Launching next week on Nintendo Switch is Piffle, a cutesy puzzle game full of colour and adorable cats.
A standard mobile puzzler on the surface, Piffle has players lining up shots to clear blocks from the screen. You'll need to collect an army of 'Piffle Balls' to help you do just that, before flinging them across the screen to cause adorable mayhem. There are plenty of different Piffle Balls to find and craft, as well as a selection of power-ups to collect.
Despite being free on mobile, this one has an asking price of $19.95 on Switch (currently reduced to $13.96). Presumably, just like other mobile games that have made the leap to Nintendo's platform, the game's usual microtransactions will be removed in favour of this one-off payment. In some cases, like rhythm game VOEZ, this seemingly expensive cost of entry actually works out cheaper than the amount you'd have to pay to complete the game on smartphones.
Why you’ll love Piffle?
- It’s Chill! Play at your own pace
- A positively cute and colourful game, filled with crafty characters!
- Discover fun-filled worlds with hundreds of levels to adventure through
- Dozens of adorable Piffle Balls to craft and collect!
It’s simple to play!
- Break all the blocks! Just aim your Piffle Balls and release
- Boost your score! Bounce as many times as you can to build those sweet combos
- Armed, fluffy, and dangerous! Find items to craft and collect an array of lovable Piffle Balls
- Power up! Boost your game with quirky gizmos and accessories!
Piffle launches on Switch on 2nd September. As mentioned above, you can currently take advantage of a pre-launch discount.
Comments 9
The price is definitely just so it can be discounted 90% to make it look like a deal and definitely not just wasting money on a F2P game.
This reminds me of that DSi game Trajectile. It's made by Hipster Whale, who is definitely one of the better mobile devs, so that gives me hope.
@DarkTron If the game is worth it...
It looks innocent enough.
@Kalmaro played it on mobile, a standard Peggle clone with a cat aesthetic. It's not bad, but its certainly not worth $20. More than likely they're going to give a deep discount after launch to get the majority of their sales
Edit: mistook this game for another type. Its not correct to call it a Peggle clone, more correct to say a Breakout clone, where blocks have to be hit 1 or more times.
@DarkTron Ahhh, okay. No hurt in waiting then.
Ugh, I keep seeing cats and thinking that Battle Cats for Switch is finally being localized. T.T
Why has this not happened yet? They localized the 3DS version when that game happened. :c
I was a tad interested in it, but that price. Certainly it's a $2-$5 product, not a $20 one.
I play this on my phone every day. It is pretty fun, give it a whirl. But whhhhhhhhhoa do not pay twenty freaking dollars for it, lol. It is maybe a $5 game max, even with a ton of levels. But free, which it is on the phone, is far better. It's just not meaty enough to warrant $20. No way, Jose.
I put so much time in that game on my phone - a year or something ago.
It is actually pretty nice. And I assume the Switch version will get rid of the idle crap and just let's you play without limit.
$20 is tough though. I agree.
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