Short reviews so you can decide whether a game is worth your hard-earned cash.
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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AAA PRO CLOCK 2023 (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: DEZVOLT GAMES What I Paid: $1.59 Verdict: Shovelware. What I Say: 3 clock types. 9 digit colours. 5 or 6 backgrounds. I forget. Can’t be bothered going back to look. Clock. Alarm. And…that’s all. No game. Reading through the…
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Beauties Unveiled (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: Somequest What I Paid: $3.00 + $1.50 + $1.50 including all the DLC Verdict: Not Shovelware. 100%ed it (why?). What I Say: I’ve played a small number of “hentai” games on the Switch. Mostly they are trivial games, the…
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A Fold Apart (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: Lightning Rod Games What I Paid: $6.74 Verdict: Not Shovelware. 100%ed it. What I Say: This puzzle game’s conceit is to “fold” your screen in such a way that the protagonist can get to their objective. Perhaps there is…