Category: 100% completed it
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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…
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Beauties Unveiled (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: Somequest What I Paid: $3.00 + $1.50 + $1.50 including all the DLC Verdict: Not Shovelware. 100%ed it (why?). What I Say: I’ve played a small number of “hentai” games on the Switch. Mostly they are trivial games, the rewards of which are inevitably pictures of improbably proportioned women. Beauties Unveiled makes you work…
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A Fold Apart (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: Lightning Rod Games What I Paid: $6.74 Verdict: Not Shovelware. 100%ed it. What I Say: This puzzle game’s conceit is to “fold” your screen in such a way that the protagonist can get to their objective. Perhaps there is a gap in a path – simply “fold” the screen to get rid of the…
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Romeow: in the cracked world (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: Silesia Games What I Paid: $1.50 Verdict: Not Shovelware. 100%ed it. What I Say: In this game, you guide a kitten through a series of ever-increasingly complex puzzles to get to your beloved ball of string. The exit from one segment of the screen will take you to another on-screen segment, not necessarily contiguous.…