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OK, so just the game's title made me curious enough to take a nibble, and while I wouldn't consider Freddy a satisfying meal of a game it's at least a strange appetizer...
Leave it to indie games to keep finding ways to push the “generic” genre experience of something so well-known as the Metroidvania in at least slightly new directions...
Mixing together the general feel of grand retro action adventures along the lines of Prince of Persia or Out of This World with some more modern touches, Unto the End has the bones of a solid, if aggravating experience...
Somehow games involving the disposal of bodies and clean-up of crime scenes has become a niche genre, and though it certainly makes for morbid play it is at least pretty different conceptually...
When you're an old fogey like me you've seen a whole lot of games over time, including those that push into the more inappropriate realms in various ways...
I’d say mechanically everything the app does on Switch makes sense and that performance is surprisingly crisp as you flip through pages, zoom in to see the details more clearly, and search through the available books...
It's sometimes tricky to write reviews when it comes to scoring games that show a ton of promise and are engaging but then have a critical flaw or two you can't ignore...
OK, so perhaps at this point the concept of a deck-building strategy roguelike has been played out a bit… but what if you added an additional layer of RNG madness with dice just to spice things up?
There’s nothing I like more than a surprise game that shows up, slaps you around a bit, and leaves you thirsting for more...
Retro remix collections tend to be a mixed bag, but for fans of arcade classics even though not every title in Forever is equally compelling it still delivers the goods...
With a unique hand-drawn art style and some unusually inventive point-and-click puzzles When the Past was Around definitely stands out from the crowd...
Ever since the likes of Diner Dash (and some others) were a big hit in the casual space the time management action game genre has slowly evolved but kept the basics intact, mostly just throwing additional complexity into the mix...
I can respect games that aren't made for the adrenaline junkie set, whose goal is to proceed at a slower pace and enjoy taking everything in...
If you've seen my reviews of visual novels before you'll know that in a general sense I'm rarely a fan...
In the budget casual game arena there are some titles that embrace less complex controls, some only featuring one button even, and surprisingly deliver compelling gameplay...
There have been a variety of dogfighting sims on the Switch, with time frames ranging from the earliest instances of aerial combat on through the future in space...
There’s something pretty delightful when you encounter games that you’ve never previously heard of that, once you begin playing them, grab you and demand your attention until they’re completed...
Games that do things differently are always a treat on the system, and in terms of its approach there’s no doubt that Alt-Frequencies delivers in that regard...
There are, no doubt, loads of retro games of all flavors and degrees of quality on the Switch, and among them Tanuki Justice stands out as probably one of the most authentic not based on a property I've seen...
I've continued to be pleasantly surprised or even a bit amazed at the types of titles that developers have gotten running on Switch, especially when they're pretty ambitious visually...