When the Past was Around

Toge Productions

In-app purchases

About this game

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

This is the story of Eda, a girl in her early 20s.
Like anyone in her age, she’s lost.
She lost her way in the journey to achieve her dreams.
She lost her way in the journey to find love.

That until she met The Owl.

The man that would help her burn her passion,
the man that would help her find the spark in a relationship,
and also the man that would teach her about heartbreak.

The game tells a bittersweet tale between a girl and her lover in a surreal world consisting of disjointed rooms from memories and time. With each gathered clue, solved puzzles, and unlocked door, the girl will find her way, unraveling the secrets between her and her lover, the secrets which she used to know.

Features:
- A picture speaks a thousand words.
Experience the game’s story not through words nor dialogues but beautifully
hand-drawn art created by famous Indonesian artist, Brigitta Rena.
- A short, sweet and whimsical journey.
Explore a bittersweet tale between a girl and her lover in a surreal world
consisting of disjointed rooms of memories and time.
- Personal and ubiquitous.
a game about overcoming the past and finding the self.
- Solve brain-teasing puzzles.
Various intriguing puzzles to solve and stories to uncover.
- Let the music guide you.
Atmospheric violin music will accompany you from the peaceful days to the
angstiest moments.

Ratings and reviews

It's a really cute game, and I would have rated it higher, but two things made me unable to keep playing after buying the full game: 1) the hint option highlights what you can look at, but there's no leading hint options if you find you still are stuck. It would be really nice to have a way to find out the answer if you have tried everything you can, that way you can continue playing. 2) the print of letters and numbers is super tiny and hard to read on mobile and I have a large screen.

Rating one because game was ok, but literally the free part was like five minutes. The whole thing. Art was good, but I'm the kind of person who wants to know what the heck the story was about. Owl guy, violin, suddenly she is freaking out... don't want to have to pay to see what the story actually is. The game you get to play for free is super short and pretty boring. I have to tap on a clue about 500 times for it to recognize I want to see it. Not phenomenal. Not for ppl who don't want to pay.

I would have given a higher score but the puzzles in this game are very simplistic. You basically have to find one thing and place it in another place. That is most of the games puzzles. The overall look of the game is excellent. I would not choose this aesthetic for a puzzle game but that is what makes it interesting to me. If the puzzles were improved and possibly interconnected this could be an amazing game. I would gladly pay if the story was more engaging and the puzzles more wide-ranging.

What’s new

Minor bug fixes