Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for April 23rd, 2024. I sure hope you like reviews, because I have five of them for you today. Grounded, Ikki Unite, Hydlide II, Picross LogiartGrimoire, and Sokobond Express all get evaluated by yours truly. Then, it’s time for new releases! Some good ones today, actually. A solid Tuesday. We finish things up as we always do with the lists of new sales and expiring discounts. You know, in case you need to spend more money. Spoiler: lots of expiring ones today. Let’s get to it! Reviews & Mini-Views Grounded ($39.99) This is a ..read more

Oh boy. Would you believe that tomorrow is the ten-year anniversary of our very first post about the then-upcoming Warbits from Risky Lab? I’m always shocked when something that feels like it was only yesterday actually was a decade ago. Anyway, as a quick recap Warbits was Risky Lab’s take on the classic Advance Wars series of turn-based strategy games. It was announced in April of 2014 and released a couple of years later in April of 2016, and they more or less nailed what they were going for with Warbits, as evidenced in our original review and our Game of the Week nod from back then. Unfor ..read more

Mojang just released a new Minecraft ($6.99) Bedrock update on all supported platforms bringing in the Armadillo mob, new wolf variants, Realms Stories, and more. This update, patch 1.20.80 is out on mobile, but has just started rolling out on consoles and PC. The full patch notes mention wolf armor, the story feed in Realms Stories, Realms Events (19 unique ones so far), friends enhancements, new experimental features (mace, heavy core, and more), and many fixes and improvements including technical updates. Alongside today’s new update that focuses on the Wolf variants, Realms Stories, and a ..read more

Niantic and Capcom have just released the major Monster Hunter Now (Free) version 75.0 update brings in the new Monster Tracker feature, group hunt rewards, hunt-a-thon matching with players who are farther away, receiving zenny when discarding materials, and more. This update also adds an additional reward slot for quests and has balance adjustments. The Monster Tracker feature is definitely the highlight since you can now specify a monster (some are excluded) to hunt with its strength, and defeat a fixed number of large monsters to get a chance to hunt your chosen monster. Hunt-a-thons will ..read more

For the past several years indie developer Thomas Young has been entertaining us with the excellent Dadish series, a handful of retro platformers that keep things pure in terms of running and jumping mechanics and keep things light with extremely cute food-based characters as well as dad-level humor permeating every square inch of every game. There are 3 full traditional level-based games, as well as Daily Dadish which as the title alludes to gave you a brand new level to play each day for an entire year straight. However, as we learned at the beginning of this month, the world of Dadish was a ..read more

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for April 22nd, 2024. It’s a new week, and in new week fashion I have a bunch of reviews for you to check out. All from yours truly today, as I look at Rose & Camellia Collection, Ready, Steady, Ship!, Sokobalien, and A Tale of Paper: Refolded. Will any of these excite me? I guess you’ll have to read on to find out. After that, we go over the new releases of the day, such as they are, and then finish up with the lists of new and expiring sales for the day. Let’s get this show started! Reviews & Mini-Views Rose & Camelli ..read more

Disney Dreamlight Valley Arcade Edition () and the standalone game on PC and consoles will be getting the second act in its expansion soon. If you’ve not kept up with it, Disney Dreamlight Valley came to Apple Arcade with the first act of A Rift in Time included while this DLC was paid on other platforms. Read my review of Disney Dreamlight Valley Arcade Edition here where I also cover the game on a few other platforms. Today, Gameloft posted the first teaser trailer for Disney Dreamlight Valley A Rift in Time – Act II with a full reveal coming this Wednesday. The Disney Dreamlight Valley A R ..read more

Hello everyone, and welcome to the week! It’s time once again for our look back at the noteworthy updates of the last seven days. We’ve got a delightful little potpourri in front of us today, if you’re inclined to give it a big ol’ sniff. A real range of games, which is often the case when we’re between holidays as we are now. Of course, you can keep an eye out for updates yourself by participating in the TouchArcade forums. This weekly summary is just here to fill you in on the things you might have missed. Let’s go for it! Subway Surfers, Free We’ve got some Earth Day things this time arou ..read more

Last month, Cassette Beasts had a showase air with publisher Raw Fury and developer Bytten Studio confirming that it is coming to mobile soon. The showcase also revealed that the long-awaited multiplayer mode for the PC and console versions of Cassette Beasts will be arriving in May with a beta available on Steam. Cassette Beasts feels perfect on Steam Deck, so I hope it plays well on mobile when it comes to visuals and performance at least. Over the weekend, as spotted by TouchArcade forum member Brightsiderus, the iOS version of Cassette Beasts has gone up for pre-order on the App Store. Thi ..read more

It’s that time again, friends. If you’ve got a stomach growling for some mobile RPG sustenance, if you hunger to see numbers go up and trope-ridden character arcs resolve themselves, if you need to see tragically-orphaned heroes save the world with the help of their attractive friends… KEMCO is here for you. In its April 2024 sale, the prolific publisher has several of its Android and iOS RPGs on offer for some highly sensible prices. Let’s have a look at the line-up, and I’ll give my thoughts as one of the world’s foremost Kemcologists. As we’ve seen in other recent sales from KEMCO, there’s ..read more