Nintendo Switch

Sometimes it’s nice to know what you’re getting. After Wave: Downfall makes its identity clear in the opening sentence of its Nintendo product page. It’s “an arcade shooter where the …
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I’ve played a lot of different RPGs during my forty-plus years of gaming. I’m a massive fan of the genre and thought I’d seen it all. That was until I …
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Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition—the remastered version of Westwood Studios’ original 1997 adventure game—arrived on the Switch back in June. This review is of a recently updated version that patched some reported bugs and issues. Sadly, it didn’t patch enough.
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Gerda: A Flame in Winter is an interactive visual novel for the Nintendo Switch. Coupled with simple RPG elements and set in World War II, it tells the tale of …
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It’s amazing how detrimental a few bad choices can be. An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs has genuinely great comedy and a delightfully zany soundtrack and sound effects. …
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MADiSON is a first-person horror game full of jump scares. MADiSON reminded me a lot of ‘Outlast’ but had some interesting things that separated it, mostly that you are walking …
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Ooblets is a role-playing simulation game developed and published by Glumberland. This game provides friendship building, farming, and adorable dancing creatures. What more could you want? Well, more is given …
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Little Orpheus—an Apple Arcade game now remastered for Nintendo Switch—is the latest sci-fi/fantasy adventure to take us deep into the center of the Earth. Or did it? That’s what hapless cosmonaut Ivan Ivanovich Privalov would have us believe, but General Yurkovoi is not so sure.
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There are probably going to be a lot of comparisons between Animal Crossing and Disney Dreamlight Valley. And it’s not wrong, as there are a lot of similarities. But Dreamlight …
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If Avenging Spirit has taught me anything, it’s that I’ve been taking the wrong approach to my throwback arcade game collection. I’ve generally gone for nostalgia, and have now realized I should be seeking game I’ve never played before.
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What if the post-apocalypse was fun? Not the apocalypse itself, mind you, but a period after, when the survivors emerged and things were mostly OK? That’s the case with the city-building sim Before We Leave…until game-breaking bugs spoil the good times.
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I’ll be honest; I’m a really big fan of gaming collections. Over the last few years, we’ve seen everything from Street Fighter to MegaMan to Castlevania come back in beautiful, …
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Idol Manager is exactly what it says on the tin; you become a manager for an Idol group in Japan. This doesn’t mean you are managing only pop stars, no. …
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River City Saga: Three Kingdoms is a side-scrolling beat ‘em up set in ancient China. It’s a throwback to the classic beat ‘em ups of yesteryear, featuring characters from previous …
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Inspired by and set within the calm environs of a modern art gallery, Please Touch the Artwork is a creative and intelligent puzzle game curated to be soothing. It plays …
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Dyna Bomb 2 is an action platformer for the Nintendo Switch. I’d never heard of the series, and, I’ll admit, I was initially skeptical of its quality after viewing the …
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PAC-MAN WORLD Re-PAC brings its own brand of old-school 3D platforming to the Nintendo Switch. It’s time to adventure like it’s 1999.

To start this review, I’ll note that my …
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I gotta be honest, more challenging content from a game like Cuphead was not on my wishlist any time soon. As you can read in my review for the base …
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