Norman Fleischer from Nothing but Hope and Passion felt that "On We Were Here Boy deliver just the right balance between familiar songwriting qualities and new musical experiments while sounding more mature, focused and confident than before.

It's still great to dance on a warm synth carpet, but it's more likely to be tightly wrapped in the semi-darkness than in the bright sun on a flower meadow.

"[1] André Boße, writing for Musikexpress, summed the album as "harmless music, simple images – and yet not wrong: Boy's mainstream pop is absolutely fine.

"[2] Rolling Stone critic Frank Lähnemann found that "the fact that the two women [...] were noticeably struggling with a follow-up to their monster debut Mutual Friends is always evident [on We Were Here] – especially since the album's playing time is limited to 35 minutes.

"[4] Süddeutsche Zeitung editor Thierry Backes wrote that songs like "We Were Here", "Hit My Heart" or "New York" easily "find their way into the ear and stay in the memory.