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Developed By: Blacklight Interactive Published By: Team17 Catagories: Golf, Party Game Release Date: 05.19.20 Lets get this out of the way, I am terrible at minigolf. Terrible at it playing it in real life, and terrible at it while playing…
Continue readingRuinerNintendo Switch Developed By: Reikon GamesPublished By: Devolver DigitalCategory: Adventure, Action, StrategyRelease Date: 06.18.20 Ruiner for the Nintendo Switch is a fast-paced twin stick shooter/brawler featuring challenging, fast-paced gameplay. The title presumably derives from the fact that every time you…
Continue readingCatherine – Full Body Nintendo Switch Developed By : Studio Zero Published By : SEGA Category : Action, Puzzle, Narrative Release Date : July 7, 2020 It’s been nearly a decade since the original version of Catherine was released, playable…
Continue readingSummer in Mara Nintendo Switch Developed By : Chibig Published By : Chibig Category : Adventure, Simulation Release Date :Jun 16, 2020 It’s always nice to have a relaxing game that you can fall back on. Stardew Valley, Animal Crossing…
Continue readingThe last couple of months, you may have noticed a certain lack of positivity in the introduction to these roundshmups, mainly due to what can only be described as a paucity of big announcements. I feel it’s important not to…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Taito (original games), M2 (ports) Published By: ININ Games (Digital), Strictly Limited Games (Physical) Catagories: Shootemup, Retro Release Date: 06.16.2020 Darius Cozmic Collection Console Edition is the sister release to the Arcade Edition. This collection holds 9 games…
Continue readingDeveloper: Taito (original games), M2 (ports) Publisher: ININ Games (Digital), Strictly Limited Games (Physical) Catagories: Arcade, Shootemup, retro Release Date: 06.16.2020 In 2019, Taito would release Darius Cozmic Collection in Japan. This M2 developed compilation collects the first three Darius…
Continue readingDeveloped By: COWCAT Catagories: RPG, Roguelike, Dungeon Crawler, Shooter Release Date: 06.09.2020 Demon’s Tier + feels like a game made by people aiming for fun as a general mood. As if the small team all put a bunch of fun…
Continue readingStar Horizon Nintendo Switch Developed By : Orbital Knight Published By : No Gravity Games Category : Arcade, Space Combat, On-Rails Release Date : May 14, 2020 Us Nintendo fans are no stranger to the on-rails shooter. The original Starfox…
Continue readingTurmoil Nintendo Switch Developed By : Gamious Published By : Playdigious Category : Strategy, Simulation, Management Release Date : May 28, 2020 I used to have a very different mentality about simulation games. When I was younger I was absolutely…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Nomad Games Published By: Nomad Games Catagories: Tabletop, RPG Release Date: 03.09.2020 Talisman Digital Edition is the most recent in attempts to make videogames off of the Games Workshop tabletop series, specifically the fourth edition, which was released…
Continue readingLa-Mulana 1 & 2 Nintendo Switch Developed By : NIGORO Published By : NIS America Category : Metroidvania/ Action Adventure Release Date : Mar 17, 2020 There are many games that claim to be difficult, but not many of them…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Infuse Studio Published By: Merge Games and Signature Edition Categories: Adventure Release Date: 05.07.20 Spirit of the North is not a typical adventure game. There is no standard story to speak of, no dialogue, no text, no characters…
Continue readingSunless Sea Zubmariner Edition – Nintendo SwitchDeveloped By: Failbetter GamesPublished By: DigeratiCategory: Roguelike Strategy AdventureRelease Date: April 23, 2020 The sea can be an unforgiving place unless you’re prepared. Even if you think you are, the sea may still swallow…
Continue readingDeep Sky DerelictsNintendo Switch Developed By : Snowhound GamesPublished By : 1C EntertainmentCategory : Role-Playing, Strategy, CardRelease : Mar 24, 2020 Back in 2017, a new sort of genre began to gain a lot of attention, with roguelike deck-building. After a…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Granzella Published by: Nippon Ichi Software America Categories: Adventure, Survival Release Date: 04.07.20 The Following Review contains spoilers. March 10, 2011. The day Disaster Report 4 was to release in Japan. The game however would get delayed due…
Continue readingMinistry of BroadcastNintendo Switch Developed By : Ministry of Broadcast StudiosPublished By : HitcentsCategory : Pixel, Platformer, 2DReleaes Date : Apr 30, 2020 The future is a great unknown that just about everyone loves to speculate on, whether it be…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Psikyo (Original Games), Zerodiv (Ports) Published By: Nippon Ichi Software America Category: ShootemUp, Arcade Release Date: 01.21.20 Throughout the first year of the Switch’s release, a developer named Zerodiv had been publishing ports of a series of arcade…
Continue readingCurious ExpeditionNintendo Switch Developed By: Maschinen MenschPublished By: ThunderfulCategory: Adventure, Board Game, Simulation, StrategyRelease Date: 04.02.20 I have to question whether this is the proper political climate in which to make a game about stealing ancient cultural artifacts to impress…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Jump Over the AgePublished By: Fellow TravellerCategory: AdventureRelease Date: 03.04.2020 Everyone plays videogames for different reasons. Some play to adopt a different role, be that of a hero or villain. Others play for a personal challenge against a…
Continue readingDread NauticalNintendo Switch Developed By : Zen StudiosPublished By : Zen StudiosCategory : Turn-Based, RPG, StrategyRelease Date : Apr 29, 2020 Vacations are a pretty fantastic thing, getting to fly or sail off to some faraway place and leave your…
Continue readingConvoy: A Tactical RoguelikeNintendo Switch Developed By: Convoy GamesPublished By: Triangle StudiosCategory: Action, Adventure, Strategy, Role-PlayingRelease Date: 04.08.20 Is it ever a bad time for a strategy roguelike to hit the Switch? Yeah, I guess, if you’re already playing one….
Continue readingSuper Mega Baseball 3 Nintendo Switch Developed By : Metalhead Software Published By : Metalhead Software Category : Sports, Simulation, Arcade Release : May 13, 2020 Every year sees a constant flux of sports titles being released. Fully licensed versions…
Continue readingWith most of us still under some form of lockdown, it’s been, unsurprisingly, another slower than usual month in terms of shmup news and announcements. We did get a couple of decent releases, however, and with the upcoming schedule rather…
Continue readingTools Up! – Nintendo SwitchDeveloped By: The Knights of UnityPublished By: All in! GamesCategory: Puzzle Party GameRelease Date: December 03, 2019 Couch multiplayer has been enjoying a bit of a renaissance since it was pushed out of the way by…
Continue readingOperencia: the Stolen SunNintendo Switch Developed By: Zen StudiosPublished By: Zen StudiosCategory: Adventure, Dungeon Crawler, Role-PlayingRelease Date: 03.31.20 As much as I love RPGs – with a particular soft-spot for dungeon-crawling looters – I have something of a blind spot…
Continue readingHyperParasite Nintendo Switch Developed By : Troglobytes Games Published By : QubicGames Category : Action, Arcade, Roguelike, Twin-Stick Release Date : Apr 03, 2020 Roguelikes and twin-stick controls seem to go perfectly together, almost to the point that when these…
Continue readingTotally Reliable Delivery ServiceNintendo Switch Developed By: We’re Five GamesPublished By: tinyBuild GamesCategory: Multiplayer, Simulation, ActionRelease Date: 04.01.20 Have you ever wondered why UPS or the Post Office seems to muck up your package every single time? Totally Reliable Delivery…
Continue readingArchaica : The Path of Light Nintendo Switch Developed By : Two Mammoths Published By : Drageus Games Category : Strategy, Puzzle Release Date : Apr 24, 2020 I think one thing most gamers can agree on, is that forcing…
Continue readingFUZE4 Nintendo SwitchNintendo Switch Developed By : FUZE TechnologiesPublished By : FUZE TechnologiesCategory : EducationRelease Date : Aug 30, 2019 While we usually review games at The Switch Effect, FUZE4 Nintendo Switch (yes, that’s the full name) is something a…
Continue readingDamaged in TransitNintendo Switch Developed By : EverookPublished By : EverookCategory : Puzzle, ActionRelease : Apr 23, 2020 Puzzle games are a genre that are tried and true. As many games as there have been, it’s pretty hard to introduce…
Continue readingCat Girl Without Salad : Amuse BoucheNintendo Switch Developed By : WayForwardPublished By : WayForwardCategory : Indie, Bullet Hell, ArcadeRelease Date : Apr 01, 2020 A number of years ago, WayForward jumped in with Humble Bundle and released a fake…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Shockwork GamesPublished By: No Gravity GamesCategory: Strategy, Stealth, RPGRelease Date: 03.13.2020 God is dead, apparently. Nietzsche’s famous quote is taken literally in stealth-strategy Alder’s Blood where the old god is dead and from his corpse darkness envelops the…
Continue readingCan Androids PrayNintendo Switch Developed By : Strange ScaffoldPublished By : aPriori DigitalCategory : Narrative, Visual NovelRelease Date : Apr 16, 2020 While heavy narrative games, and even visual novels, don’t offer the extensive gameplay that some players seek, they…
Continue reading7th Sector – Nintendo SwitchDeveloped By: Sergey Noskov/Sometimes YouPublished By: Sometimes YouCategory: Puzzle AdventureRelease Date: February 05, 2020 Many versions of our potential future are painted as dystopian and with good reason, as utopias are usually not as interesting with…
Continue readingTharsisNintendo Switch Developed By : Choice ProvisionsPublished By : QubicGamesCategory : Simulation, StrategyRelease Date : Apr 11, 2020 Exploration can be a tricky thing. Whether you have your destination in mind or not, sometimes things go according to plan and…
Continue readingSnakeybus Nintendo Switch Developed By : Stovetop Published By : Digerati Category : Racing, Puzzle, Action Release Date : Apr 02, 2020 As a kid, most of us harbor dreams of what we wanna do when we grow up. For…
Continue readingBubble Bobble 4 FriendsNintendo Switch Developed By: TaitoPublished By: ININ GamesCategory: Action, Arcade, Multiplayer, PartyRelease Date: 03.31.20 The Bubble Bobble series has a long and storied history on both arcades and home console, and I have never engaged with it…
Continue readingSo, the lockdown goes on and a lot of people are dusting off all their consoles old and new to pass the time with a bit of classic gaming. But if shmups are your thing, your Switch may well act…
Continue readingExit the Gungeon Nintendo Switch Developed By : Dodge Roll Published By : Devolver Digital Category : Roguelike, Platformer, Bullet-Hell Release Date : Mar 17, 2020 A few years ago, the world was introduced to an amazing top-down dungeon crawler,…
Continue readingStreets of Rage 4Nintendo Switch Developed By: Dotemu, Lizardcube, Guard Crush GamesPublished By: DotemuCategory: Arcade, Action, Brawler, MultiplayerRelease Date: 04.30.20 The 90’s Console Wars have been over for two decades – I mean, so have the 90’s, so that makes…
Continue readingibb & obbNintendo Switch Developed By: SparpweedPublished By: CodeglueCategory: Puzzle, Platformer, MultiplayerRelease Date: 03.05.20 ibb & obb for the Nintendo Switch is a collaborative effort between developers Sparpweed and Codeglue. It’s an inventive, colorful, and fun multiplayer puzzle-platformer that sees…
Continue readingAvoCuddle Nintendo Switch Developed By : Fistik Tech Published By : Ultimate Games Category : Platformer, Adventure Release Date : Mar 02, 2020 True love can be found just about anywhere, and by anybody. Could be in a dark corner…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Retroid InteractivePublished By: Retroid InteractiveCategory: Platformer, PuzzleRelease Date: 03.05.2020 2D platformers would be an easier genre to break into if there weren’t so many long-standing players in the game. Distinguishing yourself from the pack in one of the…
Continue readingMystic ValeNintendo Switch Developed By: Nomad GamesPublished By: Nomad GamesCategory: Board Game, Multiplayer, StrategyRelease Date: 03.12.20 My gaming experiences tend to stay within the bounds of the virtual realm, so I’m not overly familiar with deck building games. I’ve played…
Continue readingUnderheroNintendo Switch Developed By: Paper Castle GamesPublished By: DigeratiCategory: Action, Adventure, Platformer, Role-Playing GameRelease Date: 02.13.20 In today’s world, selfless, intrepid heroes are a dime a dozen. Fate chooses all kinds of brave kids with scarves or capes and gives…
Continue readingDouble Dragon & Kunio-kun : Retro Brawler BundleNintendo Switch Developed By : Arc System WorksPublished By : Arc System WorksCategory : Action, Sports, Fighting, CollectionRelease Date : Feb 20, 2020 For as long as I’ve played Nintendo consoles, I always…
Continue readingEdgar: BokBok In BoulzacNintendo Switch Developed By: La Poule NoirePublished By: La Poule NoireCategory: Adventure, PuzzleRelease Date: 02.26.20 In the life of a reviewer, there’s a lot to be said for a short, sweet, but still complete experience. Edgar: Bokbok…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Static DreamsPublished By: No Gravity GamesCategory: Puzzel, PlatformerRelease Date: 02.21.2020 Since opening its doors to indie developers, Nintendo Switch has become an attractive home for mobile ports and similar titles. Although the market is a bit saturated, it’s…
Continue readingKnights and Bikes – Nintendo SwitchDeveloped By: Foam Sword GamesPublished By: Double Fine ProductionsCategory: Story-Based AdventureRelease Date: February 06, 2020 We are in a golden age of storytelling in videogames. Never have we had it so good and the good…
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