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Games like The Vanishing Memories

If The Vanishing Memories is your kind of game, the closest matches are RUIN: 35th Anniversary - Definitive Edition, Empathy: Path of Whispers and EMOTIONLESS : The Last Ticket — 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.

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About The Vanishing Memories: Enter an impossible Library where every book contains a human life. María's book is fading. Explore the quiet island inside her memory and uncover what she could not face.

AdventureWindowsby Faciplay Ab
The Vanishing Memories — Steam game cover

Players who liked The Vanishing Memories also play

Steam players who put hours into The Vanishing Memories also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.

  1. RUIN: 35th Anniversary - Definitive Edition

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for The Vanishing Memories fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Vanishing Memories.

    RUIN is a Point-&-Click Adventure set in a cyber-fantasy world of kingdoms and ancient relics. Journey through this mysterious land, behold its wonders, and ponder 35 years of mysteries.

    2027IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. Empathy: Path of Whispers

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for The Vanishing Memories fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Vanishing Memories.

    Empathy: Path of Whispers is an atmospheric and story-driven adventure game where you explore a seemingly abandoned world through the emotions and memories of the people who once inhabited it, trying to restore the world’s lost balance by journeying through its past.

    2017IndieAdventure3.59 USDSteam ↗
  3. EMOTIONLESS : The Last Ticket

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for The Vanishing Memories fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Vanishing Memories.

    Step into a liminal, cosmic horror experience set in an abandoned amusement park. Uncover the haunting narrative behind its twisted rides and empty tunnels to discover what lurks within a reality that shouldn't exist…

    2025Adventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Anamorphine

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for The Vanishing Memories fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Vanishing Memories.

    Explore the past as you resolve the present in Anamorphine, a surreal adventure of rendered emotions. Journey into the mind of the main character, a young man in denial. His subconscious is pushing him to face his past - or be consumed by it.

    2018IndieAdventure19.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. The Last Case of John Morley

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for The Vanishing Memories fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Vanishing Memories.

    Step into the mind of John Morley, a 1940s detective on his final case. Explore shadowed places long forgotten by time, and piece together crime scenes in a narrative adventure steeped in mystery, unexpected twists, and a truth buried for decades.

    2025IndieAdventure12.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Gone Home

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for The Vanishing Memories fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Vanishing Memories.

    June 7th, 1995. 1:15 AM. You arrive home after a year abroad. You expect your family to greet you, but the house is empty. Something's not right. Where is everyone? And what's happened here? Unravel the mystery for yourself in Gone Home, a story exploration game from The Fullbright Company.

    2013IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Thirty Flights of Loving

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for The Vanishing Memories fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Vanishing Memories.

    This surprising first-person story tells the tale of a heist gone wrong. Encounter high-flying schemers, lovelorn criminals, and more stray kittens than you can shake a stick at.

    2012IndieAdventureCasual4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Obduction

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for The Vanishing Memories fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Vanishing Memories.

    A new sci-fi adventure from Cyan, the creators of Myst. Abducted far across the universe, you find yourself on a broken alien landscape with odd pieces of Earth. Explore, uncover, solve, and find a way to make it home.

    2016IndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Vanishing Memories.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Vanishing Memories.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Vanishing Memories.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Vanishing Memories.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about The Vanishing Memories

What games are most similar to The Vanishing Memories?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Vanishing Memories are RUIN: 35th Anniversary - Definitive Edition, Empathy: Path of Whispers, EMOTIONLESS : The Last Ticket.
Who developed The Vanishing Memories?
The Vanishing Memories was developed by Faciplay Ab.

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 The Vanishing Memories.

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