Eerie two-person journey The Past Within is popping the Rusty Lake escape room sequence right into a co-op expertise on November 2nd. If you’re simply spooked like me you then’ll have to pester a buddy or member of the family to play together with you, as one individual performs previously whereas the opposite performs sooner or later. Watch the trailer under, and cease checking your shadow.

The Past Within was introduced again in the beginning of 2021. Your intention, and that of your confederate, is to search out out what mysterious goings on have befallen somebody referred to as Albert Vanderboom. He’s been essential within the sequence, y’see. You needn’t know something concerning the different Rusty Lake video games to play The Past Within. However, when you have performed earlier video games within the sequence, you then is perhaps intrigued to come across a few of Albert’s kin throughout your time journey puzzling.

Crossplay is enabled for all variations of The Past Within, so you may play in your laptop computer whereas your pal rocks a pill. The devs say you don’t even want an web connection so long as you may talk by some means. It’ll be a combination of Morse code, semaphore and smoke alerts for me.

Rusty Lake has been kicking about since 2015, and The Past Within is the sixteenth recreation within the sequence. The new recreation is Rusty Lake’s first enterprise into each co-op and 3D environments, and devs Robin Ras and Maarten Looise say they had been impressed by the surrealism of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks.

The Past Within is out on November 2nd on Steam and itch.io. It’s additionally coming to the App Store and Google Play, and Nintendo Switch at a later date. There’s a demo if you wish to give it a go now, too.