traveler

Before Your Eyes

The Magnificent Trufflepigs

The Beginner's Guide

Bully
PEGI Rating 16+ for Bully

Unpacking

She Dreams Elsewhere

Ender Lillies: Quietus of the Knights
PEGI Rating 12+ for Ender Lillies Quietus of the Knights

Closed Hands

A Rat's Quest

Cart Life

Journey of the Broken Circle
PEGI Rating 3+ for Journey of the Broken Circle

Pokémon
PEGI Rating 7+ for Pokmon

Everspace
PEGI Rating 7+ for Everspace

HoloVista

Open Roads

Shady Part of Me
PEGI Rating 7+ for Shady Part of Me

Last Stop

Virginia
PEGI Rating 12+ for Virginia

Umurangi Generation

Last Minute Love

The Cost of Recovery

If Found
PEGI Rating 12+ for If Found

Dandara: Trials of Fear
PEGI Rating 7+ for Dandara Trials of Fear

The Good Life

She Remembered Caterpillars
PEGI Rating 3+ for She Remembered Caterpillars

Raji: An Ancient Epic
PEGI Rating 7+ for Raji An Ancient Epic

Five Dates
PEGI Rating 16+ for Five Dates

Captain Sabertooth and the Magic Diamond
PEGI Rating 3+ for Captain Sabertooth and the Magic Diamond

Arma 3
PEGI Rating 16+ for Arma 3

Dysmantle

Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales
PEGI Rating 16+ for Marvels SpiderMan Miles Morales

Grace's Diary
PEGI Rating 3+ for Graces Diary

South of the Circle

When The Past Was Around

Embracelet
PEGI Rating 12+ for Embracelet

Road to Guangdong
PEGI Rating 3+ for Road to Guangdong

A Space for the Unbound
PEGI Rating 12+ for A Space for the Unbound

The White Door
PEGI Rating 12+ for The White Door

Spitkiss
PEGI Rating 12+ for Spitkiss

Welcome to Elk
PEGI Rating 16+ for Welcome to Elk

Inmost
PEGI Rating 12+ for Inmost

A Blind Legend
PEGI Rating 12+ for A Blind Legend

Frequency Missing
PEGI Rating 3+ for Frequency Missing

The Gardens Between
PEGI Rating 3+ for The Gardens Between

Alt254

Lifeline
PEGI Rating 16+ for Lifeline

Through the Darkest of Times
PEGI Rating 16+ for Through the Darkest of Times

Adventures With Anxiety

Eliza
PEGI Rating 16+ for Eliza

Lake

Goodbye Volcano High

Cloudpunk
PEGI Rating 16+ for Cloudpunk

Ete

Beyond Eyes
PEGI Rating 7+ for Beyond Eyes

Arise: A Simple Story
PEGI Rating 7+ for Arise A Simple Story

To The Moon
PEGI Rating 12+ for To The Moon

Never Alone
PEGI Rating 12+ for Never Alone

Over The Alps

The Stanley Parable

198x
PEGI Rating 12+ for 198x

Change: A Homeless Survival Experience

Going Under
PEGI Rating 12+ for Going Under

Stacking
PEGI Rating 7+ for Stacking

Sea of Solitude
PEGI Rating 12+ for Sea of Solitude

Our Personal Space
PEGI Rating 12+ for Our Personal Space

Wide Ocean Big Jacket
PEGI Rating 12+ for Wide Ocean Big Jacket

In Other Waters
PEGI Rating 12+ for In Other Waters

Fractured Minds
PEGI Rating 7+ for Fractured Minds

Neo Cab
PEGI Rating 16+ for Neo Cab

Little Misfortune
PEGI Rating 16+ for Little Misfortune

Lost Ember
PEGI Rating 7+ for Lost Ember

Bury Me My Love
PEGI Rating 7+ for Bury Me My Love

Alan Wake
PEGI Rating 16+ for Alan Wake

A Fold Apart
PEGI Rating 3+ for A Fold Apart

Old Man's Journey
PEGI Rating 3+ for Old Mans Journey

Braid
PEGI Rating 12+ for Braid

Oxenfree
PEGI Rating 12+ for Oxenfree

Mutazione
PEGI Rating 7+ for Mutazione

Sayonara Wild Hearts
PEGI Rating 12+ for Sayonara Wild Hearts

Elite Beat Agents
PEGI Rating 12+ for Elite Beat Agents

Untitled Goose Game
PEGI Rating 3+ for Untitled Goose Game

Wandersong
PEGI Rating 7+ for Wandersong

Far Cry 6
PEGI Rating 18+ for Far Cry 6

The Signifier
PEGI Rating 18+ for The Signifier

Divinity: Original Sin II
PEGI Rating 18+ for Divinity Original Sin II

Dragon Age
PEGI Rating 18+ for Dragon Age

Disco Elysium
PEGI Rating 18+ for Disco Elysium

Assassin's Creed Revelations
PEGI Rating 18+ for Assassins Creed Revelations

Cunch-Line Chronicles
PEGI Rating 18+ for CunchLine Chronicles

Assassin's Creed Valhalla
PEGI Rating 18+ for Assassins Creed Valhalla

Twelve Minutes
PEGI Rating 18+ for Twelve Minutes

Mafia Definitive Edition
PEGI Rating 18+ for Mafia Definitive Edition

Carrion
PEGI Rating 18+ for Carrion

Nier: Automata
PEGI Rating 18+ for Nier Automata

The Last Of Us Part II
PEGI Rating 18+ for The Last Of Us Part II

Red Dead Redemption 2
PEGI Rating 18+ for Red Dead Redemption 2

Grand Theft Auto V
PEGI Rating 18+ for Grand Theft Auto V

Lair Of The Clockwork God
PEGI Rating 18+ for Lair Of The Clockwork God

The Last Of Us
PEGI Rating 18+ for The Last Of Us

A Plague Tale: Innocence
PEGI Rating 18+ for A Plague Tale Innocence

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
PEGI Rating 18+ for Hellblade Senuas Sacrifice

Tomb Raider
PEGI Rating 18+ for Tomb Raider

God of War
PEGI Rating 18+ for God of War

Wake Up Your Emotions

Video games are known for high-octane, adrenaline-fuelled entertainment, but there are many that address the player’s emotions as much as their dexterity. Often overlooked by younger or more competitive players, these experiences can provide a helpful variety in the diet of games your family enjoys.
The games selected below create emotionally rich spaces in which to explore scenarios with feelings rather than facts. In some games this is achieved with beautiful or soothing interactive visuals; others create charged relationships and settings that invite players to take a role in processing these emotions.
 

We Are OFK

Words For A Bird
PEGI Rating 3+ for Words For A Bird

Yi and the Thousand Moons

A Juggler's Tale


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