Short reviews so you can decide whether a game is worth your hard-earned cash.
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Publisher: Nerd Games What I Paid: $1.50 Verdict: Shovelware. What I Say: This is one of the worst Shovelware titles I have ever had the displeasure of reviewing. Firstly, the A and B buttons are reversed in their usual actions.…
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Tales of the Orient – The Rising Sun (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: JoinDots What I Paid: $5.99 Verdict: Not Shovelware. 100%ed it. What I Say: This is fundamentally a match-3 game with a few rather interesting twists which sets it aside from the vast majority of me-too match-3 games out there.…
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Good Guys (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: DillyFrame What I Paid: $1.50 Verdict: Shovelware. 100%ed it. What I Say: This is a comic. Read the image. Press ‘A’. Repeat. The story is short and…bizarre. Read “What They Say” below – it truly is that weird. There…
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Hentai Solitaire (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: RedDeer.Games What I Paid: $1.50 Verdict: Shovelware. What I Say: This is a bare bones solitaire game with two modes of play. The “Hentai” label comes from the tiny “Hentai” pictures on the back of the cards, of which…
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Agent A: A puzzle in disguise (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: YAK What I Paid: $1.50 Verdict: Not Shovelware. What I Say: This is a really enjoyable adventure game with a range of puzzles that are neither too simple nor too hard. Being Australian-made and with Australian sensibilities, it doesn’t…
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Steam Engine (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: RandomSpin Games What I Paid: $1.50 Verdict: Shovelware. 100%ed it. Very Short. What I Say: RandomSpin Games have a ton of Xxxxx Engine games available on the Nintendo eShop. All of them have the same premise: click ‘Y’ for…
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Baldur’s Gate and Baldur’s Gate II: Enhanced Editions (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: Beamdog What I Paid: $14.99 Verdict: Not Shovelware. What I Say: I’ve had many attempts to finish Baldur’s Gate over the years, mainly on PC. It’s an old school RPG based on slightly modified AD&D rules to accommodate real…
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A Tale for Anna (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: Top Hat Studios What I Paid: $3.30 Verdict: Not Shovelware. 100%ed it. What I Say: This is best described as a hybrid hidden object puzzle game and a point and click adventure with several unusual (and ultimately very annoying)…
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Faircroft’s Antiques: The Forbidden Crypt Collector’s Edition (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: Ocean Media What I Paid: $3.00 Verdict: Not Shovelware. 100%ed it. What I Say: Ocean Media put out a lot of hidden object puzzle adventure games. This is one of them. The story is…thin. The romance is…thin. The cringe…
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The Awakening of Mummies (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: Silesia Games What I Paid: $1.50 Verdict: Not Shovelware. 100%ed it. What I Say: At first this appears to be a trivial puzzle game involving guiding a mummy from one point to another, avoiding simplistic traps. This quickly becomes…