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SwitchArcade Round-Up: ‘Bubble Bobble’, ‘Path of Ra’, Plus Today’s Other New Releases and the Latest Sales

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for December 29th, 2022. Not much left in the year now, and the eShop reflects that. While it is a Thursday, we only have five new releases to look at, and three of them are extremely dubious. We’ve also got the list of new sales and the expiring sales for you to consider. Another light one today, but hey, Shaun needs some rest time too. Let’s go!

New Releases

Arcade Archives Bubble Bobble ($7.99)

Oh yes, that’s the good stuff. Up until now, if you wanted to play the arcade version of Bubble Bobble on your Switch, you had to do it through Bubble Bobble 4 Friends. A fun game, but if you just want to play the original that is a stiff price to cough up. Well, now you can drop eight bucks and have it via Arcade Archives. This game doesn’t need much introduction, so all I need to tell you is that Hamster did their usual fine job with it. Off with you, now. Go buy.

Path of Ra ($13.00)

This is a puzzle game of sorts where you need to rearrange the pieces of the hieroglyphs to make a path forward for the Pharaoh. We’ve seen games like this before, but not so many that another one is unwelcome. Reviews on other platforms, including mobile, seem to be pretty good. Note that you can pick this up on your mobile device for a considerably cheaper price, provided you don’t mind playing on that platform.

Infected Run to Survive: Zombie Apocalypse Survival Story Shooter Dead Cry ($4.99)

Farming Real Simulation Tractor, Combine Trucks Farmer Land Game ($4.99)

Monster Impossible Truck No Limit Adventure Drive Simulator Sport 3D ($4.99)

I could do three separate descriptions for these, but there really isn’t much point. VG Games may or may not be Midnight Works or Cooking & Publishing or Piotr Skalski or Benjamin Kistler or Benoit Vanesse or any of the other crap merchants that stink up the eShop with low-effort garbage like this, but I suppose it doesn’t matter in the end who is taking a dump on your face, only that they are. So here you go, three freshly-pinched turds to end the year with. Bon appetit.

Sales

(North American eShop, US Prices)

Not a whole lot to get fussed about in the sales today, either. Maybe Moonlighter or Children of Morta if you don’t have them already? Over in the outbox, sales from Activision and Square Enix are wrapping up. Time to make some hard choices about where to spend that holiday money, everyone.

Select New Games on Sale

Syndrome ($1.99 from $24.99 until 1/2)
reky ($1.99 from $9.99 until 1/4)
Broken Universe: Tower Defense ($1.99 from $9.99 until 1/4)
Gem Wizards Tactics ($1.99 from $12.99 until 1/4)
Inukari Deluxe Edition ($1.99 from $7.99 until 1/4)
Rolling Car ($1.99 from $7.99 until 1/4)
Balloon Flight ($1.99 from $5.99 until 1/4)
Detective Di: Silk Rose Murders ($2.85 from $12.99 until 1/4)
Floogen ($1.99 from $3.99 until 1/4)
OMG Police Car Chase TV Sim ($1.99 from $4.99 until 1/4)
Space Raiders in Space ($1.99 from $12.99 until 1/4)
Art Sqool Deluxe ($1.99 from $13.99 until 1/4)
Gum+ ($1.99 from $7.99 until 1/4)
Nirvana Deluxe Edition ($1.99 from $7.49 until 1/4)


Overlord Escape from Nazarick ($19.49 from $29.99 until 1/7)
Two Hundred Ways ($8.99 from $11.99 until 1/9)
Orcen Axe ($1.99 from $3.60 until 1/11)
HunterX ($10.49 from $14.99 until 1/11)
Pad of Time ($3.19 from $7.99 until 1/18)
Grand Prix Rock ‘N Racing ($1.99 from $9.99 until 1/18)
Rock ‘n Racing Off Road DX ($1.99 from $9.99 until 1/18)
Super Arcade Soccer ($1.99 from $6.99 until 1/18)
Moonlighter ($3.74 from $24.99 until 1/18)
Moonlighter: Complete Edition ($5.79 from $28.99 until 1/18)
Children of Morta ($5.49 from $21.99 until 1/18)
Children of Morta Complete Edition ($9.44 from $26.99 until 1/18)
This War of Mine: Complete Edition ($1.99 from $39.99 until 1/18)
South of the Circle ($9.09 from $12.99 until 1/18)
Beat Cop ($1.99 from $14.99 until 1/18)

Sales Ending Tomorrow, Friday, December 30th

A Little to the Left ($12.74 from $14.99 until 12/30)
Actraiser Renaissance ($17.99 from $29.99 until 12/30)
Animal Rivals Up in the Air ($2.03 from $11.99 until 12/30)
Arcade Paradise ($14.99 from $19.99 until 12/30)
Balan Wonderworld ($11.99 from $39.99 until 12/30)
Blizzard Arcade Collection ($9.99 from $19.99 until 12/30)
Cat Go! Ultimate Challenge ($1.99 from $4.99 until 12/30)
Chocobo GP ($24.99 from $49.99 until 12/30)
Chocobo’s Mystery Dungeon ($15.99 from $39.99 until 12/30)
Collection of Mana ($19.99 from $39.99 until 12/30)
Crash Bandicoot 4 ($19.99 from $39.99 until 12/30)
Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy ($15.99 from $39.99 until 12/30)
Crash Team Racing NF Nitros Oxide ($20.99 from $59.99 until 12/30)
Crash Team Racing Nitro Fueled ($13.99 from $39.99 until 12/30)
Diablo II Resurrected ($13.19 from $39.99 until 12/30)


Diablo Prime Evil Collection ($19.79 from $59.99 until 12/30)
Dragon Quest ($3.24 from $4.99 until 12/30)
Dragon Quest II ($4.21 from $6.49 until 12/30)
Dragon Quest III ($8.11 from $12.49 until 12/30)
Dungeon Encounters ($14.99 from $29.99 until 12/30)
Dysmantle ($9.99 from $19.99 until 12/30)
Exertus Redux ($2.06 from $4.39 until 12/30)
FF Crystal Chronicles Remastered ($11.99 from $29.99 until 12/30)
Final Fantasy IX ($10.49 from $20.99 until 12/30)
Final Fantasy VII ($7.99 from $15.99 until 12/30)
Final Fantasy VIII Remastered ($9.99 from $19.99 until 12/30)
Final Fantasy X/X-2 Remaster ($24.99 from $49.99 until 12/30)
Final Fantasy XII TZA ($24.99 from $49.99 until 12/30)
Final Fantasy XV Pocket ($11.99 from $29.99 until 12/30)
Furi Modore Edition ($9.99 from $24.99 until 12/30)


Gravity Light ($1.99 from $4.99 until 12/30)
Guardians of the Galaxy Cloud Vers. ($20.99 from $59.99 until 12/30)
Harvestella ($47.99 from $59.99 until 12/30)
Hot Wheels Unleashed ($12.49 from $49.99 until 12/30)
I Am Setsuna ($15.99 from $39.99 until 12/30)
Innocence Island ($7.99 from $19.99 until 12/30)
It Takes Two ($29.99 from $39.99 until 12/30)
Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5+2.5 Cloud Vers. ($23.99 from $39.99 until 12/30)
Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Cloud Vers. ($29.99 from $49.99 until 12/30)
Kingdom Hearts III Cloud Vers. ($29.99 from $49.99 until 12/30)
Kingdom Hearts Integrum Masterpiece ($53.99 from $89.99 until 12/30)
Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memory ($29.99 from $59.99 until 12/30)
KURSK ($4.99 from $9.99 until 12/30)
Legend of Mana ($14.99 from $29.99 until 12/30)
Life is Strange Arcadia Bay ($29.99 from $39.99 until 12/30)


Life is Strange True Colors ($29.99 from $59.99 until 12/30)
Life is Strange True Colors Deluxe ($34.99 from $69.99 until 12/30)
Light Fingers ($4.99 from $19.99 until 12/30)
Logic Pic ($1.99 from $7.99 until 12/30)
Lost Sphear ($14.99 from $49.99 until 12/30)
Lumote the Mastermote Chronicles ($9.99 from $19.99 until 12/30)
Madness Beverage ($2.54 from $14.99 until 12/30)
MotoGP 22 ($11.99 from $39.99 until 12/30)
NEO The World Ends With You ($29.99 from $59.99 until 12/30)
Once Upon a Jester ($11.99 from $14.99 until 12/30)
Oninaki ($19.99 from $49.99 until 12/30)
Overwatch 2: Watchpoint Pack ($23.99 from $39.99 until 12/30)
Penko Park ($9.09 from $12.99 until 12/30)
Perpetuum Mobile ($1.99 from $4.99 until 12/30)
Residual ($7.99 from $19.99 until 12/30)


Shadows of Kurgansk ($5.39 from $17.99 until 12/30)
Shotgun Farmers ($6.99 from $9.99 until 12/30)
Spyro Reignited Trilogy ($15.99 from $39.99 until 12/30)
Star Drives ($1.99 from $4.99 until 12/30)
Star Ocean First Departure R ($8.39 from $20.99 until 12/30)
Tesla Force ($8.49 from $16.99 until 12/30)
The Centennial Case Shijima Story ($29.99 from $49.99 until 12/30)
The Copper Canyon Dixie Dash ($2.99 from $7.49 until 12/30)
The DioField Chronicle ($29.99 from $59.99 until 12/30)
The Hand of Glory ($15.19 from $18.99 until 12/30)
The Suicide of Rachel Foster ($1.99 from $19.99 until 12/30)
Trials of Mana ($24.99 from $49.99 until 12/30)
Vaporum Lockdown ($7.47 from $21.99 until 12/30)
Venice Taxi Boats ($5.19 from $12.99 until 12/30)
Voice of Cards: Forsaken Maiden ($17.99 from $29.99 until 12/30)
Voice of Cards: Isle Dragon Roars ($17.99 from $29.99 until 12/30)
Wobbledogs Console Edition ($15.99 from $19.99 until 12/30)
World of Final Fantasy Maxima ($15.99 from $39.99 until 12/30)

That’s all for today, friends. We’ll be back tomorrow with the final edition of the year 2022. We’ll look at whatever new releases there are, plus whatever sales there are. That’s about it, but don’t forget to check out all of our cool end-of-year content that is rolling out this week. I hope you all have a thrilling Thursday, and as always, thanks for reading!