This game was originally covered as part of our Nindie Round Up series that sought to give coverage to a wider breadth of Switch eShop games beyond our standard reviews. In an effort to make our impressions easier to find, we're presenting the original text below in our mini-review format.

A puzzle game that has you cleaning up stains and germs from the sink, Soap Dodgem is a classic example of a simple, Angry Birds-esque game that is born to be a time killer.

While it controls fine on Switch, it still feels out of place thanks to its repetitive and rudimentary puzzle gameplay. While there is a level creator option which works quite well and does include player-created levels to try, the core game has little to offer and gets boring real fast.

Each level has you removing stains, sticking to a gridlocked template that allows you to travel straight up, down, left, or right, with obstacles to block your path to the end square. While there is variety within the obstacles which increases the difficulty, Soap Dodgem remains incredibly basic and lacks any depth. Like many iOS and Android games, you’re able to complete each stage with a lower ranking if you miss any stains, allowing perfectionists to rinse-and-repeat (no pun intended) to get the three-star rating. The gameplay is essentially increasingly difficult variations on the ice slide puzzles from Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal, which themselves could be very frustrating.

Soap Dodgem is perfectly functional as a five-minute app to get you through your train journey but doesn’t feel worthy of a console port. The simplistic gameplay may give you some challenge in navigating its increasingly difficult puzzles, but there simply isn’t enough here to recommend.