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When The Past Was Around - Prologue

Mojiken · Toge Productions · 2019-11-04

Steam

AdventureCasualIndie

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

When The Past Was Around - Prologue is a 2019 Adventure, Casual, and Indie game that is free-to-play, with a Very Positive sentiment based on 95% of 683 reviews and an owner estimate of 50,000 .. 100,000.

0
playing now
95%
positive of 683 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 09:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 14 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 7% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (73 reviews).
  • · Top 16% of 29,087 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
727220192026Week of 2019-11-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 72 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 03:00 — 1 players2026-09-18 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 10:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-15 09:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerRemote Play on PhoneRemote Play on TabletFamily Sharing1 DLC

10 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Vietnamese, Japanese

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2019-11-02 (Steam store data)

Player tags

CuteIndieCasualPuzzleMysteryRelaxingAdventureBeautifulEmotionalHand-drawn

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.