We Were Here Too Walkthrough Peasant

Getting Through the Peasant Area in We Were Here Too

The peasant section of We Were Here Too is one of those early puzzles that looks simple until your partner spawns on the opposite side and you both spend twenty minutes going in circles. I remember running into this with a new group once — we thought it was just a mirror maze, but the lighting changes and the symbols only make sense when you coordinate your movement. You need to walk around the courtyard in a specific order while your partner signals which door is safe. If you open the wrong one, the room resets and you lose your progress on the current cycle. Here is how it actually works. The area has three rotating walls with colored symbols — red, blue, and yellow. Your partner needs to stand at the observation point and read which symbol lights up first after each rotation. You need to match your path to their callouts. The trick nobody tells you is that the sequence changes slightly depending on which side of the map you start from. If you begin from the north entrance, the order is red-blue-yellow. From the south, it flips to yellow-blue-red. Start from the east or west and you get a completely different pattern because the camera angle shifts the wall positions. I spent an afternoon once trying to brute-force this by guessing each path, which just resulted in the NPCs getting annoyed and the whole thing resetting harder than normal. The workaround was to have my partner record a voice memo on their phone before we started, so they could just replay the sequence while I walked it. Cuts the time from roughly fifteen minutes down to about three. Also, if your partner dies and respawns, the symbol order does not change, which surprised me on our third run through.

We Were Here Too Walkthrough Peasant

Step one: split up. One person goes to the courtyard with the three rotating walls. The other heads to the bell tower overlooking it. Do not attempt this alone — it is impossible by design, and the game will not let you progress without coordination. Step two: the tower player hits the lever that starts the wall rotation. They watch for the first lit symbol and call it out. The courtyard player does not move yet. They wait for the second symbol, then the third. The correct path is the door that matches the middle symbol's color. In our case, blue was always middle, so we ran for the blue door every time after the first loop. Step three: once through, you both reach the bridge. Here is where people mess up. The bridge only appears when both players stand on their respective pressure plates at the same time. I learned this the hard way — my partner stood on theirs too early and I walked onto the bridge only to watch it vanish. Wait for a clear signal before moving. A simple thumbs-up over voice chat works fine.

There is a common pitfall worth noting. If either player touches the water during the wall rotation phase, the timer resets and you have to start the whole sequence over. The water is invisible until you are already in it, which makes timing your crossing after the bridge appears absolutely critical. Some players try to run across immediately after the bridge materializes, but the collision detection is tight. Walk, do not sprint, and hold steady. Once you cross the bridge, the next area opens up and the peasant puzzle is behind you. It is straightforward once you understand the pattern flipping based on spawn direction, and having your partner use external voice recording really does help more than you would expect. Don't skip that step.