How long does it take to beat We Were Here Forever?

• Co-Op

  11 Hours

You awake inside the sinister Castle Rock with no way out - were you betrayed, or simply not that clever? The We Were Here Series is returning with a new co-op puzzle adventure! Do you and your friend have what it takes to face the dark forces of this realm or will you be trapped… forever?

Platform:
PC

Genres:
First-Person, Adventure, Puzzle

Developer:
Total Mayhem Games

Publisher:
Total Mayhem Games

NA:
May 10, 2022

EU:
May 10, 2022

JP:
May 10, 2022

Updated:
8.5 Hours Ago

80%
Rating

Very Low
1.4%
Retirement

(i might have used those < > signs in reverse, never really sure which one's which. I think 8< means "less than 8"? Yes? No?)

Anyway, so after checking out "time to beat" and various comments about the game's length/playthrough's lengths

I couldn't help but notice that me and my friend took 12 hours to beat it, which, while is the exact time stated by various reviews, seems to be a bit higher than the average

We didn't even solve all the puzzles, there had to be googlin' a few times(e.g. graveyard/family tree or sitting down different mannequins in the chapel)

So yeah, I've grown curious since I thought we were doing well(apart from a couple of puzzles as mentioned above)

HowLongToBeat

11 hrs

Main Story

11 hrs

Story + Sides

14 hrs

Everything

11 hrs

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We Were Here Forever Review

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great

If you've got a like minded friend who loves puzzles and escape rooms as much as you do, We Were Here Forever is a very special game with a 12 hour co-op campaign full of some of the most clever puzzles around.

Mitchell Saltzman

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Summary

The fourth game in this chilling series, We Were Here Forever features co-op mechanics where the puzzles you encounter take two to solve -- you both have a role to play!

Developers

Total Mayhem Games

Publishers

Total Mayhem Games

Franchises

We Were Here

Features

Online Co-Op Multiplayer

Initial Release

May 10, 2022

Platforms

Xbox One PlayStation 5 PlayStation 4 Xbox Series X|S PC

Genres

Adventure, Puzzle

We Were Here Forever is the fourth installment to the We Were Here series and one that built on the stories of the first three games. Similar to its predecessors, it is a two-person co-op game where both players should help each other solve puzzles and complete challenges in order to find escape from the fallen kingdom of Castle Rock.

Worry not because we have prepared We Were Here Forever Walkthrough guides for you to check out and get solutions from. The gameplay of We Were Here Forever revolves around puzzles and though they are not impossible to solve, you and your partner can get stumped on some of them for hours.

We have broken down the entire game guide into six chapters and compiled all chapters in this article to make navigating through them easier.

• Chapter 1
  • Chapter 1 (Part 1)
  • Chapter 1 (Part 2)
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3 – Ruins of Rockbury
• Chapter 4
  • Chapter 4 – The Nautilus (Part 1)
  • Chapter 4 – The Nautilus (Part 2)
• Chapter 5 – Royal Cemetery
• Chapter 6 – Final Chapter

Note that Chapters 3 to 6 can be completed in any order, depending on player choices. There aren’t any spoken chapter breaks in the game itself, but the transitions to the next chapters are obvious enough. Each guide listed below are also linked to their own walkthrough pages.

We Were Here Forever Walkthrough Chapter 1

We have broken down the first chapter of the game into two parts:

We Were Here Forever Chapter 1 (Part 1)

• Prison Cells
• Deep Dungeons
  • Knob Around
  • Shell Locked
  • Prisoner Extraction Protocol
  • Slide Dials
• Dial Rooms

We Were Here Forever Chapter 1 (Part 2)

• Trial Arena
• Jesters’ Toybox
• Jesters’ Realm

We Were Here Forever Walkthrough Chapter 2

Chapter 2 covers the events from after the King chased you out of his castle.

• Headless Dolls
• Holy Mass Puzzle
• Revealing the Resistance
• The People’s Hymn

The next three chapters can be taken in any order once you and your partner arrive in the abandoned village.

We Were Here Forever Walkthrough Ruins of Rockbury

• Fix the Light
  • Turntable Bridge
• Through the Lenses

We Were Here Forever Walkthrough The Nautilus

We’ve broken down The Nautilus section into two parts:

We Were Here Forever Walkthrough The Nautilus (Part 1)

• Sunken Mines
• Grid Pipes

We Were Here Forever Walkthrough The Nautilus (Part 2)

• Guardian Translation
• Dome of Creation

We Were Here Forever Walkthrough Royal Cemetery

• Obol Exchange
• Grave Robbing
• X Marks the Spot

We Were Here Forever Walkthrough Final Chapter

• Moon Beam Reflection

How to complete all We Were Here Forever Achievements

To complete all We Were Here Forever Achievements, a player must have played as both sides of every asymmetric puzzle, and they should have also gone through both sides of the ending. To do this, a player only needs to play through the entire game at least twice, provided that they do not do the same roles that they’ve done in the previous playthrough.

There are a total of 39 achievements in We Were Here Forever. 18 of these achievements can be acquired by both players during a single run, while the rest are player-specific, role-specific, or choice specific. Some parts of a run are already fixed to a certain player, while some parts allow players to pick what role they would want to go for. Examples of these parts are in Chapter 1 prior to entering the Dial Rooms, and in The Nautilus prior to going into the Sunken Mines.

Who are the Explorers in We Were Here Forever?

It was specifically mentioned in Total Mayhem’s Podcast #10 that the two explorers that players will be playing as in We Were Here Forever are the same explorers that were left behind/decided to stay in We Were Here and in We Were Here Too.

As for the timeline of the events of all four games, the devs seemed to have left it open for interpretation while also suggesting that the explorers might not have come from the same time period prior to entering Castle Rock.

Check out this video by Austos covering the lore of the first three We Were Here games:

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