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With the lack of sports titles on the Switch you may have seen this game's name and felt your pulse race a little bit...
Wow, OK, this is one of those titles where, being honest, it pained me to try to play it...
Budget platformers have become somewhat a dime a dozen out there on the Switch, but when you're in a pinch and looking for some time they aren't always a bad option...
Lumini is one of those titles that's a bit like a roller coaster ride to play...
As a huge fan of Civilization, and 4X strategy games like it, I'm always intrigued by new titles being released in that general vein...
As a child of the 70s and 80s who spent an enormous amount of time in the arcades there’s no doubt 198X was made for me...
The arcade ninja classic is back! Shinobi is a title I spent a fair amount of time playing at the arcades back in the day and, in general, it's just as tough as I remembered it...
Do you ever walk through life feeling like it's mostly full of mundane repetition and tasks that lack in fulfillment? In Mosaic your main character is trapped in such a situation, moving through his day surrounded by grey blandness...
The Oddworld series has finally managed to come to Switch! Well, sort of, since this FPS-like offshoot from the main series is quite a different animal...
On paper I think the idea behind the mechanics for Space Wolf could be interesting...
This is one of those popular indie titles that seemed like a natural fit for the Switch so it's odd that it took so long to get here but I'm glad it has arrived...
There's no doubt the Switch has become the ideal platform for retro and throwback titles of all kinds...
Over the past few years in particular there has been a movement towards using games as a vehicle for telling semi-interactive stories as opposed to using more traditional forms of media...
With a visual pixel art style that does have a creep factor but has elements reminiscent of the developer's previous release, My Big Sister, I found it hard not to have a bit of deja vu playing this title...
Early in the Switch lifespan, when the pickings were sometimes a bit more thin, there were some core Nindie titles that helped occupy my time...
Though it may look pretty simplistic, and is in terms of mechanics, there's something deceptive about the light action in Witch & Hero 2...
Though I’m old enough to recall, with some fondness even, the days of playing purely text-based adventure games the likes of Zork and others I can’t say I was initially thrilled at the prospect of returning to that style of play...
It's always interesting to see games used as a medium for storytelling and in the case of Self rather than working through a pre-destined story to reach a static conclusion you'll find that it has many branching paths to encourage replay to discover its different outcomes...
Oof...
Budget puzzlers may be a bit of a dime a dozen on the Switch but it's always nice to see ones that offer up something different...