Games like Remember Me, for the memory remix more than the city

Nilin does not read memories. She goes inside one, scrubs it back and forth like tape, moves a seatbelt or a scalpel, and lets the person wake up believing the version she built. DONTNOD put that at the centre of a 2013 action game and then almost nobody copied it, which is why games like Remember Me are genuinely hard to find. The Neo-Paris skyline was the least interesting thing it had.

Its own store page sells three things: the Memory Remix, a balanced mix of combat and exploration through Neo-Paris, and a Combo Lab that lets you rebuild Nilin's attacks mid-fight. All three outlived the game. None of them survived in the same place.

Our price record, read on 5 November 2026, covering readings from 26 September to 29 October 2026. Readings logged before 26 September are excluded because they included Steam accounts, console keys and region-locked keys, so the low shown on a game page can be lower than the figure here. Live prices sit on each game page. Controller support is as each game's Steam entry lists it.

Game	Controller support	Low	Date	Store
>observer_	Partial	$1.14	27 Oct	Eneba
Murdered: Soul Suspect	Full	$1.99	2 Oct	Steam
Dex	Full	$0.89	20 Oct	GOG
Ghostrunner	Partial	$3.13	22 Oct	Eneba
Transistor	Full	$3.99	1 Oct	Steam
ENSLAVED: Odyssey to the West	Full	$1.43	23 Oct	Gameseal
State of Mind	Full	$0.60	17 Oct	Eneba

Games like Remember Me that break into a mind

Observer is the only game here that does Nilin's actual job. You play a neural detective in a rain-soaked Kraków in 2084, deployed by corporate authority to keep the population in line, and the way you investigate is to infiltrate a suspect's mind — slipping into their dreams, unravelling their fears, and pulling out whatever the case requires. Bloober Team built those sequences as collapsing, unreliable spaces rather than puzzle boxes, so a memory folds in on itself and contradicts what you saw a minute earlier, which is closer to the Memory Remix than anything else on PC.

Two warnings. It is first-person horror rather than third-person action: no combat system, no combos, and long stretches where the threat is the architecture. And Rutger Hauer's last performance anchors it, which pulls the tone towards noir melancholy rather than Nilin's defiance. Controller support is only partial, which matters if you came to >observer_ expecting to play it on a pad from the sofa. Our readings have it among the cheapest things in this piece, and they have it moving around rather than sitting still.

Bloober's 2084 Kraków is the interior opposite of Neo-Paris: cramped, surveilled and claustrophobic rather than open and vertical. (Official Steam screenshot)

Ronan O'Connor is dead on page one, and the case he has to solve is his own murder. Murdered: Soul Suspect gives you the supernatural version of memory intrusion — reading the thoughts of the living, stepping into the residue of what happened in a room — and builds a whole detective game out of reconstruction. It is from 2014, it is short, and Murdered: Soul Suspect has spent our window at the bottom of the price range.

Neo-Paris, rebuilt elsewhere

Dex trades three dimensions for two and loses nothing in density. Dreadlocks built a side-scrolling open-world RPG around the city of Harbor Prime, explicitly inspired by Blade Runner and Neuromancer, where you choose between playing a silent assassin, a hacker, a diplomat or a straightforward gunfighter — and the hacking is not a button prompt but a separate cyberspace layer you enter and fight through. That split between a body in a street and a mind in a network is the thing Remember Me gestured at and never let you steer. The cost of admission is production values: this is a small game with a lot of ambition, and Dex sits at 87% positive in our data rather than the 90s.

Climbing is the other half of Neo-Paris, and Ghostrunner turns it into the entire game. One More Level set it inside Dharma Tower, humanity's last shelter, and your route is from the bottom to the top of a cyberpunk megastructure where one hit kills you and movement is the only defence. It is first-person and brutally fast where Remember Me was third-person and stately, but the vertical city is intact, and Ghostrunner is the most heavily stocked game here with 27 sellers in our listing.

Dharma Tower is climbed rather than toured, which is what Remember Me's traversal sections were reaching for. (Official Steam screenshot)

Combo Lab, under another name

Supergiant's sci-fi action RPG is the closest thing to the Combo Lab anyone has shipped since. In Transistor you configure a single weapon from Functions that slot into one another, and the same Function behaves differently depending on whether it is the attack, the modifier or the passive — so a build is a sentence you assemble rather than a tree you unlock, with thousands of combinations the game never explains to you. Remember Me let you rebuild Nilin's combos on the fly and see what each slot changed; this does the same thing with more consequence and better writing. It also stops the action on command, letting you plan a burst of moves and then execute it, so the pacing is tactical rather than rhythmic. Transistor holds 94% positive in our data, the highest score in this piece.

Transistor's Functions change meaning depending on the slot you put them in, which is the combo-crafting idea taken further. (Official Steam screenshot)

Nilin's other job: climbing and carrying someone

Ninja Theory's game is the structural twin, and the one that will feel most immediately familiar. ENSLAVED: Odyssey to the West is a linear third-person action-adventure built on exactly the alternation Remember Me ran on: a stretch of hand-holds and ledges up a ruined structure, a bounded arena fight, a story beat, repeat. Its setting is a post-apocalyptic America 150 years out, reclaimed by nature, where slave ships harvest what remains of the population — bright and overgrown rather than neon, but the same instinct to make a ruined world look beautiful instead of grey.

The difference is what it puts at the centre. Where Nilin works alone, Monkey is chained to Trip, who escaped a slave ship with her wits and keeps him alive by directing him, and the whole game is that unequal partnership slowly becoming something else. It is a 2013 PC port of a 2010 console game, so it is short, it has full controller support, and the camera will remind you of its age. ENSLAVED is also among the cheapest entries in our readings.

The memory economy, written as a thriller

Berlin in 2048, with drones in the public sector, omnipresent surveillance and a journalist who wakes in hospital to find his wife and son gone. State of Mind takes the memory-economy premise — identity as infrastructure — and runs it as a transhumanist thriller split between a decaying material world and a utopian virtual one. Daedalic made it a slow adventure game rather than an action one, and at 78% positive in our data State of Mind is the most divisive pick here.

Where to start after Neo-Paris

Play Observer. It is the only one that gives you back the thing Remember Me invented and then under-used — standing inside somebody else's memory while it argues with itself — and it commits to that idea for a whole game rather than four set pieces. Go in knowing it is horror, first-person and light on combat; if those are dealbreakers rather than adjustments, ENSLAVED is the pick that reproduces the shape of Remember Me instead of its idea, and Transistor the one that takes its combo system seriously.

Two notes on the figures above. Most of the lows in our window came from keyshops rather than storefronts, and our guide to keyshops covers the checks worth making; the reasoning behind quoting a dated floor at all is in our explainer on historical lows. For wider reading, short games you can finish in a weekend and story-rich games worth the time both cover this territory from the other direction.

Capcom USA's launch trailer for Remember Me, the game these seven are measured against.

ENSLAVED's overgrown America is the same design instinct as Neo-Paris: a ruined world built to be looked at. (Official Steam screenshot)

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