Category: 100% completed it
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Canceled! Super Puzzles Dream (Nintendo Switch 2)
Publisher: FuriouSoftPhoenix What I Paid: $1.80 Verdict: Not Shovelware. 100%ed it. What I Say: Canceled! (their spelling error, not mine) Super Puzzles Dream is a timed jigsaw puzzle game. 20 puzzles are available in 4 difficulty levels. The bottom row is pre-completed, and pieces come falling down from the top of the screen. The faster…
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One Night: Burlesque (Nintendo Switch 2)
Publisher: REDDEER.GAMES What I Paid: $8.98 (Base Game + all DLC) Verdict: Not Shovelware. 100%ed it. SE Spamming. What I Say: One Night: Burlesque is a short but visually pleasant visual novel set in a burlesque club. You are a burlesque dancer with the unique ability to read peoples’ minds. You become aware that your…
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Factotum 90 (Nintendo Switch 2)
Publisher: RAINYFROG What I Paid: $1.50 Verdict: Not Shovelware. 100%ed it (I think). What I Say: The central mechanic of Factotum 90 is that you control two “walker’ robots (boxes with 4 legs – basically friendly spiders). You are on a ship in space which has been invaded by a foreign entity which is sucking…
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Stories in Glass: Winter (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: Ocean Media What I Paid: $3.75 Verdict: Not Shovelware. 100%ed it. What I Say: This game is basically a series of jigsaw puzzles with a few twists: The game is Christmas-themed and replete with cloying Christmas instrumental tunes which do tend to wear thin as the game progresses. There are 5 different Christmas tales…
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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…