Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for August 8th, 2019. In today’s feature, we’ve got summaries of today’s many new releases along with a couple of reviews of titles from a few days ago. I skipped the news today because there really wasn’t a whole lot of note at the time of writing. But we do have plenty of interesting sales to check out on top of the other goodies. Let’s go!
Reviews
Plague Inc: Evolved ($14.99)

Plague Inc has been around for quite a while now in one form or another. It’s a relatively simple-to-play simulation with a lot of depth happening behind the scenes. The goal is to create and cultivate a disease so deadly and contagious that it wipes out all of humanity before a cure can be found. A little morbid, to be sure, but its clinical presentation generally keeps the reality away from the game itself. It’s a great experience on mobile and in many ways is perfectly suited to the platform. This Switch version carries an extra subtitle, but apart from a cleaner presentation and a few other tweaks, this is essentially the same game. Pick a starting location, keeping in mind that richer countries will be able to mobilize a cure more quickly and that poorer countries may not have the transportation connections to help your disease spread. You’ll periodically receive points by popping bubbles in locations your disease has spread to, and you can use those points to mutate your disease. The...