Puzzle – Wizard Needs Food

For some reason, Black Friday sales on the eShop resulted in FEWER games being dirt cheap, and so we’re up to a full DOLLAR for Ant-Gravity: Tiny’s Adventure.

Ant-Gravity, by QUByte Game Studio, is a simple platformer with a twist — you can press the L or R buttons to rotate the stage around yourself. Tapping a shoulder button rotates the entire stage 90 degrees. All you have to do is reach the exit by walking, jumping, and rotating the screen. The game also allows you to use motion controls to rotate the stage — shake the Joycon left or right to rotate the screen.

While the screen rotation is different, the basic gameplay is very generic — I was tired of it before finishing the first stage. It has a different little gimmick, but it’s still a tired platformer at heart.

Ant-Gravity: Tiny’s Adventure: $1.00 on the eShop.

Seeders is a physics puzzle game, fairly simply in its style and gameplay, but not the worst thing you could buy for 9 cents. You must make your way through many simply environmental puzzles, pushing blocks onto switches, hopping over spikes, and generally trying to get from point A to B. Nothing is really “new” in Seeders, but if you’re looking for a simple little obstacle puzzle game, you might enjoy it. It’s sort of a side scrolling, more action-based game that seems inspired by titles like Sokoban, Chip’s Challenge, and the like.

The graphical style is very, very simple. While there is a bit of “very retro PC” charm to it, it’s worth noting that your character rolls around on his skateboard without any real animation.

There is a two player mode, which I didn’t try. I must also confess that I didn’t really stick with this game for that long — I only through about 1/8th of story mode, if I’m reading the level descriptions correctly. The game just wasn’t that fun, but I could see it being more interesting to those with a penchant for old PC puzzle games.

Seeders: Puzzle Reboot: 9 cents on the Nintendo eShop.

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Ant-Gravity: Tiny’s Adventure ($1.00)

Seeders Puzzle Reboot ($0.09)