Category: 100% completed it
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Path of Sin: Greed (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: Artifex Mundi What I Paid: $2.25 Verdict: Not Shovelware. 100%ed it. What I Say: Artifex Mundi publish a lot of Hidden Object Puzzle Adventures and this one varies little from its standard formula. You are a rookie detective tasked with investigating the potentially suspicious death of a security guard on a secluded island. It…
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Escape game & Card search game R01M (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: AlignmentSharp What I Paid: $1.39 Verdict: Shovelware. 100%ed it. What I Say: I debated for a little while about whether I’d let this title slide by without earning the “Shovelware” moniker, but in the end there were too many characteristic Shovelware features to let it go. In this laboriously-named game, you explore the insides…
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Big Adventure: Trip To Europe (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: Ocean Media What I Paid: $3.60 Verdict: Not Shovelware. 100%ed it. What I Say: Big Adventure: Trip To Europe has spawned at least 5 sequels as of the time of writing this review, so clearly there is a market for hidden object games without a plot. I have previously reviewed Big Adventure: Trip To…
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A Castle Full of Cats (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: Silesia Games What I Paid: $1.50 Verdict: Not Shovelware. 100%ed it. What I Say: A Castle Full of Cats is from the same developers as A Building Full of Cats. As the name suggests, your task is to find a certain number of cats cleverly hidden in quite expansive line drawings. The overall setting…
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Jewel Match (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: Kistler Studios What I Paid: $0.00 (part of the Casual Puzzles Bundle 8 in 1 which I paid $5.39 for) Verdict: Not Shovelware. Made by Unity Logo. Doesn’t Support Nintendo Switch Pro Controller. 100% Completed. What I Say: Jewel Match is a mobile port with little consideration given to playability on the Nintendo Switch.…
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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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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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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…