SteamWorld Dig 2 Gets a Hot New HOME Screen Icon

Good because the game sucked otherwise. Now with that icon it's the best indie game on the shop! 😝

I dislike the new icon. I DEMAND they change it back. Answer my pointless whims general development company.

So much nicer now!

I hear that before the icon change, Switch consoles would spontaneously combust when booting up SWD2

New icon is SO much better.

I love the new icon. The old one sucked, lol

The Image & Form crew must have poor taste--they only have one other game on their Switch console, and it's 1-2 Switch.
Not sure if these developers can really be credible.

Yay!

Good. Now I can buy it 8-|

Seriously though, it's a big improvement.

Lol yea definitely the number one thing I look for when it comes to purchasing a game.. the icon.

I could care less about the icons haha

People that don't care about the icon: That's ok, it won't hurt you no matter what they do. I don't care for online multiplayer or achievements but don't go around being all snarky...
I for one am glad they changed it. It didn't stop me from enjoying the game in the first place [well deserved 9 for me], but I think it's nice to know our favorite devs are listening to the community!

I think they've actually been quite clever & done this on purpose, keeps people talking their game, and deservedly so, and I'm sure they know all about the recent controversies surrounding Switch icons! Maybe I'm wrong but I think it's actually a clever PR trick.

D2 horrible logo. The new one is more perfect than Perfect!! Thanks I&Form!

@Not_Soos I dunno, they have the Octopath Traveler demo too, that earns them some points in my book. ;D

You can be sarcastic about it all you want but you gotta admit, it sticks out like a sore thumb inbetween all those other icons.

Trying not to buy this today...be a responsible adult, Ryu...pay your bills and buy groceries... don't buy games......

Icons that show the name of the game do work better for the switch gui I think (not a dealbreaker but a nice design standard).

Lol i actually did think the home screen icon was meh.

@Ryu_Niiyama lol @ paying bills. As i buy Golf Story and Sine Mora Ex today. Smh

Much much better. An icon worthy of representing their game instead of that freemium looking nonsense from before.

my god is there nothing people cant be overly and ridiculously upset with? I wish I had the time to go out of my way to complain at developers every time there was an icon I didn't like. An icon. Honestly. They're not even remotely bad compared to the majority of the 'normal' ones everyone seems so insanely overfond of.

"Sometimes," said Pooh, "the smallest things take the most space in your heart."

@DrRandle
Yes, an icon. The icon is the digital boxart. Except you see it every time you launch the game, every time you look at the home menu, every time you check your software library...

Nobody is overly upset or ridiculously upset. People just call it for what it is- a cheap, trashy looking mobile free to play icon. And people speak their minds- if it looks like crap people will say so (and it did look like crap).

And thankfully the devs have heard people's thoughts on the matter and decided to give us a classy, slick new icon.

Nobody is boycotting the game over this. Nobody is ranting or raging. People are just speaking their minds- it looked like freemium crap and people said as much. Devs took notice and changed it. What's the beef?

@JaxonH I kinda agree. I like your point about the icon being the digital box art - it is literally the only way to view your game without actually playing it, so it should aim to represent the game. The new icon is much more appealing.

That said, I bought SteamWorld Dig 2 the day it came out, and never gave a thought to how it would look on the menu screen. And neither does anyone else. I hope!

This really doesn't seem all that news worthy...

Reviewers need to add a new section to their switch game reviews dedicated entirely to the quality of the icon.

Would have never cared if the original remained but the update looks nice. Best game on Switch in my view

I don't like the new one, I think I'm going to deleted a great game and demand my money back.
Wait, I'm not a little baby like anyone who actually is like my comment.

Yeah, i hate the new icon, too! Bring back the Mighty Duck logo! I've already played 10 hours and am halfway through the game, but if you don't bring back the other logo, I'm uninstalling!

I downloaded this a few days ago, and really looking forward to getting time to play it. I hated the logo too, and it looked particularly horrid on a tv screen and bad enough on a small Switch screen.

How can this be news?

@daggdroppen I can kind of see why it's noteworthy. But, then again, I'm from an older generation of gamers (42), for whom artwork on physical media (like cartridge and disc boxes) really mattered and were an important part of the experience in buying a game. I guess in those days (I started gaming as a nine year old back in 1984) additional art, such as that on boxes and the manuals within, played such a big part in not only serving to attract a purchase, but feed in to the imagination that was required to get over the somewhat rudimentary graphics.

Developers are going to start deliberately putting crap icons on their games if they get free publicity from it. I mean, why wouldn't they? For all we know that might have been the case here.

I guess I don’t understand. Is the D2 thing the new logo or the old logo. If it’s the new one, what did the old one look like? If it’s the old one, what does the new one look like? To me, the D2 looks cheap and lazy. I simple comparison shot would have been extremely useful to this article.

@JaxonH "The players didn't like it." I actually did like a lot of the now-changed icons. I think they look more like bad phone game icons now than when they were cool pictures. I also happen to think most physical boxart is pretty bad because it's usually the most generic, nothing art they could have possibly used in the attempts to trick you into interest. When it's not on a shelf for you to buy it, what's the point of it? Why does it still have to look so bad? Why can't the icons just be nice art bits? Why do they have to have logos mashed into them like everything else?
And yes, taking the time to reach out to a dev to complain about a thumbnail is far more upset than anybody needs to be about it. Nobody ever reached out to developers before to complain about this stuff, but this new wave of entitlement is just obnoxious whining from my perspective and it's only happening with Switch users, making our community look the worst.

@Hikingguy You make good points in your comment. I totally agree that pestering developers is unnecessary. I might have been over-analysing it from the perspective of an "older" gamer a bit, perhaps.

Wow! I can't believe people are seriously complaining about people complaining about a game icon! People have nothing better to get annoyed by?

@Hikingguy It's funny you should say that, 'cos I was only talking to my partner last night about the whole Blockbuster thing; having to schlep down to a Blockbuster at 9:45 at night to get a film, or, latterly, a video game, and how lazy we'd become since being able to get all of these on tap without moving an inch from the sofa!

@TommyRabbit But what about the people complaining about the people complaining about the people complaining about a game icon Tommy?

Finally they changed the icon. It was unplayable with the original.

@DrRandle
Nobody "reached out".

The developers reached out. They read Reddit and responded to what they saw in community discussions.

And... have you actually seen mobile phone app icons? They all have a big jumbo picture and no title whatsoever. The new icons are the exact opposite of mobile, that's why people love it. It looks like real box art for home console video games. There's a standard to be followed. You label the game's name. Without the name of the game it looks like trashy mobile crap.

You can see the mobile looking icons a mile away. That may slide on a small phone where words are too small to read, but not on a home console hybrid where the icons are large. Notice Nintendo's Virtual Console all have the box art and game name? It all looks uniform and even and aesthetically appealing. That's all people want. A standard to be followed. It's not hard. Put the boxart with the game's name. Nothing more, nothing less. Don't slap some wack picture on there that looks like a 6th grader designed it in Photoshop, and without a title.

Thank goodness! Now I might actually consider getting the game.

People are having so much fun playing with the new icon. It should be voted the icon of the year. 🙄

I actually prefer the icon in the NintendoLife info box... the new icon is WAY WAY better than the stupid D2... that one was embarrasing.

My biggest issue is that the new icon appears to contain spoilers... I'm about 2 hours into the game.

I'll probably pick up this game once it goes on sale one day. Have my hands full with games yet to own.

Now for Sonic Mania.

IMHO it's a petty thing to get worked up with. Jeez...

Is this a new "thing", complaining about homescreen icons? Really guys?!! Sooooo sad!!

This one definitely looks better, but I didn't really mind the old one that much.

The "app" icon is a big deal on smartphones that need to engage you with a tiny space and keep you returning. Getting someone to realize that the Switch usage is much bigger and carries different expectations seems to be difficult even in the best development teams.

@16bitdave How much less could you care, then? A whole lot less? So you care a decent amount then? Sorry, I have a pet peeve about using that expression completely wrong. I know, I know, you couldn't care less what I think. See the difference, though?

You know guys, the amount of effort needed to complain about the icon is the same amount of effort it is to complain that people are complaining.

We all waste "some" time on the internet, don't pretend you don't. It's nice to do something with that time then, eh?

The old icon WAS kinda bland. Not to mention that D2 is an actual game and I've never heard anyone call Steamworld Dig 2 "D2". I've heard it be called Dig 2 but not D2. D2 is on Dreamcast!

However it had no real bearing on the game so eh. I would be too busy talking about how awesome the game is to worry about the icon.

I guess you can chalk it up to the fact I grew up in an era where most games had really ugly box arts anyway due to the West and East being a bit xenophobic towards each other, so lots of Japanese box arts got redesigned to fit the west. IE, ugly art that had little actual bearing on the game. See Mega Man 1 and 2 US box arts for an idea of what I'm talking about.

In all fairness... I do spend a lot of time looking at all the icons on the Switch screen pondering which game to play.

@imageform I haven't played it yet, but I purchased the game today and it has the old "D2" icon Ver 3.1.1. What's that about? Looking forward to playing Heist again. Much love.

@imageform Scratch that, the new icon has rocked up already.