Bugsnax, Zombie Army 4, Nintendo Switch Sports, The Stanley Parable, and Layer Section S-Tribute hit the Switch – Games Asylum

Its one of those weeks where theres bound to be something on the Switch eShop able to coax money out of your digital wallet a pleasingly varied assortment of titles covering all genres imaginable, right down to a game where you play as a bar of soap.

For sports fans theres the anticipated Nintendo Switch Sports a modern take on Wii Sports, offering six events and support for an optional leg strap accessory and the annual sporting update Cricket 22. At 53.99, we genuinely hope Cricket 22 is able to rival the recent PS4/Xbox One iterations Switch games rarely break the 50 mark.

Reviews for Nintendo Switch Sports went live earlier today, resulting in a respectable 75% Metacritic. Its yet to garner a single 9/10, but there are plenty of 8/10s being bandied about. That said, likely more 7/10s than Nintendo hoped to see, too.

Theres some valid criticisms to be made over the shallow game roster and even shallower character customization, but at its core, Nintendo Switch Sports is an absolute blast and is simple enough for anyone who wants to give it a try, said Screen Rant.

Zombie Army 4: Dead War seems to have left critics smitten, with reviews being full of praise for this content-heavy package. Theres a ton of zombie Nazi-slaying sweetness to get stuck into here and, although the graphics have taken a hit and the frame rate has been halved in comparison to other platforms, whats here is eminently playable in both docked and handheld modes. Whether youre taking on Hitlers undead hordes alone or with a few friends in tow, this ones a ton of schlocky B-movie fun that gets a great big thumbs up from us, was Nintendo Lifes verdict.

Bugsnax is another belated conversion on the agenda, originally being a PS5 launch title. Its a comical critter capturing game, viewed from first person, and intertwined with an unfolding story that has a few unexpected turns. Although the characters are likeable and the dialogue is bound to make you chuckle, some of the mechanics are a little unrefined. While the jury is still out on this Switch iteration, we imagine itll be fun but flawed like the original.

Team17s The Serpent Rogue a medieval adventure centered around alchemy has gained mixed reviews, meanwhile. Everything from Checkpoint Gamings 5/10 to Screen Rants 4.5/5. WhileThe Serpent Roguemay not be great as an entry-level crafting game, it is a fantastic and beautifully crafted fantasy adventure that is enjoyable and challenging from the second players embark on their journey, said SR.

2013s The Stanley Parable also returns this week in a new Ultra Deluxe package. It seems time hasnt diminished the experience you wont have to look far to find a 9/10 review score. If you havent played it, its largely recommended to go in blind, so as not to spoil the experience.

RESEARCH and DESTROY is one weve spent a couple of hours with. Its a third-person shooter thats turn-based each squad member has around ten seconds to move, aim and shoot. At the end of each turn, the enemies ghouls and ghosts, mostly then advance and attack. Its backed by vibrant comic-book style visuals, and easy to get into, but we do fear it isnt quite as tactical as the developers have led us to believe. Enemies have an irritating habit of spawning next to where youre standing, and levels have a lot of open spaces.

Layer Section & Galactic Attack S-Tribute is this weeks retro-release with Layer Section being the home version of Taitos RayForce. New features include save states, online leaderboards, and the ability to rewind. Expect to pay just over 25.

Other notable new releases include Arise: A Simple Story a narrative adventure with a time manipulation aspect 2D action RPG Unsouled, the twisted corpse cooking management sim Ravenous Devils, and Tasomachi: Behind the Twilight a 3D platformer collectathon with soft, pastel-colored, visuals. The Wii U gets a new release too, based on the board game Reversi.

Zombie Army 4: Dead War 39.99

Includes all Season Pass One content FREE:

3 Additional Levels, 4 Character Packs, 9 Weapon Bundles, 5 Weapon Skin Packs, 4 Character Outfit Bundles

Hitlers hordes are back for more in this spine-chilling shooter from the makers of Sniper Elite 4! Abominable occult enemies, epic weapons and a harrowing new campaign for 1-4 players await in 1940s Europe, as you fight to save humankind from undead Armageddon!

The Serpent Rogue 15.99

Playing as a mysterious alchemist known only as The Warden, you will craft, brew, boil & concoct potions all in your stead to protect the realm from the dreadful Serpent Rogue!

RESEARCH and DESTROY 16.74

Take control of three brilliant scientists as you RESEARCH and develop strange new weapons and gadgets to DESTROY the Supernatural hordes that have all but crushed humanity!

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe 19.99

You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will make a choice, and you will have your choices taken from you. The game will end, the game will never end. Contradiction follows contradiction, the rules of how games should work are broken, then broken again. You are not here to win. The Stanley Parable is a game that plays you.

Ping Pong Arcade 13.49

Ping Pong Arcade tests your skills with a variety of challenging game modes and customisation options. Go from novice to pro with five difficulty levels to suit any players skill. Conquer the campaign mode by beating opponents in five different locations including an arcade, a stadium and a Japanese garden. Unlock eleven super-powers as you play and use skills such as Ultra Hit, Giga Paddle and Soap Bubble, to outwit and overpower you opponent.

Play against a friend with either the local or online multiplayer options or prove your prowess in Ping Pong Arcades World Cup Championship. Have you got what it takes to go from your local school gymnasium, through the regional sports halls in the nationals and onto the international arenas where the ultimate prize of becoming the World Champion awaits?

Parkasaurus 18.89

Parkasaurus is a dinosaur tycoon management simulation where you take care of your dinosaurs by constructing well-designed exhibits, researching specialized technologies, and maximizing profits to expand into the ultimate dinosaur theme park. Do you favor development for guests or your dinosaurs?

Bunny Reversi 1.79

Classic Reversi game also known as Othello now comes to fully 3d! Play as a Bunny against AI or against your couch friend in split-screen mode.

Play with one of the 4 characters to develop logical and strategic thinking, to anticipate the moves of your opponent and evaluate your moves and their consequences.

WAIFU IMPACT 4.49

WAIFU IMPACT is a third person shooter, immersive single-player game in a paradisiac deserted island.

Equip yourself with a watergun and unlock all the waifus!

Its so hot, so why dont you come to Waifu Island?

The cutest girls are waiting for you, lets have some fun!

Watergun in hand, find all the stars and unlock the 8 beautiful girls! Increase your affinity with the girls defeating your enemies with them and then check out the gallery to see what they have for you!

Catie in MeowmeowLand 9.99

Catie in MeowmeowLand is a beautiful traditional point-and-click adventure game set in a bizarre world of cats and ludicrous characters.

As Catie follows a strange white cat in her garden she suddenly finds herself in a mysterious world of MeowmeowLand, where she has to undergo a journey to find her way back home. Your task is to help Catie get there!

Threaded 8.99

Threaded is a puzzle game thats all about putting together pixel art pictures!

Draw colourful links between different points, and complete lots of different original pixel artwork.

Experience simple yet rewarding gameplay, soothing visuals and music, and even in-game trivia and fun facts all in Threaded!

TASOMACHI: Behind the Twilight 15.09

Yukumo is a young girl traversing the world in her beloved airship. Upon arriving at a particular Far Eastern town to run some errands, her airship suddenly breaks down. She decides to explore the town to search for parts for repair; however, the town has fallen silent with no trace of the people who live there, the only inhabitants being a strange cat-like species

Tasomachi is an independently developed adventure game that lets you freely explore the beautiful world created by designer nocras. Assuming the role of young female protagonist Yukumo, fix your beloved airship by exploring the mysterious town covered by the Twilight Mist to collect hidden Sources of Earth and help restore the towns lost brilliance. Enjoy this unique world with an Eastern fantasy twist, complemented perfectly by composer Ujico*s mystical soundtrack.

Nintendo Switch Sports 30.99

Wing, kick and spike your way to victory in Nintendo Switch Sports forNintendoSwitch!

Grab a Joy-Con controller and use real-world movements to take part in a variety of sporting activities thatll get your body moving. Gather your friends and family to join in the fun on the same Nintendo Switch console, or seek out new competitors in online multiplayer!

Feral Flowers 3.75

Feral Flowers is a lightning-fast romp through 92 levels of botanical platforming mayhem.

Playing as Quigley the Gardener, youll battle hordes of pollen-spewing flowers. Owing to his rather unfortunate pollen allergy, youll need to battle against the clock to beat them before the air gets too dense and you sneeze yourself all the way back to the first stage. In other words: if you dont move fast, youll be fighting through bullet hell!

Be warned, Game Overs will feature heavily for most players but for those who venture far enough, youll find ways of quickly recouping your progress

West Water 8.99

The end has come and gone. Or so you thought

You have been living alone for a long time.

Scavenge and fight your way through the desolate town of West Water!

Loot, fight, survive! Eat food, use Bandages to heal wounds, Disinfectant to heal infections. Search the town for supplies and deliver the excess back to your Home Base while fighting for your life.

Your LIFE will constantly calculate and tick down based on your Heat, Immunity and the Weather. Different combinations of items and clothes will help decrease the rate at which your LIFE will decrease and ensure that you can explore deeper into the town and find higher TIER items.

Cardful Planning 4.99

Cardful Planning is an action puzzle game with a twist, as you take on the role of a brave little playing card on an epic adventure through a dangerous dungeon.

Do you have what it takes to battle your way through 100+ levels and take down The Bad Hand to save your beloved card companion?

Use the four unique suit abilities to solve puzzles and outwit your enemies, and collect modifier cards to boost your value and advance through the dungeon.

Featuring retro-inspired 8-bit graphics and five challenging zones, Cardful Planning will take you on an adventure like never before.

Ravenous Devils 4.49

A horror cooking simulator where the secret ingredient is crime. Improve your shops by buying new tools and serving your customers.

Manage a tailor shop and corpse-cooking business in a city where crime, corruption and poverty are commonplace. Percival and Hildred have just moved here with nothing but a dream: to get extremely rich.

Take control of Percival to manage the tailor shop, wait for the arrival of clients looking for new suits, kill them when the moment is right, throw them down the trap door leading to the kitchen and use the outfits you steal from them to make new ones: waste not, want not!

Take care of Hildreds pub and customers. Feed them delightful corpse-based meals, manage resources effectively and make sure not to run out of ingredients.

Increase the renown of their business by buying new tools and upgrading the shops, but beware someone knows their secret.

Dandy & Randy DX 6.99

Dandy and Randy is a 2D top-down old-school game featuring two of the worst archaeologists that have ever graced the Earth.

Dandy and Randy are a couple of archaeologists who are in a pickle.

They owe a ton of money to their bank, and they need a way to pay it back, or they are done for!

Luckily, they have just received the information about a mysterious, fabled precious stone showing up on a faraway island.

Can they find it, pay back their debts, and at the same time become rich? Its up to you to find out!

Lost Grimoires: Stolen Kingdom 13.49

An alchemists apprentice returns home from university to finish her training under a great master. Little does she know a real paranormal adventure has only just begun.

EXPERIENCE A FANTASTIC TALE OF DECEPTION AND INTRIGUE!

Connecto 2.69

Connecto is a game about making connections.

Tap the dots on the edge of the playing field to shoot them in the direction of their arrow.

If two dots with the same number meet, they establish a connection. Chain at least two twos, three threes or four fours to make a match.

Nonogram Minimal 6.29

Play 200 hand-crafted puzzles, from 55 to 2525

Beautiful colorful and monochrome images

Random puzzle generator for infinite fun

P.3 4.49

Theres no time to rest in space non-stop action through a unique 5 levels, each topped off with a boss fight! In battle, you can earn upgrades and new weapons that will help you along the way!

The Sorrowvirus A Faceless Short Story 13.49

Follow the journey of Wyatt Heyll, a young man stricken with a multitude of ailments from an early age. On the verge of death, Wyatts parents administer a paranormal substance known as the Sorrowvirus, which contaminates the human soul and prevents it from passing on to the afterlife. This causes a subject to fall into Purgatory instead, where they can heal and return to life. However, every time Wyatt comes back, his cancers and illnesses return more quickly than before.

Wyatts parents allow him to continue dying over and over while they perform research on organic particles found in Purgatory that may cure him once and for all. Having died so many times, Wyatt simply wants to let go. Your objective is to set Wyatt free from his everlasting torment. Navigate haunting environments in first person, solving puzzles and discovering clues to unravel Wyatts tragic tale. With four endings in sight, only one is the true path.

SOTANO Puzzle Escape Room 3.59

Sotano is a first person 3d escape room puzzle adventure, similar to games you may have played in the 90s or similar to a virtual escape rooms you may have played. An indoor immersive world that you explore and an inventory where you can collect and use items you find along the way to solve puzzles and escape the rooms.

Explore areas, collect hidden objects and take in your surroundings to solve puzzles. You will need all of your puzzle solving and logic skills to put together a plan to make your way through the house, solving riddles and through the many rooms to escape the house of Sotano.

How you tackle the puzzles is down to you. Each puzzle has a logical solution, so take your time, there is no rush and enjoy the process of understanding what you have to do to escape.

Ashland Dossier 9.99

Ashland Dossier is an espionage thriller packed with elements of turn-based stealth tactics and role-play adventure. Use your cunning, agility, and wit to finish off the Nazi plague for good this time. Ahead of you lies a deadly confrontation as the enemy threatens to drive the world into the depth of dreadful and pointless war once again.

Abyss Memory Fallen Angel and the Path of Magic 14.99

A curious, little angel named Mariel spent all her days reading through the vast collection of books in the grand library.

One day, while browsing the librarys collection, she came across a very peculiar book with naught but the title, Abyss printed on its cover. The pages within were blank.

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Bugsnax, Zombie Army 4, Nintendo Switch Sports, The Stanley Parable, and Layer Section S-Tribute hit the Switch - Games Asylum

Reviewed and Recommended by Erik Baquero