A red-suited explorer holds up a glowing crystal to a yellow-suited figure with a glowing backpack tank amid purple energy in We Were Here Tomorrow

We Were Here Tomorrow is out now on Steam, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, and Total Mayhem Games is calling it the biggest entry yet in its two-player puzzle series, at around 15 hours. Total Mayhem set the price at $19.99 with a 10% launch discount, and cross-play means you and your partner don’t have to own the same hardware.

How it plays

If you’ve never played a We Were Here game, the hook is simple: you and a friend are usually split up, seeing different halves of the same puzzle, and the only way through is talking it out over in-game walkie-talkies. One of you describes the weird symbols on the wall, the other figures out which lever that means, and somebody inevitably says “no, the other left.”

Tomorrow keeps that core and gives each player a distinct role with their own high-tech tool, so the two of you aren’t just looking at different rooms, you’re solving things in different ways. The puzzles play with time, gravity and space, and the setting is an imagined 1980s future with a synthwave soundtrack.

An explorer in red gives a thumbs-up in a retro-futuristic control room while a tiny second explorer stands on the desk in We Were Here Tomorrow
An explorer gives a thumbs-up in the control room as a tiny second explorer stands on the desk. Image: Total Mayhem Games

The setup

You and your partner start out on an expedition to rescue other Explorers, get trapped beneath the ice in Antarctica, and wake up inside a facility run by Norček Industries. Director Kathleen Bowe needs you to finish the work of a research team that has gone missing. That’s as much as you need going in, and the rest is better found out together.

Every We Were Here game is a standalone story, so you don’t need to have played the earlier ones first.

Before you play

This is co-op only. You need a partner, an internet connection and a working microphone for both players, because there’s no solo mode. On PC, Steam lists a Windows 11 minimum with a Ryzen 5 3600, 8 GB of RAM, a GTX 1660 Ti and 25 GB of space. On Xbox it’s optimized for Series X|S.

A player holds a walkie-talkie inside a glass-domed greenhouse full of plants in We Were Here Tomorrow
A walkie-talkie in hand inside a glass-domed greenhouse full of plants. Image: Total Mayhem Games

Where to buy

We Were Here Tomorrow isn’t on GOG, so on PC your store is Steam, which also carries a Fan Edition that adds extra DLC and the official soundtrack. On console, it’s on the PlayStation Store and the Xbox Store. It was one of the bigger launches in our new Xbox games this week roundup, and you’ll find more on our PC hub.

Grab the friend who’s best at describing things out loud, and maybe agree on what “left” means before you start.

Joel Lisenby
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