Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for February 19th, 2021. Today we have several new releases to take a look at, though only one of them is particularly noteworthy. A couple of decent ones to consider beyond that, mind you. There were also a ton of new sales today. So many, in fact, that I had to fall back on my old buddy curation to help trim things down a little. Don’t worry, there’s still a lot to check out. Let’s get into it!
New Releases
Thomas Was Alone ($9.99)

SwitchArcade Highlight!
I feel like this game almost needs no introduction, but I’m not paid to write nothing so here we go. This is a Switch version of the award-winning platformer with minimalistic visuals. Thomas meets up with friends and together they overcome obstacles in more than 100 stages of crafty puzzles and careful timing. If you’ve already played the game to death on another platform you won’t find anything new here, but if you’ve somehow missed it up until now" You really need to get on this. Seriously. It’s the good stuff. Boom Blaster ($4.99)

Boom Blaster is an okay run and gun game with some interesting art and reasonably snappy gameplay. There are different characters to use and a bunch of weapons to unleash death upon your foes with. You get the requisite set pieces you’d expect to see in a Contra-inspired shooter like this, and it’s all quite functional. Level design and boss patterns aren’t...