By: Stephanie Caballero Benitez

*Warning: Contains game spoilers

‘We Were Here’ is a free, two player, puzzle game. ‘We Were Here’ is available on Steam and on the Epic Games Store with versions for PC and console. In this game, you and your partner begin in separate rooms both with clues to help one another get out of that room. To communicate with your partner, a radio is provided by the game, however the quality isn’t very good and I would recommend just entering a call with your partner through a different platform.

Both you and your partner get to decide which role you’d like to play; the two different roles are the explorer and the librarian. The librarian stays put in 1-3 rooms throughout the game and helps their partner by communicating all the clues to be able to do the puzzles that are given to the explorer. The explorer role goes through a variety of rooms and is more hands on compared to the librarian. Every time a puzzle is completed a door is opened and they get to move forward to the next puzzle.

One of my personal favorite rooms is the haunted theater. In the theater you are given a play to play out. The explorer’s responsibility is to communicate with the librarian as to what the play wants. In this play we are given 5 pieces, the king, the queen, the crowd, the killer, and the arch. Once the librarian knows what the play wants they crank the levers to pull out the correct pieces, and once the explorer verifies that all objects have been placed on stage the librarian may pull the scene lever.

After finishing all the puzzles, both the explorer and librarian get to leave the puzzle room and library. They meet up at the exit, but at the exit there is a lever. The lever requires for someone to keep it down for the door to stay open. You are given one last puzzle which is who will be left behind. No matter the role that you or your partner have, to be able to finish the game one has to be left behind while the other gets to walk out.