This Game Might Improve Your Memory

"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 seem like they'd be more at home in a browser game or a mobile app. 3D graphics accelerators hit the mainstream of PC gaming in the mid 1990's with cards like the ATI Rage and Voodoo3D, there's no excuse for such poor 2D graphics in 2026. That alone is enough to disqualify this for recommendation. This game is fairly dated at 6 years old... and even back then it looked old and busted compared to contemporary, professionally made 3D games of the same period. It looked bad then, it looks worse now. Now on to pricing and value for gamers. There's no initial download price, but the developer was charging $5 USD for this. Price barriers, especially on low quality products, can be a direct cause of failure. It seems like a nice gesture for the game to have no up-front cost anymore, but it also tells us that the game wasn't good enough to succeed as a paid product. This is also a bit of a slap in the face to anyone who showed enough questionable judgement to pay money for this... nobody got refunded. In terms of public reception, this failed. There's over 130 million unique gamers visiting Steam every month. SteamDB showed the game peaked at [b]only 4 concurrent players[/b]... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it? Not this time. This isn't worth downloading. While this won't cost you any money, you get what you pay for, and sometimes, even when the game is free, it's still not enough.

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??)

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.

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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.