#qubic games

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Qubic Games Flash Round (Nintendo Switch)

Space Pioneer (Vivid Games): Urgh, I feel kind of embarrassed about how long I played this. This ain’t no Mana Spark, let me tell you. What it is is another obvious mobile port that’s stuffed with loot box mechanics to make up for the fact that it’s mostly just a grindy twin-stick shooter. While it looks fine (and I actually really liked the menu music???) it’s a perfect example of why you need someone game-feel focused on your team; this is all so competent, but every weapon feels like you’re squeezing a hamster to make it fart on your enemies and every enemy seems to take at least 3x the bullets to die it should (and upgrading never seems to change that feeling!) However, this is the kind of thing you can play while the TV is on and so I just kind of walked through the levels opening loot boxes (oh I forgot to mention the economy is fucked: you need tons of coins, and never have enough) until it was over. So this follows Mana Spark as an “official” Every Game I’ve Finished but I’m not happy about it.

Should anyone pay money for this? Honestly? No. It’s competent as I said but there’s no joy here at all. Plus these are the twats that made Pocket Mini Golf So NO MONEY FOR THEM.

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ngl the Puzzle Galaxy art is kind of something

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QubicGames has a big Nintendo Switch sale going on.

If you purchase any of their new games for $1.99 you then can select a slew of their older games for a discounted price of $0.19 each.

The new games available are:

1. Amaze 2. Loud 3. Run Sausage Run Complete 4. Sausage Wars Complete and 5. Dig Deep.

I don't know any of these new games but if I had to choose it would be Run Sausage Run Complete.

I do own a few of the games you would get for 0.19 and for the cost I have definitely enjoyed some and I would recommend such as: RaceDieRun, Good Night Knight, Mana Spark, Rimelands, Robonauts, Warlocks God Slayers, Utopia, Badland, and Aspire.

Link is here with the full explanation and direct links to the Nintendo switch titles:

https://qubicgames.com/19/

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No Gravity Games Flash Round (Nintendo Switch)

Pirates: All Aboard! (Qubic Games): It’s the return of everyone’s favourite Every Game I’ve Finished series, and now it’s subscriber only! So why not head over to https://ko-fi.com/mathewkumar and subscribe for just $1 a month? And if you don't fancy that, there's years of entries in our archive here! But it would be cool if you did fancy it, to be honest.

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Qubic Games Flash Round (Nintendo Switch)

Not Not - A Brain Buster (Alternative Shift SAS): Featuring a rubbish subtitle because you cannae really google “not not.” Not (“not?”--Not Ed.) that it particularly matters in the world of Switch shovelware. This looked like it was going to be more interesting than it is with an excellent level of polish, but it’s basically Simon/a quick-time-event where the trick is that instead of just being like “up” or “down” it goes “not up” or colors the sides and is like “not not blue.” I mean it’s a cute enough idea, but it’s not interesting. Not “not not interesting” just “not interesting.”

Should anyone pay money for this? You know that itchy feeling you get in the back of your head when you’re playing Simon-type things? I assume for some people it’s extremely pleasurable, otherwise I can’t imagine why these things ever got traction. I don’t like it, at all, but if you do, knock yourself out here. Support Every Game I’ve Finished: Buy exp. negatives as part of a bundle of 95 books for $30: The Greatest Hits Game Bundle @ Storybundle. Buy me a coffee: ko-fi

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Qubic Games Flash Round (Nintendo Switch)

Mini Trains (The House of Fables): A game for folk who the thing they love about model railways is that they’re standing beside them looking down at them, I guess? Because this game feelsmlike the team worked out how to do all the modelling and then couldn’t really be arsed to get a camera system that was any use so just used an off-the shelf FPS camera (except it honestly can’t be, because you can zoom and do an overhead view, which is the only way to really play it?) This is sort of vaguely a puzzle game where you make paths for trains go around, the likes of which you’ve seen a hundred times over (like, say, Trainyard on iOS) and where you have to make sure they don’t hit each other (like, say, The Train Game on the bloody ZX Spectrum) except it looks and feels pathetically janky and manages to make even the most tedious of train-related activities sound like a thrill a second (like, say, Sensible Train Spotting on the Amiga.)

Should anyone pay money for this? No way. It’s not even like if you had a wean that loved trains you could excuse it, because it’s absolute arse to play with that bloody camera. Support Every Game I’ve Finished: Buy exp. negatives as part of a bundle of 95 books for $30: The Greatest Hits Game Bundle @ Storybundle. Buy me a coffee: ko-fi

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Qubic Games Flash Round (Nintendo Switch)

Mana Spark (BEHEMUTT, Kishimoto Studios): Uhhhh wow! Now I liked Rekt as I’ve said, but Mana Spark is… legit. A twin-stick rogue-like-like, you play one of three characters making your way through a dungeon fighting off skeletons and that while collecting upgrades that last for the length of your run and upgrading your camp to improve your chances on the long term (up to a point, anyway). This definitely isn’t perfect; issues include that aiming is very exacting, terrain can catch/trap you and loads of the enemies are armoured (which is to try and force you to engage with a sort of Dark Soulsy dodge and attack, but it often feels like time wasting). However, I found this extremely compelling the way any good rogue-like adjacent title is, with me excited to find out what upgrades I’d get on each run and testing my luck by doing things like trying to beat mini-bosses I didn’t have to. The game feel is strong enough that I only rarely got annoyed at my deaths (uhh, once you’re past the first boss, who is definitely a challenge with the default character) and a single run is nice and short too (the amount of content isn’t honestly that high, so they cleverly didn’t stretch it out too far.) I feel like there are probably better twin-stick rogue-like-likes out there that I just haven’t played but that’s not to talk this one down.

Should anyone pay money for this? Absolutely. This definitely drops to a dollar or two regularly as is Qubic’s MO and it provided me far more value than that in that I was more than happy enough to play it until I beat it, so it’s officially an Every Game I’ve Finished.

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Qubic Games Flash Round (Nintendo Switch)

Rekt (Little Chicken Game Company, No Gravity Games): Huh! Here was me asking myself if I was being too hard on the last couple of games, which felt and looked professional (but which I just did not like for a variety of design decisions) and along comes Rekt which I started playing… and just kept playing! And not in the way with Geki Yaba where I was like “urgh, I should stop playing.” This is a pretty basic stunt-me-do where you drive around an arena and flip your car about with the right stick, but it’s pitched right to be rewarding, has got loads of cars to unlock and looks nice too. There are a lot of challenges to earn coins (although they seem to switch from “too easy, so boring” to “quite hard, so annoying” abruptly). If I have a particular issue it’s that grinding on rails is basically impossible (I’ve managed it once) and it doesn’t seem to punish you for lack of variety. It’s definitely another mobile port, but this puts me in mind of when mobile games were new and I kept getting totally lost in one because of a nice wee (if simple) gameplay loop. And on Switch you’ve got buttons!

Should anyone pay money for this? I’ve got several hours of actual entertainment out of this so if you want a stunt car game you could do far, far worse than this when it’s a dollar (or two.) Plus the developer posts his own videos on how to unlock the cars, which I find so very very charming.