Deja Me your past moves are everyone’s problem

November 11, 2026

Deja Me: Dodge Your Past is a new Android arcade game where surviving creates more trouble for you later. Every ten seconds, a ghost appears and repeats your previous movements. Keep going long enough and the screen fills with copies of yourself, all following routes you probably wish you’d planned better.

The game is published by ZAZU Studios, with Google Play identifying South African developer Uthmaan Ramathoolal behind the account. In the launch announcement, the creator describes Deja Me as a solo project and their first game on Google Play.

Your own worst enemy

You control a glowing dot by dragging anywhere on the screen, collecting sparks and avoiding ghosts. Contact normally ends the run, while narrowly slipping past a ghost earns bonus points.

The interesting part is that these obstacles replay your movements. A route that gets you safely through the current crowd becomes another moving hazard later. You’re effectively contributing to your own difficulty curve.

Three power-ups offer some breathing room. Freeze stops the ghosts, Fade removes your oldest ghost, and Shield lets you survive a hit. Collected sparks can be spent on upgrades for these abilities and Power-up Luck.

Google Play Games is supported and adds a global Best Score leaderboard, friend comparisons and cloud saving. The latter stores your sparks, upgrades and unlocks so they can follow you to another phone. The core game also supports offline play.

About the ads

According to the launch post, there are no banner ads and no ads during your first three games. After that, automatic ads are limited to at most one every three games. Separate rewarded ads are optional and offer extra sparks or a continue.

The dev also asks for feedback on the controls, frustrations and future additions. For a first release, the central idea is easy to grasp. Give it a try.