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Video games about amnesia

  • Silent Hill 2 (2024 video game)In Silent Hill 2, a man gets a letter from his wife, who died three years earlier. He goes to Silent Hill, Maine.
  • Final Fantasy VIIFinal Fantasy VII skipped the Nintendo 64 after one big enemy slowed it down.
  • Silent Hill 2In Silent Hill 2, James Sunderland gets a letter from his wife, who died three years ago.
  • Persona 3Persona 3 asks its player to press a gun-shaped device against their own head and fire. The device is called an Evoker, and the shot summons a Persona, a physical form of the shooter's psyche. Atlus developed this role-playing game, which…
  • The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the WildThe Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild had sold 34.51 million copies by March 2025. That made it the bestselling Zelda game and one of the bestselling video games ever. It is a 2017 action-adventure from Nintendo EPD, built for the Wii U…
  • Alan WakeAlan Wake is a 2010 action-adventure game from the Finnish studio Remedy Entertainment, published by Microsoft Game Studios. Its hero is a bestselling crime novelist whose wife vanishes during a vacation in Bright Falls, a small fictional…
  • Final Fantasy VIFinal Fantasy VI lets its hero fail to save the world. The story's second half is called the World of Ruin.
  • Final Fantasy VIIIFinal Fantasy VIII sold 2.21 million copies in one day in Japan.
  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33In Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, a being called the Paintress paints a number on an enormous rock formation known as the Monolith. Every person at that age or older then vanishes. The event is called the Gommage. It happens once a year, and…
  • Silent Hill: DownpourSilent Hill: Downpour opens with a prison shower murder by its own hero. The developers made him guilty on purpose.
  • Resident Evil 7: BiohazardResident Evil 7: Biohazard, a 2017 survival horror game from Capcom, begins with an email. It comes from Mia, a woman who has been missing for three years. Her husband, systems engineer Ethan Winters, follows the message to a derelict…
  • Disco ElysiumA man wakes in a trashed hostel room in the district of Martinaise, with a savage hangover and no memory of who he is. He does not know his name, his profession, or anything about the world beyond the door. This is how Disco Elysium…

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