This game was really great to play along with my SO. However we got really stuck on Chapter 8 and had to look up the solution. We discovered that this chapter is bugged and won't load all the puzzles to solve properly. This issue was originally posted 2 years ago and clearly it is still not fixed. Requires a full game restart to fix. I can't recommend this game until this bug is FIXED!

Update: spoke to developers on their Discord channel about the issue and they know about it and didn't bother fixing it. Their Discord has a bug report section littered with people reporting voice com bugs, and controller bugs, as well as even more game play bugs, and pretty much all of them don't have solutions. looks like they have given up on this game in favor of working on their next title, which I can only assume with also have lots of these kinds of bugs.

We argued for 45 minutes on 1 puzzle and I was VERY wrong

why my friend is so stupid

difficulty increases when your partner is mentally handicapped

Requires a friend, so 95% of the steam playerbase cannot fully enjoy this game.

My girlfriend loves playing this game and I love seeing her happy

"Okay flick the green one.."
"okay"
".... that was the red and white one"
"oh"
"okay flick it again"
"okay"
"okay flick it again" x25
"if you tell me to flick it again one more time I'm gonna to come to your house and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ kill you"
"okay flick it again"

Play this while stoned for full experience

Honestly this is better polished than the first and second instalments but lacks the charisma of them both. We Were Here Together is a must have if you have played the other games, so go right ahead and give the free game We Were Here a shot first if you are on the fence. Chances are you already have so I am writing this review with that mindset that you have played the others. Fear not, there will be NO SPOILERS FOR ANY of the trilogy in this review.

The We Were Here trilogy centres around an expedition to a frozen wasteland where there is a castle filled to the brim with devious puzzles for you to solve. Why should you solve them? Well, why are you here? Go big or go home.

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PROS

+ co-op funtime. WWHTogether allows you to actually be together for some points and this is a refreshing take on the series where you are usually separated and only have your walkie-talkie to get you through. It felt nice to be able to jump around together.

+ puzzles. The puzzles in this game were pretty good. There are a couple which were a bit obtuse but were solvable in the end. I don't know if I just see Myst in everything now but there were a few puzzles in this game where I was like..."Oh Myst Revelation.....Oh, that's right out of Riven......wow, that's a direct lift from, oh wait, We Were Here Too." I have no idea why they put in the almost exact same puzzle from their other game into this one. Anyway, all in all satisfaction is to be had from solving these.

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CONS

- congratulations on yesteryear graphics The devs have obviously spent a lot of time on upgrading the graphics but to be honest they aren't much better than some top puzzle games from 20 years ago. I was very happy with the first two games. I don’t know why they felt the need to push the graphics forward. Who were they trying to appeal to? We Are All Here because we love the first 2 games. I didn’t need the more polished graphics.

- story. This was my big disappointment. We Were Promised some kind of huge reveal of demonic pacts and Infinite Jests from the trailer. There was something huge at play but in my humble opinion it all fell flat or wasn't realised at all. The story promised in the trailers seems like an afterthought in the final product. This really annoyed me.

- lore. There is actually a credit for Lore in the end credits. Why? There is virtually no story in this game. No books to read, no notes to find, no audio to listen to, nothing. Excluding shoehorned in cutscenes.

- creepiness. Where did the creepiness go? WWHTogether lost a huge chunk of what made it so compelling and weird and different in this new game. This game still has its moments don’t get me wrong but (I’m looking at you Lore person) there is none of the stuff like in WWHToo in the left notes and clues that add to the drama of the story.
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Actually now reading though what I wrote, it looks like I hate this game. I honestly don't. I love this series with all my heart and I will buy Total Mayhem's next game without question. Maybe I got too wrapped up in it and I saw an amazing free puzzle game move into a paid-for amazing sequel. I then waited a long time with a lot of hype for the next game and it didn't quite have the spark from over 2 years ago that ignited the trilogy.

For the price though you cannot go wrong. Full-price these games are all worth it. They really are so good. It is a great all round experience and I do not regret a single moment.

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This game can be very troublesome for colorblind players