Despelote is a game about soccer, but also about memory. It’s one of the year's most important and resonant games, and you can finish it in an afternoon. My mom would make me sit outside and forego video games when she did yard work, so I’d draw my own Pokémon inspired by everything I could see in the yard. It’s a universal message filtered through the real life of one of the game’s creators, Julián Cordero. Only a video game could achieve something like this, and that’s why games like Despelote are important.