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Warsaw for the Nintendo Switch puts players in charge of a cell of resistance fighters during the Warsaw Uprising in the closing days of World War II. Players have to survive 63 brutal days of the Uprising’s desperate plan to free Warsaw from Nazi occupation, only for the terrible reality of the Uprising’s end to take place anyway.
Continue readingDeveloped By: MrCiastku Published By: No Gravity Games Categories: First Person, Horror, Adventure Release Date: 11.13.20 You’ve heard it before. It’s a first person horror game where you’re defenseless. In Apparition, you control a paranormal investigator, who’s also a filmmaker,…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Atelier Mimina Published By: Nippon Ichi Software America Categories: Adventure, Rhythm, Indie Release Date: 08.25.20 Consider me shallow, but I’m drawn to games that have a cute artstyle. Not to the point where it gets into a generic…
Continue readingDeveloped and Published By: Dmytro Derybas Categories: Platformer, Action Release Date: 10.7.20 You would think that after the sea of uber-hard, twitchy platformers, I’d be sick of them. Turns out, all it takes is to have a nice artstyle and…
Continue readingThe Publisher of two of my favorite games, West of Dead (which I previously reviewed) and Dandara, have brought gamers Art in Heart’s sequel to Gonner, Gonner2. I have never played Gonner (pronounced goner or gunner?) but based on the…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Indieszero Published By: SquareEnix Categories: RPG, Rhythm Game Release Date: 11.13.20 I like rhythm games. I like Kingdom Hearts. I also like Kingdom Heart’s music. Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory is a mixture of all three and I…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Grasshopper Manufacture (Original) Engine Software (Port) Published By: Marvelous XSeed Categories: Action, Retro Release Date: 10.28.20 No More Heroes 2 is a bit of a difficult game to really compare to the first. It does so many things…
Continue readingDeveloped: Team17 Published By: Sold Out Software Categories: Survival Release Date: 10.9.20 The Survivalists starts out pretty decent. After an understandably long loading screen setting everything together, you wake up on a tropical island. The game explains the mechanics rather…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Migami Games Published By: No Gravity Games (Digital) VGNY Soft (Physical) PixelHeart (Physical) Categories: Platformer, Shooter Release Date: 10.29.20 My first impression for Wallachia, knowing it’s developer’s history is that I’d be playing a neat indie Castlevania clone,…
Continue readingEnter a desolate landscape and set out on an adventure as a creation taking on the roll of creator in World for Two.
Continue readingHave you ever played an RPG and spent so much time on side quests that you forgot what the main story quest was about? Well, good news: Weakwood Throne has got you covered; there really doesn’t seem to be anything other than side quests here!
Continue readingDeveloped By: Grasshopper Manufacture (Original), Engine Software (Port) Published By: Marvelous (Xseed) Categories: Action, Job Simulator Release Date: 10.29.20 Composer: Masafumi Takada Back when it came out in 2008 in the US, No More Heroes was seen as a bit…
Continue readingDeveloped By: FreakZone Games Published By: Screenwave Media Categories: Retro, Platformer Release Date: 10.30.20 Content Warning: The following review will include profanity, the images will include both profanity and mature imagery. For people in the youtube scene for the better…
Continue readingA four-way melee fighting game is always going to draw comparisons to the granddaddy of the genre, Super Smash Bros. And on paper, Bounty Battle for the Nintendo Switch looks like it could have what it takes to compete in the space.
Continue readingDeveloped By: Kitty Calis, Jan Willem Nijman, Terri Vellmann, Doseone Published By: Devolver Digital Composed By: Doseone Categories: Disc Dodger Release Date: 10.22.20 Run from the discs. Run into the discs. Gain powers and then run. Rinse. Repeat. Disc Room is this in…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Running With Scissors Published By: MD Games Publishing Categories: Twinstick Shooter Release Date: 10.16.20 You ever know a kid that’s always joking about violence, death, inflicting it on others, or just really off-color things? The super edgy one….
Continue readingDeveloped By: Wayforward Published By: Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment Categories: RPG Release Date: 11.03.20 Bakugan: Champions of Vestroia is possibly the most disappointing game I have played this year. It is in all intents and purposes a game that developer…
Continue readingI don’t know when exactly, but somewhere along the way movie tie-in games stopped being almost universally cheap cash grabs. I mean, sure, some still are, but a lot end up like today’s entry: Jurassic World Evolution: Complete Edition for the Nintendo Switch. Maybe it’s not the most original game on the planet, but it does an excellent job adapting its source material in a genre that maybe isn’t the most natural sell for most licensors.
Continue readingDeveloped By: WayForward Categories: Adventure, Metroidvania Composer: Jake “Virt” Kaufman Release Date: 10.15.20 Almost exactly ten years ago, Shantae: Risky’s Revenge, a game long in development was released for DSiWare, which at the time was Wayforward’s only feasible way to…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Aggro Crab Games Published By: Team17 Categories: Roguelike, Employment Release Date: 09.24.20 Going Under might hit a bit close to home for people who’ve ever had been in a “Toxic Positivity” kind of job. Higher ups push for…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Indoor Astronaut Published By: Daedalic Entertainment Categories: Multiplayer, Train Building, Co-Op Release Date: 09.23.20 Unrailed isn’t quite the deepest game, but I found myself having difficulty placing it down. Not once at any time that I failed in…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Megacat Studios Published By: Graffiti Games Categories: Platformer, Shooter, Eater Release Date: 08.13.20 Bite the Bullet is a gross game. Almost feels like something out of Troma at times gross. It’s ugly, it’s meaty, and disgusting. But that’s…
Continue readingThe developers have crafted bizarre and off-beat music combined with unpleasant creatures and used them to introduce an interesting title into the fray. Not a perfect storm, but very easily a must own for anyone looking to try something new.
Continue readingSnake is easily one of the most-copied games on the planet. There have to be hundreds of clones on mobile platforms alone. Today’s game, Snake King for the Nintendo Switch, throws its hat in the ring with what it hopes is an interesting new wrinkle to the formula. Unfortunately, interesting is not a word I’d use to describe Snake King.
Continue readingInertial Drift – Nintendo SwitchDeveloped By: Level 91 EntertainmentPublished By: PQubeCategory: Arcade RacerRelease Date: September 11, 2020 The nineties played host to many arcade racing greats such as Sega Rally and Ridge Racer. Both series featured detailed 3D textured cars…
Continue readingCircuit DudeNintendo Switch Developed By : Jonathan HolmesPublished By : Sickhead GamesCategory : Puzzle, StrategyRelease Date : Sep 07, 2020 Puzzle games can be some of the simplest or the most complex games to hit any console, and that’s speaking…
Continue readingCelebrate the stealth killer soiree with Party Hard 2. Hamper the enjoyment of the filth of a city with multiple weapons, and an environment ripe for exploitation.
Continue readingDeveloped By: Hinterland Games Categories: Survival Release Date: 09.17.20 Lets get this out of the way, The Long Dark does a great job at being a hardcore survival game. The game really shows the care the developers put into it,…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Hello There Games Published By: Wired Productions Categories: Rhythm Game Release Date: 9.8.20 Before playing AVICII Invector, I wasn’t a fan of AVICII’s music. After playing it, I’m not still not quite a fan of majority of the…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Rainbow Studio Published By: THQ Nordic Categories: Racing Release Date: 09.01.20 Rainbow Studio’s MX vs. ATV series is the one racing game franchise that refuses to die. I remember the first game fifteen years ago, thought it was…
Continue readingI love GI Joe. I had dozens – maybe even over a hundred – of their action figures growing up, and a couple dozen vehicles to boot. It’s hard to say whether GI Joe, TMNT, or the X-Men was the most important franchise of my childhood, but it’s neck-and-neck-and-neck between them. So, obviously, when GI Joe: Operation Blackout for the Nintendo Switch came up for selection in the Switch Effect’s review queue, I abused my position as second-most-senior-member-after-Mike to jump to the head of the line and snag it.
Continue readingGleamlight is kind of like Hollow Knight, only more colorful and slightly fae-steampunk. The first key difference, though, is the complete lack of narrative or instruction—I actually sat watching the little circle of illumination around a sword stuck in the ground for a minute when I first started the game, expecting some opening cinema, until I started realizing I was supposed to do something!
Continue readingMini Motor Racing X Nintendo Switch Developed By : The Binary Mill Published By : The Binary Mill Category : Racing, Arcade Release Date : Sep 17, 2020 Games as a whole have come a long way since the 8-bit…
Continue readingHere Be Dragons for the Nintendo Switch is a game I’m desperate to love for its charming visual style, original premise, and genuinely witty writing – but its gameplay keeps getting in the way.
Continue readingAt first glance, Immortal Realms: Vampire Wars for the Nintendo Switch gives off some pretty big 4X strategy game vibes. That’s a genre I happen to love on PC, but it’s proven tough to translate that interest to console.
Continue readingRollercoaster Tycoon 3 comes to the Nintendo Switch remaster and complete with the Soaked! and Wild! expansions.
Continue readingDeveloped By: Calappa Games, Nussoft Published By: Mastiff, Physicality Games (Physical) Categories: Fighting Game Release Date: 09.15.20 Have you ever dreamed of watching or even making a handful of crabs fight eachother? Well dream no more, as the aptly named…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Kaizen Gameworks Published By: Fellow Traveller Composer: Barry “Epoch” Topping Categories: Visual Novel, Adventure, Investigation Release Date: 09.04.2020 I hate to use the term Style over Substance for a game. It seems to imply that there’s a real…
Continue readingSpinchNintendo Switch Developed By : Queen Bee GamesPublished By : Akupara GamesCategory : Platformer, Action, ArcadeRelease Date : Sep 03, 2020 All our lives we’re told to avoid judging books by their covers. But, as gamers, I’m pretty sure this…
Continue readingThe Tokyo Game Show is always good for a cheeky shmup announcement or two and with this year’s – all-digital – edition taking place from the 24th-27th of September, it seemed odds on that we’d have a pretty solid month…
Continue readingRon Perlman has had a career of playing with fire. In West of Dead he acts as the voice and narrator of the games main character, William Mason.
Continue readingDeveloper: SuperGiant Games Genre: Action, Roguelike Release Date: 09.17.20 Composer : Darren Korb Hades is the latest from SuperGiant, the Indie-Darling who previously developed games like Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre, all to widespread critical acclaim. Is Hades in the same…
Continue readingDeveloper: Moon Kid Publisher: Devolver Digital Categories: ? Release Date: 08.27.20 It’s hard to really place down the genre that Witcheye is in. It’s not quite a platformer, as there aren’t really platforms. You’re an eye, well a Witch’s eye,…
Continue readingDeveloper: ChinyKian Games Categories: Platformer Release Date: 08.27.20 Serious Scramblers is the kind of game I’d dub a “Bathroom Game”. To further explain that, it’s the kind of a game that is perfect for a quick bathroom break, pick up…
Continue readingOthercide for the Nintendo Switch is an interesting experiment in mixing together turn-based strategy games, roguelike elements, and an absolutely brutal difficulty curve. The results are frequently stunning, but just as frequently frustrating.
Continue readingAeolis Tournament – Nintendo SwitchDeveloped By: Beyond Fun StudioPublished By: Beyond Fun StudioCategory: Party, MultiplayerRelease Date: July 23, 2020 It’s been said that most original ideas have been thought of already, so when a combination of existing ideas comes together…
Continue readingStrugglingNintendo Switch Developed By : Chasing Rats GamesPublished By : Frontier FoundryCategory : Puzzle, Platforming, PhysicsRelease Date : Aug 27, 2020 Puzzle games are just about everywhere nowadays. And with so many off-shooting sub-genres, it’s still surprising that there aren’t…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Caracal GamesPublished By: Ignition PublishingCategory: Platformer, ArcadeRelease Date: 09.08.20 OkunoKA Madness is a game brought to us by Caracal Games and Ignition Publishing. The title introduces us to KA, who tries to save his planet, to do this he will have to go…
Continue readingDeveloped By: The Working PartsPublished By: BulbwareCategory: Survival, HorrorRelease Date: 29.07.2020 In starting They Breathe, I had to do a quick Google search for the word Thalassophobia, which if you don’t know, means a fear of the sea. This includes…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Mografi Categories: Adventure Release Date: 08.26.20 Nothing ever happens in the small town of Arthurton. This is however, until the death, alleged murder of an esteemed man of the town. This is the story for the next installment…
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