About Bad Memories
Bad Memories puts you back in your hometown after years away, forced to confront a childhood fractured by your mother's death and your father's spiral into alcoholism and self-destruction. You were a witness to the wreckage of that household, and it shaped you in ways you've tried to forget. The game traces how those early years rippled forward, the fights, the school trouble, the brushes with the law, and what happens when the distance you've built between yourself and that past finally collapses. My New Memories covers similar ground of memory and recovery, though Bad Memories leans harder into the weight of inherited trauma. Your choices steer which memories resurface and how the story unfolds, with some decisions even reshaping scenes you've already seen.
This is a story-heavy visual novel with psychology and mystery woven through the melodrama. The game includes adult content and features high-quality animations, many with alternate camera angles. You can play as a heterosexual man or a lesbian woman, each with their own narrative variations.
Bad Memories is in early access at version 0.9.5.2, available on Windows, macOS, Linux and Android in English and Simplified Chinese. The game has been in development since 2021 and suits players looking for character-driven fiction with real consequences, who don't mind replaying sections to see how different choices branch the story.
Developer's description
Imagine having to face old fears and buried memories, would you face them to get a better (and really naughty) life? Let’s find out!
This game is a story rich (adult) Visual Novel in which you either play as a hetero man or a lesbian woman who needs to get to grips with his or her past. Your decisions will influence the later parts of the game and can also change a few early scenes.
The past:
Your childhood became a mess, when your mom died when you were still a child, at the same time your father started drinking and seeing women… differently. When he found a new girlfirend, things slowly began to get out of hand.
But That Wasn’t the Only Thing That Changed.
As a witness to that lifestyle, you too did stupid things like fighting with other kids. You had trouble in school and problems with the law more then once, though you never crossed “the line”.
After your dad died, you hoped that things would change for the better, but instead they got worse, so you left your hometown and swore to never come back.
As time went on, you’ve managed to build a somewhat normal life, and all the past memories that seemingly had started to fade became foggy at best.
But will it stay that way?
- Story-Rich Visual Novel with elements of mystery, psychology, satire and a little bit of drama
- Play as male (hetero) or female (lesbian) hero!
- High quality images and animations
- Most animations have additional 3rd person view
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Version History
0.9.5.2 Latest
v0.9.5.2
Gallery Overhaul Beta (kind of)
Sorry, this is not a content update.
This time I have a Beta for you to test... well, kind of, it's not really a beta, since the content itself works, but I changed the Gallery code so much, it's basically a complete overhaul. I've tested everything and had a few other people try it by sending them the new gallery script and everything seems to work, but without updating the full game (several script-files have changed and some image names), I can't really be a 100% sure.
I've had a lot of trouble with the old gallery, the code was a mess (well it still is tbh, but it's a lot better than before xD) and it desperately needed an overhaul, so I did that, changed a lot of code, optimised a few things, shortened or combined some of the code, changed the design slightly, etc..
There are also a few new images and some I had to change/replace, since there was no possible way to get them without using the dev console, for those you might need to replay the specific scene for them to show up.
Aside from the gallery I've added 2 new animations and a few render to the latest Kat scene (male MC only for now). This is no content update, but since I had them done and ready I thought I'll include them as a small encouragement
Have fun and as usual, if you find any bugs or errors, let me know!
v0.9.5
- a little under 1000 render
- 24 animations
- fixed several issues with the gallery and I'm still working on expanding it's functionality,
- fixed issues with the naming option in the settings,
- added an option for how Jada calls the MC in game, so you can change it whenever you want,
- fixed and/or reworked parts of a few older scenes
v0.9.1
- Fixed several typos
- Fixed scenes triggering even when not on the corresponding route
- Fixed wrong scenes triggering at certain points
- added some additional renders and two animations to one specific scene
- added missing renders for two scenes (in one scene it was actually just the wrong image link)
v0.9
- ~1600 Render
- 24 Animations
- Several bug fixes and adjustments
- New settings
- Fixed and expanded some older scenes
- Removed the color picker, since it was more trouble than worth it (added other settings in it's place, nothin fancy though)
- I got most older saves to work again, but there will still be some that won't work and that won't change with the next update either.
v0.9b (leaked) Beta
Currently there are a little over 1400 renders and 23 animations for this update, but of course I'm still working on it, so there will be more.
There are several fixes included in the update, some adjustments, new settings, and I've also decided to remove the color picker for the text completely. It's just such a mess and causes more trouble than it's worth tbh.
There are still renders missing, and not all of the scenes are final, but overall, everything is mostly there, and it will give you a good look of what the full update is going to be.
As usual with beta's, expect bugs and maybe some weird stuff happening.
I can't guarantee everything working without such beta's.
I also can't guarantee save compatibility anymore from this point onwards, at least up until version 1.0 (we're at 0.9, so...), since I have to make several code changes for the final release, and will remove temp fixes I did ages ago for save compatibility between updates, those will be redundant in the final release.
Anyway, I hope you'll have fun testing the beta, and please report any bugs you might find.
v0.8.5
- 171 Render
- 10 Animations
- fixed the Gallery
- added new scenes from 0.8+ to the gallery
- reworked the Settings (aka preferences) menu
- added some QOL settings (see the settings menu)
- general QOL improvements
- fixed some code issues
- added italian and french languages (0.8, not updated to 0.8.5, yet)
v0.8.1
- fixed save file issue
- fixed some grammar
- added mac standalone
v0.8
- 972 Render
- 27 animations
- this time it's a more story focused update, but there are still some (new) naughty bits
- aside from the main story, there's also a pretty long (and hot) scene with Steph (the co-worker), and I can really only recommend to go for it, even if you didn't pursue her, yet.
- Gallery update will come at a later point, I haven't added the new scenes, yet.
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