Desta: The Memories Between (2022) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Desta: The Memories Between

Desta: The Memories Between is a character-driven rogue-like, featuring an immersive story, strategic turn-based tactics and… a metaphorical ball-game?

80 27 September 2022

What Desta: The Memories Between is

Desta: The Memories Between is an indie game developed by Ustwo Games and released in 2022. It was published by Netflix. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Night after night, Desta finds themselves falling into the mysterious and seemingly endless Infinite Dream - filled with powerful, luminous orb-like balls, shattered remnants of locations past and relationships Desta’s wished went differently.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Desta: The Memories Between holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 65% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2022 averaged 74, so it scored 6 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Desta: The Memories Between launched on 27 September 2022, within three weeks of A Plague Tale: Requiem, Scorn, Return to Monkey Island and The Case of the Golden Idol. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 5 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: A Plague Tale: Requiem, Scorn, Return to Monkey Island, The Case of the Golden Idol.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer