The last of something bright burning, still burning.
It’s particularly affecting to play a game like When The Past Was Around as the most devastating year of many of our lives comes to its chaotic close. A lot of us have experienced personal loss in 2020, which makes this game’s tasteful, cleverly-constructed exploration of the subject both welcome and, dare we say it, a little bit necessary.
Taking the form of a point-and-click puzzler, each scene reminded us of “escape room” titles and adjacent games such as the Room series, though here you’ve got more familiar domestic environments instead of Lament Configuration-style puzzle boxes. You’ll be presented with an area, and must explore it thoroughly and solve its puzzles to find a way forward. It’s not entirely dissimilar to a hidden object game, in fact, but everything’s tied together very nicely in a way that removes the abstract, arbitary feeling you sometimes get from that genre.
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