A roguelike, turn-based strategy game, Unto Deepest Depths is the latest game from indie publisher, Flynn’s Arcade.

In Unto Deepest Depths, you’ll travel along a path of encounters that’ll be pretty familiar if you’ve played a roguelike game before, with combat taking place on a grid-based battlefield, setting your team against enemy units in turn-based fights.

Each unit must move and attack each turn; there’s no sitting still and waiting for your enemies to approach in this game, and you have to be careful not to injure your own units with your attacks!

Though you’ll start out with basic units, as you earn XP you can upgrade each unit type, with Knights becoming Archers for example, widening or entirely changing their combat options and movement style.

You can also upgrade each unit using XP, choosing paths on a skill tree; interestingly, these upgrades, such as health or combat improvements or bonuses, seem to stay in place even after you’re defeated, so even though you need to start a new run from the beginning once you’ve lost all your units, you start your new game with improved units each time.

A comprehensive tutorial teaches you the intricacies of the controls and combat, though in practice it’s incredibly straightforward. This isn’t a particularly deep strategy game, but it’s well worth learning what each unit can do, particularly as there’s a chess-like quality to movement among the variety of units available.

It can be brutally difficult at the outset with your basic units; on my first few attempts I barely lasted a few rounds of combat before being defeated. Yet despite this, the compelling nature of the almost board game-style gameplay (and the RPG-esque random events it also features) is compelling enough that you’ll try again, and with your units steadily upgrading as you progress, you’ll get a little further each time.

The minimalist audiovisual style of Unto Deepest Depths gives it a very retro aesthetic, and I found its deliberately lo-fi sounds and pixel art to be part of its charm. There’s a really solid game here, and if you can persevere through the initial, steep level of challenge, it’s definitely a rewarding experience.

Unto Deepest Depths is available from the 11th of December, 2025. Though I played it on Nintendo Switch (thanks to Flynn’s Arcade for providing the key for review purposes), it’s also available on Steam.

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