Short reviews so you can decide whether a game is worth your hard-earned cash.
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Publisher: FuriouSoftPhoenix What I Paid: $1.80 Verdict: Not Shovelware. 100%ed it. What I Say: Canceled! (their spelling error, not mine) Super Puzzles Dream is a timed jigsaw puzzle game. 20 puzzles are available in 4 difficulty levels. The bottom row…
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One Night: Burlesque (Nintendo Switch 2)
Publisher: REDDEER.GAMES What I Paid: $8.98 (Base Game + all DLC) Verdict: Not Shovelware. 100%ed it. SE Spamming. What I Say: One Night: Burlesque is a short but visually pleasant visual novel set in a burlesque club. You are a…
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Factotum 90 (Nintendo Switch 2)
Publisher: RAINYFROG What I Paid: $1.50 Verdict: Not Shovelware. 100%ed it (I think). What I Say: The central mechanic of Factotum 90 is that you control two “walker’ robots (boxes with 4 legs – basically friendly spiders). You are on…
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Grim Legends: The Forsaken Bride (Nintendo Switch 2)
Publisher: Artifex Mundi What I Paid: $2.25 Verdict: Not Shovelware. What I Say: This is a fairly typical entry into the Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure genre. A few things differentiate it: there is an unusual kitten mechanic involved in solving…
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Stories in Glass: Winter (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: Ocean Media What I Paid: $3.75 Verdict: Not Shovelware. 100%ed it. What I Say: This game is basically a series of jigsaw puzzles with a few twists: The game is Christmas-themed and replete with cloying Christmas instrumental tunes which…
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Path of Sin: Greed (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: Artifex Mundi What I Paid: $2.25 Verdict: Not Shovelware. 100%ed it. What I Say: Artifex Mundi publish a lot of Hidden Object Puzzle Adventures and this one varies little from its standard formula. You are a rookie detective tasked…
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Ghost Files: Memory of a Crime (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: Artifex Mundi What I Paid: $2.25 Verdict: Not Shovelware. What I Say: In this Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure, you are a former police office who is now a private detective who is on the trail of a mysterious serial…
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Escape game & Card search game R01M (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: AlignmentSharp What I Paid: $1.39 Verdict: Shovelware. 100%ed it. What I Say: I debated for a little while about whether I’d let this title slide by without earning the “Shovelware” moniker, but in the end there were too many…
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Encodya (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: Assemble Entertainment What I Paid: $13.50 Verdict: Not Shovelware. What I Say: Encodya is a crowd-funded point and click adventure set in a dystopian future. You are Tina, a 9 year old orphan girl who scrapes by on her…
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Arc of Alchemist (Nintendo Switch)
Publisher: Idea Factory What I Paid: $15.00 Verdict: Not Shovelware. What I Say: After finishing Arc of Alchemist for the first time, I read a few online reviews prior to writing my own review. This title has been savaged online…