Forgotten Hill Mementoes

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Five dark memories from a town full of grotesque secrets.

Platforms: PC, Mac, iPhone, Android
Stores: Steam, itch.io
Price: Paid
Rated: Very Positive on Steam (90% of 274 reviews); 4.7 out of 5 on the App Store (113 ratings); 4.5 out of 5 on Google Play (5,940 reviews)
Players: 1
Controls: Mouse: point and click
Made by: FM Studio
Released: 2018

Get it on Steam itch.io (Windows, macOS)App Store (iPhone, iPad)Google Play Forgotten Hill (maker's site)

What frightens Guided by an ancient spirit, you search the memories of Forgotten Hill's strangest residents in sepia rooms full of masked, grotesque figures, bloodied kitchens, open graves and severed body parts on display, solving puzzles to uncover each family's disturbing secret.
Content: gore, blood.

Forgotten Hill Mementoes is a first-person point-and-click horror puzzle game by FM Studio. Led by an ancient spirit, you go through five chapters of the town's past, each the story of one of its most mysterious residents, solving puzzles among grotesque characters and gruesome secrets.

About Forgotten Hill Mementoes

Forgotten Hill Mementoes is a horror puzzle game by FM Studio, the studio behind the Forgotten Hill series. It came out on Steam for Windows and Mac in March 2018 and is also on itch.io, the App Store and Google Play. It gathers five chapters: Buried Things, Run Run Little Horse, Love Beyond and Playground, first released as separate short Memento games, and a new last chapter, Mischief Night.

An ancient spirit leads you into the town's memory, through stories the makers describe as being about friendship, payback, love and secrets, and then to the night when the story seems to end and everything begins. Each chapter is set around one of Forgotten Hill's residents and their home: you click from view to view in first person, pick up items, combine them, and work out codes, dials and machines to move on.

The art is drawn in sepia tones with splashes of red, in a style close to the Rusty Lake games that several players mention. The residents are grotesque, many masked or misshapen, and the rooms hold a bloodstained kitchen floor, a bloody knife, open graves and severed hearts and brains set out on stands. A Steam reviewer warns that its horror and gore make it a poor pick for children or the squeamish.

It has a one-click hint system, text in nine languages, and achievements. Players praise its puzzles and dark backstory; some find a few rooms too dark and the pixel hunting tiring. It suits players who like Rusty Lake and Cube Escape and want more of that grim, puzzle-box style.

How to play Forgotten Hill Mementoes

Buy it on Steam or itch.io for Windows or Mac, or install it from the App Store or Google Play.
Pick a chapter and click around each scene in first person to look closer and move from view to view.
Pick up items, combine them in your inventory and use them on the world.
Solve the codes, dials and machines to open the way and uncover each resident's story.
Press the hint button if you are stuck.

Screenshots

A sepia kitchen with a pool of blood on the tiles and a bloody knife in the inventory

A pale mask surrounded by severed hands holding a heart, a brain and an eye on a dresser

Two graves at night in front of dark pine trees, one opened to show a skeleton

A wall puzzle with a portrait of a grinning old man, a dead plant on a pipe and three dials

Three red-eyed owls stare through a window beside a rail of hanging coats

Tips

Clues are often in another room: a painting or a note can give the code for a lock elsewhere.
Look over every corner of a dark room; some details are hard to see.
Try the chapters without hints if you want the no-hint achievement; players say it is fair once you learn the series' style.
Forgotten Hill's site has official walkthrough videos for every chapter.

Questions

How many chapters does Forgotten Hill Mementoes have?

Five: Buried Things, Run Run Little Horse, Love Beyond, Playground and Mischief Night.

Is Forgotten Hill Mementoes free?

It costs a small price on Steam and itch.io; on the App Store it is listed as free to download.

Is it scary or gory?

It is more grim and grotesque than jump-scary, with blood, body parts and masked residents in a drawn sepia style. A Steam reviewer warns it is not for children.

How long is Forgotten Hill Mementoes?

Each chapter is short; one Steam reviewer took about four hours for all five.

Is it like Rusty Lake?

Players often compare it to Rusty Lake: a first-person point-and-click puzzle game with a dark, surreal story and a similar drawn style.