Category: 100% completed it
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Puzzle Balls (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: Entity3 What I Paid: $1.49 Verdict: Not Shovelware. 100%ed it. Very Short What I Say: This is a very simple puzzle game where you have to move your blue ball into a green circle. Not overly difficult, but I spent several hours with it completing all levels with 3 star scores (the less moves…
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A Building Full of Cats (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: Silesia Games What I Paid: $1.50 Verdict: Not Shovelware. 100%ed it (I think). What I Say: 5 floors (6 if you look carefully) with 50+12 cats to find (less on the “hidden” level). This is a very basic hidden object game with a very limited end game payoff and no really clear instructions for…
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Tales of the Orient – The Rising Sun (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: JoinDots What I Paid: $5.99 Verdict: Not Shovelware. 100%ed it. What I Say: This is fundamentally a match-3 game with a few rather interesting twists which sets it aside from the vast majority of me-too match-3 games out there. Firstly, it supports moving the pointer with the controller I use (the Nintendo Switch Pro…
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Steam Engine (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: RandomSpin Games What I Paid: $1.50 Verdict: Shovelware. 100%ed it. Very Short. What I Say: RandomSpin Games have a ton of Xxxxx Engine games available on the Nintendo eShop. All of them have the same premise: click ‘Y’ for a bit to build up an Xxxxx Engine. Soon after starting, the clicking becomes optional.…
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A Tale for Anna (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: Top Hat Studios What I Paid: $3.30 Verdict: Not Shovelware. 100%ed it. What I Say: This is best described as a hybrid hidden object puzzle game and a point and click adventure with several unusual (and ultimately very annoying) mechanics. The overall plot is pretty banal: the baddie wants to catch you and you…
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Faircroft’s Antiques: The Forbidden Crypt Collector’s Edition (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: Ocean Media What I Paid: $3.00 Verdict: Not Shovelware. 100%ed it. What I Say: Ocean Media put out a lot of hidden object puzzle adventure games. This is one of them. The story is…thin. The romance is…thin. The cringe is…fairly thick. The hidden objects are fairly easy to find and the minigames are the…
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The Awakening of Mummies (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: Silesia Games What I Paid: $1.50 Verdict: Not Shovelware. 100%ed it. What I Say: At first this appears to be a trivial puzzle game involving guiding a mummy from one point to another, avoiding simplistic traps. This quickly becomes much more difficult by the time you get to the second level of the pyramid,…
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Cake Laboratory (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: GRIMTALIN What I Paid: $1.50 Verdict: Not Shovelware. 100%ed it. What I Say: This game’s premise is very simple: drop cakes onto a progressively larger and more difficult stack. The cakes increase in variety (and width) the further you get into the game. This is a very easy game, presumably targeted at young children…
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Sticks Collection (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: Silesia Games What I Paid: $1.50 Verdict: Not shovelware. 100%ed it. What I Say: This is a great little puzzler where you have to move, add or remove a certain number of matchsticks to make a certain number of triangles or make a math problem work out. Most puzzles are pretty straightforward but more…
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So Much Stuff Collector’s Edition (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: Ocean Media What I Paid: $4.50 Verdict: Not Shovelware. 100%ed it. What I Say: Ocean Media publish a ton of games in this genre, some with storylines and some without. This one has no storyline and is basically a variant on the standard Hidden Object genre. Variants include matching pairs, finding all instances of…