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A super simple game that anyone can play, Marblelous Animal tasks the player with rolling an animal shaped marble into a hole using the Switch’s gyro controls. Even though the overall concept and musical soundtrack is easy going, there are a few basic housekeeping flaws that push the overall experience into the frustration column. The […]
Since the sun stopped shinning, the remaining citizens of Earth stopped keeping time. Therefore, it is a perpetual 1988 in this 2D dystopia and murderous robots are trying to take their revenge. The story in Black Future ‘88 is dismal, and even a little Matrix-ish, but the entire experience leans into this bleak narrative. Playing […]
Designed around an ancient Roman theme, Nonogram Prophecy is essentially Picross only with a different coat of paint. This is a casual puzzle game that is suitable for all ages and should easily please fans of similar pen and paper puzzle games like Sudoku. Presented like a sheet of graph paper, each puzzle is composed […]
You know what makes a platformer annoying? Blind jumps. Having the player jump off screen into the unknown, which could easily lead to instant death or unfair damage, has been defined as poor game design for years. Now what if there was a game that focused entirely on this frustrating game mechanic – that is […]
Playing as an unlucky one handed blacksmith, Yaga is an action RPG that defines its gameplay loop early. After the opening cutscene, in which you learn how Ivan the blacksmith loses his hand, players walk around the town hub talking to citizens to acquire quests. Then the blacksmith leaves town, selects a task, then heads […]
The original Bouncy Bob was released in 2018 and is a terrible game. However, the developer managed to push well over 300k downloads because it literally sold for a couple pennies on the Switch eShop in the deeply discounted section. Because of that “success,” a sequel has been made but you’re better off holding onto […]
One of my favorite games on the 3DS eShop is a game called Witch And Hero and its sequels. Not only is the pixel art super adorable, the gameplay is insanely addicting. Why is this important here? Well, developer Draw Distance took the overall gameplay mechanics of Circle Entertainment’s title, only layering it with a […]
Most easily described as Left4Dead with aliens, Earthfall: Alien Horde is a mindless co-op experience on Switch. This FPS has players controlling one of four characters as they move from one location to the next, being constantly swarmed by alien invaders just like the zombies in the L4D. Unfortunately, the lack of progression and overall […]
Released in 2018 on PC, Door Kickers Action Squad is now available on current consoles. With side-scrolling 2D pixel-based SWAT style gameplay, this action game is best played co-op but offers some stiff and unfair challenges when played solo. You can check out my stream of the original PC version HERE. Pretty much everything said […]
Excalibur Games, the team that brought us the glitchy but oddly experimental car driving and maintaining sim Jalopy, is now focusing their attention to another form a land travel with Tracks – The Train Set Game. Nothing more than a digital toy, Tracks suffers from many of the same problems of their other titles. There […]
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