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Welcome folks, and happy “179th anniversary of a nationally-observed uniform voting day in the USA” week! I hope the tradition long continues.

It’s the Switch’s turn to shine this week with Mario & Luigi: Brothership. This is a 3D RPG where Mario and Luigi sail to different islands on their boat and explore for combat, minigames, puzzles and collectibles, meeting all the usual suspects along the way. It’s a huge world of stuff to do, it’s got that patented Nintendo sheen, and it’s by the devs who made the original Tenchu. It’s a no-brainer.

Planet Coaster 2 is a sequel that doesn’t reinvent the wheel, it just tries to fix the main complaints of the first game and cram in more stuff. The notoriously finicky path-building system has been streamlined and automated for your convenience. You can also now build pools and slides, and manage all the food stands like in Planet Zoo.

Metal Slug Tactics adapts a classic arcade side-scrolling shooter into a turn-based tactics game. It avoids being a cover-crouching XCOM clone with combat rules that promote more aggressive play: moving further increases your dodge stat (like in BattleTech), there’s stuff lying around that you can blow up for slapstick effect, and teammates can set up free actions between them. The devs did a good job putting the pixel-art Metal Slug aesthetic onto an isometric grid, so it looks like a forgotten PSP game.

Slitterhead has a great key mechanic: possessing NPCs. It’s an action-adventure game, set in a bustling city full of ambient NPCs where you play as a non-corporeal spirit. You can only do things by inhabiting different random bystanders and using their bodies. Did you get hit by a car on the way to your quest marker? No worries, just switch into that other guy and go again. Not all NPCs are created equal, either: Granny doesn’t run very fast, while the fireman carries a handy axe. This all sounds pretty cool, but it’s also a spooky horror game, so I probably won’t touch it.

Mario & Luigi: Brothership gets the clear GOTW. Good luck if you have any time to play it at the moment.

GWJ Word of the Week

Shooter: a video game in which your character’s primary mode of interaction with the gameworld is shooting it with a gun. I once heard on Idle Thumbs that the difference between video games and movies is: for video games, the easiest things to do are calculate bullet trajectories and make explosions, but the hardest is making a realistic scene of two people eating dinner together, whereas for movies, the difficulty is the other way around. Hence why so many games are shooters instead of My Dinner With Andre simulators.

Here's the list, in release-date AND alphabetical order!

PC

11-04
Ad SHOOt
Alien Ship Console
An Evening of Wonders
CatMelon - Suika Game
Clicker Clicker Clicker
Critical Fishing
Crossed Wires
Dead Abyss
Dead Oculus
Frog Corner
Go! Chicken Jump!
HARDCODED
Hashi Infinite
Homicide Judge
Horizon's Mirage
IfSunSets
Kusodeka Bayashi
Man in a suit in a building in a city
MarbleGP
Masters of the Air
Mortality
Munch
Number Stomper
One Socket
Operation HuntingHawk : Breakthrough
Pyramid Clicker
Recurring Dream
Roulette Stories
Skill Legends Royale
Storybook of Tactics
Surplus
The Beyond: An Interactive Comic Book
Tsunagari Chess School
Walrus Run
Zero Orders Tactics
Zombie Survivors - Eternal Nightfall
11-05
+1%
101 Cute Dogs: Find & Paint
Absolute Insanity
Afterlife Gladiator
Aldoria
Aquatic Store Simulator
ASTROSMASH 1981
Boring Movies
Death Note: Killer Within
Five Nights And VTBs
Gafes Special Agent
GEM STAIR
Idyllic cats: japan
ITS NOT YOUR FAULT
Last Vanguard
Leapo Faith
Lucky Hunter
Metal Slug Tactics
Omega Luma : The First Battle
Paradox: The Breaking of Time
PISCIS x MACHINA 4.44 You [are] Fish
PrisonSoul:Reunion
Riot Ride
Shelter (9900Studio)
Skolly's Adventure
Super Cave Boy
Warlords Battle Simulator
Wrong Number
11-06
8 Ball: Reborn
Crayon Legend
Desktop Blocks
Epic Pixel War
Flying Peep
Glingdom
Hidden Pinball
It's A Game Changer
Level Tank
Little Screamies
Mirthwood
Monarchy
Oh no, orcs!
Planet Coaster 2
REDLINE CROOKS
Run From Mummies
SPACEUM
Spot The Difference: Space Ship
Terror of the Seven Seas
Twist Logic
Virtual AI - KURONYAM
you're just imagining it
Zombies Everywhere 4
11-07
Agent Brain: Tricky Puzzles
Atomic Picnic
Battle Spirits CrossOver
CarGo!
Chicken Police: Into the HIVE!
Clock Rogue
Dawn of the Ashen Queen
Death Becomes You: Yuri Onsen Vacation
Death of the Reprobate
Doomsday: Resurgence
Empire of the Ants
Exorcist Onmyoji
Foxyball
Freenergy
Fruit Switch
Galactic Defense: Automation
Goat Simulator: Remastered
Grab Throw
Hare 136
Home 0
Magical Bakery
METRIA
Metro Awakening VR
Office 29
Rookie Attorney Legendry
Sengoku Dynasty
Space Kitten: An Easy Survival Game
Sweet Wedding
Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythm Festival
Techtonica
The Gray Planet
Try Dying
Whiskey-Four
11-08
Aery - Peace of Mind 2
An Aisling
Calcium Chaos: Derailed
Chef Brawl
Customer Disservice
Dark Assassin: Trial Chambers
Dusty
FeedBack
Forces of Ether
Graveyard Gunslingers
Gravity Force
House Hopper
Japan Trip
Mask Around
Mikazuki Hoshi Meguri no Uta
Nature Atelier
PowerCharge
Salvation:Immortale
Seaside Cafe Rush Hour
Select Oblige
Sherlock Holmes - The Hunt for Moriarty
Slitterhead
The Japanese Calligraphy
The veil of the forgotten
There's Always a Madman: Do Your Worst
Two Falls (Nishu Takuatshina)
Valefor
War Job
ZEPHON
11-09
Messticulous
11-10
Arcade Empire Tycoon
Black Company & Overtime
Civilization Journey
Gridvania
Hungry Monster -Cooking Game
Interpret
Investigate
Junk Blocks
KiNoKoe : Tree's Voice
Molest
Perplexing
Put the Sausage in the Bun
Ruku's Heart Balloon
Simulation
Turbo Live
vaXinator

Xbox Series X

11-05
Let's Sing 2025
Metal Slug Tactics
11-06
Planet Coaster 2
SlavicPunk: Oldtimer
11-07
Bioframe Outpost
Empire of the Ants
Goat Simulator: Remastered
Magical Bakery
Shieldwall
Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythm Festival
Techtonica
11-08
Atari 50: The First Console War
ELDERBORN
Slitterhead

Xbox One

11-05
Let's Sing 2025
Metal Slug Tactics
Pancho's Mission
11-06
SlavicPunk: Oldtimer
11-07
Bioframe Outpost
Shieldwall
Techtonica
11-08
Atari 50: The First Console War

PlayStation 5

11-04
Empire of the Ants
11-05
Death Note: Killer Within
Hunt and Fight
Let's Sing 2025
Metal Slug Tactics
11-06
Planet Coaster 2
Run From Mummies
SlavicPunk: Oldtimer
11-07
Astebros
Battle Spirits CrossOver
Demons of Asteborg
Goat Simulator: Remastered
Magical Bakery
Metro Awakening VR
Phantom Brave: The Hermuda Triangle Remastered
Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythm Festival
Techtonica
11-08
Atari 50: The First Console War
ELDERBORN
Slitterhead

PlayStation 4

11-05
Death Note: Killer Within
Let's Sing 2025
Metal Slug Tactics
11-06
SlavicPunk: Oldtimer
11-07
River City Saga: Three Kingdoms Next
11-08
Atari 50: The First Console War
Slitterhead

Nintendo Switch

11-04
Tinkertown
Tobla - Divine Path
11-05
Let's Sing 2025
Metal Slug Tactics
11-06
Duck Run
Monarchy
O.W.L Projekt
11-07
Angel at Dusk
Battle Spirits CrossOver
Bioframe Outpost
Blackout: The Darkest Night
Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged
Bubble Riders
EcoGnomix
Girls of The Tower
Kurukuru Mawasou! Houkou Maku Collection for Nintendo Switch - Seibutetsudou-hen part 1 Seibushinjukusen - Tetsudou Houkou Maku Simulator
Magical Bakery
Mario & Luigi: Brothership
MIYAMOTO
Party Party Time 3
Popcorn Rocket
Symmetrical logic puzzles 1000
The Alchemist of Ars Magna
The Nightmare Journey
Virche Evermore -EpiC: Lycoris-
Xak II: Rising of the Redmoon
11-08
Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration Expanded Edition
Atari 50: The First Console War
Candivity
Caveheart Legacy Of The Depths
Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions
Jetpack Kiwi
Pro Flight Simulator Deluxe
SUGAMENIA
Survive Undead Rush
Sweet Survivors
Ty The Tasmanian Tiger: Bush Rescue Bundle