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A love letter to classic side-scrolling beat-’em-ups, 99 Vidas has a traditional arcade structure made with contemporary mechanics.

You wander through the city’s dark underbelly, brawling with thugs and lowlifes …
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Having won multiple awards spanning art, music and overall excellence, Machinarium has come to the Switch preceded by its reputation.

Functionally, it is a simple point-and-click puzzle game. You play …
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A game that merges a cute and colourful aesthetic with a singularly brutal approach to existence, Crashlands has evidently been crafted with a sense of humour.

You play as an …
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The kind of game that will chew up anyone afraid of a challenge, Sinner: Sacrifice for Redemption eschews any sense of progression in favour of throwing you immediately into the …
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When you have an established fan base as passionate as that of Steven Universe, it can be a risky move crossing into a new format. But Steven Universe: Save the …
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Reigns: Kings and Queens invites you to take the throne as a king or queen and navigate the treacherous waters of diplomacy.

The gameplay is simple. As reigning monarch, you …
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For a game that is primarily about drumming, Gal Metal has a weird premise. You are a teenage boy who gets abducted by aliens and forced to share the body …
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Friday the 13th: Killer Puzzle is a simple game, but it definitely captures the essence of the franchise it is inspired by. It is gruesome and gory and the blood …
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Black Bird begins with a dark story that quickly turns bizarre, but moves at such a quick pace that you can’t help but get caught up in it.

You play …
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If it wasn’t apparent from the name alone, Super Hyperactive Ninja is an immediately ridiculous game with its sense of humour built into its core.

It has a quirky cartoony …
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The Swindle drops you into a steampunk re-imagining of Old London Town in a burst of ominous music and swirling fog. The bold aesthetic is all sepia hues, complete with …
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Chasm is far from the only game that is built around a sense of nostalgia for the video games that a lot of avid gamers remember from their childhood. What …
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The Gardens Between draws you into its atmosphere immediately. It opens on a classically familiar suburban setting, centred on a treehouse nestled between two houses. As rain falls and thunder …
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Time Carnage is near enough exactly what you would expect from a game called Time Carnage.

Marketed as a “frantic survival shooter”, you are sent through time with a couple …
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A genuinely interesting take on the one-on-one fighting game, Slice, Dice and Rice has ended up perhaps one of the most realistically deadly brawl games you’ll ever play. Instead of …
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The follow-up to an iconic and pioneering game, Wasteland 2 was first released in 2014, with a Director’s Cut and new console versions released shortly after in 2015. Now celebrating …
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The platformer genre has been evolving at a rapid pace recently, with new releases getting increasingly challenging and atmospheric and developing rich storylines that add whole new layers to games …
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Games about viking invaders usually don’t have the minimalist, almost cute aesthetic of Bad North, but this game really makes it work.

The simpicity of the design is lovely to …
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