Short reviews so you can decide whether a game is worth your hard-earned cash.
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Publisher: YAK What I Paid: $1.50 Verdict: Not Shovelware. What I Say: This is a really enjoyable adventure game with a range of puzzles that are neither too simple nor too hard. Being Australian-made and with Australian sensibilities, it doesn’t…
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Steam Engine (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: RandomSpin Games What I Paid: $1.50 Verdict: Shovelware. 100%ed it. Very Short. What I Say: RandomSpin Games have a ton of Xxxxx Engine games available on the Nintendo eShop. All of them have the same premise: click ‘Y’ for…
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Baldur’s Gate and Baldur’s Gate II: Enhanced Editions (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: Beamdog What I Paid: $14.99 Verdict: Not Shovelware. What I Say: I’ve had many attempts to finish Baldur’s Gate over the years, mainly on PC. It’s an old school RPG based on slightly modified AD&D rules to accommodate real…
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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)…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…