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Developed By: PopCap Games Published By: Electronic Arts Categories: Shooter Release Date: 03.19.21 Plants versus Zombies…who will win. Or rather, who do you want to win? With Battle for Neighborville, instead of the series’ tower defense roots (heh), we have…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Kylotonn Published By: Nacon Categories: Rally Racing, Simulation Release Date: 03.11.21 WRC 9 is an unfortunate case for the Switch. I hate to say things like this, but WRC9 probably shouldn’t be on the Switch. It’s not a…
Continue readingBlack Legend for the Nintendo Switch is a game that has basically every element I’m looking for in a game, but has too many warts to fully satisfy.
Continue readingDeveloped By: Studio Fizbin Published By: Thunderful Games Categories: NO! Release Date: 04.09.21 You’ve started a new job in an office as an intern. A shy person really, never being able to muster anything at any situation. Your new job…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Gagonfe, Ulon, and Rhowsl Published By: No Gravity Games Categories: Favor simulator Release Date: 03.11.21 Bob Help Them is a simple game. People want something, you get it for them. Chop wood, collect food, fish, cook. Pet the dog. Alright,…
Continue readingDeveloped and Published By: Mommy’s Best Games Categories: Shooter Release Date: 03.18.21 Explosionade DX is a gross game. It’s grimy, it’s metallic, it’s chunky and there’s gonna be a mess everywhere. Good thing you’re in a mechsuit. This is a…
Continue readingEl Hijo – Nintendo SwitchDeveloped By: Honig StudiosPublished By: HandyGamesCategory: Stealth AdventureRelease Date: March 25, 2021 There needs to be more games like El Hijo, where the stakes are high but it isn’t about kill or be killed. Many other…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Pixel.lu, Sometimes You (porting duties) Published By: Pixel.lu Categories: Platformer Release Date: 03.03.21 In Sir Lovelot the goal is to love…a lot. Go from tower to tower, princess to princess, like it’s nothing. Hope you at least bothered…
Continue readingBattle Brothers for the Nintendo Switch is a strategy game that doesn’t really have much in the way of innovation. Instead, it is a testament to the power of exceptional execution.
Continue readingDeveloped By: Foreign Gnomes (Chris Nordgren and Jordi Roca) Published By: Surefire.Games Categories: RPG, Rhythm Release Date: 03.04.21 Everhood is a game that’s a big hard to describe. It’s like an RPG, but there’s no experience. Fights aren’t random. To…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Arzest, Balan Company Published By: Square Enix Categories: Platformer Release Date: 03.26.21 Balan Wonderworld seems to be a bit of a reunion of the people who created Sonic the Hedgehog. Yuji Naka and Naoto Oshima, together for the…
Continue readingDeveloper: Rolling Glory Jam, Fahmitsu Publisher: Flynn’s Arcade Categories: Narrative Release Date: 04.01.21 What comes after? You know, after death? The game What Comes After explores this topic and puts it front and center on the stage. In it, you…
Continue readingDeveloped By: teamCOIL Categories: Maze, Bullet Hell Release Date: 2.19.21 Puss! is some shitpost-like, avant-garde, vaporwave game. With cats. In Mazes. It’s like watching Adult Swim at 4AM. That is honestly the best way to describe this game. It starts…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Heliocentric Studios Published By: Team17 Categories: Adventure, RPG, Roguelike Release Date: 02.23.19 What do you get when you take a classic 2D Legend of Zelda game, mix roguelike type dungeons, add some pretty indepth RPG elements. You get…
Continue readingAstrologaster – Nintendo SwitchDeveloped By: NyamyamPublished By: Plug In DigitalCategory: Narrative ComedyRelease Date: February 18, 2021 Your initial impression of Astrologastor upon starting a new game may cause a grin to appear across your face. A silly Monty Python style…
Continue readingToday’s game, Knight’s Retreat, integrates parts of the basic chess formula to build a unique, engaging, strategic puzzle game.
Continue readingDeveloper: Fancy Fish Games Publisher: Whitethorn Digital Genre: Adventure, Role-Playing, Simulation Released: 11th February 2021 For a game titled such, you sure spend quite a bit of time underground.
Continue readingDeveloped By: Code Mystics Published By: SNK Categories: Retro Compilation Release Date: 03.17.21 I have always been fascinated by the NeoGeo Pocket Color. From my adolescence when I would read about it’s games in magazines all the way to my…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Casey Donnellan Games LLC Published By: Tinybuild Games Categories: Exterminator Release Date: 03.04.21 The term “Kill it With Fire” is often used when regarding spiders. Especially the big scary ones. The definitive way to get rid of those…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Toys for Bob Published By: Activision Categories: Platformer Release Date: 03.11.21 The long awaited Crash 4: It’s About Time came out last year on PS4 and Xbox Series X to both fan and critical praise. In a wild…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Pavel Kostin Published By: HeroCraft Categories: Adventure Release Date: 02.04.21 Odysseus Kosmos is a funny, good looking, and rather lengthy adventure game. It has one big issue that kills my entire experience with it though. Odysseus Kosmos is…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Elden Pixels Published By: Decemberborn AB Categories: Retro, Metroidvania Release Date: 02.18.21 What’s this, an 8-Bit Metroidvania-type game? Don’t mind if I do. If this sounds up your alley, Cathedral will be a good time. At first, I…
Continue readingI suppose I could spend some time talking about the backstory of Noble Armada: Lost Worlds. I could talk about the tabletop RPG setting it is based on, Fading Suns. Or I could go into how it was successfully funded on Kickstarter.
Continue readingDeveloped By: Cradle Games Published By: Tinybuild Games Categories: Soulslike, Action Release Date: 02.25.21 Hellpoint is Dark Souls mixed with Event Horizon. So Dark Souls in Space! To properly explain this, Dark Souls is a hard series. It’s a methodical…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Clever Beans Published By: Koch Media, Deep Silver Categories: Action, RPG Release Date: 01.28.21 It’s always nice to be surprised by a game. Gods Will Fall did not seem entirely up my alley before playing it. Upon playing…
Continue readingBenjamin Franklin once said, “A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.” This game takes that idea and crafts it into a master class adventure.
Continue readingDeveloped By: The Socially Awkward Studio Categories: Puzzle Release Date: 03.12.21 Sokodice is a relaxing kind of puzzle game that you just sit down, think, and take your time to solve the riddles. It also will probably make you feel…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Grimorio of Games Categories: Roguelite, RPG Release Date: 01.28.21 You would do anything to bring back a loved one, right? Risk life and limb for the Sword of the Necromancer, a blade capable of returning the dead back…
Continue readingIn the case of Super Robot Wars V, that means trying to tie together eighteen different series into one story. It’s like a crossover fanfiction gone horribly wrong, yet so terribly right at the same time, told in a visual novel format broken up by turn-based strategy levels.
Continue readingI can’t recall a game that I have more mixed feelings about than Summer Catchers for the Nintendo Switch. It’s an interesting take on the classic infinite runner with a cool visual aesthetic and a cute story.
Continue readingDeveloped By: The Game Bakers Categories: Adventure, RPG Release Date: 02.04.21 A couple, away from it all, hiding from those who search to tear them apart and force them to live a selected life. Soon their ship, their home is…
Continue readingSet in 2048, use cunning, stealth and strategy to discover the corrupt agenda hidden within the cyberpunk future of New York City.
Continue readingDeveloped By: Imaginary Monsters / Peter Lazarski Published By: Chuhai Labs Categories: Retro, Platformer Release Date: 02.12.21 I really like holiday themed games. They’re really not common anymore, so it’s always a shock to see them. Here we have Halloween…
Continue readingSNK Vs Capcom: The Match of the MillenniumNintendo Switch Developed By: Code Mystics, SNKPublished By: SNKCategory: FightingRelease Date: 02.17.21 I can’t even tell you how excited I was when SNK Vs Capcom: The Match of the Millennium entered our review…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Shout! Design Works Co. Published By: Arc System Works Categories: Visual Novel, RPG, Dungeon Crawler Release Date: 02.04.21 It’s a visual novel, no it’s an RPG, no it’s a dungeon crawler! Actually, it’s all three. They all happen…
Continue readingThe highlight of the presentation was the announcement of the next entry in Square-Enix’s HD-2D library, Project Triangle Strategy. It’s the spiritual (and visual) successor to one of my favorite Switch games so far and previous Nintendo Direct surprise reveal, Octopath Traveler.
Continue readingDeveloped By: Pixel Perfect Dude Published By: PM Studios Categories: Driving Release Date: 02.16.21 Much like the film, Pieces’ tagline “It’s exactly what you think it is”, #Drive is exactly what you think it is. A driving game. You drive….
Continue readingDeveloped and Published By: Tino Games Categories: Card Game, Roguelike Release Date: 02.21.21 You’re familiar with those Korean MMOs that seem to overrun app stores nowadays, right? Neoverse looks just like that. This gave me a bit of a poor…
Continue readingDeveloped and Published By: Drowning Monkeys Games Categories: Retro Release Date: 02.25.21 Do you like original arcade Donkey Kong? I mean, really like it. If so, then you’re probably going to love Castle Kong, granted you can look past a…
Continue readingDeveloped and Published By: Capcom Categories: Retro, Action,Platformer, Nintendo Hard Release Date: 02.25.21 Ghosts ‘n Goblins seems to be that one old school franchise that Capcom remembers exists at least once a decade. Counting only console games and the Maximo…
Continue readingDeveloped By: ROBI Studios Published By: Graffiti Games Categories: Platformer, Adventure Release Date: 02.04.21 3D Metroidvania seems like the best way to describe Blue Fire. Go on an adventure in a somewhat open path, going area to area. Getting upgrades…
Continue readingIt’s pretty hard to check off more boxes on my genre preference checklist than Dry Drowning. It’s a hard-boiled detective cyberpunk dystopian adventure visual novel.
Continue readingHeaven’s Vault – Nintendo SwitchDeveloped By: inklePublished By: inkleCategory: Narrative Adventure, Point and Click AdventureRelease Date: January 28, 2021 inkle’s latest narrative adventure Heaven’s Vault is set in a futuristic world and yet deals with common issues which society struggles…
Continue readingDeveloped and Published By: 34BigThings Categories: Rail Shooter, Space Shooter Release Date: 01.22.21 Imagine Stat Fox. Now just have the space levels, make it western, change the mercenaries to security security, and then remove the furries. That’s Redout: Space Assault….
Continue readingI’m not the world’s biggest fan of the horror genre. I mean, sure, I’ll spend all day with a Resident Evil, but that’s about as far as I go with it. Today’s game, Silver Chains for the Nintendo Switch, doesn’t do much to change my opinion of the genre.
Continue readingDeveloped By: YummyYummyTummy Published By: Nippon Ichi Software American Categories: RPG Release Date: 02.16.21 You’ve heard the term, don’t judge a book by it’s cover, right? Usually it’s for a game that looks a bit of a shabby, but actually…
Continue readingDeveloped By: Tarsier Studios Published By: Bandai Namco Entertainment Categories: Platformer, Puzzle, Horror Release Date: 02.11.21 Following up to critically acclaimed games, especially the surprise new IPs that come from smaller developers can be hard. Little Nightmares was one of…
Continue readingDeveloped and Published By: BeautiFun Games Categories: Puzzle Release Date: 12.28.20 I don’t often play puzzle games that make me feel dumb, but boy oh boy does Professor Lupo: Ocean make me feel lacking at times. You awaken in a…
Continue readingThe beat-em-up formula has been pretty well set for a few years. You’ve got one or two attack buttons that you use to set up combos, you can jump, and, most importantly, dive kick. Shing! sets out to shake that formula up a little bit by introducing a novel way to pull of combos.
Continue readingDeveloped By: StoryBird Games Published By: No Gravity Games (Digital) VGNYsoft (Physical) Categories: Platformer Release Date: 01.28.21 Beautiful spritework, high replayability, good platforming an action. Golden Force checks off all of the requisites for being one of my favorite games…
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