The festive days are over and the Holidays are drawing to a close. With 2019 gone and 2020 here, it’s time to look at the Switch games that are expected in January.
Not all games to be released are on here. Alternatively you will see games that the big gaming sites don’t mention. These are the games that we are taking notice of, and if given half a chance, you can expect reviews for many of them! Unless I have some personal experience with the game mentioned, the descriptions are mostly from the Nintendo website.
Link-a-Pix DeLuxe – January 2
Link-a-Pix DeLuxe is a clue-linking puzzle where every grid has a picture hidden inside. Connect pairs of clues which have the same color and number. The numbers show the length of the line which will connect them, and of course, it has to be an unbroken line.
A review for the game is here.Â
Brain Training – January 3
Remember one of the games that made the DS of back then suddenly interesting for adults too? Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training is back now, on the Switch. Time to test your brain age and set about to improve it! The physical game comes with a stylus, and you hold the Switch sideways. It’s out in Europe and Australia. No American release yet.
And I can tell you from experience that it’s just as much fun as it was. The Switch holds up beautifully when used vertically and the stylus is great!
Cooking Tycoons 3 in 1 – January 10
Three restaurant management games in one package: Food Truck Tycoon, Burger Chef Tycoon, Pizza Bar Tycoon! Cook delicious meals and serve your customers, earn money to make your restaurants even better to serve more people. Seems to be a management game right up my alley!
A review for the game is here.Â
Technosphere – January 10
Control the Technosphere, roll, jump, balance, solve puzzles and go through the mazes. Atlas Corporation is mining crystals in the core of an asteroid in the orbit of the Earth.
Due to a failure in the asteroid systems, orbit correction was disabled. Only the Technosphere is able to reload the asteroid system and restore the orbit. Paula has reviewed the game, and she has only 10 hours to save the earth from disaster! Let’s hope she makes it!
A review for the game is here.Â
Atelier Dusk Trilogy – January 14
One of the earlier Atelier trio games has come to the Switch: Atelier Ayesha, Atelier Escha & Logy and Atelier Shallie. You can either buy the games separately, or the complete DeLuxe package. Tried and tested, with a good synthesis system and battle system.
The bundle is reviewed by me, the first review for Atelier Ayesha is here.
Robots under Attack! – January 14
Robots Under Attack! is an action/puzzle game. A simplistic puzzler with one goal in mind: to shoot and destroy all the robots on each level. Being a puzzle game it’s not just as easy as a direct shot to destroy the robots. Each level has obstacles to shoot past or destroy and some of the environments mechanics will help in destroying the robots.
Maitetsu: Pure Station –Â January 16
Sotetsu had lost his entire family in a rail accident and was adopted into the Migita household, which runs a shochu brewery in the city of Ohitoyo. He returns to his hometown to save it from the potential water pollution that will occur if they accept the proposal to build an aerocraft factory nearby.
But he woke up the RailRoad Hachiroku by accident and became her owner. For different purposes, they agreed to help find her lost locomotive. All with the help of his stepsister Hibiki, the town’s mayor and local railway chief, Paulette and others. Sounds like an interesting story behind this visual novel!
To the Moon – January 16
To the Moon is a game that is very much story based. We follows two doctors who offer to fulfil a dying man’s (named Johnny) last wish using artificial memories. The game features relatively few gameplay mechanics, with the player controlling the two doctors, exploring the narrative and solving puzzles as they try to reconstruct the dying man’s memories in order to fulfill his wish.
To the Moon is about puzzle solving, interpreting information from Johnny’s life, and finding ways to get deeper into his memories.
Our review for the game is here.Â
Super Crush K.O. – January 16
Super Crush KO is a fast-paced brawler set in a vibrant, near-future city. Zip up your favourite neon jacket and combo your way through swarms of deadly robots to save your kidnapped kitten and, while you’re at it, save humanity from an AI apocalypse!
A review for the game is here.Â
Tokyo Mirage Session # FE Encore – January 17
Taking place in modern-day Tokyo and featuring real-life locations such as Shibuya and Harajuku, the game centres around hostile beings known as Mirages who seek to harvest energy known as Performa from humans and are responsible for several disappearances. The story follows a group of teenagers who become allied with friendly Mirages, based on characters from the Fire Emblem series, and merge with them to become Mirage Masters. Under the guise of the Fortuna Entertainment talent agency, the Mirage Masters fight to protect innocent people from the Mirages and find out who is behind the attacks.
The game combines gameplay, narrative and aesthetic elements from Atlus’ Shin Megami Tensei and Nintendo’s Fire Emblem series and was released on the WiiU earlier.
Planar Conquest – January 24
Originally released a few years ago on PC, World of Magic Planar Conquest has now been released on the Nintendo Switch. A 4X strategy game which for those that don’t know stands for eXplore, eXpand, eXploit and eXterminate with the games goal to Explore the world around you, Expand your empire, Exploit resources available to you and finally Exterminate all other leaders in the world. They tend to be top-down, turn based time sinks that you get lost in and wonder where the time has went when you do take a moment to look at the clock.
Paula, our Civilization-buff, reviewed the game here.Â
Never Again – January 30
Never Again is a horror/first-person Quest. The main essence of the game is research locations and puzzles, plunging in the dramatic story of a little girl suffering from asthma.
The main character – Sasha Anders, a thirteen year old girl who awakens from a nightmare. The world seems to be upside down for her. Everything becomes so strange. The house is imbued with loneliness and longing and it seems strange to our character considering it was always dominated by love and harmony.
Everywhere except for the heroine’s room, suspiciously darkens, without even a single sound. Her parents and younger brother have gone missing. The girl is smart and sensible beyond her years, but each person has their own fears, and sometimes they cannot cope. This is especially troubling Sasha, due to the slightest fear, she feels suffocated.
The story that we’ll tell you penetrates deep in your heart and leaves the experience forever. The saddest part of this mystical tale, is that it is not a tale at all. This is the story of a little girl, the story of Sasha Anders.
Aviary Attorney – January 30
Take yourself back to 1848 in Aviary Attorney: Definitive Edition. Paris is on the brink of yet another revolution, and the prisons are overflowing with guilty and innocent alike. One bird stands for justice amid society’s chaos.
Play the role of Monsieur Jayjay Falcon, a bird of prey with a good heart and questionable lawyering expertise. Join him and his witty apprentice, Sparrowson, as the two take on clients, interview witnesses, collect evidence and deliver justice to the guilty.
With art by 19th-century caricaturist J. J. Grandville and music by legendary romantic-era composer Camille Saint-Saëns, this game promises to be a ~swanderful~ experience.
Aviary Attorney sounds interesting, I haven’t heard of that one before – fantastic art style.
I think so too, Elijah! Sounds like a special kind of title