Reviews

A love letter to the earliest generation of gaming, Ping Redux is soaked in its hyper retro influences. Everything from the music, to the design style, to the gameplay itself …
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Join us on a heralding adventure filled with magic and mayhem! The title says it all, “The Unexpected Quest.” Our heroes are unexpectedly shipwrecked and must fight their way through …
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In Kingdom Tales 2, you are a young man on a journey to prove you’re worthy of being considered a suitor to the princess. The flavor in this installment leans to a more Nordic/Viking vibe, but is that enough of a difference to make it a worthy follow-up?
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Drawn to Life: Two Realms is a puzzle, platformer game where you play as the Creator. You create a Hero, who’s a robot, to help the people around town. It …
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It’s got to be hard to create new ‘old’ games. I’ve seen many games out there that claim to be classic but fall flat on that promise. There’s much more …
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Kingdom Tales is another in a long line of resource management sims from Ocean Media. It’s also the first of two Kingdom Tales titles available for Nintendo Switch. This repetition is not necessarily a bad thing, however, so let’s get to some details.
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World War 1 was a devastating time in global history with some spectacular battles in the sky. So it only makes sense that a game about these aerial assaults would …
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Grab your deck; it’s time to take another dungeon dive with DungeonTop. This game is easily recognized as a computerized, deck-building version of a classic, turn-based D&D game. I do like the whole D&D genre for a bit of escapist fun, so let’s get right to the game, shall we?
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Blacksmith of the Sand Kingdom looks promising but winds up being very bland. It’s tolerable at best, checking most of the right boxes but never moving beyond subpar territory.

You …
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Door Kickers is an action-strategy game for the Nintendo Switch. You control a S.W.A.T. team working its way through missions to take down the bad guys and rescue hostages. It’s …
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Down in Bermuda is a fun puzzle-adventure with an intriguing theme and a good flow. However, this mobile port is overpriced on the Switch, as it can be beaten in …
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Iris.Fall is a short puzzle adventure. You can finish it in under five hours, and that’s just about right. Although the game is visually compelling throughout, the core gimmick wouldn’t be able to hold up much longer than that.
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As luck would have it, Isabelle’s friend, the Slayer from the DOOM franchise, has come to the Nintendo Switch. 

Earth has been overrun by demons who have wiped out more …
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In Landflix Odyssey, you play as a beer-chugging, pizza-eating layabout who spends his time binge watching all the biggest TV shows on streaming service Landflix. When you use some weird …
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While there’s no official Virtual Console on the Nintendo Switch, there are a few places to get your retro gaming fix. There are, of course, the two obvious destinations, NES …
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When Double Dragon Neon was originally released in 2012, the WayForward-developed reboot of the classic beat ‘em up was meant to give the series a much-needed boost of western feel …
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Well, if one of your New Year’s resolutions was to spend more time playing retro RPGs, I’ve got good news. KEMCO has released Crystal Ortha for Nintendo Switch, and it’s one of the better games they sent our way in 2020.
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Tropico is a simulation game where you assume the persona of El Presidente, a political leader based in the Caribbean. There are four different eras you operate through, starting with …
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