Category: Nintendo Switch
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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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Heisting (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: QubicGames What I Paid: $1.50 + $3.00 for the DLCs (Wicked No. 1, Arsenal) Verdict: Not Shovelware. What I Say: A fun little game where you steal items from various locations (banks, jewellery stores, museums and the like). Stealing involves standing in front of a stealable object for a sufficient amount of time and…
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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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Cats Hidden in Italy (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: Travellin Cats What I Paid: $1.50 Verdict: Not Shovelware. Very short. What I Say: One hand drawn screen with 100 hidden cats and 26 other objects. At first sight you think – ‘there is absolutely no way that 100 cats are hidden on this screen’ – but there are. Some are quite tricky to…
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Bike Courier: Bistro Express Delivery (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: GOGAME CONSOLE PUBLISHER What I Paid: $4.74 Verdict: Shovelware. What I Say: Steer a bicycle around from circle to circle in a very small open world area which all looks much the same. Rarely see cars on the road. See pedestrians. Earn $10 per “delivery” for bike “upgrades” that cost a huge amount of…
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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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Clunky Hero (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: chaosmonger studio What I Paid: $5.74 Verdict: Not Shovelware. Game Breaking Bug. What I Say: Third wall breaking humour, sarcasm, wit, and poking fun at your own genre are all very well, but Clunky Hero mostly falls flat with its attempts. The grammar implies that English isn’t the first language of the developer here…