A Memoir Blue
Developer Cloisters
Publisher Annapurna Interactive
Format PC, PS4, PS5 (tested), Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series
Release Out now
A planned iOS version was nixed, a surprise given how well-suited it is to a touchscreen. It’s been adapted for controllers – the triggers cycle between interactive objects – but it loses some of that explorative spirit as a result
W aves of nostalgia or memories flooding back? Either way, Shelley Chen’s ‘interactive poem’ feels like a metaphor taken literally. After a prologue in which medal-winning swimmer Miriam recoils from the attention of photographers clamouring for podium shots, a familiar tune on the radio causes her apartment to fill with water, this melancholic song of the sea sweeping her back in time as she sets off on an underwater journey through her past.