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Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for October 18th, 2022. In today’s article, we’ve got a few more reviews for you to enjoy. Kamiwaza: Way of the Thief, Atari Mania, and Aquarist are the titles in question today, and they are certainly an odd mix. There are a couple of new releases to check out, plus the usual lists of incoming and outgoing sales. Let’s get into the good stuff!

Reviews & Mini-Views

Kamiwaza: Way of the Thief ($39.99)

Do you have a fondness for quirky PlayStation 2-era B-grade games? If your answer is no, then you’re all done here. You’re not going to like this remake of the 2006 PlayStation 2 game any more than you would have liked the original. This game was made by Acquire, a developer best known for creating the Tenchu and Way of the Samurai series. Kamiwaza leans a lot more towards the latter than the former, despite it centering stealth mechanics in its gameplay. You play as a former thief who returns to a life of crime in order to help his sick daughter, and that means you’re going to do a lot of looting.

It has janky, complicated controls. The camera is a pain in the neck. It’s not always clear what you should do or where you should go. The enemy AI is really stupid. The visuals may have been updated but it’s not hard to ascertain what generation it comes from. This game is PlayStation 2 as hell. That’s just the kind of mood I am in, however, so it works well for me. Naturally, by modern standards, this game is really awkward. Stealth games have come a long way over the past few generations. Heck, they had come a long way even before this came out. It wasn’t localized back in the day but I can almost smell the middling reviews if it had.

In its favor, Kamiwaza is incredibly novel, and I guess sixteen years is about long enough for me to have a bit of nostalgia for its vibe. See an enemy guard in your way? Put down your sack full of loot and soccer kick it at his melon to knock him on his butt. Everyone’s turned around? As long as you’re sneaking you can pretty much graze their butts without anyone noticing. Ideally you want to avoid fights, but if you get into one you can pick your opponent’s pockets while you beat them down. You’re pretty much trying to steal everything that isn’t nailed down, and anything that is nailed down can usually be coaxed from its moorings with enough time. All of it goes into your sack, which slowly increases in size as you fill it up with comically large objects.

Don’t take my score to mean this is an average game. It most decidedly is not. It’s very niche in both its gameplay and appeal, and I think you’ll have to be just the right person in just the right mood to enjoy it the way I did. There are probably more rough edges than smooth edges here, but if you’re looking for a stealth game that does things very differently from the norm, this will certainly fit your needs. It even has a decent story attached. I’m glad this remake exists and I’m glad NISA localized it, even if I think it is going to struggle to find an audience even more than its stablemate Way of the Samurai.

SwitchArcade Score: 3.5/5

Atari Mania ($24.99)

I’ve been greatly enjoying Atari’s mini renaissance of late, and as such I was looking forward to Atari Mania. Part of the company’s 50th anniversary celebrations, the game presents a bunch of WarioWare-style microgames inspired by Atari’s famous classics. The basic idea here is that you’re a caretaker working at Atari’s headquarters, reporting in for another day at work. Some dead pixels have appeared in the building and are sucking in the various Atari characters. It’s up to you to help them out and get to the bottom of who and what is behind all of this.

There are two components to this game. One is a loose adventure game of sorts. You wander around the building and use items to solve puzzles that will uncover secret collectibles or open the path forward. You can unlock cover art and manuals for a number of Atari games, and it’s pretty fun. I wish you could also unlock the original games, but I suppose we have a remedy for that coming in a few weeks. You’ll meet various Atari characters as you explore, and it’s fun to see some characters who had very little characterization by necessity get infused with personalities.

The other part of the game, and probably the intended main course, is in playing the microgames. You’re tasked with completing a certain number of them in a row without failing too many, which is similar to the structure in a WarioWare game. Some of these sequences are mandatory, while others serve as extra challenges for unlockables. As mentioned, all of these microgames are inspired by Atari classics. Most of them go as far as to mash up multiple games at once, with Pong paddles battling Millipede or the Asteroids ship navigating a corridor of Super Breakout blocks. It’s a cute idea, especially for those who know these games well.

At the best of times, these microgames can be just as clever as the ones seen in WarioWare. Sometimes, they’re just confusing, overly complicated, too lengthy, or don’t control the way you would expect. Broadly speaking, Atari Mania hits more than it misses with its microgames. There are moments of frustration when you get a bunch of microgames you can’t figure out and end up having to start the whole chain over again, but such is how this sort of thing goes. After completing a set of microgames and toppling the boss stage, you can play them again at your leisure on an arcade machine that will pop up.

It’s a good game, particularly for fans of Atari. Unfortunately, this Switch port has a few issues that might make you want to check out the game on another console. Response can be sluggish at times, with noticeable lag in the controls. Loading times are just long enough to be uncomfortable, and sometimes it doesn’t let you know it’s loading and makes it feel like the game is hanging. I’m not sure if this is something that could be fixed in an update or not, but I hope we see some kind of improvements here if only to make transitions less awkward.

As a WarioWare-inspired affair, Atari Mania falls a little short of that series while still being good enough to be of interest to those enjoy quick-fire gaming. If we look at it as a celebration of Atari, it’s very well done. There are lots of little details in here for the true-blue fans, and the sense of humor hits the right spot as far as I’m concerned. The Switch version has some technical issues that mean you’re probably better off playing it elsewhere unless portable play is critical for you, but if the Switch is your only (or preferred) option, it’s playable enough to get into.

SwitchArcade Score: 4/5

Aquarist ($9.99)

There’s a certain pattern to releases from Ultimate Games, and it’s somewhat vexing. Most of the games the publisher releases on Switch are ports from the PC, and while the titles in question aren’t the cream of the crop they aren’t without merit either. The problem is that Ultimate’s ports come off as more than a little careless, and that’s in full effect with Aquarist. As near as I can tell, this is a perfectly agreeable sim that tackles its topic with satisfying thoroughness. Not the fanciest thing around, but fine. But the game’s interface was clearly built for PC use, and that means this Switch version has teeny-tiny text and incredibly awkward controls. Fiddling around trying to pick up objects I can barely see with a finicky cursor is not my idea of fun.

Aquarist is probably a really enjoyable game on PC. On Switch, its severe interface problems combined with a few technical issues makes it really difficult to just chill out and enjoy the simple pleasures of building the aquariums of your dreams and taking care of your fish. Nearly unreadable text, especially in handheld mode, combines with clumsy controls that were obviously designed for a mouse, and the result is very hard to recommend.

SwitchArcade Score: 2.5/5

New Releases

Them’s Fightin’ Herds ($19.99)

Gosh, that Friendship is Magic era of My Little Pony sure was a whole thing, wasn’t it? The fans really got into it, and it’s no surprise some of them went on to make some really cool things. For example, this fighting game. Indeed, this was originally a My Little Pony fan game, but somewhere along the line I guess they realized they had something good enough to sell. Swap out the Mane Six and company for a new cast of animals designed by Friendship is Magic producer Lauren Faust and, boom, you’re all set. The game includes a story mode, local and online multiplayer, tutorial and training modes, and more. Reviews have been positive, so if you like the look of it, jump on in.

Sigma Theory ($17.99)

A turn-based strategy game with a cool cyberpunk-ish vibe, Sigma Theory has you recruit a team of agents and commit acts of sweet espionage, diplomacy, exfiltration, and more. Think of it like more of a narrative board game than anything else and you’ll be in the right head space to enjoy it. I’m going to go ahead and assume this version includes some or all of the DLC that was sold separately on PC, or else that price doesn’t make a lot of sense.

Sales

(North American eShop, US Prices)

Oh hey, a sale on King’s Bounty II. That doesn’t come around too often. What else is in there? New Super Lucky’s Tale, Death Road to Canada, Space Raiders in Space, Bear’s Restaurant, and the whole assortment of Thalamus games. Well, that’s not bad for a Tuesday at all! The outbox has a few goodies in it too, so be sure to give both lists a good scan.

Select New Games on Sale

King’s Bounty II ($13.99 from $39.99 until 10/24)
Road 96 ($9.98 from $19.96 until 10/24)
Bear’s Restaurant ($9.74 from $12.99 until 10/24)
Fishing Paradiso ($13.49 from $14.99 until 10/24)
Oxide Room 104 ($14.99 from $24.99 until 10/24)
Timothy vs the Aliens ($3.90 from $16.99 until 10/24)
Naught ($2.99 from $19.99 until 10/24)
Lotus Reverie First Nexus ($4.79 from $15.99 until 10/24)
Space Raiders in Space ($1.99 from $12.99 until 10/25)
Little Bug ($1.99 from $12.99 until 10/25)
Syndrome ($1.99 from $24.99 until 10/25)
Gum+ ($1.99 from $7.99 until 10/25)
Disney Tsum Tsum Festival ($19.99 from $49.99 until 10/31)
Dragon Ball Z Kakarot Deluxe ($37.49 from $74.99 until 10/31)
90″ Soccer ($1.99 from $4.99 until 10/31)

Little Mouse’s Encyclopedia ($1.99 from $12.99 until 10/31)
Eldest Souls ($7.99 from $19.99 until 10/31)
Quest Hunter ($8.99 from $29.99 until 10/31)
Roki ($5.99 from $19.99 until 10/31)
Tails of Iron ($9.99 from $24.99 until 10/31)
New Super Lucky’s Tale ($14.99 from $29.99 until 10/31)
Rogue Star Rescue ($9.89 from $14.99 until 11/1)
Death Road to Canada ($5.99 from $14.99 until 11/2)
Halloween Forever ($4.99 from $9.99 until 11/2)
Elli ($1.99 from $7.99 until 11/7)
Cardful Planning ($1.99 from $4.99 until 11/7)
Millie and Molly ($1.99 from $4.99 until 11/7)
Lumo ($1.99 from $19.95 until 11/7)
Cecconoid ($1.99 from $19.99 until 11/7)
10 Second Ninja X ($1.99 from $11.99 until 11/7)

Love: A Puzzle Box ($1.99 from $19.99 until 11/7)
Destructivator SE ($1.99 from $4.99 until 11/7)
Death Ray Manta SE ($1.99 from $10.00 until 11/7)
Rainbow Laser Disco Dungeon ($1.99 from $9.99 until 11/7)
Bezier: Second Edition ($1.99 from $19.99 until 11/7)
Rogue Aces ($1.99 from $12.99 until 11/7)
Word Forward ($1.99 from $4.99 until 11/7)
Gamedec DE ($14.99 from $29.99 until 11/7)
Vambrace Cold Soul ($6.24 from $24.99 until 11/7)
Doomsday Vault ($1.99 from $19.99 until 11/7)
Truberbrook ($7.49 from $29.99 until 11/7)
Windscape ($4.99 from $19.99 until 11/7)
Bridge Constructor UE ($3.74 from $14.99 until 11/7)
Bridge Constructor Portal ($3.74 from $14.99 until 11/7)
Bridge Constructor Walking Dead ($2.49 from $9.99 until 11/7)
Fury Unleashed ($5.99 from $19.99 until 11/8)

Sales Ending Tomorrow, Wednesday, October 19th

Castle on the Coast ($5.99 from $14.99 until 10/19)
Choices That Matter: ATHWL ($2.99 from $5.99 until 10/19)
Choices That Matter: ATSWE ($2.99 from $5.99 until 10/19)
Choices That Matter: ATSWO ($2.99 from $5.99 until 10/19)
Effie ($5.99 from $19.99 until 10/19)
Garden Story ($12.99 from $19.99 until 10/19)
Inukari Chase of Deception ($1.99 from $7.99 until 10/19)
May’s Mysteries: TSoD ($8.99 from $14.99 until 10/19)
orbit.industries ($12.99 from $19.99 until 10/19)
P.3 ($1.99 from $4.99 until 10/19)
South of the Circle ($9.09 from $12.99 until 10/19)

Table of Tales: Crooked Crown ($14.99 from $19.99 until 10/19)
The Amazing American Circus ($6.99 from $19.99 until 10/19)
The World Next Door ($2.49 from $9.99 until 10/19)
This is the Zodiac Speaking ($2.98 from $12.99 until 10/19)
This War of Mine: CE ($1.99 from $39.99 until 10/19)
To Be Or Not To Be ($3.49 from $6.99 until 10/19)
Warlock of Firetop Mountain: GS Edition ($2.99 from $29.99 until 10/19)
West of Loathing ($5.50 from $11.00 until 10/19)
West of Loathing DLC ($2.49 from $4.99 until 10/19)

That’s all for today, friends. We’ll be back tomorrow with the usual mix of stuff. New releases? Check. Sales? Check. News? Uh, maybe use pencil on that one. Reviews? That box will probably remain empty. 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 October 17th, 2022. In today’s article, we kick off the week with a few reviews. Endless Memories, LEGO Bricktales, and Tinhead are the games in question, and I can’t say I loved any of them. After that, we have a single new release to check out, plus a rather robust list of new sales to consider. Let’s get to it!

Reviews & Mini-Views

Endless Memories ($19.99)

Endless Memories has a few issues, some of them common to the Metroidvania genre and others specific to the more unique elements the game brings to the table. If I had scored this game while I was in the first half of its thirty or so hours, you would probably be seeing a higher number down there. Certainly more praise. Unfortunately, I saw it through, and that has led to a much more tempered experience overall. It’s not a game without merit, but given how much competition there is in this category it’s also a tough one to recommend.

So yes, this is a Metroidvania game. It has a very big world, and I’m probably not emphasizing that enough. It’s huge. Too big. But if you love your Metroidvania games to have giant, sprawling worlds to explore, know that this game features one of those. It also has procedurally generated loot. A fun little random element that can wreak a lot of havoc on your playthrough if you’re unlucky. You really are depending on the luck of the draw to ensure you’re well-equipped. The combat system is relatively fluid and allows you to use melee weapons, ranged weapons, and magic to dispatch your foes.

The good points are the presentation, variety of weapons and abilities, and controls. The game looks and moves nicely, and while the random loot has its issues you certainly do have a nice mix of potential options at your fingertips. It’s fun to make your way through its world, and there are lots of different enemies to encounter and battle. On the negative side, I personally felt the game was too long and the world was too big. I was tired of it well before it ended, and that’s not a great place for a game to be. There’s a ton of lengthy backtracking at times, and the game desperately needs more fast travel points. As fun as the randomized loot is, it can also occasionally leave you in a very bad position in terms of tackling the challenging bosses.

Endless Memories is the kind of game that probably would have cleaned up in a less-crowded Metroidvania landscape. It’s a decent game whose biggest sin is being unable to properly manage its own size. Massive games in this genre can work (see Hollow Knight) but they need to take some precautions lest their sheer size and backtracking requirements end up boring the player. If you don’t mind a game that probably should have gotten off the stage hours before it actually does, and can cope with the fact that bad luck might leave you fighting goliaths with a butter knife, then feel free to give this a go.

SwitchArcade Score: 3/5

LEGO Bricktales ($29.99)

The LEGO brand is practically a staple of video games these days, almost entirely on the back of a couple decades’ worth of games from TT Games. Titles like LEGO Star Wars, LEGO Marvel Super Heroes, and LEGO Harry Potter are cherished classics that have been enjoyed by millions of players over the years. So yes, LEGO is huge in video games. What’s odd about that is that those games generally involve no actual building on the player’s part. Some automated sequences where you hold down the button and the character builds something, but almost never any instances of the player making things brick-by-brick on their own.

LEGO Bricktales, from Thunderful Games and ClockStone Studio, takes a different route. The game is structured around brick-by-brick building. You visit a variety of gorgeous dioramas and are tasked with building things to solve problems. Sometimes it’s a bridge. Often, really. Sometimes it’s a structure. Sometimes you’re simply tasked with trying to copy another object’s construction. It feels a bit like a bridge construction game mashed up with a casual adventure title like Monument Valley. The jobs start off simple at first, with only a handful of pieces, but before long you’re given more than enough rope to hang yourself with. Not that there’s any particular pressure to it. You can try and fail as many times as you need.

That’s a good thing, because it often feels like the game has one particular solution in mind that you need to sort out. That becomes less of an issue as the complexity of the objects increases, but it takes some of the joy out of building at times. Eventually when structures get really large, a different problem crops up. It starts feeling like any creative flourishes you make are inconsequential. I’m not really sure how these problems could be resolved as they are to an extent endemic to the concept. Most bridge builders, including the well-known efforts from this very developer, have similar issues. That said, if it doesn’t bother you in other games it probably won’t bother you here.

LEGO Bricktales is a really gorgeous game, but those looks come at a price on the Switch. A recent update has made things a little better, but the game is clearly struggling at times, especially in busier environments. I’m not an especially framerate-sensitive person, so if I’m noticing it it’s probably not great. The team is apparently working on another patch that they hope will help performance further, but it’s certainly something to keep in mind if you’re trying to decide which platform to get the game on. The controls are also a serious pain. This game feels like it was designed around a touch or mouse interface, and it is awkward and uncomfortable to play with a controller.

If you like bridge construction games or are a big fan of LEGO bricks, you’ll likely find enough to love in LEGO Bricktales to overcome its performance and gameplay issues. I would gladly trade some of the beautiful visual flair for a smoother framerate, so I hope the improvements the developers are working on bear fruit. I’m not sure what can be done about the controls, so you may just have to put up with them if you’re dedicated to playing the game on a console. A great idea, a passable execution, and overall an okay game that at least has something different to say about the venerated toy brand.

SwitchArcade Score: 3.5/5

Tinhead (QUByte Classics) ($4.99)

Another retro re-release from the folks at QUByte, and it’s another offering from the catalog of Piko Interactive. This time it’s Tinhead, a somewhat unremarkable side-scrolling platformer that originally released on the SEGA Genesis back in 1993. The most interesting thing I can say about Tinhead is that its designer went on to serve as a lead designer on Gex, Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, and the first three Uncharted games. It’s not as good as any of those. No, not even Gex. This Switch version includes that Genesis original, plus the Super NES port that was abandoned back in the day but finished up by Piko for release in 2019.

First of all, don’t even bother with that Super NES version. I don’t know if it’s the game or QUByte’s emulator, but it runs horribly. The framerate is choppy, and there’s varying degrees of slowdown based on which filters and screen sizes you use. It’s a shame because the additional buttons are very welcome for controlling the aim of your shots, but it’s just unpleasant to play. The Genesis version has some minor audio issues and screen tearing, but it at least moves somewhat smoothly. Both versions have save states and a few other minor options, all of which will be familiar if you’ve played any of QUByte’s other retro packages.

This really comes down to whether you consider the Genesis version of Tinhead to be worth five dollars. It’s not a bad game, though it can be aggravatingly difficult. But it’s also not a particularly good game beyond its well-done visuals. The kind of thing you would end up renting when you arrive late to the rental shop on a Friday night and have to choose from what’s left. It’s very typical of Western platformers of the time, with massive levels full of mysterious bits and bobs to collect and some unclear visual cues. QUByte’s presentation does the game no special favors, but it’s serviceable enough to enjoy Tinhead‘s merits, such as they are.

SwitchArcade Score: 3/5

New Releases

Pill Baby ($15.00)

This is a trippy action game about a young woman who immigrates to a new country and takes a job that involves dropping pills and fighting parasites. It’s… an odd one, but there’s definitely something to it. Some of it feels all too real, especially for those like myself who have done the whole “move across the world” thing. And then the reset of it is just completely bonkers. I can’t say if any given person will like this, but I can at least say that you probably haven’t played anything quite like it before.

Sales

(North American eShop, US Prices)

I say this a lot, but there are some interesting games in the inbox today. The first big sale on Dadish 3 has come, and I find those games irresistible once they hit a decent discount. If you’ve been waiting for a throwaway price to buy Garfield Kart Furious Racing as a gag, I think we’ve hit that point. If you want a good racing game instead, Hotshot Racing for three bucks is a fine choice. Check those lists carefully, lest you miss something nice.

Select New Games on Sale

Supaplex GO! ($10.49 from $14.99 until 10/21)
Lost in Play ($12.99 from $19.99 until 10/22)
The House of Da Vinci ($2.49 from $9.99 until 10/24)
Wuppo Definitive ($3.99 from $14.99 until 10/24)
Hob: Definitive Edition ($3.99 from $19.99 until 10/28)
Torchlight II ($4.99 from $19.99 until 10/28)
Torchlight III ($9.99 from $39.99 until 10/28)
Shieldwall Chronicles: SotN ($1.99 from $7.99 until 10/28)
Demon’s Rise War for the Deep ($1.99 from $6.99 until 10/28)
Just Die Already ($5.09 from $14.99 until 10/29)
Peaky Blinders: Mastermind ($3.74 from $24.99 until 10/29)
Hotshot Racing ($2.99 from $19.99 until 10/29)
Smoke & Sacrifice ($3.99 from $19.99 until 10/29)
Human: Fall Flat ($5.99 from $19.99 until 10/29)
Zombo Buster Advance ($1.99 from $3.99 until 10/29)

Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption ($4.99 from $19.99 until 10/29)
Velocity 2X ($3.99 from $19.99 until 10/29)
Pumped BMX Pro ($2.99 from $14.99 until 10/29)
Autonauts ($9.99 from $19.99 until 10/29)
For The King ($7.49 from $24.99 until 10/29)
Serial Cleaner ($2.24 from $14.99 until 10/29)
Embr ($5.99 from $19.99 until 10/29)
Narcos Rise of the Cartels ($4.49 from $29.99 until 10/29)
Hue ($1.99 from $9.99 until 10/29)
OMNO ($5.49 from $15.99 until 10/30)
The Legend of Tianding ($11.99 from $19.99 until 10/31)
Jack Axe ($3.99 from $14.99 until 10/31)
Vigil: The Longest Night ($13.19 from $21.99 until 10/31)
Postal Redux ($3.49 from $9.99 until 10/31)
Elden Path of the Forgotten ($1.99 from $15.99 until 10/31)

Hazel Sky ($14.99 from $24.99 until 10/31)
Flipping Death ($3.99 from $19.99 until 11/1)
Stick It to The Man ($2.39 from $11.99 until 11/1)
Hell Pie ($22.49 from $24.99 until 11/1)
Source of Madness ($13.99 from $19.99 until 11/1)
Pandaty ($1.99 from $8.99 until 11/1)
SUPERHOT ($12.49 from $24.99 until 11/2)
Clone Drone in the Danger Zone ($11.99 from $19.99 until 11/2)
Among Us ($3.50 from $5.00 until 11/2)
Gang Beasts ($17.99 from $29.99 until 11/2)
Brotherhood United ($1.99 from $8.99 until 11/2)
City Traffic Driver 2 ($7.79 from $12.99 until 11/4)
Commander Keen: Keen Dreams ($2.49 from $4.99 until 11/4)
Regina & Mac World ($1.99 from $3.99 until 11/4)
Regina & Mac ($4.99 from $9.99 until 11/4)

Knight’s Try ($4.99 from $9.99 until 11/4)
God Damn The Garden ($3.99 from $4.99 until 11/4)
Asterix & Obelix XXL 3 ($4.49 from $29.99 until 11/5)
Garfield Kart Furious Racing ($4.49 from $29.99 until 11/5)
The Smurfs Mission Vileaf ($19.99 from $39.99 until 11/5)
My Universe: Green Adventure ($17.99 from $29.99 until 11/5)
Syberia ($2.23 from $14.99 until 11/5)
Aerial_Knight’s Never Yield ($5.99 from $11.99 until 11/5)
Escape Game Fort Boyard 2022 ($17.99 from $29.99 until 11/5)
The Quest for Excalibur Puy de Fou ($17.99 from $29.99 until 11/5)
.cat ($1.99 from $9.99 until 11/5)
Dadish 3 ($1.99 from $9.99 until 11/5)
Pumpkin Jack ($11.99 from $29.99 until 11/6)
The Coma: Recut ($4.49 from $14.99 until 11/6)
The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters ($4.49 from $14.99 until 11/6)

Cardaclysm Shards of the Four ($4.49 from $14.99 until 11/6)
Outbuddies DX ($5.39 from $17.99 until 11/6)
Kosmonavtes Escape Reality ($1.99 from $3.99 until 11/6)
Kosmonavtes Academy Escape ($1.99 from $5.99 until 11/6)
Panmorphia ($1.99 from $5.99 until 11/6)
Panmorphia Enchanted ($1.99 from $3.99 until 11/6)
Panmorphia Awakened ($2.99 from $6.99 until 11/6)
Squeakers ($1.99 from $2.99 until 11/6)
Squeakers II ($1.99 from $2.99 until 11/6)
Pixel Heroes Mega Byte & Magic ($4.49 from $14.99 until 11/6)
Silver Chains ($7.49 from $24.99 until 11/6)
Colt Canyon ($4.49 from $14.99 until 11/6)

Sales Ending Tomorrow, Tuesday, October 18th

Airheart Tales of Broken Wings ($2.69 from $17.99 until 10/18)
Almost My Floor ($5.99 from $9.99 until 10/18)
Amazing Superhero Squad ($4.19 from $6.99 until 10/18)
Behind Closed Doors ($2.99 from $4.99 until 10/18)
Blood Will Be Spilled ($1.99 from $14.99 until 10/18)
Dadish ($1.99 from $9.99 until 10/18)
Dadish 2 ($1.99 from $9.99 until 10/18)
Death Park ($3.49 from $6.99 until 10/18)
Feudal Alloy ($1.99 from $16.99 until 10/18)
Get-A-Grip Chip ($6.99 from $9.99 until 10/18)
Get-A-Grip Chip & the Body Bugs ($2.09 from $2.99 until 10/18)
Hillbilly Doomsday ($2.99 from $4.99 until 10/18)
Mojito the Cat ($1.99 from $9.99 until 10/18)
Summertime Madness ($8.99 from $14.99 until 10/18)

Super Fowlst ($1.99 from $9.99 until 10/18)
Super Fowlst 2 ($2.00 from $10.00 until 10/18)
Swords and Bones ($1.99 from $7.99 until 10/18)
The Game of Life 2 ($14.99 from $29.99 until 10/18)
The Last Survey ($1.99 from $14.99 until 10/18)
To Leave ($4.99 from $19.99 until 10/18)
Why Pizza? ($2.99 from $4.99 until 10/18)

That’s all for today, friends. We’ll be back tomorrow with more new releases, more reviews, and more sales. Maybe some news? We’ll see. In addition to my regular work, I managed to finish off my 100% Souls run on Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow over the weekend. I also picked up Mega Man: Dr. Wily’s Revenge for my Game Boy and Super Hang-On GP for my SEGA Saturn for a few bucks at the local second-hand shop, so I am eating well. 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 October 14th, 2022. There ended up being an awful lot more new releases today than I went home expecting last night. Don’t get too excited, though. Most of them are quite dubious. We have summaries of all of them anyway. In better news, Nintendo kicked off a new sale last night that sees some of its first-party games getting their first discounts. Let’s head on in!

New Releases

Dragon Ball: The Breakers ($19.99)

This is a neat idea for a Dragon Ball game. It’s an asymmetrical multiplayer online game where seven players are normal citizens who are trying to survive while one player takes on the role of a Raider like Cell or Frieza. There are offline tutorial and practice modes but otherwise you’ll need to be online to play this game. Still, it’s refreshing to see a Dragon Ball game where you can play as a regular person on the ground during one of these ridiculous invasion events.

Nickelodeon Kart Racers 3: Slime Speedway ($49.99)

Oh, a third one of these then? I guess this series has been doing really well. This one features more than forty Nickelodeon characters to choose from, and ring the bell because this game finally has voice acting! It features water racing, more customization options, tons of crew members to choose from, and thirty six tracks to race on. There’s a battle mode, too. Up to four players can play locally, and up to twelve can get in on the action online. It seems like Game Mill is really stepping up its game with this one.

Star Trek Prodigy: Supernova ($49.99)

We don’t have Paramount+ here in Japan, so I can’t say I’m familiar with Star Trek Prodigy. But it seems to be doing alright for itself, and now it has its own video game. It’s from Outright Games, so keep your expectations in check. Anyway, this is an action-adventure game of sorts that takes you to three different planets for some exploration, puzzle-solving, and the occasional phaser fight. You can play solo or pull in a friend for some co-op local multiplayer. As is always the case with one of these licensed Outright affairs, it might be of interest if you have any young fans in your household.

NASCAR Rivals ($49.99)

Here’s the latest NASCAR game and I sure hope it’s a lot better than the last one from these folks because that one was quite poor. It has full licensing, a fairly extensive career mode, and a quick Race Now mode if you just want to drive. You can also race against another player locally or head online to race with up to sixteen people. That all sounds fine but NASCAR Heat Ultimate Edition+ was a technical tire fire on the Switch and I would be awfully surprised if this installment turns things around enough to matter.

Our Fantasy Quest ($14.00)

Another minigame assortment from SAT-BOX, this time with a medieval fantasy theme. There are ten events to play in total, including things like jousting, potion making, monster racing, and more. Up to four players can get in on the fun via local multiplayer. I’ll grant that it’s a less common theme for this kind of thing. Maybe it will work out for them.

reky ($9.99)

The description for this game talks about how easy the rules are to understand, and how important it is to remember those rules, but it never actually explains what you do in this ninety-six stage puzzler. Let me see if I can find anything. Okay, I dug up some details. You have to interact with the different puzzle elements, which appear to take the form of various cubes, to make a path to the goal. You can absorb the color from a cube or spew color back out on one, and any cube with color to it can be moved. You’re challenged to to this in as few steps as possible. Yes, that seems interesting. Puzzle fans may want to give this a look.

Broken Universe – Tower Defense ($9.99)

This is a cute tower defense game whose cartoonish aesthetic seems to be its main selling point. It seems to have a healthy following from its computer and Android versions, though it seems to have some issues with its difficulty curve. My main worry, as it always is with tower defense games on console, is in how the touch/mouse controls have been adapted for a controller. But if you’re a Switch-owning fan of this genre, you’ve probably learned to put up with a lot in that regard. If that’s you, then proceed… with caution.

God Damn The Garden ($4.99)

If you want a really weird, somewhat short first-person shooter, here’s your stop. It’s full of random humor that is either going to pull your interest or push you away. I’ve seen far worse things for a fiver.

Beeny ($0.99)

Ah, it’s a new game from that fellow that made those Toree games. This is apparently a prelude to Super Kiwi 64. It’s a vertical 2D platformer where you play as a rotund bee who has to roll and hop its way through nine levels. As usual there are a few secrets to dig up, lending the game a bit of extra replay value. For a buck, it’s more than fine.

Moonlight ($3.99)

Another 2D platformer with a silhouette art style, eh? It’s incredibly middling, and that’s me trying to be kind. The reasonable price might entice you, but even around this price point there are better options to get your platforming fix.

Mad Experiments: Escape Room ($9.99)

This is an escape game with an interesting twist: you can play with other players in online multiplayer. There are three different rooms to play, so let’s hope each one is a bit more complex than in the average game of this sort. Looking at impressions from the computer version, a lot of folks seem to feel like it’s a little too insubstantial and that the puzzles are lacking in cleverness. That doesn’t sound great, but you might like the game anyway.

Japanese Escape Games The Forbidden Garden ($9.99)

Here’s another option, and arguably a more familiar one. The latest in the Japanese Escape Games series is set in a garden. In terms of UI and overall puzzle design it is quite similar to the previous titles. I don’t have much else to add.

Runefall 2 – Collector’s Edition ($9.99)

Pretty much just a straightforward match-3 puzzle game. It seems like it has power-ups, upgrades, and a few other elements to dress it up. If you’re interested, I’d recommend giving the first game a go on your mobile device. It’s free and it will basically show you what you can expect here.

Letterbox by POWGI ($7.99)

It’s been a hot minute since the last Lightwood Games release on the Switch. I’m always happy to see a new one turn up, as they fill a nice niche on the console. The idea behind this one is that you are given a nine-letter word, a grid with nine spaces and letters surrounding it, and you need to place the letters of the word in those spaces such that you make six real words. A little tricky! Your reward for successfully completing a puzzle is a Dad joke from POWGI the dog. It works. If you like word puzzles, this is a good one.

Isekai Tragic Love ($19.90)

Another visual novel about romancing women from a fantasy world. There are five different women in this one: a high elf, a dwarf, a dark elf, a dragonute, and a mermaid. So yes, make your choice and see where it leads. Then play it again and choose a different route. Repeat until you get your money’s worth. The elf in that screenshot up there is named Ariel Rounds, by the way. That’s some Bond Girl-style naming there.

Attacker-chan! ($4.99)

This doesn’t look very good at all. It’s apparently a 2.5D roguelite action game that can be cleared in about a half hour to an hour. Sure, there isn’t much to this summary, but there isn’t much to the game itself either.

Super Funky Bowling ($2.99)

This game was made using FUZE4 Nintendo Switch, which is certainly neat. Anyway, this is a puzzle platformer with sixty-four stages and some hidden secrets to find. You have to use the ball to hit the pins in each stage, but the layouts are more akin to Marble Madness than they are to a normal bowling lane.

Fishing Ducks ($3.99)

Here’s the latest from Cooking & Publishing. Either alone or with a friend, you have to fish for ducks. It requires motion controls, by the looks of it. No support for handheld mode. As with most games from this publisher, the smart move is probably just to keep walking.

Sales

(North American eShop, US Prices)

Lots of good stuff today, much of it courtesy of Nintendo’s Demo Sale. Triangle Strategy, Metroid Dread, and WarioWare: Get It Together! are just some of the highlights. Also mind the sale on Dicey Dungeons. It’s the lowest price on it we’ve seen yet, and the game is a real treat.

Select New Games on Sale

Shoot 1UP DX ($2.39 from $5.99 until 10/20)
Pig Eat Ball ($5.99 from $14.99 until 10/20)
Weapon of Choice DX ($2.39 from $5.99 until 10/20)
Explosionade DX ($2.39 from $5.99 until 10/20)
The Hundred Year Kingdom ($6.49 from $12.99 until 10/20)
Labyrinth of the Chaka King ($3.50 from $7.00 until 10/20)
Glyph ($1.99 from $19.99 until 10/21)
TOEM ($9.99 from $19.99 until 10/21)
Super Mega Baseball 3 ($13.49 from $44.99 until 10/24)
Lost in Random ($11.99 from $29.99 until 10/24)
Fe ($4.99 from $19.99 until 10/24)
Burnout Paradise Remastered ($9.89 from $29.99 until 10/24)
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit ($7.99 from $39.99 until 10/24)
Plants vs Zombies BfN Complete ($9.99 from $39.99 until 10/24)
Steamroll Rustless Edition ($4.99 from $9.99 until 10/24)

Super Korotama ($2.99 from $4.99 until 10/24)
Pompom: The Great Space Rescue ($8.99 from $9.99 until 10/25)
Touhou Spell Bubble ($27.49 from $54.99 until 10/25)
Moving Out ($6.24 from $24.99 until 10/26)
What the Golf? ($8.99 from $19.99 until 10/26)
Mega Man 11 ($9.99 from $29.99 until 10/26)
Rayman Legends ($9.99 from $39.99 until 10/26)
Immortals Fenyx Rising ($14.99 from $59.99 until 10/26)
Klonoa Phantasy Reverie ($27.99 from $39.99 until 10/26)
Captain Tsubasa RoNC ($14.99 from $59.99 until 10/26)
Dragon Quest XI S ($34.99 from $49.99 until 10/26)
Triangle Strategy ($41.99 from $59.99 until 10/26)
Freedom Planet ($4.49 from $14.99 until 10/26)
Azure Striker Gunvolt 3 ($23.99 from $29.99 until 10/26)
Spiritfarer ($9.89 from $29.99 until 10/26)

Card Shark ($14.99 from $19.99 until 10/26)
Attack on Titan 2 ($29.99 from $59.99 until 10/26)
Deadcraft ($14.99 from $24.99 until 10/26)
Metroid Dread ($41.99 from $59.99 until 10/26)
WarioWare: Get It Together ($34.99 from $49.99 until 10/26)
Miitopia ($34.99 from $49.99 until 10/26)
ARMS ($41.99 from $59.99 until 10/26)
BOXBOY! + BOXGIRL! ($6.99 from $9.99 until 10/26)
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon RT DX ($41.99 from $59.99 until 10/26)
Kirby Fighters 2 ($13.99 from $19.99 until 10/26)
Sushi Striker ($34.99 from $49.99 until 10/26)
Dynasty Warriors 9 Empires ($41.99 from $59.99 until 10/26)
Blue Reflection: Second Light ($35.99 from $59.99 until 10/26)
Daemon X Machina ($41.99 from $59.99 until 10/26)
Fitness Boxing 2 ($34.99 from $49.99 until 10/26)

Research & Destroy ($9.99 from $19.99 until 10/26)
Aegis Defenders ($4.99 from $19.99 until 10/26)
PixelJunk Monsters 2 ($2.24 from $14.99 until 10/26)
Ori & the Blind Forest ($9.99 from $19.99 until 10/26)
Ape Out ($3.74 from $14.99 until 10/26)
R-Type Dimensions EX ($7.49 from $14.99 until 10/27)
Lode Runner Legacy ($5.99 from $11.99 until 10/27)
Restless Soul ($9.74 from $14.99 until 10/27)
Dobutsu Shogi World ($34.99 from $39.99 until 10/27)
Sam & Max Save the World ($14.99 from $19.99 until 10/27)
Sam & Max Beyond Time & Space ($14.99 from $19.99 until 10/27)
A Musical Story ($9.74 from $14.99 until 10/27)
El Hijo: A Wild West Tale ($11.99 from $19.99 until 10/28)
Subnautica ($14.99 from $29.99 until 10/28)
Subnautica: Below Zero ($14.99 from $29.99 until 10/28)

Metal Unit ($4.79 from $15.99 until 10/28)
MXGP3 Motocross ($1.99 from $19.99 until 10/28)
Shing! ($1.99 from $19.99 until 10/28)
Groove Coaster Wai Wai Party! ($5.99 from $59.99 until 10/31)
Railway Empire ($19.99 from $39.99 until 10/31)
Tropico 6 ($24.99 from $49.99 until 10/31)
Summer in Mara ($9.99 from $19.99 until 10/31)
Fashion Friends ($5.99 from $9.99 until 11/2)
Crysis 2 Remastered ($16.49 from $29.99 until 11/2)
Crysis 3 Remastered ($16.49 from $29.99 until 11/2)
Hampuzz ($3.49 from $6.99 until 11/2)
Dicey Dungeons ($1.99 from $14.99 until 11/3)
G-MODE Archives25 Topolon ($1.99 from $4.99 until 11/3)
Monster Boy & the Cursed Kingdom ($13.99 from $39.99 until 11/3)
Galacticon ($3.49 from $4.99 until 11/3)

Whisper Trip ($1.99 from $4.99 until 11/3)
Gunma’s Ambition ($1.99 from $9.99 until 11/3)
Wildbus ($1.99 from $6.99 until 11/3)
Strange Field Football ($1.99 from $6.99 until 11/3)
CASE: Animatronics ($4.99 from $19.99 until 11/3)
CASE 2: Animatronics Survival ($4.99 from $19.99 until 11/3)
Onirike ($3.74 from $14.99 until 11/3)
Forklift Extreme ($5.99 from $9.99 until 11/3)

Sales Ending This Weekend

A Sketchbook About Her Sun ($1.99 from $4.99 until 10/15)
Cuccchi ($3.19 from $7.99 until 10/15)
LEGO DC Super-Villains ($8.99 from $59.99 until 10/15)
LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2 ($5.99 from $29.99 until 10/15)
LEGO Star Wars: Skywalker Saga Deluxe ($41.99 from $69.99 until 10/15)
Mortal Kombat 11 ($9.99 from $49.99 until 10/15)
Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate DLC ($9.99 from $49.99 until 10/15)
Murder House ($8.39 from $11.99 until 10/15)
Mystic Belle Enchanted Edition ($7.49 from $14.99 until 10/15)
Nun Massacre ($4.19 from $5.99 until 10/15)
Promesa ($1.99 from $4.99 until 10/15)
Re:Turn 2 – Runaway ($5.00 from $10.00 until 10/15)

Shooting Star Island ($2.20 from $4.90 until 10/15)
Tyd wag vir Niemand ($1.99 from $9.99 until 10/15)
Ultionus: Tale of Petty Revenge ($4.99 from $9.99 until 10/15)
Unstrong Space Calamity ($2.24 from $4.99 until 10/15)
Will Die Alone ($1.99 from $4.99 until 10/15)
Arietta of Spirits ($7.99 from $19.99 until 10/16)
Hope’s Farm ($1.99 from $19.99 until 10/16)
Secrets of Magic 3 Happy Halloween ($1.99 from $9.99 until 10/16)
Skautfold: Shrouded in Sanity ($3.99 from $9.99 until 10/16)
Supaplex Squares ($10.49 from $14.99 until 10/16)

That’s all for today and this week, friends. We’ll be back next week with more reviews, more new releases, more sales, and more news. Big releases next week include Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope and New Tales from the Borderlands, and I’m sure there will be plenty of fun surprises along the way too. 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 October 13th, 2022. In today’s article, we’ve got the big list of Thursday releases to go through. The biggest game is probably Atari Mania, but there is a wide variety on offer today. We’ve also got a little bit of news to look at, plus the lists of new and outgoing sales to consider. Let’s get to work!

News

‘Pilotwings 64’ is Now Available for Switch Online Expansion Pack Subscribers

It is the appointed time and day, folks. If you have a subscription to the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack, go on and update your Nintendo 64 app. Once you’ve done that, you’ll find Pilotwings 64 is ready and waiting to be played. This is the first time the game has ever been rereleased, so this is actually a bit of an exciting addition to the service.

New Releases

Atari Mania ($24.99)

Atari has a couple of bullets in the chamber to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary, and this is the first of them. It’s a WarioWare-style affair mashed up with some adventure game elements. You play as a custodian at an Atari museum of sorts. Some stuff goes down and you end up playing a bunch of minigames inspired by classic Atari games. Sometimes more than one Atari game at once. It digs pretty deep, so it will certainly help your enjoyment if you are a big Atari fan.

Witchcrafty ($9.99)

Yes, I suppose it is October, isn’t it? This is a cute witch-themed platformer with some light Metroidvania elements in the form of elemental magic you learn along the way. That magic allows you to interact in new ways with the environments and various hazards, but don’t expect the game to go hard on that end of things. It’s mostly about the platforming, and it’s not exactly best in class in that regard. Still, it has charm to spare and that may be enough for some.

Paradise Marsh ($9.99)

This is a game where you chill out in a procedurally-generated world and try to catch bugs, frogs, and so on in order to restore the constellations in the sky. Some of the creatures will only appear in specific conditions, so there’s a bit of a puzzle element to it all. A bit vague and meandering, but that’s definitely a kind of game I find myself in a mood for from time to time.

The Witch’s House MV ($14.99)

More witches, but this is more the scary type than the fluffy, colorful type. A Japanese horror adventure game in the vein of titles like Corpse Party, The Witch’s House MV sees a young girl venture into a mysterious mansion full of puzzles and jump scares. Not how I would spend my weekend, but that’s just me. Anyway, you can probably figure out how this goes. Grab it if you like that kind of thing.

Trifox ($19.99)

Action-adventure? 3D platformer? I don’t know, Trifox is kind of all of those things. You play as a little fox hero who can make use of three different job classes (that’s the ‘Tri‘ in ‘Trifox‘, I assume) to battle foes and solve puzzles in order to recover his stolen TV remote. There are four different worlds to romp through, and thirty different abilities to unlock. It seems decent, but I haven’t had a chance to play it yet so all I can really comment on is how it looks.

Arcade Archives Toy Pop ($7.99)

This week’s Arcade Archives release is another Namco title, this time 1986’s Toy Pop. Collect all of the gold hearts on each stage while avoiding the deadly toys that are trying to take you out. You aren’t defenseless, however. Pick up the presents and you’ll occasionally find some weapons you can use to turn the tables on your foes. Not my favorite Namco game of the era, but it certainly has a unique aesthetic that elevates the action somewhat.

Tinhead (QUByte Classics) ($3.99)

The latest release in the QUByte Classics series is the first one that only includes one version of the game in question. Tinhead is a platformer that originally released on the SEGA Genesis, and it’s… you know, fine. Nothing special. Not terrible. We had lots of games like this back in the 16-bit era. They just sort of existed, making good fodder for weekend rentals when you were tired of replaying Mario or Sonic. I’m sure this is using QUByte’s usual emulator and front end, so don’t expect anything too fancy.

Bus Simulator City Ride ($34.99)

Must be bus simulator season. This one features properly licensed buses, so that’s part of the price tag there. The fictional city that serves as the setting for this game is inspired by locations in Northern Europe, and it’s up to you to learn its streets and districts like the back of your hand. Drive the people around and expand your transport company with new buses and routes. It comes from Astragon Entertainment, and they’ve certainly been around the block a few times in this category. I’m not experienced enough with bus simulators to say if this is a great one, but it certainly seems to have had some effort put into it.

Temp Zero ($8.99)

Yes, this is pretty cool. It’s a minimalist roguelite action game with a pumping soundtrack and a nice variety of weapons and spells to keep things fresh. It certainly has a sense of style to it, though I think that screen shake might be a little much for my liking. Still, it’s a lot of fun and while its scope isn’t grand it’s well-polished for what it is.

Fallen Knight ($14.99)

I wanted to like this one, but it just doesn’t play very well. It’s a robot-themed side-scrolling action game, but with clunky controls and some badly implemented mechanics, I can’t really see my way to recommending this to anyone at the price it’s going for.

ValiDate: Struggling Singles in your Area ($14.99)

This is a visual novel about thirteen young adults who are looking for love in the slightly-fictional Jercy City, all while struggling with the realities of adulthood. There are more than thirty routes to play through, so there’s definitely a lot to see here. From what I can gather, each character was written by a different person, which is not something you typically see in a game like this. Does it work? Opinions seem to be a little mixed on that, but its computer version has gotten a mostly positive reception since it came out a couple of weeks ago. If nothing else, that bodes well.

Fragment’s Note+ ($14.99)

That said, if you want a more typical visual novel experience, you’re also covered today. Yukiha Tenjo musters up his courage and confesses his love to his crush, and is rejected. Before he even has time to process his feelings, a young girl named Miu appears, claiming that she is his daughter from the future. She’s come back to try to improve his life, and her actions will pull Yukiha into a mess of drama he never saw coming. It’s a good bit darker than that description makes it seem, mind you. This Plus version includes the full series in one handy, reasonably-priced purchase. Worth it if you like visual novels and haven’t played this series before.

BOT.vinnik Chess 2 ($2.99)

Fancy another round of BOT.vinnik Chess? Because that’s what this is. It’s another single-player chess game with a sassy robot opponent. This one uses famous matches from chess history to help teach you more about the game, and loads up more than four hundred and fifty chess puzzles to solve. I can think of worse ways to spend three bucks on a game today.

Winter Games 2023 ($39.99)

Okay, the Winter Olympics are over and done with for another few years, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t any Switch owners hankering for a winter sports game this season. Or at least I imagine that is what Wild River Games is banking on with this release. It includes ten different sporting events that can be played by up to four players in local multiplayer. You get biathlon, downhill, Super-G, skeleton, short track, two-man bobsled, ski jumping, ski cross, snowboard cross, and curling. Personally I’m not big on these Track ‘n Field-style games, but if you are then you may want to give this a closer look.

Football Cup 2022 ($14.99)

Football Cup 2021 was not very good. Really, really not very good at all. Yet it somehow must have sold its share of copies, because here we are with Football Cup 2022. To absolutely no one’s surprise, this new version is also not very good. It’s not even “the McDonalds we have at home” of FIFA. It’s more like “the McDonalds we have in the dumpster down that sketchy alley” of FIFA. I’m sure it will sell a lot and we’ll be doing this dance again next year with Football Cup 2023.

Pretty Girls Escape ($5.99)

Another game in the Pretty Girls series from eastasiasoft. This one is a block puzzle game where you need to shift the pieces to make lines and drop the boxes with the girls in them to the bottom of the screen. You know, like those levels in Candy Crush. There are eight different girls in the game, and you get the usual gallery stuff that you can unlock.

Zombies Killer Machine – Car Games,Driving,Dead Mechanic Simulator ($6.99)

More garbage from the garbage merchants at Midnight Works. Drive the car and run over the zombies. Imagine all the much better games you could buy instead of this dross.

Loot Box Simulator – RPG Anime Girls ($2.99)

No. Come on now.

Sales

(North American eShop, US Prices)

A small list as usual for the time I write these articles. There will be a lot more tomorrow, I’m sure. For now, you’ve got another chance to get Onion Games titles at a solid discount, plus some spot sales on Jenny LeClue and Star Ocean.

Select New Games on Sale

P.3 ($1.99 from $4.99 until 10/19)
Inukari Chase of Deception ($1.99 from $7.99 until 10/19)
Stellar Interface ($2.59 from $12.99 until 10/24)
Black Bird ($13.29 from $18.99 until 10/26)
Mon Amour ($6.29 from $8.99 until 10/26)
moon ($13.29 from $18.99 until 10/26)
Dandy Dungeon: Brave Yamada ($13.29 from $18.99 until 10/27)
Star Ocean: First Departure R ($8.39 from $20.99 until 10/27)
MechaNika ($2.99 from $5.99 until 10/27)
Agatha Knife ($5.99 from $11.99 until 10/27)
Out of the Box ($4.49 from $14.99 until 10/27)
The House of the Dead Remake ($16.74 from $24.99 until 11/2)
Speed Truck Racing ($1.99 from $9.99 until 11/2)
Jenny LeClue Detectivu ($1.99 from $24.99 until 11/2)
Perception ($2.99 from $19.99 until 11/2)
Splatter ($1.99 from $4.98 until 11/2)
Speed Dating For Ghosts ($2.37 from $6.99 until 11/2)

Sales Ending Tomorrow, Friday, October 14th

Battle Chef Brigade Deluxe ($3.99 from $19.99 until 10/14)
Indigo 7 Quest for Love ($4.49 from $14.99 until 10/14)
Liberated: Enhanced Edition ($6.79 from $19.99 until 10/14)
Mad Games Tycoon ($11.99 from $39.99 until 10/14)
Mad Tower Tycoon ($8.99 from $29.99 until 10/14)
Monster Energy Supercross 2 ($2.49 from $24.99 until 10/14)
MotoGP 19 ($1.99 from $19.99 until 10/14)
PigShip & the Giant Wolf ($3.99 from $7.99 until 10/14)
Rite ($4.89 from $6.99 until 10/14)
Seashell ($1.99 from $3.99 until 10/14)
Timberman: The Big Adventure ($3.34 from $4.99 until 10/14)

That’s all for today, friends. We’ll be back tomorrow with the remaining releases of the week, plus whatever sales and big news roll in during the interim. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to get back to grinding souls with a 0.25% drop rate in Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow. This is how I choose to spend the precious minutes of my life. I hope you all have a thrilling Thursday, and as always, thanks for reading!