Comparison

SaGa Emerald Beyond vs Memory Wastes

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

SaGa Emerald Beyond

Embark on a unique adventure across 17 distinct worlds, each with its own culture and landscape. Choose from six protagonists, each with their own story arcs, and make choices that shape the narrative and lead to multiple endings. Engage in strategic turn-based battles with a refined combat system.

Highlights
  • 17 unique worlds to explore
  • Six distinct protagonists
  • Branching narrative based on choices
  • Strategic turn-based combat
  • Glimmer system for skill acquisition
  • United Attacks for chain combos
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The latest standalone entry in the SaGa franchise, SaGa Emerald Beyond, brings together the very best elements of the beloved series to offer each player their own unique gameplay experience. Make use of glimmers and combos in battle; meet a diverse cast of races, including monsters, mechs, and vampires; and experience your very own story, created through your choices and actions. Distant Worlds Woven Together: Travel to 17 unique worlds from the Junction, either led by the hand of destiny or by a path forged by your own choices. Discover the completely different cultures and landscapes, ranging from a densely developed forest of skyscrapers and a green and luscious habitat covered in plant life to a world governed by five witches, or one ruled by vampires - just to name a few of the distinct settings. An Eclectic Cast of Protagonists: Six leading characters, all from diverse backgrounds and with vastly different goals, set out on their journey in five unique story arcs. They venture to the myriad of worlds for their very own personal reasons: One, a human on a mission to protect the barrier defending his city; another, a witch trying to regain her lost magic while maintaining her disguise as a schoolgirl; and yet another, a vampire lord out to regain his crown and reclaim the throne as the rightful king of his world. Even selecting the same protagonist for a second--or third or fourth--playthrough will lead to completely new events and stories, a completely fresh path and experience. A Story of Your Very Own Making: SaGa Emerald Beyond has the greatest number of branching plots of any game in the SaGa series. The story branches abundantly depending on your choices and actions. Every time you visit a world, the story will evolve, allowing the protagonist and player alike to discover new possibilities. As the story unfolds in this way it becomes a tale all of your own, not only affecting the path you walk but also the multiple potential endings that await each protagonist. Battles where a Single Choice Can Change Everything: SaGa Emerald Beyond further refines the highly strategic Timeline Battles the SaGa franchise has been long renowned for. With series mainstays such as the skill to spontaneously acquire abilities through the Glimmer system, tactical ally placement known as Formations, and United Attacks that enable individual skills to connect together to form devastating chain attacks, it offers the best iteration of SaGa's turn-based combat to date. The new combat system adds more drama than ever before, allowing you to support party members, interrupt enemy actions, and use United Attacks by strategically manipulating the order of ally actions. The characters that join you, the weapons you wield, your party formation, and your tactics in battle - everything is up to you!

About

Memory Wastes

Embark on a post-apocalyptic survival RPG where you must scavenge, fight, and uncover fragmented history. Navigate complex factions, manage resources, and build your character to survive a world that has lost its past.

Highlights
  • Survival RPG mechanics
  • Scavenge for supplies
  • Combat enemies
  • Navigate factions
  • Recover lost knowledge
  • Character skill progression
Features
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You lost your memory in a world that lost its past. Survive the wastes, scavenge supplies, fight enemies, navigate factions and recover fragments of lost knowledge to piece together a history no faction remembers the same way. Travel between settlements, scavenge food, medicine, weapons and supplies, fight mutants, machines and hostile survivors, and manage the constant dangers of sickness, scarce resources and deadly journeys. Every faction has its own beliefs, interests and version of the past. Build relationships, earn trust, trade, complete quests and decide where your loyalties lie — but do not expect anyone to give you the whole truth. Knowledge is part of survival. Discover records, strange messages and fragments of lost information that reveal pieces of the world before the catastrophe. Different factions remember history differently, and the more you uncover, the more complicated the picture becomes. Build your character, improve skills and equipment, learn how enemies fight, explore dangerous locations and make each journey count. Death ends the current survivor’s run, but not everything you achieved is necessarily lost. Memory Wastes brings the depth and systems of a post-apocalyptic survival RPG to mobile without reducing the experience to a simplified mobile format. Survive the wastes. Recover what was forgotten. Decide what the past means when nobody remembers it the same way.

Screenshots

SaGa Emerald Beyond4 screens
Memory Wastes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Memory Wastes at Free against SaGa Emerald Beyond's $49.99. Memory Wastes also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.9). SaGa Emerald Beyond's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (15 vs 1). On ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Memory Wastes is free to download; SaGa Emerald Beyond costs $49.99 up front. Memory Wastes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. SaGa Emerald Beyond asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Memory Wastes holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SaGa Emerald Beyond has 15 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
SaGa Emerald Beyond versus Memory Wastes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSaGa Emerald BeyondMemory Wastes
Price$49.99Free — better
Rating2.9 (15 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews28.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings15 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.016.0
Further details — not scored
Size2.6 GB267 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperSQUARE ENIX Co., Ltd.Deep Tech Solutions FZ-LLC

In-app purchases

None

SaGa Emerald Beyond

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Memory Wastes

One-time1
  • Full Version$9.99

Questions

Is SaGa Emerald Beyond free?
SaGa Emerald Beyond costs $49.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Memory Wastes free?
Memory Wastes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, SaGa Emerald Beyond or Memory Wastes?
Memory Wastes is rated higher. SaGa Emerald Beyond averages 2.9 out of 5 from 15 ratings, while Memory Wastes averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do SaGa Emerald Beyond or Memory Wastes have ads?
Neither SaGa Emerald Beyond nor Memory Wastes shows ads.

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