Retention
This game is about a person who kept running through his life, never looking back at the past. Once during a trip, he gets into trouble.
49% of 215 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Games like Memory Shards
If the emotional and story-driven rhythm of Memory Shards stuck with you, this helps. These games are worth a look next.
memories
A sapphic visual novel about dressing up to face the day, where every outfit opens a memory of a relationship that ended. Choice-based dialogue, a pastel dream of a world, and a story that turns getting dressed into remembering.
Emotional, Story-driven, Romantic
93% of 1,569 Steam reviews are positiveFreeMemory Note
Memory note is a slice-of-life visual novel with meaningful player choices, several endings to explore, and a story that will touch your heart.
Emotional, Story-driven, Romantic
94% of 69 Steam reviews are positive$1.99Sepia Tears
A romance visual novel about a memory Mark is trying hard to forget, and Myra, the girl who digs it back up. A short, hand-drawn story with snow, jokes, mystery and an ending song worth staying for.
Emotional, Story-driven, Romantic
87% of 1,014 Steam reviews are positiveFreeAwaken Infinity
Welcome to Awaken Infinity! Immerse yourself in a unique top-down RPG with visual novel elements. Wake up in a futuristic room with no memory, and unravel the mysteries of your past. Experience deep storytelling, meet intriguing characters, and uncover hidden secrets.
Emotional, Story-driven, Romantic
96% of 25 Steam reviews are positive$5.99Memories of East Coast
An immersive visual novel experience that brings you on a journey through memory, nostalgia, and guilt.
Emotional, Story-driven, Mysterious
67% of 6 Steam reviews are positive$2.99Denpa Nightmares
No matter how long you’re gone, there will always be a girl waiting for you in the same place. This is a story about forgetting, and about waiting. After countless restarts and countless memories lost… how long will you stay with her this time?
Emotional, Story-driven, Romantic
92% of 187 Steam reviews are positiveFreeRetention
This game is about a person who kept running through his life, never looking back at the past. Once during a trip, he gets into trouble. Now he's lying on the cold ground, buried beneath his bicycle. Slides of various moments fly through his head.
Emotional, Story-driven, Mysterious
49% of 215 Steam reviews are positive$0.99UNREAL LIFE
A girl wakes with no memories and one name: Miss Sakura. Her only guide is a talking AI traffic light, and her only tool is a strange gift: touch an object, see its memories. A quiet, blue-toned pixel adventure about following clues through a dreamlike night city, solving gentle puzzles and finding out what really happened.
Emotional, Story-driven, Romantic
95% of 1,880 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$19.997 Years From Now
A slice of life story-driven adventure game with a distinctive 3D pixel art. Embark on a journey and accompany Haruto Soraki, a high schooler, in his quest to find the memory he lost in an accident seven years ago.
Emotional, Story-driven, Romantic
97% of 290 Steam reviews are positive$9.99MINE MEMORY
Uncover the skeletons in Hana's closet in "MINE MEMORY," a gripping psychological visual novel. Dive into Hana's memories, shape her destiny, and confront haunting choices with deep consequences.
Emotional, Story-driven, Mysterious
90% of 63 Steam reviews are positive$2.99Mandemon
Crumbling school buildings in Japan. A string of bizarre incidents. The eerie legend of Mandemon. Lies and truth intertwine. Love and hatred blur in the mist. What will you do? Who can you trust? Welcome to a cruel world of deceit and suffering—
Emotional, Story-driven, Romantic
86% of 354 Steam reviews are positive$2.69With you forgotten from my memory
A mysterious tale shared with Sujin, the girl only I can see.
Emotional, Story-driven, Romantic
93% of 30 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Cheaper than Memory Shards
My Dream is a Lost Memory
My dream is a Lost Memory is a short interactive story about having Déjà vu, realizing that this Déjà vu came to you because of a dream, and then…
90% of 230 Steam reviews are positive$0.69
Nora & Magic that does not turn back time
“Don’t use formal speech. Please.” That was the first thing she asked of me when I woke up.
100% of 9 Steam reviews are positive$1
DERE. Some Answers Before I...
Come back, for no one is waiting for you. Search for your memories — no one ever knew you.
65% of 26 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
My Silly Life
A linear visual novel about the experiences and thoughts of a young boy seeking for his place to live.
73% of 33 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
Be the voice guiding a girl through one small errand that feels impossibly hard.
96% of 32,158 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$1.49
The seven days i spent with you
A short psychological romance where every choice with Shiro shapes which of her moods, and which truth, you meet on the final day.
93% of 1,331 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$1.59
Error: Girlfriend Not Found
One-room cyberpunk VN about doubt, guilt and memory. Talk to a girl who claims to be your girlfriend, question reality, and unlock multiple endings…
100% of 13 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Secret in Story
Accompanied by beautiful piano music, you begin to experience a wonderful love journey.
70% of 71 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Love Stories: When Pastel Meets Grotesque
Some Scary Love Stories is a visual novel game with option branches Players tap the screen to read the story and make their own choices, eventually…
87% of 256 Steam reviews are positive$0.79
未語
This is a simple, story‑driven game. The gameplay isn’t complicated, and there’s no multiple endings — just one, very straightforward.
$0.99
MEMENTO
A paradise lost; an island full of memory. Those who forget the horrors of the past will pay the price...
79% of 81 Steam reviews are positive$1.19
Hidden gems like Memory Shards
Denpa Nightmares
No matter how long you’re gone, there will always be a girl waiting for you in the same place. This is a story about forgetting, and about waiting.
92% of 187 Steam reviews are positiveFree
outside the door
Outside the door is a mystic visual novel set within one office.
93% of 764 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Shanghai Summer
Shanghai Summer is an adventure game set in the millennium. Our protagonist, Baichuan, goes through a series of "anomalies" over the length of…
89% of 394 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$12.99
memories
Pick an outfit, unlock a memory, and piece together a love story told backwards through clothes.
93% of 1,569 Steam reviews are positiveFree
My Camp of Memories: Episode 1
The free first episode of a dystopian visual novel with RPG elements.
91% of 101 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Mandemon
Crumbling school buildings in Japan. A string of bizarre incidents. The eerie legend of Mandemon. Lies and truth intertwine.
86% of 354 Steam reviews are positive$2.69
Chronicles of Taldun: The Remainder
A dark fantasy tale where death is not the end but the path to the truth. Two magi trapped in a collapsing tower must unravel a deadly mystery.
94% of 140 Steam reviews are positive$27.99
7 Years From Now
A slice of life story-driven adventure game with a distinctive 3D pixel art.
97% of 290 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
My Dream is a Lost Memory
My dream is a Lost Memory is a short interactive story about having Déjà vu, realizing that this Déjà vu came to you because of a dream, and then…
90% of 230 Steam reviews are positive$0.69
Know by heart
Childhood friends reunite after spending a long time apart, revisiting old memories and rekindling their friendship.
89% of 797 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
REFLEXIA Prototype ver.
You read through a self-aware dating sim where the heroine knows she is in one, and your choices decide how her story ends.
96% of 7,615 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2Free
UNREAL LIFE
A lost girl and a talking traffic light search a strange city for the one name she remembers.
95% of 1,880 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$19.99
Newest games like Memory Shards
Burden Street Station
A surreal, narrative adventure game where you shapeshift during conversations to uncover how God went missing.
97% of 376 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
The Last Winter Knight
Haunt a suit of armour. Explore an abandoned castle. Recover your memories... and bring the ghosts of the past to rest in this melancholy visual…
98% of 85 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
With you forgotten from my memory
A mysterious tale shared with Sujin, the girl only I can see.
93% of 30 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Denpa Nightmares
No matter how long you’re gone, there will always be a girl waiting for you in the same place. This is a story about forgetting, and about waiting.
92% of 187 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Awaken Infinity
Welcome to Awaken Infinity! Immerse yourself in a unique top-down RPG with visual novel elements.
96% of 25 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Yunashi no Yume
A fractured dream of a girl who tried to make something beautiful, and was silenced before she could finish it. Now, her voice resurfaces.
86% of 58 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Yume Kakigori
In a colorless world, you open a shaved ice shop guided by a mysterious raven.
100% of 15 Steam reviews are positive$10
The Memories That Shape Us
The Memories That Shape Us is a narrative video game that lasts about two hours.
82% of 11 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
MINE MEMORY
Uncover the skeletons in Hana's closet in "MINE MEMORY," a gripping psychological visual novel.
90% of 63 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
The Little Witch and The Lost Memories
The Little Witch and The Lost Memories is an exploration-based adventure game set in the dreams of a girl who has lost her memories.
100% of 17 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Dreambound
Mysterious deaths. Dreams that are reality, and reality that is a dream.
95% of 86 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
outside the door
Outside the door is a mystic visual novel set within one office.
93% of 764 Steam reviews are positive$1.99