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Happy new year everyone. What a way to start 2024 eh? One of the most popular Switch games right now, Suika Game AKA the watermelon game from Aladdin X, has hit the App Store officially. If you’ve not kept up with it, Suika Game exploded in popularity in 2023 thanks to vtubers like Korone and many more on Nintendo Switch. It has seen over 5 million downloads worldwide, and was even playable on mobile through the browser . Aladdin X surprised everyone with an official release of Suika Game on the App Store for iOS in Japan. This is a premium release priced at 240 Yen. I’m glad it finally hit mobile as an official app, but there’s sadly no word on an international release yet. Check out the announcement from the official Suika Game account below: /／ 重大発表 ＼ お待たせしました！たくさんのご要望をいただいておりました、 #スイカゲーム のスマホ版アプリ（iOS版）を公式にリリースしました 家の中でも外でも気軽にスイカゲームをお楽しみいただくことができます ダウンロードはこちら https://t.co/1s1xs9pBWU pic.twitter.com/6niMlpWeIU — 【公式】スイカゲーム (@SuikaGame_jp) January 1, 2024 If you’d l

With the Steam Deck’s second year behind it, the system has only gotten better when it comes to game performance, software, features, and even hardware thanks to the Steam Deck OLED. Regardless of if you have a Steam Deck LCD or OLED mode, these are our picks for the best 10 games to play on Steam Deck from 2023. This list is in no particular order, and it has been very difficult narrowing down this to just 10 games with so many fantastic releases on Steam this past year. The best Steam Deck games of 2023 Octopath Traveler II While I know some didn’t enjoy Octopath Traveler as much as I did, it has stuck with me ever since I beat it on Switch a few years ago. For Octopath Traveler II, I was all in, and bought it on PS5, Switch, and Steam. I ended up adoring it all the way, and it is best on Steam Deck. This is Square Enix’s best JRPG since the PS2 days, and it might be one of my all-time favorites with its superb gameplay, stunning visuals, brilliant soundtrack, and amazing charact

Hello once again, friends. Welcome to the final SwitchArcade Special Edition for the year of 2023. Yes, it’s time. Time to list out our ten favorite Nintendo Switch games for the year. It was a very tough one this time, as there were a lot of really awesome games released on the platform. In the past I’ve tried to limit these selections to things not covered in some of our other articles, but this year I’m just going to go for it. These are the ten 2023 Nintendo Switch releases I liked the most. This guy, Shaun. If you have a different list or have things in a different order, I would say that is very normal. I’d be more surprised if yours was exactly the same. So if you have some favorites you want to share, head on down to the comments and tell the world about them. Let’s get to my selections! 10. DRAINUS ($19.99) While to the layperson all shoot-em-ups might all seem rather similar to one another, I would say with some conviction that each one has a character all of its own. DRA

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the very last SwitchArcade Round-Up of 2023. I wish I could say we’re going out with a bang, but it’s another fairly quiet day today. With that said, there are two good games hitting the eShop today alongside some more dubious efforts, and I’ll take that given how the last couple of days went. We’ll summarize those new games, then head into the new sales for the day and the expiring discounts for the long weekend. We’ll also have the final top ten games of 2023 going out today in a separate article, so do look for that. Let’s wrap things up! New Releases Monster Loves You Too! ($14.99) Oh hey, it’s a sequel to Monster Loves You . That’s cool. This is a choice-based game where you have to manage your three resources carefully so that you have what you need to take your desired actions. You’re a monster who has been captured and thrown in a dangerous city full of other creatures. Using your Brains, Guts, and Flesh you need to find a way to escape,

Okay, I’m sneaking in one more news story before the end of the year. A little something to offset all my Nintendo Switch articles, eh? Back in the old days, I was known around these parts as the world’s foremost Kemcologist. I’ve largely given up that title to the hungrier next generation, but that doesn’t mean I don’t still have my eye on the house that Famicom Dough Boy built. They’ve got a sale cooking on a whopping eleven mobile RPGs to celebrate the end of the year, and you can enjoy them whether you’re on iOS or Android. This is actually a pretty solid sale, especially by the recent standards of Kemco. Some of the included games are as much as 87% off the usual price, making these convenience store cheeseburger RPGs a highly digestible value. I’ll list out the games below, and then swing back around with the ones I would recommend the most. Alvastia Chronicles ($0.99) from $7.99 Alphadia Neo ($3.99) from $7.99 Asdivine Hearts ($0.99) from $7.99 Asdivine Hearts II ($

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for December 28th, 2023. We’re almost at the end of the year now, and this is the last Thursday of 2023. We’re not exactly going out with a bang, with only a small number of new releases to look at. Even worse, only a couple of them are outside of the bin. There are also some new sales, but not so many as you might hope for. Well, at least there are the Genre Awards to look forward to today? Let’s look at what we’ve got for the day! New Releases Pinball M (Free) One thing that I recall being a moderate issue for Zen Studios when it took on the Williams pinball license was that some of the art and other content had to be altered to maintain the ESRB rating for the Zen Pinball/Pinball FX hub app. Maybe that’s why we’ve got this release, which offers up the same Pinball FX gameplay in an app that isn’t afraid to go M for Mature. Pinball M comes with Wrath of the Elder Gods: Director’s Cut as a free table, and currently

Hello once again, friends. We’re back with another vital piece of our best of 2023 roll-out. Regular readers will recognize this pattern. Today, we’re giving out some Genre Awards. I’ve grabbed a bunch of different popular genres and selected my favorite game in each category. There’s also a runner-up for each in case you want more to chew on. Let’s dive on in and have a look at what I think are the best of the bunch in each genre for this year. And of course, feel free to comment below with your picks if they’re different. Best Platformer Game Super Mario Bros. Wonder ($59.99) I was genuinely looking forward to reviewing this one, and then I landed in the hospital for ten days. Silver lining: we got to see Mikhail’s review. Other silver lining: I got to digest this amazing game at my own pace. I had thought Nintendo had essentially closed the book on 2D Mario with New Super Mario Bros. U and Super Mario Maker 2 . What more could be done? A lot, it turns out. Bolstered by a fresh