The First Hour: Overcooked 2
The sequel to last year’s surprise Switch success story, Overcooked 2 casts a team of players as chefs in preposterously improbable kitchen service scenarios. Working a few shifts in...
The First Hour: Bad North
When your father, the King, dies, it falls to you to lead your people against pillaging Viking hordes. An island-hopping strategy game from developers Plausible Concept, Bad North’s design...
The First Hour: Dead Cells
The latest entry in the storied Indie Soulsborne genre, Motion Twin’s Dead Cells find players taking control of The Prisoner, a sentient ball of goo, as it takes control...
The First Hour: Sleep Tight
Released Thursday on the eshop, We Are Fuzzy’s Sleep Tight combines twin-stick shooting and tower defense mechanics with the fears a child’s imagination conjures from darkness. Taking control of...
The First Hour: Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze
After famously bringing Samus to three dimensions and first-person perspective with the Metroid Prime trilogy, Retro Studios moved onto another dormant Nintendo franchise: Donkey Kong Country, which sees the...
The First Hour: GALAK-Z Variant S
GALAK-Z Variant S is a new free-to-play top-down space shooter now available on the eshop. Players take control of a fighter pilot who has just emerged from a space...
The First Hour: Hand of Fate 2
You awake in a carriage traveling to an unknown destination, accompanied by a masked man who wants to train you for a secret quest by playing a card game....
The First Hour: Saturday Morning RPG
Nostalgia is a big-ticket item in 2010s culture, and few videogames capitalize on those feelings more than Saturday Morning RPG. Originally released episodically on other platforms, the Switch release...
The First Hour: Slayaway Camp: Butcher’s Cut
Experienced videogame players are probably familiar with the sliding block puzzle: A block placed on a slippery floor which, when pushed, will continue along its path until it reaches...
The First Hour: Streets of Red: Devil’s Dare Deluxe
It’s timely that Ernest Cline’s and Stephen Spielberg’s Ready Player One film adaptation would arrive weeks before Streets of Red: Devil’s Dare Deluxe, as both properties concern themselves with...