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Low-budget fare can always be tough to score since there's always a question of where to put the bar...
Taking the basic premise of mobile puzzlers like 2048 or Threes, Bone Marrow tries to throw in a little value-added RPG-ish feels to spice things up...
Starting Zengeon up there's a feel of real promise with a great animated opener, distinctive characters, and everything exuding a sense of style...
While I had heard tales of the infamous Spelunker games and their inexplicably bad controls, until now I had never had the opportunity to experience them for myself...
While I’ll admit that when you mention a game with the name “dodgeball” right in the title you already have my attention, bear in mind that doesn’t make me an easy guarantee for positive feelings about the result...
If you're a puzzle gaming fan, you're probably well-acquainted with the Picross franchise...
As much of an action and shooting game junkie as I am, looking for games that challenge me and provide thrills, a great game that moves in the precisely opposite direction can very much grab me...
One thing I've learned over the years as someone both on the programming end of software and on the consumer end is that creating experiences that are "simple" by nature is often anything but...
Games where dogfighting takes a central sort of role have been around for quite some time, and while there are some stand-out excellent titles like Everspace out there that can give you that fix on Switch they still feel few and far between...
Hopefully not accurately depicting our future, in Doomsday Vault you’re tasked with working to recover precious unique plants and their seeds in order to help preserve them and to hopefully turn things around...
As a bit of a roguelike action/shooter junkie I'm always fascinated to see new titles come into the fold that are determined to do things their own unique way...
As I've stated many times I'm a big fan of classic arcade shooting so when titles take that style of play and run with it, trying to add in some new spice, I'm always down to check it out...
As you'd expect on a Nintendo system, there are loads of side-scrolling platformers of all styles and levels of quality...
In order to liven up the classic tower defense-style strategy game, a number of developers have taken a crack at adding an active combat component to things...
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This minimalist, and quite challenging, platformer will absolutely make you a bit crazy if your goal isn't just to complete tough levels but also do so in an insanely limited amount of time...
Right out of the gate I'll admit I'm a bit lost in trying to summarize the Bustafellows experience, but regardless I won't deny it has style and attitude to burn...
With its minimalist art and color scheme, Apple Slash certainly does look distinctive...
Games that are effectively walking simulators that double as a sort of horror experience have somehow become quite a consistent thing in the Switch eShop and I'm never quite sure how to feel about them...
One of the subgenres I’ll say I’m most disappointed having seen ride off into the sunset in recent generations is combat racing...