Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for December 16th, 2019. It’s less than ten days until Christmas, and all through the Switch house, not a creature was stirring, not even a Bombchu. That doesn’t rhyme. I apologize for many things, but that is not one of them. In today’s article, we’ve got a review of the Switch version of Neverwinter Nights, a Mini-View of Riverbond, a look at the only new release of the day, and an assortment of sales for you to dig through. Let’s get to it!
Reviews
Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition ($49.99)

Neverwinter Nights has been, as long as I can remember its existence, a problem child. An extremely ambitious concept linked with a brand-new engine from a developer who at the time could do no wrong, Neverwinter Nights sounded like the dream Dungeons & Dragons experience for video game fans. Unfortunately, at the time of launch, both Neverwinter Nights and its brand-new Aurora Engine weren’t quite ready for primetime. There were lots of bugs, and performance was an issue even on relatively powerful computer builds. Over time, with a lot of help from the community and third parties, both the game and the engine were able to reach most of that imagined potential. Neverwinter Nights and its cool campaign modding feature ended up playing host to a lot of great adventures, and the Aurora Engine went on to be used as the basis for the engines of games like Star Wars: Knights of the Ol...