Cover of Before I Forget

Similar games

Games like Before I Forget

2020PCXboxNintendo Switch87 % positive6.59 €

You piece together a life from the rooms and fragments of a woman whose memories keep slipping away. This short narrative exploration handles dementia, love and loss with quiet, affecting restraint.

  • Strong, story-driven narrative
  • Dark, serious atmosphere

The closest matches for Before I Forget are That Dragon, Cancer, Another Lost Phone: Laura's Story and Fragments of Him. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Before I Forget special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

In short: games like Before I Forget

10 games with a similar feel, sorted by match

Show games from the same series

Best match

That Dragon, Cancer

92 %Match

2016PC90 % positive

Brings what grabs you about Before I Forget: a strong story, a relaxed difficulty and a dark atmosphere.

A deeply personal, poetic narrative game about a family's fight to save their young son from cancer. Short and intimate, it centers on faith, hope and loss, and is emotionally powerful.

Fragments of Him

Strong, story-driven narrative

Fragments of Him is a first-person narrative game about a fatal accident and the lives it touches before and after. You move through places and memories as a spirit or inner voice of the characters, and your choices nudge the story forward in quiet, lingering ways.

Her Story

Strong, story-driven narrative

You type keywords into an old police database and piece together a haunting crime mystery from fragmented live-action interview clips of one woman. The story assembles itself in your head, in whatever order your curiosity leads you.

Neyasnoe

Accessible and relaxed

You glimpse a fragment of a man who searches for meaning and loses himself in the labyrinth of his own thoughts. It is less a conventional game than a melancholic, introspective experience.

Crimson Gray

Strong, story-driven narrative

You follow John, a young man struggling with severe depression, through a quiet story about searching for meaning and hope. As his world fades to grey, one special encounter may bring colour back.

Thing-in-Itself

Easy to pick up

A short interactive story about how hard it is to truly understand another person, framed by Kant's thing-in-itself. With no challenge or win conditions, it walks through the stages of a relationship as perceptions clash and surroundings shift.

Telling Lies

Strong, story-driven narrative

You dig through a database of secretly recorded video calls, using keyword searches to piece together the story of four people and their lies. A live-action, combat-free narrative driven by strong performances and your own detective work.

We Are Chicago

Strong, story-driven narrative

You play Aaron, one week before high school graduation, when his best friend Robert suddenly stops showing up. It is a grounded first-person narrative about growing up on Chicago's South and West Sides, where you must decide whom to trust.

Feedback