Path to Mnemosyne vs Shimmers
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Path to Mnemosyne
Embark on a journey through your mind to solve imaginative puzzles and recover lost memories. This game features a mysterious story, minimalist script, and a unique graphic style with disturbing sounds for a bizarre and memorable experience.
- Imaginative puzzles
- Mysterious story
- Minimalist script
- Disturbing sounds and graphics
- Open narrative
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Walk the path, explore your mind and recover all lost memories by solving dozens of imaginative puzzles. A mysterious story, a minimalist script and disturbing sounds and graphics, will make Path to Mnemosyne a bizarre and memorable gameplay experience for any player. Will you be able to reach the end of the path? Features: Overwhelming graphic style. Atmosphere that plays with your senses. Dozens of puzzles to solve. Simple controls, challenging challenges. Open narrative.
Shimmers
A cozy indie game where you travel through time and space to identify mysterious characters using limited questions and guesses. Collect identified characters in your Temporal Codex. Subscription offers increased encounters and ad-free play.
- Time and space travel
- Character identification gameplay
- Limited questions and guesses
- Collect characters in Temporal Codex
- Unique character rarities and traits
- Subscription for enhanced features
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Delve into the world of Shimmers! In this cosy indie game, you hop through time and space to meet different unknown Shimmers. The Shimmers you meet could be anyone from all of human history, fiction and folklore. It's up to you to talk to this unknown Shimmer, and to use up to three open questions and guesses to slim down the infinite options to just one. Be careful though: Shimmers are slippery and cunning, and will flee to never be seen again should you guess wrong too many times. In addition, you only get one new Shimmer encounter per 3 hours, and can only save up to 5 encounters. Make those guesses count! Each Shimmer will have a unique rarity, as well as unique traits. Some Shimmers may even have unique emotions that will seep through in everything they say. Once you have found and identified a Shimmer, you add them to your Temporal Codex for safekeeping. Are you knowledgeable and nimble enough to meet and identify all Shimmers? Shimmers+ Can't get enough of playing Shimmers? Subscribe to Shimmers+ to drastically increase the amount of Shimmer encounters you save up (15 instead of 5), increase the rate of new Shimmer encounters (a new encounter every 1 hour instead of 3), meet unique Shimmers only available to Shimmers+ members, and enjoy an experience without any ads. Why a subscription rather than a one time purchase? Because keeping Shimmers in the air requires running costly servers now and in the future. We are so thankful for your support! IMPORTANT NOTE: the Shimmers (persons) you talk to in the app are not real whatsoever, and are modeled by AI algorithms. Terms of Use By downloading and using Shimmers, you agree to our Terms of Use, as outlined in the standard Apple EULA. Please review the terms carefully at the link below: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Shimmers at Free against Path to Mnemosyne's $3.99. Shimmers also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Path to Mnemosyne's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On update cadence and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Shimmers is free to download; Path to Mnemosyne costs $3.99 up front. Shimmers sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month. Path to Mnemosyne asks for nothing beyond the download.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly fortnightly. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Path to Mnemosyne | Shimmers |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | — | 3.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 30.4% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 367 MB | 129 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 17+ |
| Developer | DevilishGames | Jochem Kleine |
Customer experience
Path to Mnemosyne
Shimmers
In-app purchases
Path to Mnemosyne
No in-app purchases
Shimmers
- Shimmers+$1.991 Month
Questions
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