Kraino Origins is an action platformer developed and published by Elden Pixels. It takes inspiration from retro platformers that we all love and adore. Mixed with smooth controls and bopping …
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Gripper is an action-arcade racer for the Nintendo Switch. It combines sci-fi elements, a rocking synth-based soundtrack, and varying gameplay styles to offer a unique motorbike-based experience. Unfortunately, it doesn’t …
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Flame Keeper is an action/adventure game that takes players on a journey through a dark, ominous world, and lets them control the power of FIRE! Take control of a piece …
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Curse of the Sea Rats is an action-packed platformer adventure that’s fun to play and explore, which makes the game very exciting (albeit very frustrating, too). But does it do enough to stand apart from the countless other metroidvanias available for the Switch?
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Set in the twisted hellscape of a lucid nightmare, DARQ Ultimate Edition blends physics-warping puzzles with a haunting atmosphere. You play as Lloyd, a silent character with a distinctly gothic …
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Rakuen: Deluxe Edition is the latest “grief” game to appear on the Nintendo Switch. For whatever reason, recent years have seen a flood of these types of games. Rakuen does …
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Let me see if you’ve heard this one before: it’s a lot like Dark Souls. Heard that? Over the last few years, many games have taken the Dark Souls-like gameplay …
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Kung Fury: Street Rage – Ultimate Edition comes to the Switch as a set of (very) simple brawlers that harken back to the days of plopping tokens into cabinets at Bally’s Aladdin’s Castle. But how many tokens is it worth?
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Kana Quest uses match-em puzzle mechanics to teach you kana symbols and their sounds. The goal is to connect the kana tiles by their shared sounds in as few moves as possible. It makes for a good challenge, but will you actually learn anything?
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DC’s Justice League: Cosmic Chaos is an action and adventure game developed by PHL Collective and published by Outright Games. You play Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman protecting the people …
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Perseverance: Complete Edition is a visual novel for the Nintendo Switch. More accurately, it’s a collection of three stories previously released as individual games over the past five years. They …
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Heirs of the Kings is a retro JRPG that’s so by-the-numbers it might as well be in binary. You fight monsters, improve your weapons and armor, gain skills, and cast spells. And just when you start to wonder when the airship is going to show up, the airship shows up.
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Through the eyes of Thomasina Bateman, The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow plunges you into a mystery in the rolling countryside of Victorian England. The game is a point-and-click puzzle that …
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I was saddened by how frustrating The Library of Babel would become considering its stellar beginning. The game is set 20,000 years after the extinction of humankind, and it’ll feel like you’re waiting that long to get through some segments.
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Ib is one of those few games that captures the phrase “don’t judge a book by its cover.” On the surface, Ib looks like your run-of-the-mill pixel-art game. Yet Ib …
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Redemption Reapers is a good turn-based RPG. The story is fine (if lacking), the visuals are OK, and the music is very good. And yet…
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The Nintendo community is in love with metroidvanias right now. Coming into the scene is Elderand, a metroidvania with a dash of RPG for the Nintendo Switch. It has successfully …
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With a name like Papertris, you might expect a paper-themed puzzler in the Tetris mold. In reality, Papertris reminds me more of Columns’ color-matching gameplay. Or maybe it’s similar to …
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