Forlorn Memories

Factsheet

Developer: Sascha Alexander Groß (Forlorn Alex)
Publisher: Sascha Alexander Groß (Forlorn Alex)
Company: Kiwi Brothers Studio
Writer: Sascha Alexander Groß (Forlorn Alex), Markus Daniel Groß (Grievous)
Residence: North Rhine-Westphalia Germany
Start of development: 2021 (Concept/Prototyping Phase)
Development State: ▰▰▰▰▰▰▱▱▱▱ ≈ 65%
Invested Development Days: 343 Days (≈ 1 Year in total)
Source of funding: Self-funded through bank loans, savings and through Patreon.
Game engine: Unity 3D (version 2021.3.56f2)
Programming Language: C#
Made with: GIMP, 3ds Max, Blender, Adobe Photoshop
Genre: Adventure, RPG, Simulation, Turn-Based Combat, Exploration, Steampunk
Art Style: Anime, Low Poly, Handpainted 3D, Pixel Art
Playtime: ~25+ hours (Main Story), ~50+ hours (Completionist/Multiple Paths)
Controls: Mouse, Keyboard, Xbox and Playstation Controllers
Stores: Steam, Epic Games Store, itch.io
Release date: To be announced
Website: www.forlornmemories.com
Regular Price: USD $14.99, EUR €13,99, CAD $16.99, GBP £10.99
Availability: Digital Download
Languages (Audio): English, Japanese (Post-Launch)
Languages (Interface/Subtitles): English, French, German, Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Russian
Contact: sascha.gross@forlornmemories.com
Cast List: Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
Crowdfunding via: Kickstarter (Coming soon), Ko-Fi, Patreon (Disabled)
Former Patrons (Patreon): Hall of Memories
Collaborations: Makeship, Witchfall, Scarlet Moon
Social Media: 𝕏, Bluesky, Youtube, Instagram, SoundCloud, Discord

⚙︎ Game Description

Forlorn Memories is a story-driven indie steampunk fantasy RPG adventure with retro-inspired visuals, monster catching, and life and dating sim elements, where your choices shape the world and those within it.

Some consequences are immediate, while others remain hidden until they surface as the journey unfolds. What are you willing to sacrifice to remember?

⚙︎ Key Features

Playable Characters - Forlorn Memories features a cast of playable characters — potential party members who can optionally join you if your goals align, you earn their trust, or you convince them in your own way. Along the journey, you’ll also meet a variety of non-playable characters. Every character has their own backstory, personality, goals, dreams, class, hobbies, and daily routine. Once someone joins your party, you can switch between party members at any time and take direct control of them. Whether you turn these characters into allies, friends, partners, or even enemies (or choose to avoid them entirely) is up to you!

Two Art Styles - Forlorn Memories uses two different graphic styles, the anime-inspired Chibi style (SD) used for the exploration part and a more detailed, non-chibi-style graphic style for the game's battle scenarios and story sequences designed by talents such as Yoshitomo Ikawa (Mistwalker).

Turn-based Combat - When words fall flat and conflict escalates into combat, experience an accessible yet deep combat system where you identify and exploit your foes’ weaknesses.
Friend or Foe - Detailed interactions and relationships between playable characters and NPCs. This can even optionally lead to friendships, romantic relationships, marriages and other peaceful couple activities.

Explore Legica - Step into Legica, a vast, sprawling world filled with forgotten history and hidden truths. Every region holds unique lands, factions, and cultures shaped by conflict and ambition. Explore its wild frontiers, fight in its wars, or carve out a quiet life of your own as you run, dash, swim, dive, grind on rails, set sail, fly, drive, and ride across an expansive fantasy realm teeming with captivating events and stories.

Environmental Hazards - Legica doesn’t just threaten you with its inhabitants. Blizzards, heatwaves, and hostile terrain demand careful planning, so bring the right clothing and equipment and choose your route wisely to overcome environmental hazards.

Dungeons - Venture into forgotten depths where ancient ruins hide secrets, treasure, and horrors best left undisturbed.

Factions - Legica is shaped by rival factions, each driven by its own traditions and agendas. Forge alliances, keep your distance, or stand against them. Your choice defines your journey.

Consequences - Your choices have consequences. Some are immediate, others only reveal themselves later in your journey. They can even shift the balance between factions, for example if you trade too much with one group and help them gain more resources and better equipment. In extreme cases, your actions can go so far that even former companions may end up standing in your way.

Crafting & Gathering - Mix potions and medicines, dig for buried treasure, craft armour, clothing and weapons, catch bugs, mine ores, go fishing, cook various foods and create and repair your own automata. How you achieve your goals is up to you.

Give abandoned pets a new home - Adopt pets like cats, dogs, horses and more. (Yes, you can pet them and name them!)

Gardening - Grow different types of plants. Gift them to NPCs, sell them, use them as a crafting ingredient or use some of them in battle. Or you can grow tiny sprout spirit creatures that can help you on your journey and evolve over time to learn new skills.

Instruments - Shape the world through music! In Forlorn Memories, nearly every playable character wields a unique musical instrument, granting them the power to influence the weather and interact with the world in unexpected ways.

Monsters - The world of Legica is haunted by a phenomenon known simply as the Yhag Curse. It slowly but steadily transforms any living being that spends too long near the so-called Beasts of Yhag. The first signs are faint, glyph-like markings spreading across the body, followed by changes to skin, eyes, and hair. Over time, the curse causes severe physical and mental distortion, until very little of the victim’s former self remains. Rumors speak of rare individuals who resisted the curse, and who were even able to tame these beasts. They now seek to uncover the origin of the creatures, and the truth behind the curse.
Mini Games - Conquer the skies with your own airship and destroy enemies with your mech in the game's fully optional Shoot 'em up and Top-down Shooter sections.
Voice Acting - Starring Caitlin Glass, Alan Lee, Xanthe Huynh, Lindsey Vega, Deneen Melody, A.J. Beckles, Kristen McGuire, June Yoon, Vanille Velasquez, Anairis Quinones, Chris Okawa, Sarah Anne Williams and many more.

Original Soundtrack - Original soundtrack composed by Alec Shea, Bryan Valenzuela, Morgan Cosseron, Jeremiah George, Raúl Sangonzalo, Dale North and more with vocals performed by Emi Evans (NieR, Terra Battle, Dark Souls) and Nami Nakagawa (NieR, Demon Slayer, Drakengard 3).

⚙︎ Screenshots

⚙︎ About Forlorn Alex

Sascha Alexander, better known online as Forlorn Alex, is a 34-year-old independent game developer from Germany creating immersive, story-driven, old-school-inspired games. Inspired by a wide spectrum of video games, especially horror, his current project Forlorn Memories combines vibrant, colorful art styles with melancholic, whimsical settings and atmospheres, creating a world that may seem charming at first glance while carrying deeper emotional and eerie undertones.

⚙︎ Development History

The development of Forlorn Memories began in mid-2021 and is being developed by Sascha Alexander Groß, a developer from Germany who is chronically ill and works online under the pseudonym Forlorn Alex. The project began a year after Forlorn Alex experienced the loss of his previous video game intellectual property Liquidation. He had to hand it over to his development partner to focus on his health, hoping Liquidation could eventually thrive under new leadership. Once his health stabilized again, this drastic event served as a strong motivator that inspired him to create a new project, not for profit, but driven by a sincere desire to create a heartfelt tribute to a genre he has cherished since his early years.

Since then, Forlorn Alex has wholeheartedly pursued his dream of completing Forlorn Memories, regardless of any challenges he may face.

⚙︎ Mature Content Description

■ In the Forlorn Memories settings menu, there is an option to enable censorship.

■ This Game may contain content not appropriate for all ages, or may not be appropriate for viewing at work:

Dark fantasy themes, fantasy violence, stylized blood and gore, depictions of death, references to self-harm and suicide, mild language, mild suggestive themes, and depictions of alcohol and tobacco use by adult characters.

⚙︎ Health and Safety Warning

A very small percentage of individuals may experience epileptic seizures or blackouts when exposed to certain light patterns or flashing lights. Exposure to certain patterns or backgrounds on a television screen or when playing video games may trigger epileptic seizures or blackouts in these individuals. These conditions may trigger previously undetected epileptic symptoms or seizures in persons who have no history of prior seizures or epilepsy. If you, or anyone in your family, has an epileptic condition or has had seizures of any kind, consult your doctor before playing.

⚙︎ System Requirements

	Minimum	Recommended
Platform	Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system	Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS	Windows® 10, 64bit / Windows® 11, 64bit	Windows® 10, 64bit / Windows® 11, 64bit
Processor	AMD A8-7600 / Intel® Core™ i3-3210	AMD Ryzen™ 3 1200 / Intel® Core™ i5-6400
Memory	8 GB RAM	16 GB RAM
Graphics	NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 550 or ATI™ Radeon™ HD 6XXX or higher	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 or AMD R9 280
DirectX	Version 11	Version 11
Storage	4 GB available space	4 GB available space
Sound Card	DirectX Compatible Sound Card or onboard chipset	DirectX Compatible Sound Card or onboard chipset
Additional Notes	HDD Supported, SSD Recommended.	HDD Supported, SSD Recommended.