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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I’m a huge Picross fan; I think it’s one of the best logic puzzles out there. Tents and Trees piqued my interest by taking that classic formula and shaking it …
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GrimGrimoire OnceMore is a port of a PlayStation 2 game from 2007. I do like a good tower defense game, so I was intrigued by the Switch update, but my enthusiasm was met with some mixed realizations while playing the game.
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The Pillars of the Earth is a point-and-click adventure game adapted from Ken Follett’s novel of the same name. The game follows multiple narratives while telling the greater story of the building of a grand Gothic Cathedral. But does the story work on the Switch?
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First things first, is there a game out there with a better title than Ninja JaJaMaru: The Great Yokai Battle +Hell? If there is, I haven’t said its name out loud. Second things second, this game is as much fun as its title.
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We’ve reached the point of the Nintendo Switch lifecycle where just about anything can make it onto the platform. This can be a great thing, as it allows a wide …
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Caverns of Mars Recharged is an arcade shooter for the Nintendo Switch. More accurately, it’s a reimagined version of the classic 1981 Atari title. A lot has changed in the …
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The Legend of Gwen is a 3D Platformer from WiwiGameStudio. You play as Gwen, a cute witch trying to get back at the ‘Evil’ that disrupted her welcome party at …
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Music makes the world go round, but what happens when the music stops? Rytmos is an interstellar puzzle game where the player creates music by completing puzzles using a series …
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