PSA for new Switch owners: if u just bought (or downloaded from a hardware bundle) a retail-price Switch game, you'll have accrued enough gold coins to claim any $3-or-under (or equivalent) eShop game for free, so here are some recommendations—feel free to add your own! (thread)
first off, CROSSNIQ+, one of the most stylish & original arcade-style puzzle games in a while & a definite must-own for devotees of games like Lumines, Mr. Driller & Puyo Puyo Tetris
sale price $1.99, RRP $7.99, sale ends Dec.31 nintendo.com/games/detail/c…
several games in the Piczle series of nonogram logic puzzle games are on sale atm, with two falling under the $3 threshold—if you want to scratch that Picross itch without literally playing a picross clone, give these games a shot
nintendo.com/games/detail/p…
nintendo.com/games/detail/p…
(Piczle Colors has a demo, Piczle Lines DX 500 More Puzzles does not but, as the name suggests, it's a standalone expansion of Piczle Lines DX, which does have a demo nintendo.com/games/detail/p…
there's also a RPG-tinged version, Piczle Cross Adventure nintendo.com/games/detail/p…)
Downwell, the vertically-falling roguelike shooting game you probably played & enjoyed on smartphones, PC or PS4/Vita, is currently discounted on Switch & perfectly suited to playing vertically in handheld mode nintendo.com/games/detail/d…
Florence, a critically-acclaimed, single-sitting collection of narrative vignettes from one of the designers behind Monument Valley, is under $3 until January 6 nintendo.com/games/detail/f…
TOKI, a ten-years-in-the-making HD remake of an old and rather strange arcade action game that found cult popularity in parts of Europe via its atypically competent Amiga port—those original Amiga devs are behind this version, too nintendo.com/games/detail/t…
SubaraCity, a Threes-esque take on city building by a certain very accomplished Japanese developer of puzzle games nintendo.com/games/detail/s…
Pix the Cat, an arcade-style game that takes elements from games like Snake and Pac-Man CE, and one that was particularly popular on Vita nintendo.com/games/detail/p…
more popular-on-Vita indie games for Switch: OlliOlli Switch Stance, a two-pack of Roll7's original side-view skateboarding game OlliOlli and its sequel nintendo.com/games/detail/o…
Supergiant Games' first game, the dynamically-narrated action RPG Bastion—it's hard to imagine anyone hasn't already played this multiple times by now, but I'm sure Hades has grabbed a ton of ppl who've never heard of Bastion (or Transistor, or Pyre) nintendo.com/games/detail/b…
Skatemasta Tcheco, an auto-scrolling platformer homage to every NES multicart you ever played, with character cameos from a ton of Brazilian indie games nintendo.com/games/detail/s…
the hardcore, hyper-mobile shooting action games Bleed & Bleed 2 are each under $3 right now—both are worth playing but if you can only pick one, it's worth pointing out that the sequel's more boss-centric than the original
nintendo.com/games/detail/b…
nintendo.com/games/detail/b…
(alright, the website & eshop are back to lagging like crazy so I'm tapping out for now—again, if anyone wants to vouch for anything at the $3-or-under price point, go right ahead)
on the UK eShop: Chameleon, the mid-'00s Japanese adaptation of the old Amiga puzzle game 7 Colors nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo…
Monkey King: Master of the Clouds, a no-frills port of the arcade game you might know by its Master System port, Cloud Master nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo…
Runbow, a multiplayer-focused platform/racing game with a color-switching gimmick—this was one of the more-hyped indie games for Wii U & it's packed with guest characters from popular Nintendo-associated indies of that era
nintendo.com/games/detail/r…
nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo…
Mugsters, Team17's modern physics-heavy puzzle-action ode to Blast Corps & pre-3D GTA—this game seemed to come & go and I only heard of it when SNK's Yasuyuki Oda declared it GOTY
nintendo.com/games/detail/m…
nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo…
KAMIKO, one of the earliest indie success stories on Switch—it's a bite-sized action game in the vein of Ys, Zelda & most conspicuously, Hyper Light Drifter
nintendo.com/games/detail/k…
nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo…
Bot Vice, a sort of overhead-view interpretation of arcade-style crosshair shooting games like Blood Brothers and Wild Guns nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo…
the recent remaster of the classic rotoscoped side-view adventure game Flashback is heavily discounted in UK/EU/AU right now too—this is the original game, not that weird Ubisoft-published version from a few years back nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo…
I was literally writing this up when I saw this tweet! tbh it's not a patch on the likes of Shiren, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, etc but it's definitely among the better Kemco RPGs and the yokai designs are fun
here's an interesting app that just came out in EU: FUZE Player, an ultra-cheap standalone collection of 27 games (& counting) made by users of the coding app FUZE4, including a remake of the old micro game Fast Food Dizzy
nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo…
Star Ghost, a super-casual shooting game originally developed for Wii U by a former Rare & Retro Studios programmer, with music by David Wise—it's essentially the DKC rocket barrel turned into a shmup
nintendo.com/games/detail/s…
nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo…
FutureGrind, a score-centric "stunt platformer" in the vein of Uniracers by way of OlliOlli
nintendo.com/games/detail/f…
nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo…
Heavy Burger, a team-based, twin-stick take on Niddhogg in which each team pushes through a variety of MUGEN-esque arenas based on Data East arcade games—I don't exactly recommend it but I do feel compelled to remind ppl it exists nintendo.com/games/detail/j…
Pirate Pop Plus, a Game Boy-esque take on the oft-cloned arcade game Pang/Buster Bros. with a few interesting ideas of its own
nintendo.com/games/detail/p…
nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo…
Strikey Sisters, an fantasy-themed, action-heavy brick breaker game from DYA Games, the makers of Bot Vice—I see it compared to Wizorb a lot but I suspect they were actually riffing on the SNES game Firestriker
nintendo.com/games/detail/s…
...and that might be it from me, at least as far as games I can personally vouch for—there have been many others posted in this thread by other people, so be sure to check out all the replies, and let us all discover something new, unsung or, at the very least, weird
browsing all these games did make me idly curious about certain saturated genres... like, I didn't play any of them, but I'm sure somebody out there has deeply-felt opinions about all eight hundred Trials clones or twin-stick games or what have you
here are a bunch more recommendations in the pretty-cheap range, if not all in the $3-or-under range a note on Galak-Z: in addition to the traditional version mentioned in this thread, there's also a f2p version, ported from mobile nintendo.com/games/detail/g…
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