Stuck in We Were Here Tomorrow? Spoiler-Free Rescue Guide

The rule of this page

No puzzle solutions appear anywhere on this site — not here, not in the walkthrough hub, nowhere. That is deliberate and permanent: We Were Here is a game about two people communicating, and a published answer key would destroy the experience. This page teaches you how to get unstuck while keeping the solve yours.

The rescue ladder

Work through these steps in order. Most stuck pairs resolve at step 2 or 3.

Step 1: Re-survey (5 minutes)

Stop theorizing and look again. Each player, independently, describes everything in their current space out loud — every symbol, every movable object, every light, every sound. Do not interpret; just report. New pairs get stuck because they started solving before they finished observing. The person who thinks they have seen everything is usually the one who missed something.

Step 2: Swap the describer (5 minutes)

The player who has been leading the theorizing goes silent and only answers questions. The quieter player takes over describing and proposing. This breaks the most common failure mode in asymmetric co-op: one person's wrong theory anchoring both players. A fresh describer notices different details and asks different questions.

Step 3: Check your shared vocabulary (5 minutes)

Miscommunication, not the puzzle, is the usual culprit. Verify that you are both referring to the same things:

• Point at (or describe the location of) each object you are discussing and confirm your partner means the same one.
• Replace relative directions ("left", "up") with stable references (colors, shapes, fixed landmarks).
• Read back any code, symbol sequence, or number your partner gave you, character by character. Transcription errors are silent killers.

Step 4: State your assumptions out loud (5 minutes)

Each player lists what they are assuming: "I'm assuming this switch controls that door." "I'm assuming the order matters." Then test each assumption deliberately, one at a time. Puzzles in this series punish unexamined assumptions more than they punish wrong guesses.

Step 5: Take a real break

Step away for at least fifteen minutes — ideally until your next session. Fatigue degrades exactly the skill this game demands: careful listening and precise description. The game-length guide plans for multi-session play partly for this reason. A stuck puzzle at 11 PM is often a trivial puzzle at 10 AM.

Step 6: Ask the community, spoiler-gated

If you must ask for help, ask for a hint, not the answer — and ask in a way that protects you: "We're in the area with [vague landmark], we've tried [what you tried], what should we look at more carefully?" Never read a full solution thread; skim only until you get one nudge, then stop.

Step 7: When to look up the answer

Sometimes a puzzle is genuinely blocked by a bug, an unclear interaction, or a mechanic you could not have known. If you have spent over an hour across two sessions with zero progress, looking up the answer is reasonable — protecting your campaign's momentum matters more than one puzzle's purity. Note that our walkthrough hub publishes area guides only after in-game verification, and never puzzle solutions.

Diagnose your stuck: the four failure types

Type	Symptom	Fix
Information gap	One player hasn't fully described their space	Step 1: re-survey, describe don't interpret
Misreading	You both mean different things by the same words	Step 3: rebuild shared vocabulary
Wrong assumption	A theory both of you accepted without testing	Step 4: state and test assumptions one by one
Coordination	You know what to do but can't execute it together	Slow down; narrate each action before doing it ("I'm pulling the lever now")

Thinking with your abilities

Your pair has asymmetric tools: one player carries a throwable cube (useful for reaching height, acting as a key, or serving as counterweight on pressure plates), the other wields a grapple gun (attaching to surfaces, pulling objects closer, triggering switches at range). When stuck, run the ability checklist generically:

• Have we tried the cube as weight, as a key, and as a platform?
• Have we tried the grapple on every surface and every distant object?
• Have we tried combining them — cube positioned via grapple, or grapple targeting something the cube revealed?
• Have we tried using an ability on each other? (This also ties to secret trophies — see the trophies guide.)

This is a thinking framework, not a solution. The specific application is yours to discover.

Prevention: the habits that keep you unstuck

• Shared notes from minute one. Codes, symbols, names — write them down together. See Beginner Tips.
• Describe before theorizing. The narrator finishes before the solver starts.
• Confirm before acting. "I'm about to do X, confirm?" prevents the accidental resets that waste twenty minutes.
• End sessions at area transitions. Starting cold mid-puzzle is a reliable way to manufacture a stuck.