Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for October 26th, 2022. It’s another one of those quiet Wednesdays leading into a bonkers-bananas Thursday, so let’s take a deep breath and enjoy the moment of silence before the storm. Only a few new releases to look at today, and none of them are toss-aways. We’ve got summaries of each of them, plus the latest sales and outgoing discounts. Let’s get to work!
New Releases
Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike & the Quest for Stale Gum ($9.99)
What year is this? Yes, the Garbage Pail Kids finally have a game to call their own. It’s a side-scrolling platformer built to NES spec, developed by the folks behind Haunted Halloween ’86. It looks and plays like it too, so if you enjoyed that game then you’ll probably have fun here. There are four playable characters, six stages, and a trading card system so you can relive the old days of collecting gross stuff your parents sharply disapproved of. No, not those magazines. You know what I mean.
Robotry! ($12.49)
This is a weird platformer where you control each of the legs of a robot with the two sticks on your controller. No jump button here, so if you want to catch some air you need to make the necessary leg movements. Silly fun with physics abound, so if you like that kind of thing you’ll want to give this a look.
Dire Vengeance ($14.99)
A perfectly decent 2D action-platformer. It feels like it was inspired by a number of Konami classics. It has speedy gameplay, a rocking soundtrack, and a fairly uncommon power-up system for this genre. Reviews for the game on other platforms are generally quite positive, so as long as nothing got messed up in the translation to the Switch, this should be a solid pick-up for those looking for another cool action game to play.
Sales
(North American eShop, US Prices)
Bethesda sale, people. Lots of DOOM games, some Wolfenstein games, and even the recently-released Anniversary Edition upgrade for Skyrim are on sale. Apart from that, there isn’t much of any particular note save the excellent Ender Lilies. But you probably have that already. A few goodies in the outbox, including R-Type, Star Ocean, and Game Dev Story. Be sure to give it a good look!
Select New Games on Sale
Penko Park ($9.74 from $12.99 until 11/1)
DOOM 1993 ($1.99 from $4.99 until 11/2)
DOOM II Classic ($1.99 from $4.99 until 11/2)
DOOM 64 ($1.99 from $4.99 until 11/2)
DOOM 3 ($3.99 from $9.99 until 11/2)
DOOM 2016 (15.99 from $39.99 until 11/2)
DOOM Eternal ($14.99 from $59.99 until 11/2)
DOOM Eternal DLC 1 ($9.99 from $19.99 until 11/2)
DOOM Eternal DLC 2 ($9.99 from $19.99 until 11/2)
DOOM Eternal Expansion DLC ($14.99 from $29.99 until 11/2)
DOOM Eternal DE ($22.49 from $89.99 until 11/2)
DOOM Slayers Collection ($19.99 from $49.99 until 11/2)
QUAKE ($3.99 from $9.99 until 11/2)
Wolfenstein II: New Colossus ($11.99 from $39.99 until 11/2)
Wolfenstein Youngblood ($5.99 from $19.99 until 11/2)
Wolfenstein Youngblood DE ($8.99 from $29.99 until 11/2)
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim ($29.99 from $59.99 until 11/2)
TESV: Skyrim Anniversary Edition ($41.99 from $69.99 until 11/2)
TESV: Skyrim Anniversary Upgrade DLC ($15.99 from $19.99 until 11/2)
Freshly Frosted ($7.99 from $9.99 until 11/2)
Roundguard ($6.95 from $19.99 until 11/2)
Cozy Grove ($8.97 from $14.99 until 11/2)
Fracter ($2.44 from $6.99 until 11/2)
The Ambassador: FT ($3.71 from $14.99 until 11/2)
Deleveled ($2.47 from $9.99 until 11/2)
Space Otter Charlie ($7.34 from $14.99 until 11/2)
Animal Rivals: Up in the Air ($5.39 from $11.99 until 11/6)
Phoenotopia: Awakening ($9.99 from $19.99 until 11/8)
Ender Lilies: QotK ($16.24 from $24.99 until 11/8)
Lamentum ($6.39 from $15.99 until 11/9)
NeonLore ($1.99 from $5.99 until 11/11)
Frightence ($1.99 from $5.99 until 11/11)
Arise: A Simple Story DE ($6.99 from $19.99 until 11/15)
Japanese Escape Games Garden ($4.99 from $9.99 until 11/15)
Beautiful Desolation ($1.99 from $19.99 until 11/15)
Sales Ending Tomorrow, Thursday, October 27th
39 Days to Mars ($10.04 from $14.99 until 10/27)
A Musical Story ($9.74 from $14.99 until 10/27)
Agatha Knife ($5.99 from $11.99 until 10/27)
Burger Bistro Story ($11.20 from $14.00 until 10/27)
Cafeteria Nipponica ($7.00 from $14.00 until 10/27)
CosmoPlayerZ ($7.99 from $10.99 until 10/27)
Criminal Expert ($6.69 from $9.99 until 10/27)
Dobutsu Shogi World ($34.99 from $39.99 until 10/27)
Game Dev Story ($7.00 from $14.00 until 10/27)
Goetia 2 ($2.49 from $9.99 until 10/27)
Lode Runner Legacy ($5.99 from $11.99 until 10/27)
MechaNika ($2.99 from $5.99 until 10/27)
Myastere Ruins of Deazniff ($15.99 from $19.99 until 10/27)
Out of the Box ($4.49 from $14.99 until 10/27)
Pocket Harvest ($8.40 from $14.00 until 10/27)
R-Type Dimensions EX ($7.49 from $14.99 until 10/27)
Restless Soul ($9.74 from $14.99 until 10/27)
Sam & Max Beyond Time & Space ($14.99 from $19.99 until 10/27)
Sam & Max Save the World ($14.99 from $19.99 until 10/27)
sCATch: The Painter Cat ($1.99 from $9.99 until 10/27)
Sherlock Holmes Bundle ($24.99 from $49.99 until 10/27)
Star Ocean: First Departure R ($8.39 from $20.99 until 10/27)
The Ramen Sensei ($7.00 from $14.00 until 10/27)
The Sinking City ($9.99 from $49.99 until 10/27)
The Sokoban ($8.99 from $17.99 until 10/27)
The TakeOver ($3.99 from $19.99 until 10/27)
Venture Towns ($7.00 from $14.00 until 10/27)
XEL ($13.29 from $18.99 until 10/27)
Yeah Yeah Beebiss II ($7.49 from $9.99 until 10/27)
That’s all for today, friends. We’ll be back tomorrow with around thirty new releases, most of which will be forgotten by next Tuesday. There will be summaries of them anyway, so as to make some actual record of their existence. Other than that, we’ll have the lists of sales and probably nothing else because, holy cow, thirty new games. I hope you all have a great Wednesday, and as always, thanks for reading!
