Category: Shovelware
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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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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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Galaxy Mania (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: RuWaMo Games What I Paid: $1.50 Verdict: Shovelware. Asset Flip. What I Say: Galaxy Mania (release date 27-July-2024) is an asset flip of Fantasy Saga Frenzy (release date 29-June-2024), so in the spirit of asset flipping, I’m just basically going to cut and paste my review of Fantasy Saga Frenzy here. This game is…
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Cannon Dancer – Osman (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: ININ Games What I Paid: $7.99 Verdict: Shovelware. What I Say: It’s fair to say that I am not a fan of brawler games, of which this is one (technically two). That likely colours my opinion of this release. Osman (Cannon-Dancer in Japan) is a 1996 Mitchell Corp. arcade game which has been plonked…
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A Day Without Me (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: indie.io What I Paid: $1.50 Verdict: Shovelware. Game-Breaking Bug. Very Short. What I Say: This is surely a pre-alpha concept demo inadvertently released as a “game”. Super low rez graphics. Aimless wandering around. Not only a game-breaking bug, but a bug that persists even through New Game. Less than 15 minutes to complete (based…
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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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Zombie Harvest: Survival Farming Simulator (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: GOGAME CONSOLE PUBLISHER What I Paid: $1.50 Verdict: Shovelware. What I Say: There are many excellent games with the word Zombie in the title. This isn’t one of them. The claim is that you are a farmer with nothing but a cabin and you need to build up your farm to survive and protect…
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Bid Battle: Auction War Simulator Storage Hunter (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: DEZVOLT GAMES What I Paid: $1.99 Verdict: Shovelware. What I Say: There’s not much to this game apart from the obligatory signs of shovelware; the Made by Unity logo, the massively keyword spammy title and the worse than desultory gameplay. The gameplay consists of travelling to a location, locating a small number of objects…
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9 in 1 Puzzles (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: Kistler Studios What I Paid: $1.50 Verdict: Shovelware. What I Say: I guess the first clue that this is shovelware is in the title – 9 in 1 Puzzles. The second clue is in the download size – 60Mb. The third clue comes when you run this for the first time and discover that…