Games like Backtrace: Mechanisms for Forgetting
If Backtrace: Mechanisms for Forgetting is your kind of game, the closest matches are Analogue: A Hate Story, Life is Strange: Double Exposure and Life is Strange: True Colors — 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 Backtrace: Mechanisms for Forgetting: Backtrace is a yuri mystery and puzzle game set inside a retro computer. Log on night after night to uncover a story of internet exploits, unexpected friendships, and a chaotic crew of 80s hackers. Solve 2D grid-based puzzles to piece together the mystery.
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Analogue: A Hate Story
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Top pick for Backtrace: Mechanisms for Forgetting fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
A dark visual mystery novel featuring transhumanism, traditional marriage, loneliness, and cosplay. Two pursuable characters. Five endings. Welcome to the future.
Life is Strange: Double Exposure
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Second-strongest match for Backtrace: Mechanisms for Forgetting fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Backtrace: Mechanisms for Forgetting.
When Max Caulfield finds her friend Safi dead in the snow, she tears open the way to a parallel timeline. Here, Safi is still alive - and still in danger! With her new power to Shift between two timelines – can Max solve and prevent the same murder?
Life is Strange: True Colors
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Third-strongest match for Backtrace: Mechanisms for Forgetting fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Backtrace: Mechanisms for Forgetting.
Alex Chen hides her 'curse': the psychic power of Empathy, the ability to absorb the emotions of others. When her brother dies in a so-called accident, Alex must embrace her power to find the truth.
Date Warp
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Ranked #4 for Backtrace: Mechanisms for Forgetting fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Backtrace: Mechanisms for Forgetting.
Five days ago, Janet left her dorm to go on a date - and never came back. Was she kidnapped? Murdered? The truth may be even stranger. Solve puzzles to connect together pieces of the story in a science-fiction adventure with eleven possible endings!
彷徨之街 The Street of Adrift
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Ranked #5 for Backtrace: Mechanisms for Forgetting fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Backtrace: Mechanisms for Forgetting.
大小姐与头牌花魁的羁绊、救赎与毁灭故事。
Mystery Lover:Nonexistent Memories
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Ranked #6 for Backtrace: Mechanisms for Forgetting fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Backtrace: Mechanisms for Forgetting.
《恋爱绮谭 不存在的回忆》是国产悬疑恋爱AVG《恋爱绮谭》系列第三部作品，也是系列的解谜篇。在前作《不存在的夏天》与《不存在的真相》中留下的诸多谜团，将在《恋爱绮谭 不存在的回忆》中解答，系列的故事还在继续。
南栀 Unwavering love
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Ranked #7 for Backtrace: Mechanisms for Forgetting fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Backtrace: Mechanisms for Forgetting.
《南栀》是一款百合向视觉小说游戏，讲述了在前作（夜永 Eternal Love）剧情发生一年半之后，聆花女子学院中的少女们成长的故事。
Until Then
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Ranked #8 for Backtrace: Mechanisms for Forgetting fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Backtrace: Mechanisms for Forgetting.
A fateful meeting sets off a chain reaction, upending Mark's life. People disappear and memories prove unreliable. Uncover a hidden truth with Mark and his friends in this narrative adventure and race to unravel the mystery before it's too late.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
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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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Backtrace: Mechanisms for Forgetting.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Backtrace: Mechanisms for Forgetting.
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.
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 Adventure with Backtrace: Mechanisms for Forgetting.
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.
The Looker
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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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Backtrace: Mechanisms for Forgetting.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
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Frequently asked about Backtrace: Mechanisms for Forgetting
- What games are most similar to Backtrace: Mechanisms for Forgetting?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Backtrace: Mechanisms for Forgetting are Analogue: A Hate Story, Life is Strange: Double Exposure, Life is Strange: True Colors.
- Who developed Backtrace: Mechanisms for Forgetting?
- Backtrace: Mechanisms for Forgetting was developed by Petallix Games.
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