It certainly looks the part, but given the scale of what it seems to be attempting it really could go either way gameplay-wise. Use telekinesis to toss around enemies, chuck objects at them, or even overheat their implants to cook their heads. It’s a cyberpunk adventure with action combat, and a bunch of neat skills to use. As such, I have some faith that they’ve pulled off what looks like a fairly ambitious but achievable goal. This is a very cool-looking action-adventure game from Antab Studio, the developer behind the rather decent Gridd: Retroenhanced. Kistler only needs to sell about six copies of this to make a profit, so you can see why he does this kind of thing. There are apparently one hundred and fifty stages to play, so that’s something. And yet here ol’ Benny rolls in with an Android template he picked up from the Unity Asset Store for $10.99 that can only be played in handheld mode, a simple puzzle game where you link pieces to complete each stage. There are, like, ten or twelve really cool games on today’s release list, and a few of them are reasonably priced to boot. If you have friends or family members willing to join in, do give it a shot. You can play it alone, but it absolutely shines with other players. It has a board game feel to it, as you have a set number of rounds to visit locations and build up the necessary stats to use the ritual items needed for the summoning. A last-minute betrayal could certainly be on the menu if that’s the way you’re feeling. You can work together with the other players or try to hinder each other if you like. Visit various locations in Arkham, battle your enemies, and make careful choices to bring about the end of the world. Each player controls a cultist who wants to unleash an Ancient Horror on the world. This is a text-based adventure game for up to four players in local multiplayer. Fhtagn! – Tales of the Creeping Madness ($7.99) With all that in mind, I’m just going to move along now. I wish I had more to say about this game, but we’ve covered so many poker games already over the years and there isn’t a whole lot unique or unusual about this one. Here’s a single-player Texas Hold’em Poker game where you can compete in a variety of tournaments against computer players. Still, the price is reasonable and it’s a decent enough way to spend a quiet evening. It’s a relatively short game all told, and it doesn’t really spend as much time on its story and characters as you might like. There are items to collect, puzzles to solve, and Walkmans to keep putting batteries into. You have to guide one of the pair, Maya, through the streets of the city to get to her boyfriend Devin’s apartment. Since the game is set in 1990, they can’t just use their smartphones to coordinate. Fire Tonight ($5.99)Īn isometric puzzle game with a strong sense of style, Fire Tonight sees a young couple trying to reunite during a city-wide power outage caused by rampaging fires. And hey, how can you not love those slimes? Adorable. It’s a solid enough game if you don’t mind falling into some video game quicksand for a few days. That will help find more slimes, which will earn you more money, and… okay, you know how this goes. As you make more money and gather rewards, you’ll be able to invest in your ranch and gear, allowing you to push out and explore more of the strange alien world you’re on. It’s kind of a farming game, but you’re wrangling slimes along with growing crops and such. Slime Rancher: Plortable Edition ($24.99) I’ll let you know if it has me literally jumping for joy after I spend the weekend playing it. But I had no trouble doing that here just on the basis of how good the first one was. I don’t hit that buy button at the literal first second often, friends. This second game promises to explore the origins of what we saw in that first game, and while I haven’t had a chance to play this yet I fully expect it to find new and interesting ways to push out the exploratory platformer space. The first game was a very solid Metroid-like game that played with the fourth wall of game design in a lot of interesting ways. Let’s go! New Releases Axiom Verge 2 ($19.99) We’ve also got the usual lists of sales for you to look at, if you need more to spend money on today for some reason. That’s what the bulk of today’s article is about, friends. I’d summarize it all for you, but I suddenly had twice as many games to write about today. I recommend checking out the video on Nintendo’s channel if you haven’t. Hey, that Indie World Showcase yesterday was really cool, wasn’t it? Lots of nice-looking games, several of which released on the spot. Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for August 12th, 2021.
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