So if Mario + Rabbids doesn't count, what about games like Astral Chain and Daemon ex Machina, that are Nintendo published but third party developed?

I sold the physical copy of Lumines Remastered to someone yesterday. It's a nice little game, but it wasn't for me.

So this month I thought I would get slightly less games.... and yeah good job me, thinking I was doing okay on that most of the month until it came time to put them in here lol

Layers of Fear : Legacy
OTTTD
Quest for the Golden Duck
Super Rocket Shootout
Elevator... to the Moon!
SENRAN KAGURA Peach Ball
Doom 3
UTOPIA 9 - A Volatile Vacation
Space War Arena
Atomine
Defunct
Deployment
Pixel Junk Monsters 2 Deluxe Edition
Miles and Kilo
Estiman
Hyperride
911 Operator
Everspace
Bad Dream Coma
Bedtime Stories
Resident Evil 4
Astro Bears (not party, they released a new version with more features, free to owners of the original title)


Well fuck it.

Already have Senran 100%'d though with all the base game content, that is one ton of boob action, definitely not a game you'll be playing on the bus with old ladies around, unless you wanna give them a heart attack.

Doom 3 port is beautiful, has that stupid bnet login thing to start the game but you can ignore it and it's getting patched out soon I heard.

Estiman is a strange little game, comes straight from android and ios I would bet, basically you get a bunch of objects on screen and you need to eliminate them by tapping on the most common item and work down through, starts with things like 3 squares 2 circles and a triangle... sounds simple yeah with 5 secs to pick, how about when you're about 30 stages into it and it has a screen with the number 7 on it 100 times and the number 8 on there 99 times.... come on you have 5 seconds to count and click one! It's very simple but really a good test for your eyes/brain in short bursts.

Hyperride is terrible, it's a endless runner type game but sort of Rtype in nature, each stage gives you sets of goals to achieve in avoiding objects and patterns to fly in... the collision detection is appallingly bad, you'll die to shit you clearly avoided and also you'll fly through pairs of asteroids for quests that just never count, it's complete horseshit, whoever programed it should be shot.

https://twitter.com/Vincento_Brien/status/1157130563712454656?s=20

Bullshit, the game was deleted off my Switch after saving that clip.

Moonlighter
Bleed
Doom 3
Ys VIII

The biggest complication I've found with this thread is how aggressive Nintendo has been as a publisher.  It's impossible not to be arbitrary at times, but as a rule, I try to look at the nature of the developer, the nature of the relationship with Nintendo, and the IP's history.  

For the purposes of this thread, I am inclined to accept both as third party since they were made by Platinum Games and Marvelous, which are both fully independent developers.  It's something we could re-assess if there's strong feelings about it here, or if it comes out that those studios were simply developing on contract for Nintendo.  In other words, I currently see it as being more like Square Enix and Octopath Traveler rather than Koei Tecmo and Smash.

Koei T helped develop Fire emblem, Bandai N does Smash help

Shit... I knew that too.

I'm late for July!

Xeodrifter
Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden
Streets of Rogue
Blazing Chrome
Super Mutant Alien Assault
Hyperlight Ultimate
Space War Arena

Loved Xeodrifter so much, was considering it heavily since it was on sale for just 99c but I tried to resist, I've finished that game 100% on the Vita a few years ago and while it's awesome for how it sets out to do one thing, and that's a very basic but very good metroid clone when the dust settles I don't think I would have ever replayed it again if I bought it, if you haven't started it yet and do look at it for its fairly simple graphics, do give it a little time to see what it has on offer, really there is at least 5-10 hours of good metroid fun to be had in that 99c title.

You're just in time. I'll post the update tomorrow.