Games like Past Memos
If Past Memos is your kind of game, the closest matches are Linework, Uncover the Smoking Gun and Inescapable: No Rules, No Rescue — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Past Memos: Past Memos is a detective game set in the foggy atmosphere of 90s New York. As a former detective, you strive to clear your name while solving dark cases and uncovering the secrets of a mysterious past.
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Linework
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Top pick for Past Memos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Past Memos.
A puzzle-detective game set in 1990s China: play as a forensic artist, interview witnesses, drag and drop testimony and documents, sketch suspects from clues, and piece together evidence to solve mysterious crimes.
Uncover the Smoking Gun
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Past Memos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Past Memos.
A Battle of Wits with AI: Solve the case by conversing with a suspect robot using GPT to gather evidence. What single truth emerges from countless dialogues and pieces of information?
Inescapable: No Rules, No Rescue
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Past Memos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Past Memos.
Inescapable: No Rules, No Rescue is a social thriller set in a tropical island resort: you’ve been kidnapped and forced to participate in a twisted reality TV show with 10 strangers. At the end of their stay, they’ll each receive $500,000... If they survive.
Soulflow
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Ranked #4 for Past Memos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Past Memos.
Soulflow is a 2.5D fantasy-detective game that offers a unique experience with its graphic style. In this story-based role play game, players must gather information from others during the day and try to solve the murders in the neighborhood to stay free.
Paradise Killer
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Ranked #5 for Past Memos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Past Memos.
Paradise Island, a world outside reality. There’s been a murder that only "investigation freak" Lady Love Dies can solve. Gather evidence and interrogate suspects in this open world adventure. You can accuse anyone, but you’ll have to prove your case in trial. It’s up to you to decide who’s guilty.
Sherlock Holmes Chapter One
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Ranked #6 for Past Memos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Past Memos.
In this story-driven detective thriller, a young Sherlock Holmes struggles to prove himself as he navigates an exotic, dangerous island in the Mediterranean to investigate the mystery of his mother’s death.
Enigma of Fear
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Ranked #7 for Past Memos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Past Memos.
Become Mia, a paranormal detective searching for her missing father inside the Perimeter - a place that doesn't exist. Investigate clues like a real detective and unravel the mysteries behind the Enigma of Fear, defeating the terrible monsters who'll try to stop you.
Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer
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Ranked #8 for Past Memos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Past Memos.
In this point-and-click urban thriller, down-and-out private eye Kathy Rain will embark on her most dangerous case yet — the pursuit of the notorious serial killer known as the Soothsayer. Find clues, gather evidence, connect the dots, and confront the murderer before the hunter becomes the hunted…
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Past Memos.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Past Memos.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Past Memos.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Past Memos.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Past Memos.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Past Memos.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Past Memos.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Past Memos.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about Past Memos
- What games are most similar to Past Memos?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Past Memos are Linework, Uncover the Smoking Gun, Inescapable: No Rules, No Rescue.
- Who developed Past Memos?
- Past Memos was developed by Shelter Studios.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Past Memos.
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