Rememoried, an independent game from one-person development studio Hangonit, will be officially released on Windows PC, Mac and Linux on August 31 having passed the Steam Greenlight process.
It’s difficult to describe what Rememoried is other than to say it is a first-person adventure game wherein the player explores “a virtual place where memories change to dreams and the only possible way is forgetting.” Forgetting memories seem to be a game mechanic for advancing the narrative of Rememoried and proceeding to the next level (of which there are “more than 20”).
While some parts of the environments are static, others are procedurally generated. Additionally, an area has the ability to change its appearance upon looking away and back again, making advancement more than a game of memorization.
“Some elements in the surroundings change when the player turns away or leaves, and become more than just a direction sign: they become the way along which the player walks, flies and falls,” the sole developer from Hangonit Vladimir Kudelka says. “Finding such a way to the higher levels is a matter of his aptness and intuition, rewarded by advancing higher. Failure, on the other hand, brings a return to the lower levels, which may be more or less altered then.”
“If you fall asleep while stargazing, a gate to a new world situated in between the world of memories and the world of dreams will open for you,” Kudelka continues. “That intermediate world gradually turns reality to fragments and infuses the player with the desire to know the unknowable. But the most persistent can feel the unknowable.”
Rememoried will be available on Steam for Windows PC, Mac, and Linux on Aug. 31, 2015.
