Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for October 26th, 2020. As we approach the spookiest, scariest day of the year, most gamers know that the most truly terrifying part of this season is in budgeting for all the cool new games. Today we’ve got reviews of some recently-released games that you’ll want to consider, along with summaries of a few new releases. There is also a surprisingly large list of new sales that came in over the weekend, though the bulk of it really isn’t going to surprise or interest many of you. Not much cooking in the news, but there rarely is early in the day on Mondays. Let’s go!
Reviews
Horace ($14.99)

I haven’t been so genuinely delighted and surprised with a game in a very long time as I have been with Horace. While the game apparently released on home computers last year, I’ve never heard anyone talking about it. Now that I’ve sunk an entire weekend into completing it, I have no idea why its praises haven’t been sung to me before. This game is flat-out incredible on multiple levels, and I can promise you now that you’ll be seeing it in my Best of 2020 article in December. What a wonderful, thrilling, impactful little treasure Horace is, as though the developer was told they had one shot to make the game of their dreams and put every darned thing they could ever want into it. Horace tells a story about the tumultuous life of the titular robot. We watch him come to life...