Summer holidays. Schools are out, your children have a lot of spare time on their hands. If you are lucky yourself, you will get some time off at your job too. Time to travel abroad, or a time to stay at home and take it easy fo a couple of days.
Maybe you will have some extra time to play video games. Games you can play together with friends or your family. Enjoying the long summer evenings with a friendly match on your Switch. Here’s a list of good games we have tried and tested ourselves for you to enjoy.
Runbow
With tons of competitive modes for up to nine players online and eight players locally and a massive Single Player Adventure, Runbow is the crazy, color-based platformer. The world of Runbow changes with each swipe of the background, so you’ll have to stay on your toes. Platforms and obstacles disappear: If you can’t see it, it doesn’t exist. The game is fast, frantic, and huge fun.
Want to know more? Here is our review for the game.
Muddledash
Muddledash is a simple action party title that supports two to four players. Each player controls a fast-moving octopus that’s required to out-race and out-wit fellow combatants. The basic storyline involves a birthday party, four squabbling Octopuses, and one present. The game’s sole objective is to make it to the finish line (the party) with the much-coveted gift in your possession. In victory, the winner is elevated onto a podium, while groups of celebrating octopi look on. That’s Muddledash in a nutshell.
Want to know more? Here is our review for the game.
Overcooked
In Overcooked you and your friends take on the role of chefs in a kitchen. You have to prepare meals by preparing ingredients, cook them, serve them and clean up too. And meanwhile, you are working against a time limit to complete as many dishes as possible. And you can’t just make what you want, no, you have to do it in a certain order.
This also means that working together with friends make the work easier, and you can earn more coins. You’ll also get bonuses for speed, while orders that are improperly served do not earn any points but only waste time. Of course, the goal is to collect as many coins as possible within the time limit.
Want to know more? Here is our review for Overcooked 2.
Go Vacation
Go Vacation is a mini game collection and holiday simulator. It was originally developed and published by Bandai Namco for the Wii in 2011. But it also released on the Nintendo Switch last Summer, right in time to jump back into the tropical fun. The game takes place on Kawawii Island, which has four resorts: Marine, Snow, City and Mountain. In these resorts you’ll find a mini game collection.
Aside from playing the mini games, you can also take pictures, photograph animals, collect presents that are dropped from planes and walk around with your dog. You can play with up to three other players locally in split screen, but the game is also very enjoyable to play alone.
Want to know more? Here is our review for the game.
Conduct Together
Set in a stunning world you race against time to bring passengers safely to their destination. As you progress through demanding levels your railroad network expands to the farthest regions of this mysterious and beautiful low poly world. Each region with its own style, music and distinct challenges. All aboard!
Conduct everything yourself or hand a Joy-Con to a friend for a hectic teamwork (up to 4 players) of commanding trains, switching tracks and avoiding collisions in increasingly challenging action-puzzles.
Want to know more? Here is our review for the game.
Inventioneers
Solve clever and funny inventions with the help of the amazing Inventioneers! They have special powers you can use and at the same time learn about physics in a creative way. Blaze, for example, can create Fire. Magneta uses magnetism to pull metal stuff etc.
Up to four players can work together and solve the same invention, creating the ultimate couch solving experience. (Every player need a separate Joy-Con though.) The screen can also be used as a touch device for solving. With the built in-editor, you can create your own inventions!
Want to know more? Here is our review for the game.
Just Dance
The Just Dance series is great entertainment for home parties. It’s also a fun way to get moving if you’re a couch potato. The games in the Just Dance series are rhythm games. You dance to famous pop songs, attempting to mirror the dancer onscreen. The controller in your hand has a motion sensor that detects if you’re copying the dancer correctly and on-time.
Sure, you could choose to just move your hands and you can score full points by merely lounging on the couch. But where’s the fun in that? The fun is in moving your whole body, even if you’re awful at it. Triple the fun when you’re doing it with friends!
Want to know more? Here is our review for the Just Dance 2018
Tied Together
One fine day a bunch of scientists created four tiny monsters. But for what? To test their cooperation skills of course! So they tied them together to a tiny monstrous chain and let them make their way through colourfull, tricky, cooperative experimental set-ups that only scientists can think up.
Anybody complained the plot is as flat as 2D? Bullseye! You are right. The unbelievable truth is: YOU are the monsters and WE are the scientists. Get tied to your friends and we will test your cooperation skills and creativity! And we will even test your friendship…
Want to know more? Here is our review for the Tied Together
Horizon Chase Turbo
Those who know Nintendo most likely know Mario Kart. But, there are more racing games on the Switch. Like Horizon Chase Turbo: a racing game inspired by the great hits of the 80’s and 90’s: Out Run, Top Gear, Rush and others. Race your way through the opponents and master the circuits as you relive the classic arcade gameplay with unbound speed limits of fun.
Three unlockable tournament modes, each containing a series of races from numerous countries. If you’re a fan of competitive ghost racing, then you can compete against either your set times or of others from around the world.
Want to know more? Here is our review for the game.
Screen Cheat Unplugged
Screencheat: Unplugged is a four-player multiplayer FPS/Party title which seems to be a favourite of the younger audience. Four players must battle it out to accomplish the set objective of each match. Match rules depend on which game mode has been selected either by the player or by random. The game also includes a plethora of customisation options which allows players to change time limits, score requirements, limit weapon selections etc.
What makes Screencheat different from other FPS titles is that each combatant is invisible to each other. The only clues a player can obtain about the whereabouts of others come by looking at each other’s screens and watching for weapon trails.
Want to know more? Here is our review for the game.
