A PASSION FOR ALL THINGS GAMES
Now available on the Switch eShop, being ported from PC, Boxing Champs is a top down punching simulator with two main modes of play: solo career and local multiplayer. Both modes can offer some short lived, mindless fun when keeping expectations in check. Boxing Champs can either be played by flicking punches with the analog […]
Set 50 years after the climactic events of the original Red Faction, Red Faction: Guerrilla allows players to take the role of an insurgent fighter with the newly re-established Red Faction movement as they battle for liberation from the oppressive Earth Defense Force. Red Faction: Guerrilla still defines the limits of destruction-based game-play with a […]
For a shmup, Rolling Gunner has strong emphasis on story. With cutscenes spliced between stages and a long opening video, the population of Rolling Gunner was being powered by a newer, energy efficient mineral that eventually became self-aware and needs to be destroyed. With the goal of blasting everything with your ship while avoiding hundreds […]
Traxmaster Software announced that its debut title, Exception, is coming to PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch this summer. Exception is a combat platformer set inside an elderly woman’s computer overrun by totalitarian malware. Featuring good ol’ run/jump/attack controls, Exception reinvents traditional platforming through a unique transformation mechanic where levels rotate and move, […]
SCRAP is the latest auto-runner on the Switch eShop. The goal is to reach the end of each stage, avoiding traps and hazards along the way while constantly moving forward. Playing as an escapee robot from a robot factory, the player has access to two abilities: jumping and falling. “A” jumps and “B” makes the […]
Captain Cat is a one-button action puzzle game that is easy to play but will require some trial-and-error to perfect. Feeling like it was ported from a mobile environment and taking place on a single screen, the player controls a cat on a tugboat at the top of the screen. Once in position, the player […]
Pawarumi is an electric, neuron reactive, 3D shoot’em up set in a futuristic yet pre-Columbian inspired universe. Featuring a game mechanic inspired by rock-paper-scissors: it lets the player maximize damage, heal its shield or charge a super attack, simply by shooting with the optimal weapon on the right enemy type. Created by France Indie developer, […]
Dubbed as a single player split-screen twin-stick shooter risk’em-up plays about as complicatedly as it sounds. Like any good arcade game, the goal is to earn the highest score possible. The gimmick, however, is your score reverts back to zero if you die so playing until death is not an option; the player has to […]
Independent developer Ask an Enemy Studios has launched its split-screen single-player twin-stick risk-’em-up A Duel Hand Disaster: Trackher on the Nintendo Switch eShop today for $9.99. A Duel Hand Disaster: Trackher is a twist on the classic shmup formula as players control two ships simultaneously. Destroy incoming enemies on the left side to earn points, […]
Warlocks 2: God Slayers is a 4-player co-op roguelike hack’n slasher designed for co-op first and foremost. Me and Gillman sit down to test out this new Switch eShop $18 title.
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