Echo Market: Memory Trade
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YuanandreiDejuan made this on Mable.
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Trade memories to shape your identity, manage a spatial inventory of protective items, and navigate a city of moral choices to reach the Gate.
How to play
- Tap a glowing district on the map to enter it and trigger a story event.
- Read the scenario and choose an action, spending a specific percentage of your memory.
- Open your backpack to arrange odd-shaped items into the 5x5 grid to activate their effects.
- Survive the night phases where Echoes drain your memory, and gather enough identity anchors.
- Reach the Nameless Gate once you have three anchors to prove your final identity.
Controls
- Touch
- Tap to select districts, pick dialogue choices, and drag items into your backpack grid.
- Keyboard
- Not supported.
- Mouse
- Click to select districts, pick dialogue choices, and drag items into your backpack grid.
More about this game
In Echo Market: Memory Trade, your memories act as currency. You must bind at least three identity anchors by making four-way moral choices across five different city districts, spending your memory percentage to do so. As you make choices, your personality shifts between traits like Compassionate or Ruthless, and NPCs remember your actions. You must also manage a 5x5 spatial backpack to pack items that alter encounters. The run ends when you unlock the Nameless Gate, or if your memory drops to zero.
Tips
- Packing the three-block Ward Lantern in your 5x5 grid halves the default 7% memory cost taken by night Echoes during the later turns.
- Packing the single-block Memory Vial allows you to automatically recover 4% memory after making a risky trade in any district except the Gate.
- The final Gate choice normally costs 8% memory, but it costs 4% less if you acquire and pack the three-block Gate Key.
FAQ
- What happens if my memory reaches zero?
- If your memory drops to zero, or falls to 18% before you secure any identity anchors, your identity is completely erased and the game ends in failure.
- How do I get identity anchors?
- You gain identity anchors by making specific choices during district events, like helping Mara or the Ferryman. You need to gather at least three anchors to unlock the Nameless Gate.
- Why do night phases cost memory?
- The game cycles through Morning, Afternoon, Night, and Midnight. During the Night and Midnight phases, Echoes follow you and drain 7% of your memory unless you pack the lantern.
