Castaway is now available on Nintendo Switch

Castaway, an action/adventure indie game, is now available on Nintendo Switch. Check out the launch trailer. We are also playing the game for review and have our first thoughts on it!

Castaway is now available on Nintendo Switch. And thanks to the publisher, I received a review code for the game yesterday. Here are our first thoughts:

In Castaway, your character crashes lands from space onto a beach. He grabs a sword and then goes to explore the surrounding area and a nearby dungeon. This is only one of two modes in the game. This story mode is pretty short, in fact, I beat it last night, and a second mode unlocks.

I played the story mode on invincible difficulty, meaning I couldn’t die. There’s also pacifist mode where you don’t fight and a couple other modes. I will be checking out the game on difficulties. In invincible mode, the game was pretty easy though did still offer some challenges with minor puzzles. The game plays a lot like a Zelda game. Its a short fun experience.

Meanwhile the second mode to unlock is a tower mode. In this mode, you’ll explore 50 floors of a tower. Along the way, you’ll upgrade your character to, hopefully, make the experience better. Its a neat mode but I got nine floors in, died, and had to go back to the beginning1 Will you have to beat this mode with no save at all? We’ll see!

I still want to play the game so more and plan to have the review up early next week. Stay tuned.