

This Game Might Improve Your Memory
Harrison Mansolf · 2020 · Adventure, Experimental, Point & Click, Education, Horror
PC
8 user reviews63% · 8
This game is free to play. Get it on Steam →
Screenshots
About This Game Might Improve Your Memory
In Brief:
A simple reporter searching for the paranormal...
A small town energized with the visit of a great figure...
Locals that look upon the visitors with apathy...
(except that one hotel clerk that either likes the
visitors a little too much, or has a sick sense of humor)
This is the setting for this B-rated-horror-movie based point-and-click adventure game.
(also, this game is a short, experimental game designed to teach memory techniques,
so it MIGHT improve your memory)
Features:
Playtime: ~ 3 hours.
Resolution: 320 x 200 scaled up 960x600 (can be configured)
Language: English text only
OS: Windows only
Gameplay: About 50% tutorials for mnemonics 50% story driven adventure game
As much text as a novella
Original Soundtrack
A simple reporter searching for the paranormal...
A small town energized with the visit of a great figure...
Locals that look upon the visitors with apathy...
(except that one hotel clerk that either likes the
visitors a little too much, or has a sick sense of humor)
This is the setting for this B-rated-horror-movie based point-and-click adventure game.
(also, this game is a short, experimental game designed to teach memory techniques,
so it MIGHT improve your memory)
Features:
Playtime: ~ 3 hours.
Resolution: 320 x 200 scaled up 960x600 (can be configured)
Language: English text only
OS: Windows only
Gameplay: About 50% tutorials for mnemonics 50% story driven adventure game
As much text as a novella
Original Soundtrack
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
This game is a practice in frustration. It would seem Mr. Mansolf purposefully made parts of the game solely to annoy the player. It was not helpful to my memory and I have more to say in my video review [url=https://youtu.be/rvvbZAI56ns]here.[/url]4 found this helpful
[h1]Before I played This Game Might Improve Your Memory, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]3 found this helpful
"This Game Might Improve Your Memory" is a godawfully bad "game" kitbashed out of the Adventure Game Studio construction kit, primarily designed to make ripoffs of Secret of Monkey Island. This kitbash is considerably worse than the old 1990's point and clickers. If you think you're going to get Hero Quest, you're not. This is an "experimental" (means: garbage tech demo) where you click around some stuff. It doesn't really teach you any memory skills, it's just a trash pseudo-intellectual fan-fiction. There's an overwhelming amount of mediocre Visual Novel/E-book style cutscenes in this game. The developers failed one of the most basic, fundamental requirements of game design.. "Show, don't tell." So you'll spend a huge amount of time not playing the game, but clicking through endless lines of poorly written VN text cutscenes because the developers couldn't work out how to relate their narrative through the game mechanics, and decided instead it would be better to compete with reading a book for your time. We're here to play games, not read through hours of garbage intersituals. Your gaming rig is not a Kindle. On the topic of visuals, the weak looking 2D retro assets se…1 found this helpful
the pacing is terrible, and the memory games interrupt the story, like they're not well integrated into the plot. some of the cut scenes are just so damn slow, and they don't need to be, we don't need that much pause in between speaking lines. just a really clunky game, but it's not half bad if you're just focused on the memory games rather than the plot of the game. unfortunately, I probably have one of those brains that just can't find an iota of sense in the "memory tricks" the mini games are built around, and ended up boredom quitting. (also why is the resolution so tiny??)1 found this helpful
Игра 'This Game Might Improve Your Memory' – это приятный и ненавязчивый способ немного подтянуть свою память и внимательность. Геймплей прост и понятен с первых минут: запоминаешь паттерны, повторяешь последовательности, и сложность постепенно возрастает. Никаких сложных механик или запутанных сюжетов – только ты и твой мозг. Графика минималистична, но функциональна, и не отвлекает от самого процесса. Музыкальное сопровождение спокойное и расслабляющее, что тоже способствует концентрации. Игра отлично подходит для коротких сессий, например, во время перерывов на работе или в транспорте. Плюсы игры: простая, но эффективная тренировка памяти, ненавязчивый геймплей, минималистичная графика и спокойная музыка. Минусы: со временем игра может стать немного однообразной, но для поддержания мозга в тонусе это вполне приемлемо. В целом, рекомендую всем, кто хочет интересно и с пользой провести время, немного прокачав свои когнитивные способности.
This game actually teaches working memory techniques in a very practical way without any fluff. One would pay hundreds of dollars for memory training courses to get similar material. Despite knowing and using the techniques, I’ve still learned something new. My only regret is that I didn’t find such a game when I was 12. School would have been so much easier. It is quite sad to see such a work of art without many players and reviews. Maybe it was because of the unnecessary childish humor. Maybe there isn’t enough motivation for the player to use the techniques, like remembering the serial number of a bill. Maybe saving the sheriff’s life with some memorized numbers would be better, or getting the girl in the end by memorizing her phone number. Who knows? Overall, I am glad that this exists and hope that it will guide someone to learn about memory techniques and use them to their advantage in school and life.
Community reviews
—
0 reviews
Sign in to write a review.
No reviews yet. Be the first to review this game.











