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Sea of Stars
In practical terms without flaws, and filled with thoughtful and creative touches from top to bottom, this game truly is a star
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Spiritfarer
While many gamers enjoy blowing away enemies, racing through hairpin turns, or guiding their team to victory there’s a g...
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GRIS
As the game starts you’ll witness the main character, Gris, losing her voice. This seems to be both literal and symbolic...
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Katana ZERO
Katana Zero was absolutely one of the best games of 2019 and I’d be shocked it if didn’t end up in my Top 10 (and those...
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Slay the Princess - The Pristine Cut
Brilliant self-aware writing and some great (and sometimes gruesome) hand-drawn art help to make for a memorable narrative adventure
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The Gardens Between
When we first saw footage of this title in one of the Nindie Directs it was already clear that the game was brilliant v...
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Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth
If you don’t mind the sometimes glacial pacing of the adventure aspects, the art and story here are top-tier within the space
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Chained Echoes
This single-developer passion project sets a standard for how the classic 16-bit JRPG can still be improved upon
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Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical
Absolutely one of the most original games I’ve played recently, this story-driven affair swings for the fences and somewhat gets there
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A Musical Story
I’ve truly enjoyed the diverse set of indie titles that have come to the Switch under the category of rhythm and music. ...
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Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!
First developing quite a notorious reputation as a free title, DDLC has finally made its disturbing way to Switch… and w...
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Overboard!

While I typically look to games to provide some action and excitement there are sometimes games that come from less h...

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Signs of the Sojourner
There’s just something about this game that feels so brilliant and yet there’s also something unassuming about its natur...
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Shady Part of Me
There’s something pretty delightful when you encounter games that you’ve never previously heard of that, once you begin ...
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Horace
Horace is an odd title in that much like the title character robot of the same name it is quite unassuming and humble bu...
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Transistor
As the follow-up to Bastion, Transistor has some of the same base elements as an action-oriented RPG but they're very di...
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Bastion
While people with access to other systems may well have played Bastion before since it's been around for a number of yea...
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Harmony: The Fall of Reverie
In many ways playing out as a more mature and deeper Choose Your Own Adventure take, Harmony offers great dynamic storytelling
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The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood
Undoubtedly different and wide open for possibilities based on your choices, this is a text-heavy but interesting affair
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Beacon Pines
Can you make the crucial decisions it takes to save your friends and your struggling town?
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Killer Frequency
While perhaps its VR-ish setting is only minimally functional, the parts that deliver like the voice acting, suspense, and humor work wonderfully
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Gerda: A Flame in Winter
Discover the challenge of navigating Nazi-occupied Denmark in this historically-inspired indie
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Lost Words: Beyond the Page

I’ll admit that this is a title that got off to a bit of a rocky start for me, with me essentially wondering wh...

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The Excavation of Hob's Barrow
Delivers a mix of rural character, old-school adventure, and some legitimately chilling revelations
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Hindsight
There’s just something about playing the right story-driven game that speaks to some aspect of your own life or trials t...
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South of the Circle
Telling a tale that spans multiple times and places, it makes for a different sort of romantic journey
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Welcome to Elk
One of the subgenres of games that has been extremely well-represented on the Switch has been story-driven games, and th...
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Wytchwood
When I think of games that heavily involve crafting my mind usually goes to survival titles, a genre I’ve struggled with...
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Life is Strange: True Colors
While there are many excellent story-driven titles in the Switch eShop, the tendency is more usually on grand tales or b...
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Lamentum
I’m sad to say that more often than not, on the Switch, games pushing “horror” in some way have struggled and failed in ...
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Black Book
Whenever you see new titles show up in a genre that seems to be currently having its moment you end up taking a moment t...
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Sumire
Though I love running and gunning and high-intensity games there’s no denying that games with a compelling and heart-fel...
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Cozy Grove
While bludgeoning or blowing away bad guys can always be good fun, everyone should have some time in their lives to slow...
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Chicken Police Paint it RED!
While it has been a pretty long time since the genre was even remotely in style I’ve always been a fan of the hard-boile...
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Along the Edge
On a general level interactive fiction titles haven’t been my cup of tea. It isn’t that I don’t appreciate that such an ...
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Roki
When you’re young your imagination can truly be a powerful (and sometimes scary) thing. Being fed by your parents, the m...
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Through the Darkest of Times
While games are a great vehicle for departing from reality and enjoying an escape they’ve increasingly been used as a me...
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The Complex
Having played “interactive movie” style games since way back when CD-ROMs first allowed them to exist with the likes of ...
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Afterparty
The indie scene, in general, has seemed to fully embrace the concept of a “story-driven adventure”, less focused on acti...
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Knights and Bikes
Memories from my childhood, while often involving playing games on a variety of systems or in arcades, involve a pretty ...
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198X
As a child of the 70s and 80s who spent an enormous amount of time in the arcades there’s no doubt 198X was made for me....
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80 DAYS
Though the act of traversing the world is no longer such a grand feat in the time of Jules Verne, when he wrote Around t...
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The World Next Door
As the final credits rolled The World Next Door felt like a satisfying experience on the whole but I was also left with ...
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Cinders
Pretty well instantly upon finishing my initial version of this story I was compelled to start up and try another path a...
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Figment
This is probably the most action-oriented and challenging game in this small list but it also has a somewhat sad family-...
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Last Day of June
In order to reveal next to nothing at all of the overall narrative, for fear of ruining pretty well anything, I’ll leave...
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Joe Dever's Lone Wolf
If the game was merely an interactive novel of sorts, where you’re simply making decisions that branch the storyline, it...
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Night in the Woods
Returning from a failed attempt at going to college you'll play the part of Mae, a young woman with a checkered past who...
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Children of Silentown
Forgoing the typical adventure tendency towards humor, Silentown instead sprinkles in a sense of foreboding that’s refreshing
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The Gallery
Two different and tense stories from different eras come to life in this well-acted FMV game

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