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Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for December 20th, 2022. In today’s article, we’ve got a trio of game reviews from our pal Mikhail. He takes a look at the expansion to Two Point Campus, plus evaluations of Inscryption and Paradigm Paradox. After that, I’ve got some summaries of all of the new releases of the day. There are a bunch of them, actually! Expect rolling releases all through this week leading up to Christmas. Finally, the lists of new and outgoing sales, which are also fairly robust. Let’s get started!

Reviews & Mini-Views

Two Point Campus: Space Academy ($9.99)

I reviewed Two Point Campus a few months ago, and loved it on Switch. I’ve been playing it on and off since launch, but was very curious to see how the DLC would expand the already amazing game. The Space Academy DLC hit Switch last week, and it might be my favorite DLC from Two Point Studios.

Two Point Campus game remains one of my favorite Switch games this year, but I’m very surprised by how good the Space Academy DLC is. You can access some of the content very early on through the sandbox mode, but you will be able to tackle the actual levels in the campaign after clearing the first few stages. This new DLC includes three new campus locations, six new courses, and arrives with a plethora of improvements and enhancements to the main game that are free for all owners.

The new campus locations are wildly great, and quite a bit harder than the early levels of the base game. They definitely up the craziness in just about every way, so I’d only recommend trying them once you’ve gotten the basics of the main game done. If you do want to jump into the new content as soon as possible, clear the first map and try the new DLC locations in sandbox mode.

As with all DLC reviews, it is also worth considering the state of the base game right now. Two Point Campus: Space Academy arrived on Switch a week after other platforms and it coincided with the holiday-themed update. The base game has seen quite a few improvements since launch across gameplay, the interface, animations, and more. It is in a much better place, and is a much easier recommendation if you’re after a quirky but deep simulation game with great music.

Right now, my only problem with Two Point Campus: Space Academy is the Switch version is a bit unstable. Even after the patch that fixed the save file crashing issue, I’ve run into a few crashes in my time with DLC while loading new maps. I’ve not lost progress yet, but it is annoying dealing with this on Switch.

Since my original review, I’ve also played Two Point Campus on Steam Deck. Sega also gave me a code for Space Academy there, and I think the Steam Deck version of Two Point Campus is my favorite across all platforms. It delivers a fantastic portable experience right now. It isn’t bad on Switch, but if you do have the option, consider playing Two Point Campus and the Space Academy DLC on Steam Deck over any other system.

Two Point Campus: Space Academy is the best kind of DLC. It feels like a perfect extension of the base game, and delivers a lot of content for its asking price. It might be a bit challenging compared to the base game for some, but this is exactly what I wanted from the DLC for the game. If you enjoyed Two Point Campus, the Space Academy DLC is an essential. I just hope the stability of the Switch version can be improved in future updates. –Mikhail Madnani

SwitchArcade Score: 4.5/5

Paradigm Paradox ($49.99)

I always appreciate developers trying new things across games in genres they are known for. With Paradigm Paradox, Otomate opts for less of a focus on romance, but adds a generous serving of magical girls and a superhero-esque story. Unfortunately, pacing issues and the story not committing to certain plot points enough make this experience feel a bit rushed compared to what I expect from a visual novel by the developer.

I’m not against shorter games, and always prefer them in busier release times, but I almost feel like Paradigm Paradox would’ve benefited from doing more with its characters. Maybe a potential fandisc or sequel can build on the world here, because the art and aesthetic are both great. The voice acting is also very good.

Paradigm Paradox is a shorter than expected visual novel given Otomate’s usual fare, but I enjoyed many aspects of the experience. Going against the norm is risky, and I applaud the developers for trying that here, but the pacing issues hold Paradigm Paradox back from being an easier recommendation. It isn’t the best otome visual novel I’ve read recently, but is worth checking out if the premise interests you. Just don’t expect the quality of Piofiore or Cafe Enchante here. –Mikhail Madnani

SwitchArcade Score: 3.5/5

Inscryption ($19.99)

Inscryption from Daniel Mullins Games and Devolver Digital was one of the most interesting games I was yet to try from 2021. I saw it on many end of year lists, but thought I would wait for a console or iPad release. What initially feels like a deck-building roguelike, ends up being a lot more. I skipped the PS5 version because I was waiting for a potential Nintendo Switch version to check it out. I ended up playing Inscryption on Steam Deck and enjoying my time with it a lot. Having now played it on Nintendo Switch, we have a much better portable version of the game.

Given how friends kept telling me I should trust them and play Inscryption without looking much up beforehand, I figured it had something unique about how it handles its narrative. Having now played it, I can see why no one wanted to explain why I’d enjoy it. Inscryption goes above and beyond in so many ways, and it keeps subverting the player’s expectations. I don’t want to spoil anything, but Inscryption has some aspects that might annoy people who aren’t fans of RNG in games. I expected those elements, but the way different genres and mechanics were blended together here elevated Inscryption to something special.

On Nintendo Switch, I assumed Inscryption would have touchscreen support. Sadly, it does not. It looks and runs great in handheld mode with some slightly long load times, but the addition of proper HD Rumble adds to the immersion. This is a game you want to play with a good set of headphones in handheld mode.

While I hope Inscryption gets touchscreen support in a future update, it has arrived as an excellent conversion on Nintendo’s hybrid system. If you skipped prior releases with the hope of enjoying Inscryption on the go, your wait has been worth it. I’m looking forward to grabbing the eventual physical release. If you enjoy unique takes on narratives, Inscryption is a game you do not want to miss. It also shines on the OLED display on Switch. –Mikhail Madnani

SwitchArcade Score: 4.5/5

New Releases

Mortal Shell: Complete Edition ($29.99)

Here’s another Souls-like option for those seeking one. Mortal Shell released on other platforms a while back, and it got a decent reception both critically and with players. This Complete Edition includes the Vicious Cycle expansion, a fifth playable character named Hadern, and the Rotten Autumn content update. I’ll have a review of this one as soon as I can.

Picross X: Picbits Vs Uzboross ($19.99)

This is a different spin on the Picross concept from Jupiter’s usual approach. In this game, you have to solve a series of 5×5 puzzles as quickly as you can in order to survive. You can play alone or in both local and online multiplayer with up to eight players. For all those who want a Picross game without the complex logic or chill vibes. All joking aside, it’s an attempt to shake up a concept that is rather well-worn and it will be interesting to see if it works.

Floppy Knights ($19.99)

The rather enjoyable turn-based tactics/card game mash-up Floppy Knights arrives on Switch with all of the DLC quests built in. Summon units from floppy disks to engage in battle in dozens of challenging levels. Novel and fun to play, with plenty of interesting mechanics to sink your teeth into.

Dr. Kobushi’s Labyrinthine Laboratory ($9.99)

This is a puzzle game with one hundred levels of top-down challenges. It reminds me a bit of Chip’s Challenge, though it seems to be very much its own thing. It’s all wrapped in a rather charming presentation, which is always appreciated in this kind of game. For a tenner, this seems nice for fans of the genre.

Kaiju Wars ($19.99)

The rather cool Kaiju-themed strategy game that hit other platforms earlier this year now makes its way to the Switch. You have a simple job: try to protect your city against attacks from giant monsters. There are five different kinds of Kaiju, and do keep in mind that they cannot be stopped; only slowed down. Make the best use of your available resources and don’t be afraid to make the sacrifice play. You get a rather meaty campaign here plus some weekly challenges to keep you engaged after you’ve cleared the main game.

Mind Jab ($7.00)

Inspired by Arcomage from the Might & Magic series, this is a strategic card game about trying to build up your sanity and tear down your opponent’s mind. There are about one hundred cards in the deck, and there are no extra transactions or unlockables to deal with. You can play against the computer or against another player via local multiplayer. Online multiplayer would really help this one, but I suppose if you have someone nearby willing to learn the game with you, there might be some fun to be had here.

Sucker for Love: First Date ($9.99)

Western visual novel creators, I am begging you: make something sincere. It’s okay. You don’t have to be ironic just because you’re creating something in this genre. Anyway in this one your protagonist does a summoning ritual and ends up calling in a girl version of Cthulhu. Wacky hijinks ensue as she promises the hero a smooch in exchange for completing a few small tasks. Do what you will with it.

Iron Lung ($5.99)

This one has quite the premise, but the long and short of it is that you are exploring a blood ocean in a small submarine called an Iron Lung to try to find resources that will help save humanity. Your submarine is kind of shabby so navigation requires you to piece together information from various means. Be careful, as there are things lurking out there in the blood.

Party Party Time ($5.00)

A simple party game from SAT-BOX for up to six players via local multiplayer. There are a bunch of minigames to play. You know how all this works. It has a nice colorful vibe, and from what I’ve seen it seems to do what it sets out to well enough for a fiver.

Magma ($2.49)

A fairly generic, low-priced top-down twin-stick shooter with procedurally-generated action. Not much I can add to that, so I leave it to you to decide if you’d rather have this or two delicious Milky Way bars.

Mia’s Christmas ($2.49)

A fairly generic, low-priced matching puzzle game with a Christmas theme. Not much I can add to that, so I leave to you to decide if you’d rather have this or two delicious Snickers bars.

Fight Club – Join us if you can ($3.99)

Absolute trash merchants Cooking & Publishing are back with yet another game based on their “answer questions/repeat answers without making a mistake” template they’ve used in a dozen or so games so far. This time with dangerous skirting of trademarks and copyrights! Wow! It’s garbage.

Sales

(North American eShop, US Prices)

If I had to point at a few interesting deals in today’s list, I would gesture towards Dandara Trials of Fear Edition and Parasite Pack. There’s plenty to see though, so do take a good look through that inbox. Star Wars fans who haven’t already filled out their collections will also want to direct some attention to the outbox as the latest round of discounts come to a close.

Select New Games on Sale

Ye Olde Cribbage Club ($2.99 from $5.99 until 12/31)
Later Daters Premium ($7.49 from $14.99 until 12/31)
One Piece Pirate Warriors 4 DE ($17.99 from $89.99 until 1/2)
Naruto Ninja Storm 3 FB ($3.99 from $19.99 until 1/2)
My Hero One’s Justice ($5.99 from $59.99 until 1/2)
My Hero One’s Justice 2 DE ($19.99 from $79.99 until 1/2)
God Eater 3 ($8.99 from $59.99 until 1/2)
Captain Tsubasa RoNC ($14.99 from $59.99 until 1/2)
Namco Museum Archives Vol 2 ($4.99 from $19.99 until 1/2)
SD Gundam Battle Alliance DE ($59.49 from $84.99 until 1/2)
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure All-Star BR DX ($48.99 from $69.99 until 1/2)
Sword Art Online Fatal Bullet CE ($8.99 from $59.99 until 1/2)
Pac-Man 99 Deluxe Pack ($14.99 from $29.99 until 1/2)
Taiko no Tatsujin Rhythm Fest DE ($40.14 from $54.99 until 1/2)
Little Nightmares I&II Bundle ($14.99 from $49.99 until 1/2)

Backbone ($12.49 from $24.99 until 1/2)
Kathy Rain: Director’s Cut ($7.49 from $14.99 until 1/2)
Dandara Trials of Fear Edition ($3.74 from $13.99 until 1/2)
Atomicrops ($4.49 from $14.99 until 1/2)
West of Dead ($4.99 from $19.99 until 1/2)
Mosaic ($3.99 from $19.99 until 1/2)
Bad North Jotunn Edition ($3.74 from $14.99 until 1/2)
Road of Death ($2.49 from $4.99 until 1/2)
Star Renegades ($9.99 from $24.99 until 1/2)
Townscaper ($4.19 from $5.99 until 1/2)
Rain on Your Parade ($9.74 from $14.99 until 1/2)
The Longest Road on Earth ($5.99 from $9.99 until 1/2)
Wolfstride ($9.74 from $14.99 until 1/2)
Ziggurat ($4.49 from $14.99 until 1/3)
Ziggurat 2 ($19.99 from $24.99 until 1/3)

Picross S Genesis & MS ($7.99 from $9.99 until 1/4)
Kemono Friends Picross ($7.99 from $9.99 until 1/4)
Picross Lord of the Nazarick ($7.99 from $9.99 until 1/4)
Picross S7 ($7.99 from $9.99 until 1/4)
RiffTrax: The Game ($4.99 from $9.99 until 1/6)
SGC Short Games Collection 1 ($5.99 from $19.99 until 1/7)
Hot Sento Girls and Love ($4.48 from $8.97 until 1/8)
Secret Kiss is Sweet and Tender ($4.27 from $8.54 until 1/8)
The Dark Prophecy ($6.99 from $9.99 until 1/9)
Long Live The Queen ($4.99 from $9.99 until 1/9)
Tales of Aravorn: SotW ($9.99 from $19.99 until 1/9)
TEN ($2.49 from $4.99 until 1/9)
Parasite Pack ($3.99 from $7.99 until 1/9)
Flat Kingdom Paper’s Cut Edition ($3.99 from $7.99 until 1/9)
Taqoban ($2.49 from $4.99 until 1/9)
LIMBO ($1.99 from $9.99 until 1/9)

INSIDE ($1.99 from $19.99 until 1/9)
Super Sunny Island ($3.49 from $4.99 until 1/9)
Camped Out! ($14.99 from $19.99 until 1/9)
Ankora: Lost Days ($9.74 from $14.99 until 1/9)
Voyage ($7.49 from $14.99 until 1/9)
Castle Formers ($2.49 from $4.99 until 1/9)
Flower Shop: Summer in Fairbrook ($4.99 from $9.99 until 1/9)
Royal Frontier ($3.49 from $6.99 until 1/9)
Cosmos Bit ($2.49 from $4.99 until 1/9)
Klang 2 ($7.49 from $14.99 until 1/9)
The Wizard & the Slug ($2.49 from $4.99 until 1/9)
Remote Life ($9.49 from $18.99 until 1/9)
Chefy-Chef ($2.49 from $4.99 until 1/9)
The Legend of the Dragonflame ($2.49 from $4.99 until 1/9)
Blackberry Honey ($6.49 from $12.99 until 1/9)

Repentant ($5.99 from $9.99 until 1/9)
Quest for Infamy ($4.99 from $9.99 until 1/9)
The Psychoduck ($2.49 from $4.99 until 1/9)
Back in 1995 ($4.99 from $9.99 until 1/9)
Wild West Crops ($2.49 from $4.99 until 1/9)
Dandy & Randy DX ($3.49 from $6.99 until 1/9)
Dungeon Slime Collection ($2.49 from $4.99 until 1/9)
Roll The Cat ($2.49 from $4.99 until 1/9)
Arenas of Tanks ($2.49 from $4.99 until 1/9)
HellGunner ($2.49 from $4.99 until 1/9)

Sales Ending Tomorrow, Wednesday, December 21st

Broken Universe: Tower Defense ($1.99 from $9.99 until 12/21)
Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium, Assorted ($1.99 from $3.99 until 12/21)
Crowdy Farm Rush ($1.99 from $5.99 until 12/21)
Detective Di: Silk Rose Murders ($1.99 from $12.99 until 12/21)
reky ($1.99 from $9.99 until 12/21)
RWBY Grimm Eclipse DE ($7.49 from $29.99 until 12/21)
Star Wars Episode 1 Racer ($7.49 from $14.99 until 12/21)
Star Wars Jedi Academy ($9.99 from $19.99 until 12/21)
Star Wars Jedi Outcast ($4.99 from $9.99 until 12/21)
Star Wars KotOR ($11.24 from $14.99 until 12/21)
Star Wars KotOR II: Sith Lords ($11.24 from $14.99 until 12/21)
Star Wars Republic Commando ($7.49 from $14.99 until 12/21)
Star Wars The Force Unleashed ($12.99 from $19.99 until 12/21)
Stubbs the Zombie ($6.79 from $19.99 until 12/21)

That’s all for today, friends. We’ll be back tomorrow with more new releases, more sales, and perhaps some news. I really wanted to get more done today, but sometimes the days get away from you. I hope you all have a great Tuesday, and as always, thanks for reading!

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for December 19th, 2022. In today’s article, we’ve got a bit of news to check out before going into reviews of two games. Square Enix’s Dragon Quest Treasures and PQube’s Adventure Academia are in the evaluation hot-seat today. After that, we have a few new releases to check out, plus a more than healthy list of new sales. Let’s get to it!

News

The ‘Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster’ Will Come to Switch in Spring 2023

While this was more or less expected by everyone, Square Enix announced over the weekend that the Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster series, which covers the first six Final Fantasy games, will be coming to the Switch and other platforms in Spring of 2023. There was also a limited physical version announced, but it sold out pretty quickly. Well hey, at least these will be available digitally for everyone.

Reviews & Mini-Views

Dragon Quest Treasures ($59.99)

I had a hard time settling my feelings on Dragon Quest Treasures. There’s definitely something missing that keeps it from being an absolute must-have, but there’s also quite a bit here to like. It’s essentially a stand-alone spin-off, and it feels very much like a spin-off in terms of substance. Could it stand without the Dragon Quest name? The music? The familiar monsters, iconography, sounds, and style? We’ll never know, but I have my own hunches on the matter.

Fortunately for the game, it does have all of those things. It has those things to burn. While it is extremely careful to compartmentalize its story in a pocket where it won’t affect canon in the slightest, it is fully draped in the raiment of its franchise. Some of that is to be expected from just about any Dragon Quest game, like the usual monsters, musical theme, sound effects, and character designs. Some of it is perhaps less standard but not particularly startling, like the bulk of the music being recycled. Some of it I wasn’t expecting, like how often the treasures you find call directly back to specific entries.

Anyway, this is a story about Erik and Mia from Dragon Quest XI. A tale from their younger years, when they were rolling with a bunch of rowdy vikings. After freeing some creatures captured by the crew, they’re whisked into another world. A world where everyone is all about treasure, and Erik and Mia are basically the best treasure hunters around. They meet a bunch of strange characters, butt heads with some of them, help out others with their various requests, and try to save the world by finding the most epic of treasures. That’s really as far as the story goes, for the most part. It’s not that kind of Dragon Quest game.

What that all translates to in gameplay terms is an action-RPG with a heavy emphasis on exploration and big open areas to facilitate that. You’ll have some sort of main quest that takes you out to an area, and probably a big bag full of sub-quests to check off along with the way. You’ll battle enemies with your team of monsters, sniff out treasures to increase your wealth and beef up your base, and recruit new monsters to your team. You’ll have to use the abilities of your monsters to help you find treasure and navigate the maps, with each monster type having its own things to offer in those pursuits.

Finding treasure involves a somewhat unique process of using a compass to find the general area and then using hints from your monsters to pinpoint the spot. Those hints take the form of pictures of their view of the spot, and again the monster differences come into play here in amusing ways. Some of them can only see in black and white. Some have their field of view obscured. It’s cute. I like it. Looking for treasures stays enjoyable all through the game, and that’s a good thing. I also like that as you are exploring the world, almost any cubby you could think of trying to reach has some kind of reward for you. I can tell a lot of thought went into placing things in the world.

On the whole, Dragon Quest Treasures is a very low-friction game. Enemy encounters are never very difficult and your monsters handle things on their own for the most part. You’re constantly tripping over rewards of some kind or another, and your map will soon be positively littered with icons pointing out things of interest. The most annoying bits are when you have to trudge some far distance to get something done, but you usually have an assortment of other tasks along whatever route you have to travel anyway. It took me about twenty-six hours to clear the game, and I felt like that went very briskly once I got past the positively lethargic opening.

Dragon Quest Treasures is an enjoyable action-RPG with an interesting treasure-hunting gimmick that is boosted by how it uses elements of the series. It’s perhaps a little on the easy side, and there are aspects of the game that feel thinner than I would prefer. Still, I think it’s a solid choice for fans of Dragon Quest or younger players who are dipping their toes into the action-RPG genre. It’s a bit of a trifle, but it’s a well-made one that sits well in the proverbial stomach.

SwitchArcade Score: 4/5

Adventure Academia: The Fractured Continent ($39.99)

I was pretty hopeful for this game. It’s developed by Acquire, whose games may be an acquired taste but are a taste I acquired many, many years ago. It’s a spin-off of the Class of Heroes series, which I rather like. It’s a strategy RPG, and I usually have a nice time with those. And yet somehow all I can really conclude is that this is a mess. It has some interesting ideas, but they’re often at odds with each other. The difficulty curve is rather unpleasant. It looks and moves incredibly low-rent for the sticker price. The story is a complete nothing-burger. It just isn’t enjoyable to play, and is really only tolerable in the shortest of bursts.

Each mission has you leading a group of recruited students (each with random quirks that sometimes cause real problems) into battle under the direction of your main character. Your character is also on the field, but extremely vulnerable. You have to babysit them with the other students, because if they go down you’ve lost the mission. One of the more unique elements of combat in this game is that you can pick up and drop your summoned characters to move them where they need to be. They more or less act on their own but you can direct them when needed through a combination of dragging and dropping along with some menu commands. The battlefield gets very cluttered in a hurry, which makes it hard to see and do what you need to.

Can you have some fun with Adventure Academia? Sure. It’s not that there isn’t anything here to like. But it gels together so badly and is such a troublesome game to play that I really can’t recommend it. I’m happy to see Class of Heroes is still alive in some form, but I hope the next time it pops its head up we get something better than this.

SwitchArcade Score: 2.5/5

New Releases

GyroBlade ($4.99)

This is a little indie homage to Toaplan shooters, most of all Tiger Heli. And you know what? It’s not too shabby at all. I grabbed this when it launched on the Japanese eShop a couple weeks ago and apart from it not having online leaderboards it’s a very capable game. If you like Tiger Heli or other arcade shooters of that era, this is a great way to spend a fiver.

Aero Striker – World Invasion ($9.99)

EpiXR sure knows how to get mileage out of that Aery engine. This game is basically Aery but with shooting. Five different modes, ten different maps, and somehow the same chill level of difficulty as the Aery games. Apparently fans of the publisher have asked for this, so if you’re one of those folks, here you are.

Chubby Cat 2 ($6.99)

The Cut the Rope clone featuring a portly feline that came out not so long ago now has a sequel. It offers up more stages to play, and maybe some new gimmicks. A very unambitious thing, but that follows given what the first game was.

Sales

(North American eShop, US Prices)

Wow, that is some kind of list of new sales for a Monday. Some new low prices on games from 2K Games, Ratalaika, and others. I’ll also call attention to two games I really enjoyed: Gotta Protectors: Cart of Darkness and Moon Dancer. Give them a closer look if you like good video games. No pressure. The size of the incoming list is offset nicely by the tiny nature of the outbox. Check both lists carefully!

Select New Games on Sale

Haiku, the Robot ($14.99 from $19.99 until 12/23)
Carnival Games ($7.99 from $39.99 until 12/27)
NBA 2K23 ($23.99 from $59.99 until 12/27)
L.A. Noire ($24.99 from $49.99 until 12/27)
WWE 2K Battlegrounds ($7.99 from $39.99 until 12/27)
WWE 2K Battlegrounds Deluxe ($9.99 from $49.99 until 12/27)
Borderlands Legendary Collection ($9.99 from $49.99 until 12/27)
BioShock: The Collection ($9.99 from $49.99 until 12/27)
Sid Meier’s Civilization VI ($5.99 from $29.99 until 12/27)
Sid Meier’s Civ VI Anthology ($24.49 from $69.99 until 12/27)
New Tales from the Borderlands DE ($29.99 from $49.99 until 12/27)
House Builder ($11.24 from $14.99 until 12/28)
WarriOrb ($2.00 from $12.99 until 12/29)
Wobbledogs Console Edition ($15.99 from $19.99 until 12/30)
A Little to the Left ($12.74 from $14.99 until 12/30)

Penko Park ($9.09 from $12.99 until 12/30)
Saturday Morning RPG ($6.99 from $9.99 until 12/31)
The House in Fata Morgana ($27.99 from $39.99 until 12/31)
Save Me Mr Tako: DE ($10.49 from $14.99 until 12/31)
Revenge of the Bird King ($3.49 from $4.99 until 12/31)
Corpse Killer 25th Anniversary ($10.49 from $14.99 until 12/31)
Double Switch 25th Anniversary ($10.49 from $14.99 until 12/31)
Alfonzo’s Arctic Adventure ($3.49 from $4.99 until 12/31)
Night Trap 25th Anniversary ($10.49 from $14.99 until 12/31)
Pictooi ($6.99 from $9.99 until 12/31)
Cosmic Star Heroine ($10.49 from $14.99 until 12/31)
Grapple Dog ($7.49 from $14.99 until 1/1)
OBAKEIDORO ($9.99 from $19.99 until 1/1)
RUN: The World In-Between ($7.49 from $9.99 until 1/2)
Foretales ($15.99 from $19.99 until 1/2)

Ruggnar ($9.79 from $13.99 until 1/2)
Pompom: The Great Space Rescue ($7.99 from $9.99 until 1/2)
Souldiers ($15.99 from $19.99 until 1/2)
Alpaca Ball: Allstars ($9.99 from $19.99 until 1/2)
Captain Velvet Meteor ($12.49 from $24.99 until 1/4)
Advent Calendar ($4.99 from $24.99 until 1/5)
Alfred Hitchcock Vertigo ($27.99 from $39.99 until 1/6)
New Joe & Mac Caveman Ninja ($23.99 from $29.99 until 1/6)
Nonogram Minimal ($1.99 from $6.99 until 1/6)
Asterix & Obelix XXXL: TRfH ($27.99 from $39.99 until 1/6)
The Sisters Party of the Year ($4.49 from $29.99 until 1/6)
Car Parking Club ($7.79 from $l2.99 until 1/6)
My Universe: Puppies & Kittens ($14.99 from $29.99 until 1/6)
Orn: The Tiny Forest Sprite ($2.50 from $8.99 until 1/6)
My Universe: Interior Designer ($14.99 from $29.99 until 1/6)
The Bluecoats North & South ($4.49 from $29.99 until 1/6)

Oddworld Soulstorm ($39.99 from $49.99 until 1/6)
Pinball Jam ($9.99 from $24.99 until 1/6)
Stranded Deep ($12.49 from $24.99 until 1/6)
PigShip & the Giant Wolf ($3.19 from $7.99 until 1/6)
XIII ($23.99 from $39.99 until 1/6)
Smurfs Kart ($27.99 from $39.99 until 1/6)
Grand Mountain Adventure ($17.49 from $34.99 until 1/6)
Arkanoid Eternal Battle ($20.09 from $29.99 until 1/6)
Garfield Lasagna Party ($27.99 from $39.99 until 1/6)
Horse Tales: Emerald Valley Ranch ($31.99 from $39.99 until 1/6)
FUZE4 Nintendo Switch ($6.79 from $19.99 until 1/6)
Blackwind ($12.50 from $24.99 until 1/7)
Projection: First Light ($5.99 from $19.99 until 1/7)
Nine Witches: Family Disruption ($5.99 from $19.99 until 1/7)
Around the World ($2.99 from $9.99 until 1/7)
ENOH ($7.69 from $10.99 until 1/7)

Moon Dancer ($10.99 from $18.99 until 1/7)
Gotta Protectors: Cart of Darkness ($10.04 from $14.99 until 1/7)
Chubby Cat 2 ($1.99 from $6.99 until 1/7)
Pirate’s Gold ($2.99 from $9.99 until 1/7)
Farmquest ($2.99 from $9.99 until 1/7)
CosmoPlayerZ ($7.69 from $10.99 until 1/7)
KungFu Kickball ($5.99 from $19.99 until 1/7)
Super Mabus Mania ($3.94 from $7.89 until 1/8)
Nape Retroverse Collection ($3.49 from $6.99 until 1/8)
9 Clues: TSoSC ($1.99 from $14.99 until 1/8)
9 Clues 2: The Ward ($1.99 from $14.99 until 1/8)
Grim Legends 3: The Dark City ($1.99 from $14.99 until 1/8)
Catmaze ($6.99 from $9.99 until 1/9)
Angels with Scaly Wings ($5.99 from $9.99 until 1/9)
Moto Roader MC ($4.89 from $6.99 until 1/9)

Gynoug ($4.89 from $6.99 until 1/9)
Gleylancer ($4.89 from $6.99 until 1/9)
Avenging Spirit ($4.19 from $5.99 until 1/9)
Millie & Molly ($1.99 from $4.99 until 1/9)
Aquadine ($13.99 from $19.99 until 1/9)
God Damn The Garden ($3.49 from $4.99 until 1/9)
A Frog’s Job ($3.49 from $4.99 until 1/9)
Bones of Halloween ($3.49 from $4.99 until 1/9)
Runout ($3.49 from $4.99 until 1/9)
Roar of Revenge ($3.49 from $4.99 until 1/9)
Caffeine Victoria’s Legacy ($12.59 from $17.99 until 1/9)

Sales Ending Tomorrow, Tuesday, December 20th

Crash Drive 3 ($1.99 from $19.99 until 12/20)
Fury Unleashed ($5.99 from $19.99 until 12/20)
Marooners ($1.99 from $14.99 until 12/20)

That’s all for today, friends. We’ll be back tomorrow with more reviews, more sales, more new releases, and perhaps some news. I have to get back to my review pile so that I can start my year as clean as possible. I hope you all have a marvelous Monday, and as always, thanks for reading!

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for December 16th, 2022. Well, we’re properly heading for the end of the year now, folks. Only three new releases today, and none of them are going to have you running up and down the street shouting at the top of your voice. We have some news in the form of some new SEGA 16-bit games for Nintendo Switch Online, and a very robust list of new sales to check out. So it’s not all quiet, I suppose. Let’s get to it!

News

Four More Games Hit the Genesis Selection of Nintendo Switch Online

It’s been a few months since anything new was added to the Genesis app for Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack subscribers, but we finally have some new… old games to play. They’re all first-party SEGA games this time, and nothing really too exciting. If you own the SEGA Genesis Classics Collection, they’ll all be familiar. In order of original release, the new titles are Columns, Alien Storm, Golden Axe II, and Virtua Fighter 2. All decent in their own ways but nothing very unexpected either. Update your app and the four new games will be there, easy as that.

New Releases

Panda Punch ($4.99)

If I had a nickel for every game where you play as a red panda this week, I’d… well, I’d have ten cents, but you have to admit it’s a bit odd that it happened twice. Anyway, this is a puzzle platformer that reminds me ever so slightly of Super Bat Puncher Demo. You’re a red panda, you have some kind of bionic arm, and you have to use it to make your way through fifty-eight levels. Seems pretty fun for a fiver.

Napoleon Maiden Episode. 1 A maiden without the word impossible ($24.99)

This is a visual novel about a guy who gets hit by Truck-kun and ends up in 19th century France. But not normal 19th century France, no. This is a 19th century France where Napoleon Bonaparte is a cute anime girl. I mean, sure. Why the fleck not? Oh, and she and various other girls (who are also girl versions of dudes) have superpowers and battle each other with them. I am shrugging right now. Might be stupid enough to be fun.

Elves Christmas Hentai Puzzle ($2.99)

Phew, tough haul today. They tell you to stay in school, but sometimes you do that and still end up writing about low-rent lewd (but not explicit) puzzle games that can’t even be bothered to come up with a decent puzzle mechanic. It’s a jigsaw puzzle without the jig. Twenty-six levels, three bucks.

Sales

(North American eShop, US Prices)

Lots of great sales kicking off today, including just about all of Square Enix’s games and a number of cool indies. Treat yourself: grab Arcade Paradise. And if you have ever been even the slightest bit interested in the Yooka-Laylee games, they will probably never be cheaper than they are now. Four bucks! I spend more than that on an ice cream cone a few weeks ago. Not much in the weekend outbox, so feel free to fill your boots with the new stuff.

Select New Games on Sale

City Wars: Tokyo Reign ($6.49 from $12.99 until 12/23)
Area 86 ($1.99 from $9.99 until 12/23)
Dead by Daylight ($11.99 from $29.99 until 12/28)
Dead by Daylight Ultimate ($41.99 from $69.99 until 12/28)
Balan Wonderworld ($11.99 from $39.99 until 12/30)
Final Fantasy VII ($7.99 from $15.99 until 12/30)
Final Fantasy VIII Remastered ($9.99 from $19.99 until 12/30)
Final Fantasy IX ($10.49 from $20.99 until 12/30)
Final Fantasy X/X-2 Remaster ($24.99 from $49.99 until 12/30)
Final Fantasy XII TZA ($24.99 from $49.99 until 12/30)
Final Fantasy XV Pocket ($11.99 from $29.99 until 12/30)
Voice of Cards: Forsaken Maiden ($17.99 from $29.99 until 12/30)
Voice of Cards: Isle Dragon Roars ($17.99 from $29.99 until 12/30)
Dungeon Encounters ($14.99 from $29.99 until 12/30)
Harvestella ($47.99 from $59.99 until 12/30)

The DioField Chronicle ($29.99 from $59.99 until 12/30)
Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memory ($29.99 from $59.99 until 12/30)
Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5+2.5 Cloud Vers. ($23.99 from $39.99 until 12/30)
Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Cloud Vers. ($29.99 from $49.99 until 12/30)
Kingdom Hearts III Cloud Vers. ($29.99 from $49.99 until 12/30)
Kingdom Hearts Integrum Masterpiece ($53.99 from $89.99 until 12/30)
Actraiser Renaissance ($17.99 from $29.99 until 12/30)
Dragon Quest ($3.24 from $4.99 until 12/30)
Dragon Quest II ($4.21 from $6.49 until 12/30)
Dragon Quest III ($8.11 from $12.49 until 12/30)
Collection of Mana ($19.99 from $39.99 until 12/30)
Trials of Mana ($24.99 from $49.99 until 12/30)
Legend of Mana ($14.99 from $29.99 until 12/30)
Chocobo’s Mystery Dungeon ($15.99 from $39.99 until 12/30)
Chocobo GP ($24.99 from $49.99 until 12/30)

World of Final Fantasy Maxima ($15.99 from $39.99 until 12/30)
FF Crystal Chronicles Remastered ($11.99 from $29.99 until 12/30)
NEO The World Ends With You ($29.99 from $59.99 until 12/30)
Lost Sphear ($14.99 from $49.99 until 12/30)
Oninaki ($19.99 from $49.99 until 12/30)
I Am Setsuna ($15.99 from $39.99 until 12/30)
The Centennial Case Shijima Story ($29.99 from $49.99 until 12/30)
Star Ocean First Departure R ($8.39 from $20.99 until 12/30)
Life is Strange Arcadia Bay ($29.99 from $39.99 until 12/30)
Life is Strange True Colors ($29.99 from $59.99 until 12/30)
Life is Strange True Colors Deluxe ($34.99 from $69.99 until 12/30)
Guardians of the Galaxy Cloud Vers. ($20.99 from $59.99 until 12/30)
Shadows of Kurgansk ($5.39 from $17.99 until 12/30)
Arcade Paradise ($14.99 from $19.99 until 12/30)
KURSK ($4.99 from $9.99 until 12/30)

It Takes Two ($29.99 from $39.99 until 12/30)
Tesla Force ($8.49 from $16.99 until 12/30)
Dysmantle ($9.99 from $19.99 until 12/30)
Lumote the Mastermote Chronicles ($9.99 from $19.99 until 12/30)
Perpetuum Mobile ($1.99 from $4.99 until 12/30)
Vaporum Lockdown ($7.47 from $21.99 until 12/30)
Once Upon a Jester ($11.99 from $14.99 until 12/30)
MotoGP 22 ($11.99 from $39.99 until 12/30)
Light Fingers ($4.99 from $19.99 until 12/30)
The Copper Canyon Dixie Dash ($2.99 from $7.49 until 12/30)
Hot Wheels Unleashed ($12.49 from $49.99 until 12/30)
The Hand of Glory ($15.19 from $18.99 until 12/30)
Furi Modore Edition ($9.99 from $24.99 until 12/30)
Ashland Dossier ($4.39 from $10.99 until 12/31)
Mech Mechanic Simulator ($7.99 from $19.99 until 12/31)

Dieselpunk Wars ($5.99 from $14.99 until 12/31)
Lacuna ($1.99 from $19.99 until 1/5)
Endless Memories ($16.99 from $19.99 until 1/5)
The Serpent Rogue ($9.99 from $19.99 until 1/5)
Epic Chef ($6.24 from $24.99 until 1/5)
XEL ($9.49 from $18.99 until 1/5)
Kao the Kangaroo Bundle ($20.99 from $34.99 until 1/5)
Surface Rush ($2.49 from $4.99 until 1/5)
Square Keeper ($2.49 from $4.99 until 1/5)
A Juggler’s Tale ($8.99 from $17.99 until 1/5)
Run Box Run ($1.99 from $4.99 until 1/5)
Hokko Life ($13.99 from $19.99 until 1/5)
Yoku’s Island Express ($3.99 from $19.99 until 1/5)
Crown Trick ($4.99 from $19.99 until 1/5)
Monster Sanctuary ($6.79 from $19.99 until 1/5)

King of Seas ($6.24 from $24.99 until 1/5)
Rogue Heroes: Ruins of Tasos ($5.99 from $19.99 until 1/5)
Narita Boy ($6.24 from $24.99 until 1/5)
Yooka-Laylee ($3.99 from $39.99 until 1/5)
Yooka-Laylee & the Impossible Lair ($4.49 from $29.99 until 1/5)
Sword of the Necromancer ($3.74 from $14.99 until 1/5)
LootLite ($3.49 from $4.99 until 1/5)
Retro City Rampage DX ($5.99 from $14.99 until 1/5)
Shakedown: Hawaii ($5.99 from $19.99 until 1/5)
A Place for the Unwilling ($7.49 from $14.99 until 1/5)
Gibbon: Beyond the Trees ($7.49 from $14.99 until 1/5)
Kwaidan Azuma Manor Story ($4.99 from $24.99 until 1/5)
Dustoff Heli Rescue 2 ($1.99 from $8.00 until 1/5)
Mokoko X ($5.74 from $11.49 until 1/5)
Orbital Bullet ($13.39 from $19.99 until 1/5)

Rise of the Slime ($3.74 from $14.99 until 1/5)
Milk inside a bag of milk… ($6.39 from $7.99 until 1/5)
Forklift Extreme ($3.99 from $9.99 until 1/5)
School Race GP ($3.00 from $10.00 until 1/5)
Our Fantasy Quest ($4.20 from $14.00 until 1/5)
Golf With Your Friends Deluxe ($8.,09 from $26.99 until 1/5)
My Time at Portia Deluxe ($9.59 from $31.99 until 1/5)
Neon Abyss Deluxe ($11.19 from $27.99 until 1/5)
Moving Out Deluxe ($8.24 from $32.99 until 1/5)
Mad Bullets ($4.49 from $14.99 until 1/5)
Oceanhorn: MoUS ($3.74 from $14.99 until 1/5)
Oceanhorn 2: KotLR ($17.99 from $29.99 until 1/5)
Yonder: Cloud Catcher Chronicles ($11.99 from $29.99 until 1/5)
Marco and the Galaxy Dragon ($13.99 from $19.99 until 1/5)
To Be Or Not To Be ($1.99 from $6.99 until 1/5)

Feather ($3.59 from $9.99 until 1/5)
Rabi-Ribi ($17.99 from $29.99 until 1/5)
Superola CE ($3.49 from $4.99 until 1/5)
Murder on the Marine Express ($2.49 from $4.99 until 1/5)
Table of Tales: TCC ($7.99 from $19.99 until 1/5)
Choices That Matter: ATSWO ($1.99 from $5.99 until 1/5)
Choices That Matter: ATSWE ($1.99 from $5.99 until 1/5)
Choices That Matter: ATHWL ($1.99 from $5.99 until 1/5)
Mercenaries Saga Chronicles ($7.49 from $14.99 until 1/5)
Mercenaries Blaze: DotTD ($11.99 from $19.99 until 1/5)
Desktop Soccer 2 ($5.60 from $8.00 until 1/5)
Bravery and Greed ($15.99 from $19.99 until 1/5)
Shadows of Adam ($7.49 from $14.99 until 1/5)
Galactic Wars EX ($3.99 from $7.99 until 1/5)
Waifu Impact ($2.49 from $4.99 until 1/5)

Sales Ending This Weekend

Puzzle & Dragons ($1.99 from $4.37 until 12/17)
Scar of the Doll ($6.99 from $9.99 until 12/17)
All-Star Fruit Racing ($4.99 from $19.99 until 12/18)
Here Be Dragons ($4.49 from $17.99 until 12/18)
Just Dance 2023 Deluxe ($38.49 from $69.99 until 12/18)
Sotano ($3.99 from $4.99 until 12/18)

That’s all for today and this week, friends. We’ll be back next week with more reviews, more new releases, more sales, and perhaps some news. I have to finish pushing through Dragon Quest Treasures and Crisis Core this weekend so I can write my reviews, so that’s my free time set. I hope you all have a great weekend, and as always, thanks for reading!

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for December 15th, 2022. It’s Thursday today, and as the case every week it means we have several new releases to look at. The biggest title today is River City Girls 2, the sequel to WayForward’s popular take on the classic beat-em-up franchise. There are some other interesting titles aside from that, and we’ve got summaries of all of them. After that, it’s the usual lists of new and expiring sales. Let’s get going!

New Releases

River City Girls 2 ($29.99)

The River City Girls are back! There are two new playable characters and an all-new adventure to embark on. There’s a lot of stuff carried over from the first game here because, well, it makes sense to do that. But there are lots of new areas, enemies, and other new things to experience as well. Oh, and online play. Yes, you can now play online with another person. The stakes in this genre have only gotten higher since the first game came out, so we’ll have to see if this sequel keeps the pace. I’ll have a review soon.

Cosmo Dreamer ($8.20)

This is a vertically-scrolling bullet-hell shooter, and a surprisingly good one. Seriously. If you like your bullet-hell games, there is an awful lot to like in this title. The only real downer about it is that it doesn’t have online leaderboards, which is a serious omission for score-chasers. Still, it’s around eight bucks and what you get in here is more than worth that if you like this genre.

Hero Hours Contract 2: A Factory for Magical Girls ($1.99)

Hey, another one of these. This developer makes some fun stuff for a low price, and this is no exception. It’s magical girls taking on late-stage capitalism, seizing the means of production and exploring a factory to find their missing magical girl friends. You’ll also have to commit copyright violations to get your image rights back, destroy crypto-currency, and try to survive the many horrors of self-employment. Hey, it’s not shy about its messaging.

Cassiodora ($16.99)

Hm. Really going for it, I guess. This is a side-scrolling shoot-em-up from a developer without many priors in this area, with its main feature being that it allows up to three players to play together via local multiplayer. It also features a lot of “comedy”, so that’s something. You get thirty-five levels spread across seven areas, and can unlock a ton of cosmetic items to customize your character with. You can get an honest-to-goodness Cave shooter for around the same price as this. Choose accordingly.

LogiKing ($14.99)

The way the description reads, it feels like I should know LogiKing from somewhere else, but I don’t. It’s a card game where you have to use ten cards and try to out-think your opponent to become the King of Logic. Not to be confused with the King of Limbo. You can play single-player against CPU opponents to get the hang of the rules, then hop online to take on opponents via online multiplayer. You can also play against someone via local multiplayer if you’ve got a friend who wants to battle against you. I can’t really sort out the rules from the information I have at my fingertips, so I’ll have to play this one to see how it works.

Santa’s Holiday ($19.99)

Another extremely confidently-priced game from the folks at Green Sauce, and it’s pretty much following the publisher’s usual M.O.: match-3 puzzles and collecting decorations. But hey, this time it has a Christmas theme. I don’t think I would pay twenty bucks for this, but maybe you would? It’s in your hands, friends.

Aery – Path of Corruption ($9.99)

Oh good, more Aery. You know the score by now. Fly around in various environments, pick up the memory shards and feathers scattered about, and read some navel-gazing text of dubious philosophical value. The locations this time seem to have an urban theme. Otherwise, it’s the same as the seven or eight other Aery games on Switch.

The Crackpet Show ($16.99)

A roguelite shooter with a TV show theme for up to four players via local multiplayer. It does that thing of blending a cartoony style with ultra-violence because juxtaposition still works. This one has gone over very well over on Steam during its Early Access period, so as long as they didn’t biff the port to Switch (a very real possibility) this could be one to pick up for fans of top-down shooters.

Tropical Resort Story ($14.00)

Another Kairosoft simulation game, this time with the premise of building and operating a tropical resort. It’s mostly the same as the other builders from this developer, and as usual you can get a perfectly playable version on your mobile device for a far more reasonable price. Your call.

Arcade Archives Marvel Land ($7.99)

There was this little window of time where you could do a platformer in arcades and actually make some money with it, and Marvel Land comes from that era. You might remember it best from its Genesis/Mega Drive port, but be aware that version had extra content added in so this arcade release might not match your memories. Like many arcade platformers there isn’t a whole lot on the bone here, but it’s a nice ride while it lasts. Certainly heavy on Namco fan service.

Sales

(North American eShop, US Prices)

Okay, let’s see what we’ve got today. Some Activision sales, including new low prices on Diablo II Resurrected and Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled. Some eastasiasoft sales. Other than that, not too much. I imagine more will come in tomorrow. In the outbox, it’s your last chance to get the great Cave shooters DoDonPachi Resurrection, Mushihimesama, and ESPGaluda II for nice prices. Check both of those lists carefully.

Select New Games on Sale

Broken Universe: Tower Defense ($1.99 from $9.99 until 12/21)
reky ($1.99 from $9.99 until 12/21)
Detective Di: Silk Rose Murders ($1.99 from $12.99 until 12/21)
Pocket Mini Golf 2 ($1.99 from $4.99 until 12/26)
Run Sausage Run ($1.99 from $4.99 until 12/28)
Sausage Wars ($1.99 from $4.99 until 12/28)
Overwatch 2: Watchpoint Pack ($23.99 from $39.99 until 12/30)
Diablo II Resurrected ($13.19 from $39.99 until 12/30)
Diablo Prime Evil Collection ($19.79 from $59.99 until 12/30)
Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy ($15.99 from $39.99 until 12/30)
Crash Bandicoot 4 ($19.99 from $39.99 until 12/30)
Crash Team Racing Nitro Fueled ($13.99 from $39.99 until 12/30)
Crash Team Racing NF Nitros Oxide ($20.99 from $59.99 until 12/30)
Blizzard Arcade Collection ($9.99 from $19.99 until 12/30)
Spyro Reignited Trilogy ($15.99 from $39.99 until 12/30)

Madness Beverage ($2.54 from $14.99 until 12/30)
Animal Rivals Up in the Air ($2.03 from $11.99 until 12/30)
Cat Tales ($1.99 from $19.99 until 1/2)
Lair of the Clockwork God ($3.99 from $19.99 until 1/4)
The Solitaire Conspiracy ($2.39 from $11.99 until 1/4)
Behold the Kickmen ($1.99 from $3.99 until 1/4)
Thomas Was Alone ($1.99 from $9.99 until 1/4)
Mind Scanners ($8.49 from $16.99 until 1/4)
High Noon Revolver ($1.99 from $2.99 until 1/4)
Godlike Burger ($9.99 from $19.99 until 1/4)
Nova-111 ($4.49 from $9.99 until 1/4)
Super FunkY Bowling ($2.00 from $2.99 until 1/4)
Kirakira Stars Idol Project Memories ($14.00 from $28.00 until 1/5)
Arsonist Heaven ($3.49 from $4.99 until 1/5)
Blow & Fly ($3.49 from $4.99 until 1/5)

Wind of Shuriken ($5.59 from $7.99 until 1/5)
Enter Digitron: HoC ($3.19 from $7.99 until 1/5)
Pretty Girls Speed ($4.19 from $5.99 until 1/5)
Pretty Girls Mahjong Solitaire ($3.59 from $5.99 until 1/5)
Ball laB ($2.49 from $4.99 until 1/5)
Thunder Kid: HftRE ($4.79 from $7.99 until 1/5)
Thunder Kid II: Null Mission ($4.79 from $7.99 until 1/5)
Demonaica: Everlasting Night ($8.99 from $14.99 until 1/5)
Lucid Cycle ($3.49 from $6.99 until 1/5)
Seven Pirates H ($31.99 from $39.99 until 1/5)
Mixolumia ($11.25 from $15.00 until 1/5)

Sales Ending Tomorrow, Friday, December 16th

AVICII Invector ($7.99 from $19.99 until 12/16)
Blitz Breaker ($1.99 from $4.99 until 12/16)
City Traffic Driver 2 ($5.19 from $12.99 until 12/16)
Cyber Velocity Run ($3.99 from $7.99 until 12/16)
Destruction ($1.99 from $9.99 until 12/16)
DoDonPachi Resurrection ($13.99 from $19.99 until 12/16)
Dungeon Escape ($1.99 from $4.99 until 12/16)
El Gancho ($4.19 from $6.99 until 12/16)
Espgaluda II ($13.99 from $19.99 until 12/16)
Explosive Candy World ($2.99 from $4.99 until 12/16)
Forward to the Sky ($9.79 from $48.99 until 12/16)
Gunborg: Dark Matters ($7.49 from $14.99 until 12/16)
Immortus Temporus ($2.49 from $4.99 until 12/16)
Memories of East Coast ($2.49 from $4.99 until 12/16)

Mushihimesama ($13.99 from $19.99 until 12/16)
Plunderer’s Adventures ($2.99 from $4.99 until 12/16)
Queeny Army ($2.99 from $4.99 until 12/16)
Rage Among the Stars ($2.99 from $4.99 until 12/16)
Ravva & the Cyclops Curse ($1.99 from $4.99 until 12/16)
Retrace: Memories of Death ($1.99 from $7.99 until 12/16)
Sea King Hunter ($1.99 from $9.99 until 12/16)
SkateBIRD ($5.99 from $19.99 until 12/16)
Slap the Rocks ($2.99 from $4.99 until 12/16)
The Fox Awaits Me ($8.99 from $44.99 until 12/16)
Venus: Improbable Dream ($4.99 from $9.99 until 12/16)

That’s all for today, friends. We’ll be back tomorrow with the rest of the new releases for the week. Hopefully some good ones. I haven’t really looked at the schedule yet because sometimes I like to live dangerously. We’ll have summaries of all the new games, plus whatever sales and big news come in between now and then. I hope you all have a great Thursday, and as always, thanks for reading!

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for December 13th, 2022. In today’s article, we’ve got a bit of Tetris 99 related news to get going on. After that, a couple of brief reviews of the rather good Wavetale and Jitsu Squad. Then there are the new releases, which is just a pair of games but one of them is a Final Fantasy. After that, we’ve got the usual lists of new and outgoing sales. Neat. Why don’t we get going on all of that?

News

‘Tetris 99’ Will Feature ‘Kirby’s Dream Buffet’ in the Next Maximus Cup

Gee, it’s been a hot minute since the last Tetris 99 Maximus Cup event, hasn’t it? There was a catch-up event back in early August, so technically the last new theme was added in April when Kirby and the Forgotten Land released. Well. Anyway, we’ve finally got a new theme coming when the latest Maximus Cup event kicks off this weekend and it’s… it’s Kirby, people! I think the developers really like him. This time it’s Kirby’s Dream Buffet in the spotlight, the blink-and-you-missed it multiplayer-focused spin-off that hit the Switch back in August. I will probably play with this theme longer than I played the game. The usual rules apply: play the game, gather 100 event points, and unlock the theme for keeps. It starts on Thursday the 15th at 11:00 PM Pacific Time and runs through Monday the 19th at 10:59 PM Pacific.

Reviews & Mini-Views

Jitsu Squad ($29.99)

I’ll keep this one relatively short, because there isn’t too much fancy about Jitsu Squad that needs excessive explanation. It’s a gorgeous little beat-em-up for up to two players via local multiplayer. There are eight decently-sized stages packed with lots of fun background details that do a good job of distracting you from how little variety there is in enemy behaviors. It takes a while to open up your moves on each character, so the early going is a bit repetitive, but it eventually sorts itself out. And gosh, is it a looker. Beautiful cartoon-style graphics, fast action, tons of enemies on-screen, it’s all the right kind of chaos.

If you enjoy beat-em-ups, particularly the ones from the late 00s/early 10s era like Scott Pilgrim or Castle Crashers, you’ll probably enjoy what Jitsu Squad has to offer. It’s a bit short on technique and I do wish the unlockable tag team mode was simply there from the start. Four players to go with the four characters would have been nice as well. But it gets a lot more right than it gets wrong, and its big, silly energy is hard to deny.

SwitchArcade Score: 3.5/5

Wavetale ($29.99)

First of all, if you are the sort that needs a game at this price point to offer tons of playtime, Wavetale probably won’t do it for you. It’s a relatively brief affair, wrapping up in about five or six hours, and I appreciate that isn’t going to work for some folks. That being said, I really was surprised at how much I enjoyed Wavetale. It’s kind of a 3D platformer where you travel from location to location by sliding along the top of the water in a very fast and fluid manner. You can also swing from various hook points, and the game is fully designed for you to be able to zip along where you need to go in a way that makes you feel very cool.

Most of the activities you’re doing involve going to particular spots and fetching some sort of thing, usually at the end of a climb or a bit of combat. The platforming never gets too difficult, though the camera can occasionally be a bit of a bear. The combat similarly is fairly breezy, again as long as the camera isn’t being a pig. On the whole Wavetale is a pretty chill game, and its story is interesting enough that the time you’ll spend with it just flies by. The only thing really holding back the experience are the tech issues. Loading times are lengthy. The framerate could be smoother. I don’t think the UI choices really work well in handheld mode. Nothing major, but it’s enough that I would probably suggest grabbing this on another platform if you have the option.

Aside from those tech issues, I don’t have a lot of bad things to say about Wavetale. I’m a sucker for games with great movement, and gosh does this one nail that. When you’re out zipping around on the water and flinging yourself about like an ocean-bound Spider-Man, the sheer glee is palpable. Indeed, the game could have been twice as long and I doubt I would have tired of that core gameplay. Alas, it finishes up fairly quickly. A grand time while it lasts, though.

SwitchArcade Score: 4/5

New Releases

Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII- Reunion ($49.99)

SwitchArcade Highlight!

A billion years ago on Final Fantasy VII‘s tenth anniversary, Square Enix deployed an array of Final Fantasy VII-related spin-off projects. Some were more successful than others, but all of them added extra plot to the game’s story that was mostly unwelcome. In my opinion the best of them was the PlayStation Portable game Crisis Core, a prequel that filled in the story of Zack, the Soldier whose identity Cloud more or less stole. Also took his girlfriend, the absolute cad. Anyway, here’s a spiffy remake of the game. Fresh new HD graphics, new voices that match the FFVII Remake, new soundtrack arrangements, and an improved battle system. I’ll have a review of this one soon.

Wild Romance ($9.99)

Bored of life in Tokyo, our normal-guy protagonist Kazuma decides to head back to his hometown in the countryside. He reconnects with his four childhood friends, who are of course all cute girls, and after a series of events learns that they’re actually animal spirits in human form. Fox-girl! Cat-girl! Dog-girl! Tanuki-girl! They’re all here for the smooching. You’ll also find out about the supernatural history of Kazuma’s hometown. Just another harmless romance visual novel.

Sales

(North American eShop, US Prices)

Well, that’s not a lot. ElecHead is a fun puzzle-platformer that is at a new low price. The rest of the inbox is nothing special or unusual, but have a look anyway. It won’t take but a second. Not much to worry about in the outbox, either. I mean, if you want that Front Mission 1st: Remake at the introductory price, now is the moment. Don’t wait until tomorrow. But Forever Entertainment does a lot of sales, so I imagine you will have another chance at a discount if you let this one slide.

Select New Games on Sale

Wuppo: Definitive Edition ($1.99 from $14.99 until 12/25)
ElecHead ($7.99 from $9.99 until 12/26)
Bot.vinnik Chess ($1.99 from $2.99 until 12/26)
Shadow Gangs ($17.99 from $23.99 until 1/2)
Mail Mole + Expansions ($9.99 from $14.99 until 1/2)
Discolored ($2.49 from $9.99 until 1/2)

Sales Ending Tomorrow, Wednesday, December 14th

Arietta of Spirits ($4.99 from $19.99 until 12/14)
Front Mission 1st: Remake ($31.49 from $34.99 until 12/14)
Skautfold: Shrouded in Sanity ($2.49 from $9.99 until 12/14)
Sturmfront The Mutant War ($2.49 from $9.99 until 12/14)
Vampire the Masquerade CoNY ($2.99 from $19.99 until 12/14)
Vampire the Masquerade SoNY ($3.24 from $12.99 until 12/14)

That’s all for today, friends. We’ll be back tomorrow with some new releases, some new sales, and maybe some news or reviews. Depends on how frisky I’m feeling. I tell you, trying to review a new Final Fantasy release and a new Dragon Quest release in one week is a real trip. I hope you all have a terrific Tuesday, and as always, thanks for reading!

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for December 12th, 2022. In today’s article, we make up for a slow slate of new releases by pushing a bunch of reviews. Kukoos: Lost Pets, Paper Cut Mansion, Samurai Maiden, and Togges all get evaluated today. We then take a look at the sole new release, Wavetale, before heading into the usual lists of new and expiring sales. Let’s go!

Reviews & Mini-Views

Kukoos: Lost Pets ($29.99)

Kukoos: Lost Pets is a pretty good 3D platformer that gets even more fun when you add more players. Multiplayer 3D platformers are rare enough that when an even half-decent one comes out, it’s worth paying attention to. Kukoos: Lost Pets is more than half-decent, it’s actually properly good. Level designs are fun to navigate with a few secrets here and there, but laid out in such a way that they work even with multiple players in the mix. That’s not easy to pull off.

On the negative side, this Switch version of the game suffers from a number of technical issues. The framerate goes all over the place when things get busy, and they’re pretty much always busy if you’re playing multiplayer. The loading times are also lengthy, which can be very irritating when you die. There’s a load screen every time you do, and it’s a lot longer than I’d like for this kind of thing. I also think the game has way too many cutscenes, but you can at least skip them.

I think Kukoos: Lost Pets gets enough right that if you enjoyed games like Super Mario 3D World and are looking for another multiplayer platformer, you should give it a look. As a solo affair, it’s a bit of a harder sell. It’s certainly on the good side of the line, but with all of its technical problems and the heavy competition in this space it’s hard to be too enthusiastic about it. Probably best enjoyed on another platform, but it’s enjoyable enough on Switch.

SwitchArcade Score: 3.5/5

Paper Cut Mansion ($19.99)

This one seems really cool on paper (sorry not sorry), but in practice it just doesn’t work very well. You enter the titular mansion and search rooms for evidence and useful items to lead you to the next floor, all while dealing with traps and monsters that dog you along the way. There are portals to other dimensions, and you’ll need to explore those in order to maximize your chances at survival. It’s procedurally generated, so the idea is that you get a new survival-horror adventure every time you play. Oh, and everything is done up to look like it was crafted from paper. That’s neat.

As much as procedural generation might look like a silver bullet, it can be tricky to balance it in such a way that things don’t get too repetitive for the player. Maybe you have tons of chunks for the game to choose from. Maybe you have an unlock system that keeps introducing new elements. Using it in an adventure game is a particularly treacherous path to walk as players are likely to notice repeated puzzles more easily than repeated room designs. Unfortunately, Paper Cut Mansion drops the ball on all of this. Things repeat way too often, the unlocks are way too slow, and you are definitely going to get well-acquainted with the puzzles if you play more than a few times.

Paper Cut Mansion has a good sense of style and I love the premise, but it just doesn’t work well as a roguelite-style game. It’s too obvious when the puzzles start repeating, and they quickly do, and the whole thing gets a little too rote before long. At the same time, the procedural generation keeps the design from being as tight as it could have been if it were hand-made. It’s a game that is very much at odds with itself, and that comes through clearly in the gameplay.

SwitchArcade Score: 2.5/5

Samurai Maiden ($59.99)

You know, it’s always refreshing to see a game that embraces stupidity. Samurai Maiden is silly as heck. You play as a schoolgirl who is zapped back to the Sengoku era of Japan where she immediately meets Nobunaga Oda and is declared a Priestess who will save the world. She is accompanied by three ninjas, two of whom hail from another world. They hand her a sword and it turns out she’s actually pretty good with it, so off they go. An adventure of slicing up monsters and taking selfies begins, with a heavy layer of yuri romance thrown on top.

If you remember those somewhat trashy B-game slash-em-ups you used to be able to find a dime a dozen in the PlayStation 2 era, that is exactly the vibe Samurai Maiden carries. The gameplay is adequate and not an inch more than that, with a nicely expanding array of moves that come out smoothly enough. Beyond the basic combat moves, you can also call in your ninja friends for some special moves. Sometimes you can even lay a smooch on them to really power things up. Between battles you can upgrade your equipment, change your load-out, and if you’ve raised your affection levels enough with one of the girls, watch a short story scene that ends with you getting a new move.

There’s a fair bit of story in this game, largely told through a lengthy series of text boxes and Japanese dialogue. It feels part visual novel in that sense. Like the gameplay, it’s fine but not much more. The expected tropes roll in, the dialogue is decently written, and the game just has fun with the concept as much as it can. As you would probably also expect, the game has an absolute butt-load of paid DLC. New music, new costumes, new weapons. Nothing necessary, but if you want everything you’ll have to pay a decent premium.

I can’t say that Samurai Maiden doesn’t do what it seems to have set out to do: have a cute schoolgirl and her cute ninja friends slice and dice weird creatures to save the world while also sharing smooches. It doesn’t drop the ball on its gameplay elements, but all of that is clearly in service to the cheeky premise. If you like the basic idea of the game, I think you’ll find it does what it needs to in order to avoid disappointing you. If the concept doesn’t grab you, there is nothing here that will change your mind.

SwitchArcade Score: 3.5/5

Togges ($19.99)

Togges is an odd kind of platformer, and I think some people are going to absolutely love it. You play as a little Roomba-like thing called a Toomba (very subtle) that can suck up and spit out objects called Togges. Togges come in a variety of colors, each with their own properties, and the main rule is that to put one down it has to be connected to or very near to an existing Togge. You can have a ton of these out at a time, so the idea is to make trails of them and stack them to get where you need to go and solve the game’s many puzzles.

The level count isn’t terribly high, but the key thing about them is that they are absolutely huge. Just big, sprawling areas, filled with little mini challenges for you to solve. The game doesn’t try to guide you all that much, and that could be a problem for some people. It also doesn’t do a great job of teaching you the things you need to know when you need to know them. On the positive side of things, the open-ended nature also applies to how you solve various problems. There’s a lot of room for improvisation here, and that’s always a good thing in my books.

You can see the games that influenced Togges in its design in a lot of places, but as a whole work it is certainly its own thing. It has a lot of interesting ideas, and it gives the player a lot of agency in how they want to achieve their goals. It’s also very cute. That said, its hefty levels are probably too big for their own good, making for a very overwhelming experience that is probably going to turn some players off. You probably know yourself how you would feel about that kind of set-up, so if you think you’re fine with it, you’ll probably be won over by Togges‘ charms.

SwitchArcade Score: 3.5/5

New Releases

Wavetale ($29.99)

Thunderful just keeps tossing out releases left and right lately, and they’ve all been rather decent so far. Wavetale sees you surfing the seas, exploring a submerged city by swinging from building to building. Naturally, there’s an emotional story to go with all of this action. Such is the way these days. You can collect new hats, hair dyes, and so on to customize your character with. I’ll have a review of this one at some point here. Yes, I am in over my head right now. Please bear with me.

Sales

(North American eShop, US Prices)

I don’t really have any strong feelings about anything in the inbox today, so I’m going to leave it up to you to check the list and see if something strikes your fancy. Not much in the outbox, but Hand of Fate 2 and and Sakuna: Of Rice & Ruin are there and perhaps worth consideration if you don’t already own them.

Select New Games on Sale

Archaica The Path of Light ($1.99 from $14.99 until 12/19)
Aery Last Day on Earth ($3.99 from $9.99 until 12/28)
Aery Dreamscape ($3.99 from $9.99 until 12/28)
Aery Little Bird Adventure ($2.79 from $6.99 until 12/28)
Tanky Tanks ($2.39 from $5.99 until 12/28)
Death Park 2 ($2.79 from $6.99 until 12/28)
Murder Diaries 2 ($3.99 from $9.99 until 12/28)
Flying Hero X ($3.99 from $9.99 until 12/28)
One Last Memory ($3.99 from $9.99 until 12/28)
From Heaven to Earth ($3.99 from $9.99 until 12/28)
Destropolis ($1.99 from $5.99 until 12/29)
Exertus Redux ($2.06 from $4.39 until 12/30)
Logic Pic ($1.99 from $7.99 until 12/30)
The Suicide of Rachel Foster ($1.99 from $19.99 until 12/30)
Venice Taxi Boats ($5.19 from $12.99 until 12/30)

Ritual Crown of Horns ($1.99 from $19.99 until 12/31)
Last Threshold ($1.99 from $4.99 until 12/31)
The Padre ($1.99 from $19.99 until 12/31)
Dark Minute: Kira’s Adventure ($2.99 from $9.99 until 12/31)
Buddy Simulator 1984 ($6.99 from $9.99 until 12/31)
Warpips ($9.99 from $19.99 until 12/31)
Runefall 2: Collector’s Edition ($7.49 from $9.99 until 12/31)
I Love Finding More Cats ($2.99 from $9.99 until 12/31)
I Love Finding Critters ($2.99 from $9.99 until 12/31)
Dexter Stardust: Adv. in Outer Space ($4.99 from $9.99 until 1/1)
Explosive Dinosaurs ($1.99 from $7.99 until 1/1)
Galacticon ($2.49 from $4.99 until 1/1)
A Winding Path ($3.49 from $6.99 until 1/1)
Space Ducks: The Great Escape ($2.49 from $4.99 until 1/1)

Sales Ending Tomorrow, Tuesday, December 13th

Gibbous: A Cthulhu Adventure ($9.99 from $19.99 until 12/13)
Hand of Fate 2 ($13.49 from $29.99 until 12/13)
Sakuna: Of Rice & Ruin ($19.49 from $29.99 until 12/13)
Xenon Racer ($3.74 from $14.99 until 12/13)

That’s all for today, friends. We’ll be back tomorrow with more new releases, more sales, more reviews, and perhaps a bit of news. I have so many RPGs in my review queue right now that it’s almost frightening. Can I get them all done before Christmas? Let’s hope so. I hope you all have a magnificent Monday, and as always, thanks for reading!

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for December 9th, 2022. In today’s article, we go over some of the Nintendo Switch-related announcements from The Game Awards before going into the summaries of the handful of new releases for the day. We’re definitely on that gentle slope towards the end of the year. There are also some great new sales to check out, plus the list of sales that will expire over the weekend. Let’s go forth!

News

The Game Awards Featured New Games and More

Okay, The Game Awards. It was a really big show, and there was a lot to see on it. I will quickly summarize the highlights. First, awards relevant to the Switch: Kirby & the Forgotten Land got Best Family Game, Splatoon 3 notched the Best Multiplayer Game, Bayonetta 3 took home Best Action Game, Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope got the nod as Best Sim/Strategy Game, and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom got Most Anticipated Game of the Year. Not a bad showing all around, though Xenoblade Chronicles 3 pretty much got robbed if you ask me.

As for game announcements, there were a handful of interesting things to see Switch-wise. The biggest is probably Bayonetta Origins: Cereza & the Lost Demon, an action-adventure starring a young Bayonetta that is scheduled for release on March 17th, 2023. Beyond that, the upcoming DLC for Dead Cells will feature Castlevania characters, Fire Emblem Engage will unsurprisingly have a expansion pass, a Hellboy game is coming from Good Shepherd Entertainment and Dark Horse Comics, and Hades is getting a sequel that will hopefully come to Switch eventually.

New Releases

Dragon Quest Treasures ($59.99)

The latest spin-off in the Dragon Quest series sees young versions of Erik and Mia from Dragon Quest XI brought to another world for a treasure adventure. This game feels like it’s following in the line of the Dragon Quest Monsters sub-series, though it’s different enough that I can see why Square Enix went with a different name. I haven’t had a chance to play this yet, but it’s Dragon Quest, so I will.

Adventure Academia: The Fractured Continent ($39.99)

Remember Class of Heroes? Probably not, but if you do you’ll be happy to know that this is in fact a strategy RPG spin-off of that series. Evil monsters threaten your home, and it’s up to your team of students to deal with them. Assemble your team from more than ten different races, equip them appropriately, and engage in some good old turn-based tactical combat. I’ll have a review of this one soon.

Jitsu Squad ($29.99)

This is a beat-em-up starring four heroes, with the gimmick being that if you are playing alone you will have to control all of them. You can also bring in a friend for local co-op, and that certainly adds a bit of fun to the mix. Somehow, Yooka and Laylee are here. I do enjoy my brawlers, so you can look forward to my review of this game early next week.

Petite Adventure ($4.99)

As a species, humans are quite fascinated by the idea of little cars driving around in normal sized spaces. Petite Adventure offers us another game of this sort, though its perspective helps separate it from many of its peers. There are thirty-two levels to play with a variety of objectives and techniques to encounter. It looks playful in all the right ways, but I haven’t had a chance to play it yet so that’s about as much as I can say for the moment.

Puzzle by Nikoli S Nurikabe ($4.99)

Another puzzle game from the folks at Hamster. This one features Nurikabe puzzles, which are a type of logic puzzle where you have to fill in cells such that the numbered cells form little “islands” made up of the appropriate amount of unfilled cells. It’s hard to explain how some puzzles work with words, but I can assure you that this is an enjoyable kind of puzzle to solve. Certainly worth a punt at five dollars for puzzler fans.

Sales

(North American eShop, US Prices)

Wow, some really good games on sale today. I’ve kept the list manageable so I recommend just reading through all of it to see what grabs you. There isn’t much worth fussing about in the weekend outbox, but feel free to have a look at that one too. It’s a nice time to fill in the gaps in your “critically acclaimed games” group.

Select New Games on Sale

LOVE 3 ($4.99 from $9.99 until 12/12)
Chicory A Colorful Tale ($13.99 from $19.99 until 12/19)
Hollow Knight ($7.50 from $15.00 until 12/19)
Monster Hunter Rise + Sunbreak DX ($49.99 from $79.99 until 12/19)
Untitled Goose Game ($9.99 from $19.99 until 12/19)
Celeste ($4.99 from $19.99 until 12/19)
Undertale ($10.04 from $14.99 until 12/19)
What Remains of Edith Finch ($4.99 from $19.99 until 12/19)
Axiom Verge ($5.99 from $19.99 until 12/19)
Hyper Light Drifter ($10.99 from $19.99 until 12/19)
Stardew Valley ($9.99 from $14.99 until 12/19)
Ori & the Will of the Wisps ($10.19 from $29.99 until 12/19)
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2 ($15.99 from $39.99 until 12/19)
Sonic Mania ($9.99 from $19.99 until 12/19)
DOOM Eternal Deluxe Edition ($22.49 from $89.99 until 12/19)

13 Sentinels Aegis Rim ($35.99 from $59.99 until 12/19)
Okami HD ($9.99 from $19.99 until 12/19)
Katana Zero ($8.99 from $14.99 until 12/19)
Downwell ($2.00 from $2.99 until 12/19)
TES V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition ($34.99 from $69.99 until 12/19)
Diablo III: Eternal Collection ($29.99 from $59.99 until 12/19)
Shin Megami Tensei V ($29.99 from $59.99 until 12/19)
Dicey Dungeons ($1.99 from $14.99 until 12/19)
Carrion ($9.99 from $19.99 until 12/19)
Death’s Door ($9.99 from $19.99 until 12/19)
Disco Elysium The Final Cut ($19.99 from $39.99 until 12/19)
Tetris Effect Connected ($19.99 from $39.99 until 12/19)
Spelunky 2 ($9.99 from $19.99 until 12/19)
Rayman Legends Definitive ($9.99 from $39.99 until 12/19)
Divinity Original Sin 2 ($29.99 from $49.99 until 12/19)
Sword Art Online Alicization Lycoris ($34.99 from $49.99 until 12/19)

Portal Companion Collection ($13.39 from $19.99 until 12/19)
Restless Soul ($9.74 from $14.99 until 12/22)
Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion ($5.99 from $14.99 until 12/22)
Bite the Bullet ($2.99 from $14.99 until 12/22)
DUSK ($14.99 from $19.99 until 12/28)
Creepy Tale ($1.99 from $9.99 until 12/28)
Panzer Dragoon Remake ($2.49 from $24.99 until 12/29)
Cooking Simulator ($1.99 from $19.99 until 12/29)
Evil Tonight ($12.74 from $14.99 until 12/29)
Invirium ($1.99 from $7.99 until 12/29)
Sherlock Holmes & THotB ($9.09 from $12.99 until 12/29)
Green Hell ($2.49 from $24.99 until 12/29)
Alchemist Simulator ($6.12 from $12.49 until 12/29)
Chef’s Tail ($4.02 from $11.49 until 12/29)
Ancient Islands ($6.12 from $12.49 until 12/29)

The TakeOver ($2.99 from $19.99 until 12/29)
Thief Simulator ($1.99 from $19.99 until 12/29)
The First Tree ($1.99 from $9.99 until 12/29)
Bastion ($2.99 from $14.99 until 12/29)
Hades ($12.49 from $24.99 until 12/29)
Super Mombo Quest ($5.99 from $15.90 until 12/29)
Overcooked All You Can Eat ($19.99 from $39.99 until 12/29)

Sales Ending This Weekend

Construction Ramp Jumping ($2.99 from $9.99 until 12/10)
Driving School Sim ($6.93 from $9.90 until 12/10)
Extreme Trucks Simulator ($6.93 from $9.90 until 12/10)
Farmer Sim 2020 ($6.93 from $9.90 until 12/10)
Flight Sim 2019 ($6.93 from $9.90 until 12/10)
Human: Fall Flat ($5.99 from $19.99 until 12/10)
Ramp Bike Jumping ($2.99 from $9.99 until 12/10)
Real Driving Sim ($6.93 from $9.90 until 12/10)
Ship Sim 2020 ($6.93 from $9.90 until 12/10)
Taxi Sim 2020 ($6.93 from $9.90 until 12/10)
The Eternal Castle Remastered ($9.99 from $14.99 until 12/10)
War Titans ($6.93 from $9.90 until 12/10)
Amnesia: Collection ($4.49 from $29.99 until 12/11)
World Soccer Cup 2022 ($3.49 from $4.99 until 12/11)

That’s all for today and this week, friends. We’ll be back next week with more news, more reviews, more new games, and more sales. I’ve got some really big games to get through over the next little while for reviews, so my weekend is basically booked. I hope you all have a great weekend, and as always, thanks for reading!