How many copies has The Past Within sold?

indielist estimates The Past Within has sold between 565,071 and 1,318,499 units (median 941,785), derived from its 14,489 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed The Past Within?

The Past Within was developed by Rusty Lake and published by Rusty Lake.

Who published The Past Within?

The Past Within was published by Rusty Lake, developed by Rusty Lake. See Rusty Lake's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was The Past Within released?

The Past Within was released in 2022.

How many reviews does The Past Within have on Steam?

The Past Within has 14,489 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.

Is The Past Within worth playing?

Steam players rate The Past Within 95% positive across 14,489 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

The Past Within

Nov 2, 2022 Adventure $5.99

Developer Rusty Lake Publisher Rusty Lake

Profile updated May 2026

Cooperative puzzle mechanics define the experience in The Past Within, which requires two players to communicate across different time periods. Since its 2022 launch, the game has accumulated 3,785 reviews on Steam. The title maintains a 94% positive rating, indicating a strong reception within the indie market.

The Past Within is a 2022 Adventure game developed by Rusty Lake and published by Rusty Lake. On Steam it has gathered 14,489 player reviews, 95% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $6. The pairing of developer Rusty Lake with publisher Rusty Lake is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 565,000 to 1.3 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, The Past Within can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

14,489

Positive

95%

Steam appid

1515210

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Historical snapshot · 2026-05-24 16:35 UTC

Sales estimate

v1.0

565K to 1.3M

units (median: 942K)

≈ $1.9M to $4.5M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

565K median 1.3M

+ How is this calculated?

14,489 reviews × NB(65) = 941,785 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2022	0
price_$6	-5
positive_95%	+10
genre_Adventure	+10
final NB	65

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for The Past Within at roughly 565,000 to 1.3 million copies, with a median around 942,000, derived from its 14,489 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $3.2M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.

Price history

55 observed days · window low $2.99

Across 55 observed UTC days from 2026-05-15 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $2.99 to $5.99. The tracked-window low was $2.99 on 2026-05-31.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

macwindows

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has The Past Within sold?: indielist estimates The Past Within has sold between 565,071 and 1,318,499 units (median 941,785), derived from its 14,489 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed The Past Within?: The Past Within was developed by Rusty Lake and published by Rusty Lake.
Who published The Past Within?: The Past Within was published by Rusty Lake, developed by Rusty Lake. See Rusty Lake's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was The Past Within released?: The Past Within was released in 2022.
How many reviews does The Past Within have on Steam?: The Past Within has 14,489 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.
Is The Past Within worth playing?: Steam players rate The Past Within 95% positive across 14,489 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Players looking for games like The Past Within can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Tick Tock: A Tale for Two, We Were Here Together, The Room Three, We Were Here Too, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Rusty Lake's other releases and Rusty Lake's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Past Within sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same The Past Within page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.