Nintendo Switch eShop Regrets | Over 50 Games To Avoid At All Costs 

The Nintendo eshop feels like one of those free game websites that your school would have blocked on the computers, except most of them are bad or just straight up weird

Nintendo needs to realize that quality control is not discrimination. If I made a moldy bread and tried to get it sold through a distributor, they would't accept me. Not because they have a thing against me, but because I'm selling unhealthy, inedible bread. They have no quality control anymore.

I'm honestly surprised you didn't bring up the visuals with Deer God. The game itself may not be good, but it's easily the nicest looking game in this entire video.

the eshop is unnavigable, lagged out mess. i cant believe how badly curated and cared for it is by nintendo. thank you for your service antdude, youve done what most of us dont have the guts to do

The actual worst game is trying to navigate the eshop itself.

I know people who work in Nintendo Lotcheck (Nintendo’s console compliance department) and I can confirm the people working there don’t like these types of games either. Compliance certification does not involve a qualitative judgement though, so as long as it doesn’t brick your console, it doesn’t display Playstation buttons and you can get into gameplay, it’ll probably end up for sale. Plus, unlike Sony and Microsoft, submitting something to Nintendo is a free process, so a lot more garbage gets submitted to lotcheck. Everyone who actually tests and has hands on time with these games would love to just be able to get stuff like this would love to be able to deny submissions and resubmissions to the “devs” who flood the eShop with this junk, but that simply isn’t corporate policy. So some poor contractor in lotcheck is doomed to playtest this garbage several times over, because I can guarantee nothing of this quality is passing its first submission. Also, the reason a lot of terrible games are undocked only is because they have less checks to pass than games that can be played in any mode. I hear that even good/big games will usually drop features (usually touch screen and motion controls) in order to pass compliance more easily.

I released my first game this year on Steam. I didn't really know how to do any sort of marketing, so the game didn't really sell well. That being said, I made it with love and passion, and I feel there's a lot of soul to it. Sometimes when I see games like these, I don't really mind that the game didn't sell well because I actually cared about what I was making. Edit: RU-vid has not been displaying my replies! I swear I've responded to everyone who asked, the name of the game is Rectangle Guy.

Fun fact, Soulsland is just one asset pack you can get on the unreal engine with some skins slapped on the basic mannequins, it's literally just one asset pack for the UI, animations and sound effects, the reason the character just stands still when they die is also because they didn't bother to apply the death animation over the skin they applied so it's uber lazy.

You could make bingo cards out of shovelware games. -Asset flip of previous game -Mismatched assets -Assets blatantly grabbed from free packages -Broken english -Broken physics -Expy of copyrighted character used in screenshot -Costs more than actually good game -Uses AI art -Overly long guide for super basic gameplay -Gratuitous titillation

The Deer God is actually pretty interesting, I picked it up way back when it released on the WiiU and had a pretty good time with it

2:53 “did you know that Monty on the Run has an absolute banger theme song?” I did, actually! I Wanna Be The Guy used that song for the first part of its final castle levels. As you might imagine, it was very memorable for anyone who played that intentionally unfair game and actually got that far into it, haha

As someone who’s the head of a small indie studio, games like this make my life so much harder.

As a game dev, this gives me hope that my games can be on console one day.

I was not expecting to see Tommy Tallirico in this official AntDude video! I bet his mother is very proud.

The eShop is almost unusable at this point. I'm wondering if their servers can't handle the amount of shovelware available under the weight of millions of people accessing it at once.

*Get Rich Quick* in 4 easy steps! 1. Make a bad game. 2. Put it on the eshop. 3. RU-vidrs support your entire livelihood by buying your garbage to make their... good? Content.* 4. Profit. Literally. They buy your crappy game and you get income. *(Note: AntDude actually makes good content. Any uncertainty in step 3 does not apply to him.)

Funny story about Golf Royale: A friend of mine has gifted me one on Steam, which is actually named Golf Extreme there, without any context, so I went and played it. What I didn't notice about that friend it that they've been gifting this game to most of their friends. I have no idea why but the thought of that must have mean I have been cursed

I will always say that the lack of "quality control" on places like the eShop and Steam is always better for devs as it gives them the freedom to publish their works regardless of how odd or niche the concept is. That doesn't mean that I enjoy the mountain of trash that also allows for however. I just know we gotta take the good with the bad.

It saddens me that the eShop ended up a cesspool in the same vein as the Google Play store. There’s too little quality control.

I just finished rewatching Hbomberguy’s Roblox oof video, so seeing Tommy’s face pop up again in another video definitely took me by surprise. You know, the kind of surprise you get when you’re walking down the road and suddenly notice a dead bird right in front of you.

Wonder what will the 300th AntDude special be about? (Will it finally be that big Kirby Right Back At Ya video we where promised?)

Fun fact: Skating with Maxwell cat actually is multiplayer. If you’re connected to the internet, it automatically puts you in a lobby with whoever else is playing. I’m not too surprised you didn’t run into anyone, but as someone who bought the game when it first released, I can confirm that there was online interaction.

The amount of adult games I’ve seen on the eShop since I turned 17 last year is insane, like literally anything gets put up. Edit: when I say adult, I meant like heavily sexual games, not necessarily just ones with straight up nudity in it or things of the sort.

“You gotta give the degenerates some quality! It doesn’t make any sense! They need the most help!” I’m like 25% awake, and hearing Anthony say that, looking over to the game on screen, seeing…Waifu Impact…I’m…I think we’ve peaked.

Not to mention the racket that is the "new games" page where this one dev keeps giving fake new versions to their shovelware to put it back to the top of the list over and over again. You mentioned it, but this is absolutely the biggest issue with the eshop.

I think the long titles are literally search engine optimisation, putting as many words in the title that the eshop will allow so you get flagged in more searches

"An advertisement for a Virtual Platypus Network?" _draws hat_ "PERRY the Virtual Platypus Network!"

5:45 Honestly I love these riddiculous long titles. It's the only reason I bought "Zettai Hero Project: Absolute Victory Unlosing Ranger vs. Demon General Darkdeath Evilman" back in the day. Turns out that was actually a pretty fun game, but thaat title is hilarious.

As someone with a frankly embarrassing shovelware library, you saved me far more than this. Hope it helps promote more shovelware videos, because kusoge is the best-worst and you are a king of archivists! Also, ants are cool and have little songs. Thank you, AntDude.

If it helps you feel better, there is a game similar to 3D Advantime that's actually good, called Entropy Centre. It takes Portal's puzzle chamber structure and utilizes time travel as a puzzle mechanic. If you thought the concept of Advantime was cool, Entropy Centre does that WAY better across a 6-7 hour campaign, and even has support for custom levels on the PC version. Tut

I love the Drawn to Life series, drawing whichever characters and assets you want into the games is loads of fun and the story is one heck of an emotional rollercoaster. Lots of the bosses are fun and challenging (though I will never understand why the Galactic Jungle Boss needed to take a boatload of hits before it was defeated). When Two Realms was announced, I was so hyped, but playing it showed that the integrity and love from the previous games did not carry over (except the pixel art and music). Touchscreen integration would have been cool and consistent with the rest of the series and the amount of glitches I encountered during my playthrough made it clear there was no playtesting. It felt like a ported mobile game and I was heavily disappointed. The Puzzle Platforming could have worked as a minigame or a sidequest rather than changing the genre that fans are used to and enjoy. All in all, if a series had the choice to continue but the catch is that it has to be a heavy departure from previous titles, then it's better off as is.

I want to chime in, that "rap song that samples Toxic" in the skating game? I think that's literally just a Soundcloud mashup of Toxic and another song. They just used a bunch of songs they had saved to their RU-vid playlist and said "Yeah I can make a few bucks off of this" Edit: Toxic Coffee, if anyone is curious.

Nintendo wasn’t wrong when they said “Nintendo switch has games”

0:52 is the most acknowledgement Love Live will get in a random Nintendo RU-vid video, and I love it

39:20 “congratulations you finished the track in 576 movements” yeah I would want to snap my controller in half too at that point😂

9:14 my favorite part is seeing the large Switch software group labeled, “trash.” 😆

Never knew that buying my Switch this late meant witnessing the horrors of it's eshop. I'm scared.

It's truly astounding what you can put on the eShop, I found a game called Tales of Shinobi (the full name was one of those name 5 genres and then put simulator on the end) and I could only call it an alpha build at most. I spent some time messing with the movement in the "town" (5 or so chunks of buildings with questionable to non-existent collision) before fighting an endles swarm of monsters but the game itself lists the verion on the Switch homescreen as 0.1, I didn't even know you could release a game in the eShop before version 1.0

You'd be surprised at what the C64's SID chip is capable of. I know of a game whose title screen them sounds almost like it was ripped off of a rock album of the time.

Tbh as someone whos made a pretty low quality mobile game before, some of these I give real credit too, like the few you mentioned at the end, crazy bus, and especially deer god holy shit that pixel art is gorgeous. The only real sin about these is that they cost real money to play, thats the shitty thing here holding them all back. Also idk about you man but fight of gods is goated as hell, I wish it was more properly updated lol

Imagine being switch friends with antdude and you're just trying to enjoy some mario wonder and it just says deer God, foot clinic, and skateboarding with maxwell cat every 45 minutes

I rhink the amount of calculators on the switch is absolutely hysterical because at what point when you need a calculator do you have access to your switch but NOT your own phone

Holy shit, he is not joking, if you _know_ the ending for the DS version of Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter... that ripped my soul out as a kid.

Got to say, it requires a lot of will power to pay for these games, then play them all and then make a 50 minute video, great work Anthony.

Obviously these are mostly cash grabs. But I've wondered before if perhaps a few of those publishers are maybe tied to some educational institution where students can publish their games at the end of the semester or w/e

In game design class we made games in about 2 months and they still look better than what is here

I had bought Valentina for like 10 cents one day with my gold points just to see what it's like, I played it for longer than I probably should have and beat like two bosses and got a few new types of arrows, the game is not very good but odly charming with it's poorly translated script. I found I had to start just avoiding enemies because I was running out of arrows, only some of them would drop more than I had to use to kill them. I did actually enjoy playing the game though, enough to consider opening it again when I see it in my list of games. I've played much worse in my under a dollar dumpster dives.

“You can’t escape death or taxes.” Not with that attitude you can’t.

I played though the entirety of "Valentina". There's bosses, but the game has no ending whatsoever. The parents simply don't exist

Thank you AntDude for calling AI art what it is: Gross

I won't say who it is, but a close friend of mine actually did the art for one of these "adult-themed" puzzle games.

Wow. The sheer amount of copyright infringement in that Maxwell skateboarding game is astounding- and it's on the PS4 too?

okay but I'm really interested in Ski Sniper now. what an insane concept for a game

I hate it when they turn free mobile games into paid switch games.

Its what happens when Nintendo gives the green light to most anything from a mobile platform or indie (on steam or not probably) the green light. I'll agree they were too strict in the past but at least with the wii, 3ds, wii u you could easily spot the 1 to 3 good ones per week that depending upon how low your standards and how open your wallet is were worth paying for. Nowadays to get the best deal you may as well have a gamefaqs tab open and youtube page open plus a mobile phone/tablet next to you to see what is available elsewhere for the best version/price, and if it isn't simply free (not to mention fire up the digital stores to make certain its not simply hidden in your steam list someplace) Its a lot of "click bait" (aka click we got your money) on the shop hoping you didn't research (due to hassle) that you could of got them cheaper elsewhere or free in some cases or realized (via reviews) that it simply just "looked good but wasn't". Combine that with the fact that some of these games might have physical releases on a platform that doesn't (correct me if i'm wrong, switch doesn't support external hdd yet?, its predecessor the wii u did) Meaning they're hoping you'll fill that sd card (whichever size you buy) with trash games.

It's weird with how lawyer happy Nintendo is that they have games like this on their shop. They seem so careful of their image.

12:41 WHAT?! Annoying Orange played this game on his phone, this dev went out of his way to release it on the switch as well? I think Nintendo is allowing more phone games than they Nintended. Nintendoes what nobody should.

I had an Intelivison plug and play I got from some garage sale or the like as a kid full of Atari 2600 style games, and my favourite one in the bunch was actually Shark! Shark!, I played it a lot. It's nice to see it get an HD remaster as eShop shovelware with extra game industry history attached to it

3D Advantime is basically The Entropy Center if it was made on a budget of one shoelace and a Snickers bar.

The worst part about the eshop is that not only is their all that adult shovelware, but unlike steam theirs PARENTS that own the switch, so not only are there adult games but now a ton of kids garbage too.

13:18 how dare you insult bouncy bob like this! scott the woz loved it so much he bought it, and then bought it 4 more times.

ive been looking for more games to add to my backlog so im definitely taking notes, thanks antdude!

22:52 Kind of off topic, but that's the mindset that the Senran Kagura devs had. They wanted to make a game that's degenerate as all hell while still playing well. And from what i've heard, they did a good job. It's basically just Waifu Dynasty Warriors.

Remember when you had to be very priviledged to be able to publish in a nintendo console?

38:06 Preventive Strike went on sale for a whopping 1 cent for a while, and it reached best selling for a while because of it.

Most C64 games have AMAZING music. Even if the people programming the games didn't give a shit, it seemed like the music composers gave TOO MANY shits.

All these things that can dubiously be called "games" getting accepted onto the eShop, and Nintendo has repeatedly denied me a dev kit for an actually functional, finished game I made with the Switch specifically in mind. I don't understand the world.

really like this series of showing the good and bad from the eshop. i have too many games to get through but i cant say no to buying a ton of great stuff

34:00 Shark Shark was actually originally a licensed game for the infamous Intellivision Amico console. I was both surprised and also not surprised to see it here

Damn ive always thought Deer God was like a real game, one that people liked! The devs for that one have made some decent stuff before

12:41 you ever just look at a game and think to yourself "am I playing a fetish game?"

The E shop is just the Wild west of games, You just never know what your going to stumble upon.

16:20 HELLO AND WELCOME TO THE HYDROLIC PRESS CHANNEL

So many games on the eshop are worse than free flash games at this point

Kinda funny that you brought up Jumpin Joe & Friends and Croc's World. Both games my kids wanted me to buy for them because they were super cheap (like less than a dollar if I remember correctly). The only one they actually like is Jumpin Joe. We still play it as a family every so often.

Nintendo's Seal of Approval is on fire, all this trash is invading the eshop, and it's too busy shutting down amazing fan projects to ever notice how much it's own online selection completely sucks.

Out of everything in this video, I did not ever expect you to suddenly begin talking about Tommy Tallarico.

VPN: a Virtual Platypus Network? PVPN: Perry The Virtual Platypus Network!?

You know what? I'm gonna say it. That Maxwell cat skateboarding game reminds me of those PC skateboard game demos from back in the day. It rally did give me nostalgic feelings when I saw that.

Glad you gave the blemish to the Dynablaster name that Tommy endorsed the bare minimum amount of time it deserved... OH HE MAKE'A ME SO MAD!

Thank you for doing the needful. I would love to get the people together that play the bad shovelware and asset flips to do an hour long weekly podcast

"You all know about Michael, right?" "Well, of course I know him. He's me."

i feel it should be mentioned that "amazing mage" also just.. straight up steals the design of the black mage from ff1?

I actually beat Drawn to Life 2 Realms on the Switch when I got into a super nostalgic Drawn to Life kick. It was... something. Honestly, I do think at least some of the team really did have a passion for the original series, and they did try to keep the original story going, even with a lot of handwaving, but ya, even without the mobile game feeling that purveys throughout the entire game, it was also really not polished at all. It feels like they tried to make a somewhat interactive physics sandbox with the enemies and the level interactions, but it's so finicky that even some of the required story levels can be unbeatable at times (I had to exit out of a late game set of really annoying levels due to enemies getting bugged, and it made me have to restart the entire level set...), and it really feels like a fair few of the level concepts were designed before the actual engine was complete (or whatever state you can call it). The few times you do get to actually draw things "to life" also are plagued by an editor worse than the first game's, so that's quite sad. All that said, I did still enjoy beating it just to get a bit of a happy ending to the story that ended on quite a cliffhanger beforehand, and it actually was really fun to go back to older levels and get a ton of points after learning a bunch of exploits with the scoring system and enemy/level interactions.

30:18 I am from Portugal so seeing Antdude trying to spell a portuguese name is hilarious😂

I don’t mind Monty Mole collection at all. It’s a win for game preservation regardless and f the original quality

I love how the title of this says to avoid at all cost but all you’ve done is let me know that I really need to buy the Monty Mole collection asap, just gotta hope for Dizzy next Yes I am an 80s baby from the U.K., how could you tell? 😂

I imagine the long gibberish titles are because of a few things. One, I imagine a lot of these rushed crappy shovelware games weren't made with native English in mind. Some of the titles are probably rushed through Google translate or something. Two, buzz words. Toss in any words that match with popular games at the time, even if the title makes absolutely no sense. Puzzle games are popular? So are mystery games? Okay, name it Grand Mystery Puzzler Solve Case. Who cares, someone'll see it. Or three. Straight up copying other games. Call of Duty? No. Hero of War Duty Calls Shooter Game FPS. Mario Bros? No. Mary Sisters Jumping Platform Game Challenge Blocks. It's literally the same as the shitty mobile app stores. Names and branding don't matter, neither does quality. It probably cost them $5 to make. If 10 people buy it, it's a win. And they toss out a stupidly large amount of games under various company names, all made as cheap as possible. They're making money regardless. I mean, Antdude bought some. That made those people money. They're there to make money, not quality games. People WILL buy them. Whether it's *because* they're bad, to laugh at or make videos about. Or because you're browsing through the eShop and have like $2 on your account, and come across some super cheap game and decide why not.

20:29 : I didn't know they released a modern Asterix game on the NA eShop. That's...interesting and kinda cool, ngl.

Is it bad this video made me buy the Maxwell cat game? Like it actually looks like a decent time killer

I actually buy less from the eShop because of how slow and laggy it is. You scroll and see like 10? Games then it loads.... Then you see another 10( I didn't count but you see a couple ) then it loads, you accidentally clicked the back button twice? Well fuck you, now you have to go back in and start over. I just don't get why it has been this way for years and years. Maybe it's because if you stay on a game a video starts to play... Well if that's the reason, take that away. Let a picture show up and if you wanna know more you go to the store page and see videos. It's so fucking annoying.

“Have More Fun Tomorrow”

I'm sorry, "calculator with MULTIPLAYER"?! WHY??? No longer will fights break out over who gets to use the family calculator for math homework!

The Deer God was a weird game to include among all the shovelware.

Goat Simulator is the only good game I’ve played that has "Simulator" in the name. I also have a physical copy of a game called Bee Simulator that a friend of mine got me for Christmas, but I think my brother has played it more than I have. 😂

It is surreal seeing Survival, a game that is a Unity asset flip, but all of it comes from a SINGLE asset pack. I used parts of the pack for a final in university and the UI, the player model, the trees, the programming, they are all from the same pack. Actually incredible.

Nintendo just be handing out dev kits to whoever at this point.

I once played a game called “the intership” and it interested me because of the art work, and I thought it would be a neat visual novel. If the game has come out a bit later I would have assumed everything was ai, heck I still think it is and the only reason I’m not 100% is because it was made before the ai boom. The game has like 6 sprites and three backgrounds. The story is nonsensical and behind short. The game rewards you cgs for getting endings and they showed the cgs in the store page, but the art dosent even have the characters in the story. I paid 5 dollars for it, and beat it in 10 minutes. Also the ui was god awful.

Merry Christmas, Antdude! And to everyone in the comment section!

Drawn to life, the ds series that traumatized me at the library I rented it from... No I'm not joking, my library let me rent out ds games instead of books, honestly, makes just as much sense, even more so than blockbuster, as if you're renting out entertainment, why not rent all of them out at 1 location?