Category: 100% completed it
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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…
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Sea Battle Minimal (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: Hook Games What I Paid: $1.50 Verdict: Shovelware. What I Say: I debated for a while about whether this was Shovelware or just simply a very basic Battleship game. It has 3 modes of play; you vs someone online, you vs the Switch, and you vs someone else locally. The AI is phenomenally stupid,…
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Racing Car Chaos: Extreme Stunt Showdown (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: VRCFORGE STUDIOS What I Paid: $1.99 Verdict: Shovelware. 100%ed it. Very Short. What I Say: This is shovelware at its finest (?!). All the hallmarks are there; the “Made with Unity” logo (nb not Unity’s fault), the keyword spammy title, the over-the-top description. 5 cars, 10 tracks and a random cash spin wheel. That’s…
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Kakurasu World (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: Hook Games What I Paid: $1.50 Verdict: Not Shovelware. 100%ed it. What I Say: Kakurasu is a fairly minimalist maths puzzle game. The instructions are…brief. It took me quite a while of frustrating trial and error to figure out how the game actually played, but once I’d figured it out I got considerable enjoyment…
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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…