SwitchArcade Round-Up: ‘Rise Eterna War’, ‘As Per My Last Email’, Plus Today’s Other Releases and Sales

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for August 22nd, 2024. In today’s article, we continue to bear witness to the slow yet clear decline of Switch releases in this eighth year. It’s Thursday, but we don’t even have a dozen games worth mentioning today.

Even among the ones we have, there isn’t anything that is jumping out. Sure, it’s August. Things are going to pick up soon.

But it’s still odd to see such dry Thursdays, even at this time of the year. At least the sales are healthy. Let’s have a look at all of that!

99) Play as Jules Verne, who has been brought into a world sprung from his own imagination, in this adventure game. He’ll join forces with Captain Nemo as they try to fend off an evil force determined to destroy all imagination, which I reckon would be pretty bad. Solve puzzles, engage in dialogue, and enjoy the story.

An interesting premise, and that’s a big part of the battle when it comes to this genre. 99) A prequel story to Rise Eterna , this looks to be a base defense-style game to me. Build your team and use your limited resources to deploy them against the enemy.

Seems fine for what it is, even if what it is isn’t terribly novel. With more than forty stages to play, it will keep you busy for a few days at least. 29) One of those stress relief games.

You’re an office worker and you have a sledgehammer. You can break pretty much everything in the office. Go for it.

Play the ten-level campaign mode, or enjoy the infinite Mayhem Mode as you like. The affordable price is about right for the experience on offer. 99) A choice-based narrative adventure where you pick from nine different characters and try to survive a trip to the Ring Sculptors’ base.

On top of making choices at various points, there are also stats to manage, dice rolls to try to luck out on, and plenty of endings to uncover as a result. 99) This is a side-scrolling action-platformer in the vein of games like Castlevania or Valis . You play as a sword-wielding warrior on a quest to vanquish evil.

Or at least I presume that’s the story, anyway. All I know is that there is a fellow named Kronoss and his castle must be stormed. A decent game with a pretty lively soundtrack backing it.

Nothing I’d run down the street yelling about, but it might scratch an itch. 99) An affordable Metroidvania-style game starring a mummy. It’s really rough around the edges, but for the price you might not mind.