Memory Haunt
Tap to flip glitched memory cards and survive the screen corruption that comes with each match.
Flip two cards per turn to find pairs; each match overlays more cyberpunk glitch/horror on the screen until it's unreadable and you lose.
Tap to flip a card, tap a second to pair; pure one-thumb, no swiping required.
Cyberpunk-psychological-horror skin from Psychroma: pixel-art cards, neon palette, memory-card cyberpunk UI, 'the brighter the heat' glitch overlay as you progress.
Psychroma's 4.9/5 itch rating and queer-coded indie buzz around memory-as-gameplay loops make a micro card-flip horror instantly shareable on TikTok.
Memory-match core is a tired, low-stakes hook; the glitch-corruption overlay is the only novelty, and only adds stakes rather than a fresh verb — middling for hypercasual standards.
Glitch/VHS horror has TikTok precedent (Inscryption, Buckshot Roulette, Iron Lung-style aesthetics do well on short-form video), but the 'watch a screen slowly corrupt' format isn't inherently shareable the way a jump-scare loop is — no hard signal memory-match goes viral.Psychroma's developer site is now a parked domain for sale, suggesting the source trend referenced is stale and the '4.9/5 buzz' cannot be re-verified live. ↗
Tap-tap match-2 with a passive corruption shader is one of the cheapest hypercasual builds possible — well under a week's scope for a prototype.
Standard ad-supported model works (interstitials between rounds, rewarded ad to continue after corruption wipe), but card-match genre historically has lower session depth than merge/match-3, capping eCPM and LTV — no positive evidence of a breakout comparable.Psychroma itself never shipped a monetized mobile build (itch-only, now offline), so there is no live comparable to anchor revenue assumptions. ↗
Memory match / concentration is one of the most saturated mechanic families on both App Store and Play Store (thousands of low-quality entries) — the cyberpunk glitch wrapper is itself a crowded look post-2022 (CRT/VHS/analog-horror is heavily mined), leaving very little genuine whitespace.The cited trend source has lapsed (parked domain), undermining the 'why now' justification and reinforcing that the hook is reactive rather than riding a fresh wave. ↗