Author: MichaelD
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Cute Puppy Academy (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: COMMANDO PANDA What I Paid: $4.49 Verdict: Not Shovelware. What I Say: The aim of this game is to train puppies and then give them back to their owners, thus earning money to invest in upgraded facilities. I must admit that I didn’t find a whole lot to enjoy about this game, which felt…
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Little Squire’s Quests (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: Max Interactive Studio What I Paid: $2.98 Verdict: Not Shovelware. 100%ed it. Very Short. What I Say: I had no idea that “pin rescue” was a game sub-genre, but there you go. Little Squire’s Quests is a pin rescue game. 100 single screen puzzles await your pin-pulling prowess; rescuing cash, saving the princess and…
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Earthworms (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: SONKA What I Paid: $1.50 Verdict: Not Shovelware. What I Say: Earthworms is an odd point and click adventure with the occasional frustrating mechanic and quite an unusual art style. You are a detective named Daniel. You are given the task of locating Lydia, a missing person. Needless to say, this turns into a…
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The Lost Labyrinth (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: Green Sauce Games What I Paid: $3.00 Verdict: Not Shovelware. What I Say: The Lost Labyrinth is a match-3 type game. It is one of the harder ones I have tackled of late and it took me a very long time to complete all 120 levels (in Timed Expert mode – the hardest mode).…
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B.O.O.L: Master labyrinth puzzles (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: Michael Wührer What I Paid: $6.00 Verdict: Not Shovelware. 100%ed it. Made with Unity logo. What I Say: B.O.O.L: Master labyrinth puzzles is a fairly short, mostly monochromatic simple maze puzzler. There are 125 levels in total, plus you get a level designer if you want to prolong the experience (I didn’t). Most of…
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The Suicide of Rachel Foster (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: Daedalic Entertainment What I Paid: $6.00 Verdict: Not Shovelware. What I Say: The Suicide of Rachel Foster was challenging on multiple levels. As a horror/ghost story, the creaks, groans and atmospheric wheezes are sufficient to put you on considerable edge – I played this with conventional audio, despite the title encouraging you to use…
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Windmill Engine (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: RandomSpin Games What I Paid: $1.50 Verdict: Shovelware. 100%ed it. Very Short. What I Say: I thought 8 minutes to complete Cyber Engine was bad. Windmill Engine took 5 minutes. 5 minutes to complete a clicker game where all you do is mash ‘Y’ and then progressively select additional menu elements to build a…
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Cyber Engine (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: RandomSpin Games What I Paid: $1.50 Verdict: Shovelware. 100%ed it. Very Short. What I Say: 8 minutes. 8 minutes to complete this drab and uninspiring shovelware, and some of that was wasted time whilst I clicked ‘A’ instead of ‘Y’. What They Say: Earn your first money by pressing a “Y” button. Increase your…
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Hard Racing (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: Nikita Alexeevich What I Paid: $1.50 Verdict: Not Shovelware. 100%ed it. What I Say: I will admit that my first impression of Hard Racing was that it was going to be shovelware: cars which LOOK like their expensive European counterparts but which inexplicably are called something entirely different – the BMW called a Piranha…
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Sea Battle Minimal (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: Hook Games What I Paid: $1.50 Verdict: Shovelware. What I Say: I debated for a while about whether this was Shovelware or just simply a very basic Battleship game. It has 3 modes of play; you vs someone online, you vs the Switch, and you vs someone else locally. The AI is phenomenally stupid,…