Category: 100% completed it
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Jigsaw Ice Princess (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: Bigboot Studios What I Paid: $2.99 Verdict: Shovelware. 100%ed it. Made by Unity Logo. What I Say: There hasn’t been a lot of effort put into this collection of Disney Frozen generic ice princess jigsaw puzzles. There are 45 puzzles to solve, many of which look very similar. There’s a timer which is so…
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A Lost Note (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: 404 Games What I Paid: $1.99 Verdict: Shovelware. 100%ed it. Very Short. What I Say: You are a cat. You walk around several barely different environments (they all have much the same low resolution sparse emptiness but have different colour palettes) collecting “notes” on the way to a specific visual memory from a specific…
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The Case of the Golden Idol (Microsoft Xbox Series X)
Publisher: Playstack What I Paid: GamePass Verdict: Not Shovelware. 100%ed it. What I Say: Look at and examine the images carefully. Read the text carefully. Slowly unravel the mystery of the Golden Idol. The graphics may not be state of the art, but the puzzling sure is hard work (in a fun way). Essentially you…
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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,…