


It was a student entrant for the Independent Games Festival 2018, and won the Best Indie Game Award in 2017 at the Indigo showcase in the Netherlands. The first We Were Here was developed by Dutch studio Total Mayhem Games as part of a student project while studying at the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences. Each player has a walkie-talkie to communicate with the other, which is what allows them to solve the puzzles they face. They must work together to solve puzzles, generally while in different rooms and unable to see the other. In each game there are two players who take on a different role.

The We Were Here games are cooperative first-person adventure games with puzzle elements. We Were Here is a franchise of cooperative first-person adventure video games, created by the Dutch studio Total Mayhem Games. Steam, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X and Series S, PlayStation 5
