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AMNESIA
AMNESIA
A story that takes place in a fictional world...
It was the 1st of August.
That morning, when she awoke, the heroine found herself without any memories from before August 1st...... Everything, from the sort of life she lived, to the relationships she had, was a blank......
A young boy named Orion appeared in front of her, referring to himself as a "spirit." Under Orion's guidance, the heroine began the struggle to regain her memories. She searched her house for clues about her everyday life, and received a message on her phone...
What was displayed on the screen was an unknown name to her.
Now, she is asked to meet with him, a boyfriend whose name and face she doesn't know. In a position where who to trust is uncertain, the heroine must move in a way that her memory loss remains undetected by her partner. Because of this, the story becomes tangled in complex ways.
With no memories of "him," our heroine will write a new love story starting today......
[Taken from the [official English website](http://ideafintl.com/amnesia/#/story)]
Consensus
7.8
5 ratings
Time to finish
29–36
hours
Platforms
6
win · ios · and
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5
5 public reviews
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13The Premise
A story that takes place in a fictional world...
It was the 1st of August.
That morning, when she awoke, the heroine found herself without any memories from before August 1st...... Everything, from the sort of life she lived, to the relationships she had, was a blank......
A young boy named Orion appeared in front of her, referring to himself as a "spirit." Under Orion's guidance, the heroine began the struggle to regain her memories. She searched her house for clues about her everyday life, and received a message on her phone...
What was displayed on the screen was an unknown name to her.
Now, she is asked to meet with him, a boyfriend whose name and face she doesn't know. In a position where who to trust is uncertain, the heroine must move in a way that her memory loss remains undetected by her partner. Because of this, the story becomes tangled in complex ways.
With no memories of "him," our heroine will write a new love story starting today......
[Taken from the [official English website](http://ideafintl.com/amnesia/#/story)]
14Cultural moment · release cadence
Japanese release
Original edition, shipped by the developer.
English release
English localization · 4 years after original.
16Platforms & editions
| Lang | win | ios | and | psp | psv | swi |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EN | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ES | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| JA | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| KO | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| PT-BR | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| RU | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| VI | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ZH-HANT | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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17Cast · anti-spoilered · 8 billed
Player-named otome protagonist who wakes on the first of August with no memories of her life and a spirit from another dimension standing beside her that no one else can see. The story is the five months it takes her to find out which life she is supposed to be living.
Brusque childhood-friend type with a short line from insult to honest care that takes the novel a little work to make visible. Heart suit · the default first read.
Magnetic café-staffing heartthrob with a supernatural charm curse he did not ask for. Spade suit · the loudest route, the quietest subtext.
Mathematics graduate student with a self-diagnosed difficulty reading rooms. Clover suit · the route the otome-genre readers remember best.
Childhood friend who has been watching over the heroine for longer than either of them can neatly explain. Diamond suit · the route with the sharpest pivot.
Dishevelled photographer who keeps turning up at the moments the story needs someone to ask a hard question. Joker suit · locked behind the four-suit cycle.
A small spirit only the heroine can see, and her closest source of counsel. Attached to her for reasons neither of them understand — stays across every route.
Manager of the Maid Café Meido no Hitsuji. Knows more about everyone's situation than he will admit in any single conversation.
Descriptors stay spoiler-safe — surface traits only. Full character pages ship alongside per-route spoiler gates in Phase 2.
18Content advisory
Sexual content
On-screen adult content flagged at the catalog level.
Violence
On-screen violence flagged at the catalog level.
Age rating
Rated 13+.
19Structural map · 5 routes · spoiler-safe summaries
~6h · 24 decisions · 3 endings
~6h · 24 decisions · 3 endings
~6h · 24 decisions · 3 endings
~7h · 24 decisions · 3 endings
~8h · 28 decisions · 2 endings
20Memorable · 4 spoiler-safe pulls
“A spirit from another dimension. You'll forgive me if that doesn't solve the problem of who I am, will you?”
“A spirit from another dimension. You'll forgive me if that doesn't solve the problem of who I am, will you?”
“I'm Orion. And you — whoever you are — are going to have to pretend you remember, for a little while.”
“Welcome to Meido no Hitsuji. It's a maid café. Don't let the name do too much work for you.”
“You don't look well. Are you eating? Did you sleep? Never mind — sit down.”
04What curators say
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4d ago
Amnesia: Memories is the otome I hand to people who think otome is a genre that can't hold weight. The amnesia premise is a Trojan horse — it lets the game test the same heroine against five different relationships, and the test is not "which boy does she end up with" but "what does she do when she doesn't recognise the life she woke up in."
Toma's route is the one that divides readers, and it should.
Toma's route is the one that divides readers, and it should. The game is not asking you to endorse the relationship. It is asking you to read it clearly. That's rarer in this genre than it should be.
@routes_and_endings
4d ago
The four-suit structure is the tidiest route architecture in the otome canon: Heart, Spade, Clover, Diamond, with Joker locked behind completion of the first four. Each suit corresponds to a world, not just a boy, and the heroine's amnesia carries different stakes in each — the routes are variations on a theme rather than parallel branches.
The Joker route is where the game shows its hand.
The Joker route is where the game shows its hand. Until you unlock it the framework feels schematic; after you play it, the schema turns out to have been load-bearing.
@mei_reviews
4d ago
Orion is the game's real protagonist and it takes the Joker route to admit it. The four-suit routes are each the heroine negotiating a relationship she does not remember choosing; Orion is the only figure present in all of them, and he is the one the game cannot let you forget.
Ukyo's route recasts the premise.
Ukyo's route recasts the premise. The loops are not narrative furniture; they are the thing being told. The game asks the heroine — and by extension the reader — what it means to keep waking up in the same life and making the same choices. The answer is not the romance.
@vn_archivist
4d ago
Shipping state: original PSP 2011, Vita port 2013, Aksys English release 2015 on Vita and PC, Switch 2021. The Aksys localisation is the canonical English read; Amnesia Later and Crowd are sequels, not expansions, and they ship separately.
Idea Factory / Otomate's output in this period is uneven; Amnesia is one of the stronger entries and probably the best first-otome for a reader who wants to understand the genre's grammar before tackling its longer books.
@catboy_jp
4d ago
The Aksys script is workmanlike. It is not as careful as their later otome releases (Collar × Malice, for example), and the cadence in Ikki's and Shin's routes flattens in places where the original carries more tonal shift between the boys' speech registers.
The heroine stays unnamed in English as she does in Japanese, which is a structural choice worth respecting — the player names her, and the cast refers to her obliquely. A localisation that had invented a default name would have unmade the premise. Aksys correctly left it alone.
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