Comparison

Always Remember Me vs Where's Tess

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Always Remember Me

Guide a woman through a life simulation and dating sim experience. Make choices to help her rebuild a relationship or find new love. Explore a detailed town and manage her daily life to achieve her romantic goals.

Highlights
  • Life simulation gameplay
  • Dating sim elements
  • Explore a detailed town map
  • Time and day-based actions
  • Skill-based relationship building
  • Multiple dateable characters
Features
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Amy is desperate! Her boyfriend Aaron doesn't remember her anymore after a car accident! Will you be able to make him remember again? Or perhaps it's time to move on. Maybe Amy will fall in love with someone else? It's up to you to decide. Play this life simulation game with dating sim elements and shape Amy's destiny. Featuring a very detailed life simulation game. Explore the town using the map, find what actions you can do on each location and at which day of the week and time of the day. It's a real living world, where you must find the right strategy to raise the skill needed to win the heart of each of the four dateable boys: Aaron, Lawrence, Eddy and Hugh.

About

Where's Tess

Embark on an offline adventure as an aspiring travel blogger. Explore global destinations, meet new people, and make choices that shape your journey and love life. Become a style icon and build your online following in this anime-style visual novel.

Highlights
  • Travel the world and visit famous landmarks
  • Meet and interact with new characters, including romance options
  • Discover diverse cultures and traditions
  • Style your character with fashionable outfits
  • Become a real blogger and gain fans
  • Experience an engaging storyline with choices and consequences
  • Offline gameplay
Features
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Where's Tess is available in English, Russian, Latin American Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese. Where's Tess is an offline adventure story in the visual novel genre in the style of anime and sim game about becoming the ultimate travel blogger and influencer. We are nothing but our dreams and desires, aren’t we? But are you brave enough to chase the dreams and to fight for them? Make your own choices and decisions in your fantastic adventure! Our heroine surely is! Tess decides to quit unloved job and to go on a journey around the globe trying to become the ultimate travel blogger. It wasn’t an easy decision, but new places and people make girl’s heart beat faster. She wants to be famous, she wants to make friends, she wants to be loved! Would Tess succeed with these uneasy goals? Sure, with your help! FEATURES Travel the World! You will visit amazing places like the Batu Caves in Kuala Lumpur, the Eiffel Tower in Paris or the beaches across Thailand. Don’t forget to take enough photos! Do what you want! Make every episode of your life amazing and create your own love story! Meet new people! While travelling you will meet lots of new people and some of these dates will be filled with romance. Chat with them, go to parties, make some friends or even fall in love! Every decision and every choice will lead to different consequences. Discover new cultures! All countries have their own story, traditions and values. Taste new food, sing different songs, explore cultural assets. Broaden your horizons during your adventure! Add some cultural diversity to your life! Be in style! Famous people are always in focus. Put up a good show and choose the best clothes for every situation: evening dresses, splendid jewelleries and branded goods will definitely help! You can make your love story glamorous. Become real blogger! You will gain fans and interact with them through different social apps and networks within the game. Share your thoughts with the subscribers — they will definitely love you! Enjoy exciting plot! Ups and downs await Tess in every episode, fulfilling the dream has never been easy. Every chapter of her life brings quirks of fate, rich characters with their own goals and secrets, and the real life challenges of becoming a blogger will amaze you! Constant Updates! New journeys and adventures come with new episodes and constant updates. More characters, places, clothes and fans in every chapter! This is an offline game and you don’t need to use Wi-Fi to play it! Want to find more about Tess? Discuss her latest romance? Or send her best regards? Then don’t forget to follow Tess on social media and discuss all her adventure: Official Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/whereistess Official Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whereistesslovenotes/ Official X: https://x.com/wherestessnotes Official Discord: https://discord.gg/gm7JSspgGv

Screenshots

Always Remember Me4 screens
Where's Tess4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Where's Tess at 4.3 against Always Remember Me's 3.5. Where's Tess also leads on review sentiment (72% vs 45%) and ratings volume (58 vs 10). Always Remember Me's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Always Remember Me sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Where's Tess sells 20 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Where's Tess holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Where's Tess has 58 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 45% of Always Remember Me's written reviews are positive against 72% of Where's Tess's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Always Remember Me ships an update every 5 weeks, Where's Tess monthly. The most recent releases landed on August 26, 2026 and September 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Always Remember Me versus Where's Tess: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAlways Remember MeWhere's Tess
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (10 ratings)4.3 (58 ratings) — better
Positive reviews45.5% of reviews72.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1058 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksMonthly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size108 MB594 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperCelso RivaLuminaire Games LLC

Customer experience

Always Remember Me

All ratings10 ratings
Positive60.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative30.0%
Written reviews44 reviews
Positive45.5%
Neutral29.5%
Negative25.0%

Where's Tess

All ratings58 ratings
Positive81.0%
Neutral8.6%
Negative10.3%
Written reviews36 reviews
Positive72.2%
Neutral8.3%
Negative19.4%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Always Remember Me

One-time2
  • Extra money2 variants$0.99
  • Unlock the full game$4.99
20 purchases

Where's Tess

One-time20
  • Premium Pass2 variants$0.99
  • Dream Influencer season 1$0.99
  • Start your Journey$0.99
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  • Dream Influencer season 3$0.99
  • Dream Influencer season 2$0.99
  • Just you & me$1.99
  • Business Class$1.99
  • Start your Journey$1.99
  • Business Pass$2.99
  • First Class$4.99
  • First Class$5.49
  • Flawless Fashionista$5.99
  • Ultimate Star$5.99
  • Deluxe Journey$5.99
  • Just you and me$5.99
  • Flawless Fashionista$6.99
  • Jet Set$7.99
  • Jet Set2 variants$9.99
  • Top Traveler$9.99
  • Ultimate Star$9.99

Questions

Is Always Remember Me free?
Always Remember Me is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Where's Tess free?
Where's Tess is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Always Remember Me or Where's Tess?
Where's Tess is rated higher. Always Remember Me averages 3.5 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while Where's Tess averages 4.3 from 58 ratings.
Do Always Remember Me or Where's Tess have ads?
Where's Tess shows ads; Always Remember Me does not.
Which is updated more often, Always Remember Me or Where's Tess?
Always Remember Me ships an update every 5 weeks, and Where's Tess monthly. Most recently, Always Remember Me was updated on August 26, 2026 and Where's Tess on September 7, 2026.

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