We Were Here Tomorrow Lore Explained

The core We Were Here Tomorrow story is that you and your partner are Antarctic explorers on an expedition to save fellow explorers, but bad timing leaves you trapped beneath the ice. You wake up inside a Norček Industries facility with little memory of how you got there. The world no longer feels like the one you remember, and Director Kathleen Bowe is waiting. Her team was close to a breakthrough but disappeared, leaving their work unfinished. With a global crisis approaching, she asks you and your partner to continue where they left off.

The deeper you go, the more the mystery builds: what is Norček trying to achieve, why were you brought there, and what happened to those who came before you?

Setting and tone

The official Steam page describes an imagined 80s future inside Norček Industries, with a retro-futuristic look and a synthwave soundtrack. The puzzles are described as challenging “the rules of time, gravity, and space.”

In the pinned developer FAQ on Steam, developer ChaeriCake says this is the fifth main We Were Here game and the sixth Total Mayhem Games title overall. It is standalone, but it ties back to previous games lore-wise.

Time-rift teaser

A gameplay reveal trailer on YouTube adds another thread: there is an experimental reactor that might implode, and rifts that cut through time itself. The trailer’s briefing-style narration says stabilizing a rift could send you back to your own time, while helping fix a few “teensy little problems.” This comes from the YouTube trailer rather than the official Steam description, so treat it as atmospheric premise rather than confirmed plot.

Practical co-op details

• Release: As of 2026-10-14, the official Steam page says the game is not available and plans to unlock on October 20, 2026.
• Price: €19.99 / $19.99 / £16.99 with a 10% launch discount, according to the developer FAQ.
• Length: roughly 15 hours, varying a lot per pair, according to the developer FAQ.
• Players: co-op only; both players need a working PC-compatible microphone and internet.
• Roles: two players have different roles and high-tech tools, and the puzzles are asymmetrical.
• Controller support: the developer FAQ says all We Were Here games are playable with a controller.
• Series note: you don’t need to play earlier games first, though the lore is connected.
• Original name: We Were Here Tomorrow was previously teased as “Where Are We?”