‘Castaway’, ‘Elrentaros Wanderings’, Plus At this time’s Different Releases, Information, and Gross sales – TouchArcade

Hey mild readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Spherical-Up for August sixteenth, 2024. It’s the top of one other week, and we’ve obtained a number of video games to check out as we sweep issues up. However first, we dip into just a little information, as a deal with. After that, we undergo the brand new releases in our typical style, then wrap all of it up with the lists of latest gross sales and expiring reductions. Let’s get to the weekend!

Information

Seize a ‘Splatoon 3’ Theme within the Newest ‘Tetris 99’ Maximus Cup

Hey, it’s Maximus Cup time once more! The theme this time round is Splatoon 3, or moderately the Growth Cross content material if we have to be very particular. And we should. The foundations are all the identical as typical. The occasion runs from… a number of hours in the past to the top of this weekend, and you’ve got that a lot time to earn 100 occasion factors by taking part in. Must you pull off that Herculean activity, you’ll be capable of maintain the theme and use it at your leisure. Or bury it in a pile together with your different unlocked themes when you maintain utilizing the traditional Recreation Boy one. Your name.

Choose New Releases

Elrentaros Wanderings ($39.99)

I had actually excessive hopes for this RPG, given it was coming from a brand new group headed by the creator of Rune Manufacturing unit. I want I might say Elrentaros Wanderings lived as much as these hopes, however it’s… positively not there. I’ll be doing a assessment quickly and I’m nonetheless organizing my ideas, however it’s a tough sport to suggest from what I’ve skilled to this point. It feels just like the developer didn’t have the price range to fulfill its ambitions, and needed to skinny out the broth manner an excessive amount of consequently. It’s a really grindy affair and there simply isn’t a lot right here to make that grind pleasurable.

Castaway ($7.99)

I imply, Nintendo needed to approve this itself, so if it doesn’t care then I received’t. This can be a comparatively quick action-adventure sport that’s taking some apparent cues from The Legend of Zelda, with the Recreation Boy video Games specifically virtually actually serving as the principle visible reference. The value is low sufficient to take a punt on it if it seems to be attention-grabbing to you, and I’ll possible be doing simply that since I haven’t had an opportunity to play it but myself.

Farewell North ($23.99)

This can be a sport the place you play as a border collie that’s on an journey with its human to attempt to restore coloration to an archipelago impressed by these of Scotland. As you go, you’ll unlock recollections and hints as to what occurred to empty the colour from this world, and whereas I haven’t performed this one I’ve a really unhealthy feeling that the ending is a type of ones the place you’ll want a field of tissues. Our pal Mikhail shall be providing up a assessment of it as quickly as he can.

The Sirena Expedition ($5.99)

A brief little one-hour journey all the way down to the underside of the Mariana Trench the place a mysterious facility exists. What’s its function? Who constructed it? Can you discover the solutions to those questions? Do you wish to? A little bit of a horror-tinged puzzle platformer with an attention-grabbing low-res vibe. Is likely to be definitely worth the plunge.

Rewind or Die ($11.99)

A horrific comedy? Comedic horror? It’s a sport the place you play as a video rental retailer clerk within the Nineteen Nineties, and whereas whether or not or not you’re even presupposed to be there as we speak is an unanswered query, it’s a truth that you just’ll must cope with doing all of your job whereas a serial killer is on the free. Difficult puzzles, excessive gore, a number of endings, and an essential lesson for these dealing with tape-based media: rewind… or die.

Mute Crimson DX ($14.99)

This can be a precision platformer the place you play as a ninja who has to save lots of his metropolis from monsters. You’ll must run and soar your manner by 9 worlds, exhibiting off your strikes towards quite a lot of traps, enemies, and executives. There are some secrets and techniques to search out alongside the way in which as nicely, supplied you’ve got the talents to uncover them. When you like this style, it is a superb sport. It’s robust, however satisfying.

Flip to Mine ($9.99)

Go do some house mining on this puzzle sport. Accumulate the crystals and attempt to destroy enemy drones earlier than they get you first. This can be a fairly uncommon sport mechanically talking, as you’re typically guiding your miners as if it was a real-time technique sport. Puzzle sport followers on the lookout for one thing completely different from the norm would possibly take pleasure in what it has to supply. Not unHealthy!

Homicide Is Recreation Over: Streaming Loss of life ($4.99)

Right here’s a follow-up to the Homicide Is Recreation Over thriller journey, this time placing you on the case of a social media star who died underneath mysterious circumstances in a distant seaside village. However after all, nothing is ever so simple as it appears. Search the village, interview suspects, discover the clues, and check out to determine what actually went on. Somebody is responsible, and it’s as much as you to cease them earlier than they’ve the prospect to do it once more.

Gross sales

(North American eShop, US Costs)

Certain, some enjoyable gross sales in there. You’ll be able to undergo and see what strikes your fancy, as there are lots of oddball video games within the checklist. Not a lot within the weekend outbox, however Snufkin and Egglia are uncommon sufficient reductions at this level that you just would possibly wish to contemplate them.

Choose New Gross sales

Hearth ($11.99 from $14.99 till 8/23)
Sally Face ($8.99 from $14.99 till 8/23)
Naruto Final Ninja Storm Trilogy ($13.99 from $39.99 till 8/26)
Namco Museum ($4.79 from $29.99 till 8/26)
Overboss ($13.49 from $14.99 till 8/29)
Tremendous Sean 007 ($2.49 from $9.99 till 8/29)
Operation Metal ($5.99 from $9.99 till 8/29)
Satay Store Tycoon ($3.74 from $14.99 till 8/29)
April’s Diary ($3.74 from $14.99 till 8/29)
Crashout Xtreme ($2.49 from $9.99 till 8/29)
Pogo Joins the Circus ($2.49 from $9.99 till 8/29)
A Cat & His Boy ($1.99 from $2.99 till 8/29)
Spy Bros. ($4.79 from $7.99 till 8/29)
Midnight Combat Categorical ($11.99 from $19.99 till 8/30)
Surmount ($9.89 from $14.99 till 8/30)

Mineko’s Evening Market ($13.99 from $19.99 till 8/30)
Thunder Ray ($7.49 from $14.99 till 8/30)
#BLUD ($19.99 from $24.99 till 8/30)
The Final Employee ($3.99 from $19.99 till 8/30)
Roxy Raccoon’s Pinball Panic ($6.99 from $9.99 till 8/30)
Forager ($6.99 from $19.99 till 8/30)
Slay the Spire ($8.49 from $24.99 till 8/30)
Moonscars ($13.99 from $19.99 till 8/30)
Area Mercenary Protection Pressure ($3.49 from $4.99 till 8/30)
Unpacking ($9.99 from $19.99 till 8/30)
Void Bastards ($8.99 from $29.99 till 8/30)
Enter Digiton: Coronary heart of Corruption ($2.39 from $7.99 till 8/30)
Supraland ($9.99 from $19.99 till 8/30)

Empire of Angels IV ($6.79 from $19.99 till 8/30)
Alpha Particle ($3.39 from $9.99 till 8/30)
Hell Properly ($2.49 from $4.99 till 8/30)
eighth Millennium: WAtPG ($7.49 from $29.99 till 8/30)
Tremendous Woden GP ($5.99 from $11.99 till 8/30)
The Final Dragon Slayer ($3.74 from $14.99 till 8/30)
Hopping Lady Kohane EX ($16.74 from $24.99 till 9/4)
Evil God Korone ($3.35 from $3.95 till 9/5)
Yggdra Union: WNFA ($19.99 from $24.99 till 9/5)
Cat Quest II ($3.74 from $14.99 till 9/5)
The Sinking Metropolis ($5.99 from $49.99 till 9/5)
Mother Hid My Recreation! ($2.49 from $4.99 till 9/5)
Mother Hid My Recreation! 2 ($2.49 from $4.99 till 9/5)
My Brother Ate My Pudding! ($2.49 from $4.99 till 9/5)
Cover & Dance! ($2.49 from $4.99 till 9/5)

Eldgear ($12.99 from $19.99 till 9/5)
Fairy Components ($8.99 from $14.99 till 9/5)
Genso Chronicles ($9.74 from $14.99 till 9/5)
Tremendous Toy Vehicles Offroad ($3.99 from $19.99 till 9/5)
Gibbon: Past the Timber ($1.99 from $14.99 till 9/5)
Port Royale 4 ($17.49 from $49.99 till 9/5)
Magical Drop VI ($14.99 from $29.99 till 9/5)
Burst Hero ($5.99 from $11.99 till 9/5)

Gross sales Ending This Weekend

BIT.TRIP Assortment ($2.49 from $9.99 till 8/17)
Bug & Search ($11.99 from $14.99 till 8/17)
Luna & Monsters Tower Protection ($2.56 from $12.99 till 8/17)
Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley ($16.99 from $19.99 till 8/17)
Flip to Mine ($7.99 from $9.99 till 8/17)
Why Pizza? ($2.49 from $4.99 till 8/17)
Blood Traces: Magicians’ Chase2 ($8.39 from $11.99 till 8/18)
Egglia Rebirth ($13.99 from $19.99 till 8/18)
The Hole ($13.99 from $19.99 till 8/18)
VeNBA ($9.74 from $14.99 till 8/18)

That’s all for as we speak and this week, mates. We’ll be again subsequent week with extra new releases, extra gross sales, extra evaluations, and a few information. It looks as if the hotly-anticipated storm that was presupposed to hit as we speak has modified course, in order that’s good. One fewer excuse to remain inside taking part in video video Games, however I’ll determine one thing else out. I hope you all have an excellent weekend, and as all the time, thanks for studying!