
The ability to buy cards in-game to upgrade your capabilities adds a new level of strategy to the overall experience, and full cross-play and cross-progression ensures that you should always have someone to play with. Players pick from a wide range of characters and compete to claim objectives across various maps. Sure, it might be a little bit janky and unrefined, but there’s a lot to love about this game.

The free-to-play hero shooter from Hi-Rez Studios has caught a lot of flak in the past for being a bit of an Overwatch clone, but by this point, Paladins has established itself as a shooter worthy of its own merit. With a range of wacky weapons and maps, Screencheat: Unplugged should provide fun for any household.ĭeveloper: Evil Mojo Games, Hi-Rez Studios With local play for up to four players, players must use the screens of others to deduce where players are and get kills. Screencheat: Unplugged takes that concept and makes a game out of it. You’d find a nice hiding place somewhere while playing GoldenEye or TimeSplitters (side note: can someone port the TimeSplitters series to the Switch, please), only for your mate to peek your screen and come ruin your day. One of the worst parts about playing multiplayer FPS games locally back in the day was pesky screen cheaters. You know, the two most played areas for a Nintendo Switch. It’s retro goodness, enhanced by the fact you can play it while on your way to work or in the bathroom.

Utilising the Build Engine, which was used in the creation of Duke Nukem, Shadow Warrior and Blood, Ion Fury sees players taking on the role of Shelly Harrison as she takes on hordes of cybernetic cultists on the streets of Neo DC. Makes sense that a game with this much of a retro focus would be published by 3D Realms. A throwback to the 90s in both gameplay and attitudes apparently, Ion Fury is designed to emulate previous generations of first-person shooters like Duke Nukem, even going so far as to bring in Duke Nukem voice actor John St.
