Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for October 8th, 2020. Today is one of the biggest single days of new releases I’ve seen since I started doing these articles a couple of years ago. There are somewhere around 25 new games hitting the eShop today, and that’s not accounting for any surprises that may show up. As you can imagine, the bulk of the article today is wrapped up in summaries for those games, with the usual lists of sales to round things out. Oh, and be sure to check out the demo for Pikmin 3 on the eShop. It’s fun! Let’s go!
New Releases
Filament ($16.99)

SwitchArcade Highlight!
If you like a good puzzle game, you’ll love Filament. You’re exploring an abandoned spaceship, trying to figure out what happened to it and its crew. The set-up here is similar to some other puzzle adventures where there are the main puzzles you’ll have to solve to just reach an ending, but there are also hidden puzzles you’ll need to keep an eye out for if you really want to see it all. The core idea of the puzzles is that you need to thread nodes together with a filament. You might wonder how much mileage a game can get out of that, and all I can say is that you’ll have to play the game to see just how far it goes. You have a lot of flexibility in terms of what order you complete puzzles in, so you’re free to wander about and pick at what you like. A really great game, in my opinion. Puddle Knights (...