We Were Here Together

Puzzle design is the reason negative reviews give most often. 44% of negative reviews with a reason fault the puzzle design, calling it unintuitive, obtuse, convoluted or trial and error, and 18% say they needed a guide, a YouTube walkthrough or screen sharing to finish. The specific complaint is that the hard part comes before any solving: working out what a room is asking for. "The best puzzle games make the objective obvious and the execution obscure," one reviewer wrote, arguing this game does the reverse. Another put it bluntly: "This game is not a puzzle game. This game is a 'click things until you discover the correct sequence by happenstance' game." Reviewers also describe weak feedback (similar sounds for right and wrong attempts, no sign a step worked), interactable objects that look like scenery, and the absence of any hint system. Some say the first chapters were great before it turned (one wrote "up until chapter 3 this game was very promising"), and a few place the turn at the point where the players split up inside the castle.

22% of all negative reviews mention bugs, glitches, soft-locks or broken puzzles. A recurring pattern is a room that fails to load key pieces for one player, and chapter 8 (the mirrored rooms with paintings and books) is the chapter they name most often: "The room straight up doesn't load some of the puzzle elements for one of the pair." The most upvoted review of the game describes the same chapter 8 bug, and a few reviews written in 2025 and 2026 still report rooms failing to load. Because the game gives so little feedback, players say they cannot tell a bug from their own mistake, and some lost an hour before restarting or reading online that the room was broken. Other reports cover chapter 10 failing to load and sending players back to chapter 9, knights' banners showing all black, a missing fuse in the timed electricity puzzle, falling through the map and getting stuck in walls. The usual workaround in these reports is to restart the game or the chapter, sometimes several times.

10% of negative reviews with a reason describe connection problems: disconnects every few minutes, invites that fail, being placed on the wrong region's server, and long waits to get both players into a lobby. Because progress is saved by chapter, a dropped connection can wipe several finished puzzles: "If you or your partner have even the slightest network hiccup, the whole game breaks". Players sharing one house are annoyed that the game needs online servers at all; one wrote "We are playing in the same house on the same LAN, it makes no sense to need stable serverside connections for this". 8 reviews written between July and November 2025, most of them in late July and early August, say an update erased their saves mid-game ("After the recent update, the progress me and my friend made was completely lost"), and that same reviewer says friends now have to be added in game instead of invited. Solo buyers add that public lobbies are empty, so there is no way to play without bringing a partner: "There are no active lobbies".

7% of negative reviews with a reason say the roles are unbalanced: one player solves while the other reads out a book, stands on a switch or watches. "One person does 90% of the puzzles," one reviewer wrote, and another compared the second player to "a chatgpt servant reading things out of books". Some positive reviews raise the same point as a minor flaw. A smaller group of launch-era fans argued the opposite, saying Together involves both players more than earlier games, so the experience seems to depend on the room and on which role you get.

Reviewers name the rooms that stopped them. The chapter 8 mirrored rooms and library (including matching a cuckoo clock's tick by voice) come up most; others include the coloured gas pipes and barrels, the alchemy and soulstone potion puzzle, the timed tesla and fuse electricity room, the bridge of star symbols, the rotating knights with coloured banners, the greenhouse plants, and the elevators near the start. Opinion on the clock is divided. One player loved it, singling out the moment where "you have to figure out the speed and tonality of the ticks", while others call it close to impossible: "have you ever tried to describe the type of ticking a clock is making with no other ticking sound for reference."

Timers come up in only 1% of all reviews. The players who raise them dislike timed rooms where the goal is still unclear, deaths that send them through a long reload, and the final stretch where "if you fail the second one you have to do the first one again as well." Some ask for an option to switch timers off.

Colour-coded puzzles (fuses, banners, gas, crystals) shut out some players: "it uses color for a good handful of the puzzles, making communication nearly impossible between me and my teammate since I am colorblind." These reviews, about 1% of the total, say there is no colour-blind mode and that they had to screen-share or give up. One player added that the sound-matching clock puzzle cannot be finished by deaf players, since the subtitles do not carry the information.