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memories

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2023

Should you play it?

memories is a sapphic visual novel dress-up game where clothes are linked to painful memories of a failed relationship.

What works

  • Emotional and relatable story
  • Beautiful hand-drawn art style
  • Free and short playtime
  • Strong lgbtq+ representation
  • Soothing music and atmosphere

Things to keep in mind

  • Slow text speed with no adjustment
  • Lack of gameplay and interactivity
  • No save or skip options
  • Repetitive music loop
  • Linear story with no alternate endings

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Crimson Imprint plus -Nonexistent Christmas-

  • Koi Musubi

  • Trajectory of summer flower

  • Florence

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  • If Found...

More fantastical

Games that feels like memories but with more imaginative fiction

  • Save Me, Sakuya-san!

  • Mhakna Gramura and Fairy Bell

  • Please Be Happy

  • Perceptions of the Dead

  • Life After Magic

  • LoveKami -Useless Goddess-

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Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with memories. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

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  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
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Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with memories. These titles are not in What to play next.

memories: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Strategy, Experimenting, Competence, Survival. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Intimacy, Expression. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Fantasy.

Last update: 21/08/2026