Indie Review

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A Little Golf Journey - Switch Review

"Achieves something new whilst doing less."

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Castle of Pixel Skulls - Switch Review

"Doesn’t have nearly enough meat on its bones to stand alongside the classics."

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Dice Legacy - Switch Review

"A unique experience in the city builder genre."

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Greak: Memories of Azur - Switch Review

"A beautiful adventure game which I found to be just downright enjoyable."

DREAMO

DREAMO - Switch Review

Part Inception, part The Witness, part Driver: San Francisco, Hypnotic Ants’ Dreamo is a labyrinth of intricately woven puzzles that slowly unravel the memories trapped within your comatose state, leading to revelations aplenty, all begun with the domino of a plane crash and a deserted island – nobody in sight. Gameplay

Action

WeakWood Throne - Switch Review

WeakWood Throne is an Action RPG developed by the team from Waterxmelon. Having previously been available via Steam, the game was released for the Switch in September 2020. Let’s see what it’s like! Gameplay At first glance, WeakWood Throne looks and plays out like a fairly standard Action

Bloom Digital

Later Daters Part Two - Switch Review

Here we go again! We finally have a conclusion to the game that taught us that seniors can be sexy. Picking up from where Part One left off, Later Daters Part Two takes us to the end of your second week at YE OLDE Retirement Community. In this review of

2D Platformer

YesterMorrow - Switch Review

After a peaceful village is attacked by dark forces, the world falls into a never-ending night. Years pass and an older Yui is thrusted back in time to that fateful day. YesterMorrow is a clever 2D puzzle platformer where Yui can travel back and forth in time, altering the world

16 bit

TAURONOS - Switch Review

Locked in a labyrinth where the goal is to escape, you are trapped with a vicious Minotaur who lives within and is constantly hunting you down with unending vigor. TAURONOS is a well designed adventure influenced by Greek mythology that will have you wanting to escape the puzzles that trap

Indie

Kickstarter Project of the Week: Monochrome RPG

For this week’s Switch Kickstarter Project of the Week, we will be looking at DVNC Tech’sMonochrome RPG. The game is slated to release in September 2021 on PC/Mac, iOS, Android and Xbox, as well as potential ports to PlayStation and Nintendo Switch. Here’s the overview: > TheMonochrome

2D Platformer

Electronic Super Joy 2 - Switch Review (Quick)

Truth be told, I haven’t experienced the franchise’s debut, Electronic Super Joy, but the sequel is fun in its own right, if not a little tedious. At its core, it’s a platformer that is very clearly inspired by Super Meat Boy (which spawned its own spiritual successor,

Clea

Clea - Switch Review

In a mysterious mansion where Clea and her younger brother must avoid the other-worldly Chaos Servants that have escaped from their parents’ laboratory, Clea‘s survival horror motif takes on a new approach involving the player to use their surroundings and relying on sound as much as sight. The creaky

Cornfox and Bros

Oceanhorn 2: Knights of the Lost Realm - Switch Review

Oceanhorn 2: Knights of the Lost Realm is the long awaited sequel to Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas. The second instalment was first released on Apple Arcade over a year ago and I, for one, have been eagerly awaiting its release on the Switch as the original was such a

Clea

SpoOoOoky Horror Game Clea Launches on Switch this Week

Right before Halloween, PR Hound have announced that Clea, a survival horror game from Australian developer InvertMouse and publisher Sekai Games, will be coming to Nintendo Switch on October 30 (THAT’S ONLY THREE DAYS AWAY!). Here’s the announcement: > Publisher, Sekai Games, and developer, InvertMouse, are excited to announce

Carto

Carto - Switch Review

After Carto is flung from her granny’s aircraft during a vicious storm, she finds herself with naught but her wit and a unique ability that allows her to alter the world like pieces in a multi-fitting jigsaw puzzle. Along the way, Carto will travel from one mysterious land to

Devolver Digital

Disc Room - Switch Review

From the creators of various Devolver Digital titles such as Mini [https://switchaboo.com/2018/08/11/minit-quick-review/]t [https://switchaboo.com/2018/08/11/minit-quick-review/], Exit the Gungeon [https://switchaboo.com/2020/03/23/exit-the-gungeon-switch-review/] and Sludge Life comes a collaborative effort about rooms with discs… sharp discs. Disc

3D Platformer

Pumpkin Jack - Switch Review

The most dastardly rogue of them all, Jack, has been revived by the Devil himself to rid the world of the magician that’s destined to save humankind. Pumpkin Jack is a 3D platformer in a similar vein to Jak and Daxter but with a linear structure and an aesthetic

Indie

Supermarket Shriek – Switch Review

Take the charm of Rabbids, splice it with the chaos of Super Monkey Ball, and top it off with the level structure of Super Mario 64 – the result? Supermarket Shriek; a mishmash of all the greatest hits that doesn’t disappoint. Gameplay Controls-wise, the closest scheme to this shopping cart

2D

Double Pug Switch - Switch Review

A pug named Otis, a cat named Whiskers and a Professor who makes portal fluids are the characters at play in this hardcore platformer made by aPriori Digital. Double Pug Switch has you run through the distorted dimensions as you try and return everyone back to normal and safety; a

FRACTER

FRACTER - Switch Review

FRACTER is a puzzle game developed by the team over at 4L Games. To be more exact, it’s an isometric puzzler set in a dark, captivating and almost ethereal setting. The aim of the game is to guide the protagonist through a number of puzzle-laden levels, while also avoiding

Indie

Space Crew - Switch Review

The year, 2152; the captain and their crew are on a routine mission to deliver precious cargo to a neighbouring planet when suddenly, enemies approach! Pew Pew , man the turrets! The oxygen tank has been hit, get the engineer on it! Fire in the brig; cadet, grab the extinguisher. We

2D

Juiced! - Switch Review (Quick)

Tiko is a short bug-eyed prune… thing that is on a mission to put a stop to the evil wizard’s plans by recovering the Eternal Crystals. In this nostalgia-filled adventure, Juiced! focusses on what made the retro platformers of the 8/16 bit eras so monumental by perfecting its

Camped Out

Camped Out! - Preview

INCA Studios’ Camped Out! has been on our radar since we first saw it at PAX AUS 2018 and then more so when we spoke to Andrew at PAX AUS 2019 [https://switchaboo.com/2019/10/17/interview-with-inca-studios-camped-out/]. We’ve now been able to go hands on with the game

2D Platformer

Adventures of Chris - Switch Review

A fat, asthmatic, slow, timid kid thrown into a sidescroller where the coins are cookies, the health pickups are milkshakes, and the enemies are an assortment of Castlevania-esc horrors that range from Dracula-like vampires to gigantic spiders – The Adventures of Chris is a quirky experiment that, like Humans, falls flat.

Indie

The Survivalists - Switch Review

A young survivalist’s adventure has caught themself in a terrible thunderstorm out in the open seas and in the aftermath, they’re washed ashore on a deserted island with nothing but a few resources and the land to live off of. In The Survivalists, you’ll hunt, gather, craft