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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.

  • Emotional impact
  • Strong, story-driven narrative
  • Dark, serious atmosphere
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Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Before I Forget special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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That Dragon, Cancer

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2016PC90 % positive

Brings what grabs you about Before I Forget: emotional impact, a strong story and a calm pace.

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.

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Fragments of Him

Emotional impact

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.

Crimson Gray

Emotional impact

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.

Her Story

Calm and deliberate

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

Dark, serious atmosphere

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.

The First Tree

Emotional impact

A calm, emotional exploration game where you play a fox searching for her family while a parallel story about a grieving couple unfolds through collected mementos. It focuses on mood and narrative rather than challenge.

Thing-in-Itself

Emotional impact

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

Emotional impact

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.

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