What you see
Ghosts of Our Past is the Temporal Research Centre finale, in the clock tower. It is a time loop. Each cycle is recorded, and in later cycles your earlier selves come back as phantoms that repeat what you did. You use them to open the way and press the buttons of four time crystals.
How it works
- Each cycle is recorded. Phantoms replay pressure plates, item slots, quick-zips, goop and hook actions.
- Each player gets one phantom per earlier cycle, in its own colour:
- Hook Gun player's phantoms#0001ff#6e00ff
- Goop Gun player's phantoms#ff0015#ff8800
- The Machine wing door has six pressure plates, A to F, and opens only while all six are held. That is the two of you plus the four phantoms of the two earlier cycles.
Agree on the plan for the cycle before it starts. Your phantoms repeat it exactly, mistakes included.
Loop settings
| Cycles | 2 |
|---|---|
| Cycle length | 60 s |
| Rewind | 5 s |
| Preview | 40 s |
| Break | 81 s after 2 cycles |
Values as stored in the game files. We do not know yet what the Break value means in play.
Crystals and wings
Each time crystal has a button. The four buttons are spread over three wings:
| Crystal | Wing |
|---|---|
| A | Machine wing |
| B | Norček wing |
| C | Ruins wing |
| D | Ruins wing |
What the phantoms can replay in each wing:
| Wing | Pressure plates | Item slots | Pull controls (such as chains) | Quick-zip points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Machine wing | 18 | 1 | — | — |
| Norček wing | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 |
| Ruins wing | 3 | 6 | 4 | 1 |
Solution
A route for each cycle is not in our data, so this page does not give one. It also does not say who does what in each wing. We have not confirmed whether all four crystals must be done in the same cycle.
Show hint
Plan the first cycles as recordings. Whatever you do now, your phantom repeats in the next cycle, so stand on the plates the later run will need.
The Machine wing door needs all six plates held at once. That takes a cycle with the phantoms of both earlier cycles: four phantoms plus the two of you.
Achievement
Eternal Recurrence
Got stuck in a time loop
How it unlocks (spoiler)
Complete the Ghosts of Our Past time loop.
Read from the game files of version 1.0 (no guesswork). Something wrong in your game? Tell us and we will check it. Report a problem