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Before I Forget cover art

Before I Forget

3-Fold Games · 2020-07-16

SteamGOGAmazonMicrosoft Store

AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Apr 29, 2021 (Xbox One), Apr 29, 2021 (Xbox Series X|S), Apr 29, 2021 (Nintendo Switch), Jul 16, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jul 16, 2020 (Linux), Jul 16, 2020 (Mac)

A woman alone in a house. A mystery and a love story. Explore the present to uncover the past, in a short story of love and loss and a life well-lived. A narrative exploration game that examines a world where memories are constantly fading and jumbled.

88%
positive of 215 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (4 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$7.99
steam price (US)
Before I Forget is an exploration game developed and published by 3-Fold Games. It was originally released in 2020 as a Humble Original on personal computers and was ported to consoles a year later. It depicts the effects of Alzheimer's disease on a woman who is trying to recall her life.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 18 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 13% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 36% of 20,934 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 4.3k–9.7k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 215 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$1.99-75%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$1.99-75%
Microsoft Store$7.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.79 at IndieGala Store (2025-06-03) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $7.99 · on sale 98 of 145 observed days · $1.20 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
181820202026Week of 2020-07-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$7.99$0.792020-07-162026-09-252020-07-16 — best price $6.392020-08-17 — best price $7.092020-09-16 — best price $7.092020-10-19 — best price $7.092020-11-19 — best price $7.092020-12-29 — best price $5.772021-01-24 — best price $7.992021-02-25 — best price $6.292021-03-30 — best price $7.992021-05-01 — best price $7.992021-05-31 — best price $7.992021-07-27 — best price $6.692021-11-05 — best price $7.992021-12-30 — best price $7.992022-04-30 — best price $6.692022-08-07 — best price $7.992022-11-03 — best price $3.992023-01-09 — best price $3.992023-03-15 — best price $7.992023-05-06 — best price $4.432023-09-15 — best price $3.192023-11-16 — best price $6.292024-01-02 — best price $7.992024-03-02 — best price $1.992024-04-22 — best price $1.192024-07-30 — best price $7.992024-09-30 — best price $1.322024-11-27 — best price $1.992025-01-28 — best price $7.992025-04-04 — best price $1.322025-06-26 — best price $1.992025-08-14 — best price $0.792025-10-13 — best price $1.322025-12-03 — best price $7.992026-01-24 — best price $7.992026-03-18 — best price $2.002026-04-30 — best price $7.992026-07-09 — best price $1.992026-08-24 — best price $7.992026-09-25 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1712026-06-27 — 4 pageviews2026-06-30 — 11 pageviews2026-07-03 — 8 pageviews2026-07-06 — 3 pageviews2026-07-09 — 7 pageviews2026-07-12 — 3 pageviews2026-07-15 — 5 pageviews2026-07-18 — 8 pageviews2026-07-21 — 7 pageviews2026-07-24 — 7 pageviews2026-07-27 — 5 pageviews2026-07-30 — 4 pageviews2026-08-02 — 7 pageviews2026-08-05 — 9 pageviews2026-08-08 — 8 pageviews2026-08-11 — 10 pageviews2026-08-14 — 8 pageviews2026-08-17 — 5 pageviews2026-08-20 — 6 pageviews2026-08-23 — 4 pageviews2026-08-26 — 6 pageviews2026-08-29 — 8 pageviews2026-09-01 — 17 pageviews2026-09-04 — 7 pageviews2026-09-07 — 9 pageviews2026-09-10 — 7 pageviews2026-09-13 — 4 pageviews2026-09-16 — 5 pageviews2026-09-19 — 3 pageviews2026-09-22 — 6 pageviews2026-09-24 — 4 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

10
achievements tracked
75.6%
earned "From there to Andromeda"
60.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportCommentary availableFamily Sharing1 DLC

4 supported languages: English, French, German, Simplified Chinese

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2020-07-16 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)1,62086%10
Steam (Steam)21957%10
Switch (Nintendo)60%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

3DIndieShortCasualMysteryStylizedAdventureBeautifulEmotionalAtmospheric

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.

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