Mentilus brain games
9 games built on classic memory tasks from psychology. Train short-term, working and visual memory in sessions of a few minutes.
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Memory is the skill you notice most when it slips. A name that escapes you seconds after an introduction, a shopping list that loses an item between the kitchen and the store, a PIN code that suddenly feels unfamiliar. Everyday life leans on your ability to hold and retrieve information, and that ability responds to practice.
Memory games give that practice some structure. Instead of vaguely resolving to "pay more attention", you work on recall in short, focused rounds with a score at the end. The score matters: it shows you where you stand, adapts the difficulty to your level, and makes progress visible from week to week.
If you want the fuller picture of how this works, our article how to improve your memory covers the habits and techniques that support memory beyond training games.
Short-term memory is the notepad of the mind: it holds a phone number or a sequence of directions just long enough to use them. Games like Sequence and Tile Recall stretch how much that notepad can hold and how long it keeps its contents readable.
Working memory goes a step further. You do not just hold information, you work with it while it changes. N Back, one of the most studied tasks in cognitive psychology, asks you to compare what you see now with what you saw a few steps ago. It is demanding, and that is the point.
Visual and spatial memory get their own workout in Shapes, Multi Memory and Moving Memory, where positions and patterns have to survive movement and distraction. And Faces trains the pairing most people say they struggle with: connecting a face to a name and keeping the pair intact.
Short and regular beats long and rare. A ten minute session most days of the week does more for your scores than an hour on Sunday. The games adapt to your level, so each round stays challenging without becoming discouraging.
Variety helps too. Rotating between recall, working memory and visual tasks keeps the training broad instead of drilling one narrow trick. Your personal dashboard tracks scores per game, so you can see which kinds of memory respond fastest and where the stubborn spots are.
One honest note: training improves the skills you practice, and research is still debating how far those gains carry into untrained tasks. We wrote about what the evidence does and does not show in why brain training.
Short-term memory holds information briefly, like remembering a code long enough to type it. Working memory holds information while you actively use or change it, like doing mental arithmetic. Our games train both, and working memory tasks such as N Back are usually the more demanding of the two.
A few short sessions spread across the week work better than one long sitting. Ten minutes a day is a solid rhythm, and it is what the Mentilus daily goal is built around.
You will reliably get better at the trained tasks, and the skills they exercise, like holding more items in mind, are used in daily life. Whether gains transfer broadly to untrained situations is still an active research question, so we prefer measurable progress on real tasks over big promises.
You can start playing for free without a credit card. A free account saves your scores and tracks your progress; a premium subscription unlocks the full set of games and training tools.
