Banned Memories: Yamanashi

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Back to a closed academy where four teachers' sins never left.

Platforms: PC
Price: Pay what you want
Rated: 3,581 followers and 344 likes on Game Jolt; written up on IndieGames.com in 2015
Players: 1
Controls: Arrow keys or WASD to move and navigate menus, Space or Enter to use, Escape to go back, Q to leave the inventory; gamepad supported in the 0.3.0 build
Made by: Noah Pauw (GamingEngineer)
Released: 2015

Not on Mac. Banned Memories: Yamanashi is on PC. It is not in the Mac part of the site you came from.

What frightens A third-person survival horror game with dithered PS1-style graphics and fixed camera angles: Hideo returns to Yamanashi Academy, closed in 1993 after crimes by four teachers whose spirits are said to remain inside, and must find four keys to leave, among blood-soaked floors and a mannequin whose lower body is human.
Content: blood, disturbing imagery.

Banned Memories: Yamanashi is a free PS1-style survival horror game seen through fixed camera angles. Hideo is brought back to Yamanashi Academy, closed in 1993 after crimes committed by four of its teachers, and has to find four keys to leave a school their spirits are said to haunt.

About Banned Memories: Yamanashi

Banned Memories: Yamanashi is a third-person survival horror game by Noah Pauw, released on Game Jolt in 2015 as pay what you want, with a gamepad edition added in 2016. It is built to take you back to the late 1990s, with dithered graphics, PS1-style music and a mix of static and moving camera angles.

Yamanashi Academy was a beloved school that became notorious for severe crimes committed there over three years. It closed officially in 1993, and the four teachers who committed the crimes all died within a month of the closure. Some believe their spirits are still inside. Hideo, who should have been among them but no longer knows why, is brought back after a long time to solve the mystery of the place, and five years of torture would make any man crazy.

To leave the school, Hideo has to find four keys, each with its own description and story. You walk him through dark, blood-soaked rooms and lantern-lit courtyards from fixed angles that hide what is around the corner, reading what he finds: a child's wheelchair where it should not be, a mannequin whose lower body is human. The maker promises that it will not go swimmingly.

It suits players who like Silent Hill-era fixed-camera horror and want a free take on it set in a Japanese school.

How to play Banned Memories: Yamanashi

Download Banned Memories: Yamanashi from Game Jolt (Windows; pay what you want), choosing the gamepad edition if you play with a controller.
Move Hideo with the arrow keys or WASD and examine things with Space or Enter.
Open the menu and inventory to equip and use what you find; Escape goes back, Q leaves the inventory.
Search Yamanashi Academy for the four keys, reading each one's story, and use them to leave.

Screenshots

Banned Memories: Yamanashi screenshot: Hideo seen from above on a wooden walkway hung with paper lanterns

Banned Memories: Yamanashi screenshot: a child's wheelchair on a bloodstained floor beside Hideo, with the text What would it be doing here

Banned Memories: Yamanashi screenshot: Hideo above a bloodied mannequin on a red floor, a key lying beside it

Tips

Examine everything: the descriptions of objects and keys carry the story.
Fixed cameras hide what is round the corner, so move carefully into each new view.
If you use a gamepad, take the 0.3.0 Gamepad Edition download.