Category: Nintendo Switch
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Twin Mind: Ghost Hunter Collector’s Edition (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: Ocean Media What I Paid: $4.50 Verdict: Not Shovelware. Game Breaking Bug. What I Say: Ocean Media publish a huge range and variety of Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure games. This title has some variants on their usual fare; the puzzles are harder than usual, some of the hidden object screens are quite difficult and…
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Agatha Christie – Hercule Poirot: The First Cases (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: Microids What I Paid: $6.99 Verdict: Not Shovelware. Stodgyware What I Say: In a word: stodgy. There are two cases to solve in this game. The first involves theft of a piece of jewellery, the second blackmail and murder. Solving the cases involves some hot spot hunting, sitting through lots of stodgy dialogue and…
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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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MAGLAM LORD: Deluxe Edition (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: PQube What I Paid: $22.50 Verdict: Not Shovelware. What I Say: There isn’t a great deal to differentiate this title from numerous other JRPGs out there. You are a Demon Lord. After almost being killed in battle, you awake in a weakened state in an odd world and need to build your strength back…
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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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Digimon World: Next Order (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment What I Paid: $19.95 Verdict: Not Shovelware. More than 100 hours. What I Say: Full disclosure: I like Digimon, but for some reason I loathe Pokemon. Not sure why, but it is what it is. I was therefore very pleased to see this title come to the Switch and even more…
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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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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…