Duck Detective. Charming game, but quite short.

Torchlight 2 and 3 are fun looting co-op experiences.

Lawnchair is what I switched to after Nova Launcher was purchased. Honestly, I have few complaints, it’s been plenty good enough for me.

Agreed, I’m fairly impressed how many games Nintendo is still releasing for Switch very late in its lifetime.

Yup, I picked it up for $7 to play with friends last year. It’s worth double that, but not $45. I still play with them sometimes but it isn’t my favorite.

Somewhat unrelated, this game has one of the worst menu systems I have ever seen. It’s astounding how unintuitive it is.

the original match 3

Shariki and Bejeweled would like a word.

I really liked Lara Croft GO. It’s better than Hitman GO or other GO games.

I don’t play Stardew Valley that often or that much, but what I do play is delightful. It’s a pretty versatile game.

With a 2025 release, is may not even come out for Switch, it may release on Switch 2/successor.

Native support. 👍 I haven’t played it yet, but at this price I’ll give it a try.

I appreciate when ads say “Free to Play” up front so I know not to play it. (There may be a few exceptions here and there, but as a general rule, that has served me pretty well.)

Yep. sigh I guess I’ll go replay Portal 2 again. It really is fantastic, I should be happy that we got it when we did.

Finally got around to Talos Principle (the first one) and it’s as good as people said.

I also started playing some space battles in Empire at War on “Star Wars Day” (May the Fourth) and find that level of not-very-challenging RTS kind of soothing, so I’m back to playing that for a bit.

I played quite a bit of Tricky and SSX3 in college, I should dust off the GameCube and fire it up again.

I dunno about it being Rougelike, but I did love me some Torchlight 1 and 2. (Haven’t played 3.)

You’re not wrong, but it was also kind of a cultural moment and it’s weird that it was disappeared entirely. Most games like that have long tails of focus creep, neglect, crapware, or irrelevance, but Flappy Bird went out with a pop.

Okay, that actually looked pretty fun, I need to dust that game off and try the multiplayer!

I hope they focus on the fun. With that pedigree of devs, I think they’ll get the balance good and have good maps, but that illusive fun factor needs to be there. (Like what the Torchlight devs did after some left the Diablo teams.)

OG PvZ is perfection. I’d love to have more, but it never can hold up.

Cool, I didn’t know that existed.

But honestly, I want something like a 4-5" screen, what used to be normal, it would actually be a hand-sized device.

That article was charming! I like that guy, and I like his gaming ethos. Play what you like, there is no “best game,” and you can find things to like in a lot of games.

Link worked for me, I just had to scroll down through some substack crap.

I ask myself, is this another one of those end-of-year layoffs, or did it really happen this week?

Bossa Studios has confirmed to GamesIndustry.biz that it did dismiss a number of staff at the end of 2023

There it is. The tax code and $$$$ are always the answer as to why a company does anything.

Upvoted just as a PSA for what not to buy.

Good article, and I agree that watching a friend or family member discover a great game is really pleasing.

Thanks, I’ll give it a try!

I think taking a more friendly position towards unions was also part of Microsoft’s strategy to win regulatory approval of its acquisition of ZeniMax.

Unrailed! with a few friends, it scratches the same chaotic-couch-co-op itch as games like Overcooked or Moving Out.