Category: Shovelware
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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…
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Grandma Cleaning Simulator – Family Business Tycoon (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: GOGAME CONSOLE PUBLISHER What I Paid: $4.50 Verdict: Shovelware. What I Say: “Made by Unity”. I am starting to dread seeing this message when starting up a game, since Unity seems to be the engine of choice of Shovelware creators. The suspicious key word spamming is another clue. Anyhow, this “game” is awful. The…
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Fantasy Saga Frenzy (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: RuWaMo Games What I Paid: $1.50 Verdict: Shovelware. What I Say: This game’s title is quite misleading. I was expecting some sort of RPG. What it actually is is a bit of a mash-up between Tetris and a 2048 game. Falling objects accumulate at the bottom of the screen. Matching objects results in the…
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Construct Farm (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: Nerd Games What I Paid: $1.50 Verdict: Shovelware. What I Say: This is one of the worst Shovelware titles I have ever had the displeasure of reviewing. Firstly, the A and B buttons are reversed in their usual actions. This is always annoying. Secondly, there is no actual gameplay as such. You pick from…
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Good Guys (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: DillyFrame What I Paid: $1.50 Verdict: Shovelware. 100%ed it. What I Say: This is a comic. Read the image. Press ‘A’. Repeat. The story is short and…bizarre. Read “What They Say” below – it truly is that weird. There is a second story – entirely black-and-white – which is conveniently not shown in the…