Fight turn-based dodgeball battles inside your own brain in this brilliantly tactical roguelike.
You'd be forgiven for never having heard of Desta: The Memories Between—it was released for mobile in September last year, and hidden away on Netflix's very good but overlooked mobile app. But you shouldn't let it pass you byTaking place in the dreams of the titular Desta, the game plays out as a surreal roguelike, where you fight turn-based battles that explore the character's mind, memories, and relationships.
But the turn-based structure ensures it's not a game just of aim and reflexes—it's a careful test of strategy, where positioning your characters around the tight maps to outmanoeuvre your opponents is key. Your heroes can only take a handful of hits before they go down, forcing you to balance pushing forward to attack with leaving them in a position safe from reprisal when they end their turn.
Throw in each character's special powers—from teleportation to handing out buffs with their passes—as well as an increasingly tricky roster of enemy types, and the result is a strategy game with depth and bite beyond what you might expect given its warm, friendly look. Indeed, Desta: The Memories Between does have a very different tone to your average strategy game or roguelike—far from being about death and war, it's a story about untangling and coming to terms with your feelings towards yourself and others. If I tell you the scariest enemy in the game is your own mother, you can probably understand what it's going for.
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