Treat Yourself To Some New Switch Games In The Annapurna Interactive Publisher Sale

Sayonara Wild Hearts is probably the only noteworthy game in that list imo.

@Kalmaro No way! Telling Lies, Donut County, Edith Finch and Florence are all great little games.

Not that I'm a fan or anything.

Edith Finch and Sayonara wild hearts are two masterpieces that every player should experience once. I need kentucky route zero a little cheaper please.

I bought Ashen at launch for $40. What a regret! On paper it's a souls-like but it just doesn't have the magic of what makes those games fun to play. The combat isn't satisfying at all.

@sketchturner I disagree. I found Ashen to be a great game. Not quite DS tier, of course, but definitely a worthy indie effort.

Edit: Although I will say that $20 is the right price point for this game.

Need bigger discounts to bite.
Looking at Kentucky and Sayonara....

Great games for sale

That's an excellent price for Donut County as it's relatively short. I highly recommend the game if one is into puzzle games and has enjoyed games in the vein of Katamari Damacy.

Some great games on that list.
I was on the fence about Sayonara, and thought "I'll watch a let's play instead". The game hadn't even begun, the character walked out of a falafel place, and I stopped watching to not have the experience spoiled, bought it, finished it that same night, and pre-ordered the physical release...
As for Ashen, I love the art style and almost everything about this game and got it at a 50% sale recently which is higher than what I usually pay for digital games but decent for what I got out of it. But I hate (!) sould-like difficulty for the sake ofbeing difficult (even though I almost appreciated it throughout my playthrough of Ashen, and I understand that it raises the stakes of combat, which I understand can be much more rewarding - or punishing). However, I did enjoy the game, but got tired of retrying the last boss and stopped playing. I'd really have wanted a SLIGHTLY easier setting (with a checkpoint just before the final boss fight for example, because the loop of failing and ending up back in the home town is absolutely ridiculous, not just frustrating, but ridiculous because a character betrays you in the cutscene leading up to the fight, and that character is standing there right next to you, as if nothing happened .
What Remains... and Kentucky... are high on my list of "at the right price I'd love to try it"... But the latter is priced too high still. The other one... Difficult, I either really enjoy this kind of game, or get really bored of it.
Donut County I might pick up, as it looks like silly fun à la Katamari, as I have seen confirmed by many, like here, just now, by @Tyranexx .

Gorogoa and WROEF are great games. Kentucky Route Zero reviewed well across the board, didn't it? (EDIT: downloaded that now!)

Sayonara Wildhearts is on my backlog & reviewed well

Some top quality Indies there

@shambo what remains is superb. Without spoiling it is a walking simulator with not too much walking and several unique fun gaming twists. Have played thru twice before and am ready for another go. It doesn’t waste your time, and for the reduced price is well worth it. As is donut at that price, give them both a chance! X

Can't recommend Edith Finch enough - got it on sale and completed in an afternoon. It's a totally unforgettable experience.

Picked up Florence as well - it's fine but only about 40 minutes long. It's also more style over substance, tbh. Sayonara Wild Hearts is decent but also criminally short.

Sayonara Wild Hearts kicks major butthole. It’s so so good. Please buy it

Gorogoa and Edith Finch are also top tier mind benders. Get ready for this and Sayonara to melt your brain and change your heart

I wasn't entirely convinced by Sayonara Wild Hearts. I knew it was going to be short and arty, but I've enjoyed a lot of short and arty games in the past! Whilst I really enjoyed some stages, others just left me feeling a little nauseous / frazzled and I ended up skipping out on them. Also the whole game just seemed too fragmented, I wanted each stage to merge into the next but it kept on breaking to tell my how badly I'd done in the previous stage. I enjoyed Edith Finch though.

@Dragonslacker1 I'll decide tonight, but you may have just sold me on them. Much like with Devolver, Annapurna always sounds "good" to me, and I mostly read about what they publish in a very positive context, and have mostly positive experiences with what I bought from them (Carrion and Sayonara both being very impressive recent additions to my favourite gaming experiences ever).

I like Edith Finch, but there are better "walking simulators" on the Switch. Gorogoa is a masterpiece. And so is Kentucky Route Zero, though I own it on my PC. I have to actually finish it, though, since last time I picked it up, they had only released up to the third episode.

This isn't my first time waxing poetic about Sayonara Wild Hearts on these forums, but it really did leave an impression on me. Admittedly its not for everyone. If you're not aiming to get gold rank in each stage, then you likely won't get your money's worth out of the play time.

But considering that I DID get gold rank on each stage, and still have a few zodiac riddles to go back and unlock, there is plenty of replayability there. And the soundtrack has gotten so much play in my house this last year. I went and bought a vinyl for around $50+ which makes the few bucks I saved getting it on sale less noteworthy.

@farmer_humpf There are a couple different modes you can unlock that allow for continuous playthrough, but they require beating everything first. I also understand how depending on your personal tastes in game/music, this might not scratch that itch for you. The game is 90% aesthetics and 10% gameplay at the end of it all.

I can vouch for Sayonara Wild Hearts and Donuts County. Both are incredibly short, yet super creative games that are well worth the low sales prices. They make for great in-between games when you need a palette cleanser.

Lovely games, but Gone Home isn’t included, huh? I’ve been hoping to pick that one up... although Kentucky Route Zero is also tempting.

@Shambo I should clarify that Donut County isn't a direct 1:1 comparison to Katamari Damacy, but the idea that you add to the size of something (in Donut County's case, a hole) by consuming smaller objects is the same. Some other similarities are the puzzle elements (though each game uses these in its own unique way) and a slightly nonsensical narrative.

At the end of the day, it's a nice little game to dig into. According to my Switch log, I've sunk about five hours into it in total, but initial completion took me a little over three. I occasionally revisit a level or two when I have a few minutes to kill.

@Desrever @Zach Sayonara had me entranced to music I generally wouldn't listen to, in a gaming genre I usually don't enjoy, chasing gold ranks I usually don't care for, in tears and awe the entire time, and even though I was literally in tears at the end, I felt happy, and have replayed it about three times now, not including the full album mode and the several times I retried levels to try and get all the gold ranks, which I'm not done with yet. This game is insane.

Sayonara and Edith Finch are tremendous. And just finished Donut County after getting it on this sale, and it's yet another Indie, smaller game gem. I don't mind these short and sweet games, I'd probably want to return again in a year or two. Just so delightful.

Picked up Ashen and Florence. Kentucky Route Zero and Telling Lies need to get a bit cheaper before I pull the trigger. The rest I already had.

So far I haven't played a game published by Annapurna that I didn't like. From the list I have played Gorogoa, What remains of Edith Finch, Florence and Sayonara Wild Hearts and all of them were excellent. I would recommend to play Florence on a phone, because that's how it was intended.