Short reviews so you can decide whether a game is worth your hard-earned cash.
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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Dry Drowning (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: LeonardoInteractive What I Paid: $7.50 Verdict: Not Shovelware. What I Say: Dry Drowning is a detective story in visual novel format set in a dystopian future. You have multiple choices to make during the story which change the way…
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Death end re;Quest 2 (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: Idea Factory What I Paid: $18.75 Verdict: Not Shovelware. What I Say: I really liked Death end re;Quest, so I was delighted when Death end re;Quest 2 went on special and I added it to my collection. I finished…
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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…
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Dark Days (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: Parallel Studio What I Paid: $2.40 Verdict: Not Shovelware. What I Say: Disturbing and atmospheric. Based on the reading that I have done, this was originally conceived as a VR title. In that form, it must have been terrifying…
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Chronicles of Magic: Divided Kingdoms (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: Artifex Mundi What I Paid: $2.19 Verdict: Not Shovelware. What I Say: Here we are with another Artifex Mundi hidden object game. The set-up for this story is that two brothers are at war over magic and your son…
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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…