Down Memory Lane

CONTENT WARNING (CLICK ME)

• Child neglect
• Offscreen, implied child abuse
• Drug usage and implied drug abuse
• Mentions of offscreen violence
• Mentions of past  homophobia and bigotry (not depicted)
• Emotional manipulation
• Verbal abuse
• On-screen car crash
• Mentions of blood and bodily harm

This game has music! Please redownload if it no audio plays in the menu screen.

STORY:

Charlie, a freelance photographer on a road trip to visit her highschool ex-girlfriend, finds the grumpy runaway schoolgirl, 'Jane Doe', hitchhiking on the a dark road.

Charlie offers the girl a ride, but little does she know that picking up that particular stray cat signals the start of an adventure she's not ready for...

Down Memory Lane follows our two often-disagreeing leads across 4 chapters with alternating POVs, as they meet various kinds of people.  From a sweet elderly couple to a boy forgotten in a hotel, each meeting impacts them and changes their worldview and opinion of each other, little by little.

Meanwhile, however, Charlie cannot stop thinking about her ex-girlfriend, Lottie, and how wonderful their days together were... 

...Or were they, really?

A story about finding home in unexpected places, moving on from the past, surviving, and most of all - remembering who you are.

          

FEATURES:

• Original artwork, including sprites, CGs, and item art
• Choices that determine how the story will end - will Charlie and Jane's road trip have a good ending, or a bad one...?
• In-engine animations: the characters run, jump, bounce, move, shake, fall, etc!
• Cinematic camerawork!
• 38k words of road trippin' goodness!
• A scrappy camper van named Vonny, who is part of the family!
• Angst. A whole lot of angst.
• It accidentally turned into psychological horror halfway through.

YOU SHOULD PLAY THIS IF...

• You enjoy stories with characters who are complete opposites, and how they maneuver their interactions and constant disagreements.

• You like narratives that slowly build up tension, bitterness, and unresolved issues between its characters.

• You've played Hydrangea, also written by me, and enjoyed its deep delving into psychological abuse, emotional manipulation, and the impacts of it.

TEAM 'DOWN MEMORY LANE':

Team lead, director, writer: Meiri

Producer:Rafe "Raxef" Altschuler

Art Director & CG Artist: Nevi

Character Designer: alwaysjmb

Sprite Artist & Final CG Artist: Syllphana

CG Artist: Cess

CG Artist: opellac

BG Artist: GlasswingGames

Item Artist: nimbusbird

GUI Artist: Abby Jocson/craboozled

Scripter & Programmer: Breezy

Playtesters:  Circus of Viv, Roxy S., Kristi "HusbandoGoddess" Jimenez

(To press: when talking about this game, please utilize 'Team Down Memory Lane' instead of 'Meiri Games'!)