DREDGE ₩11,120, Apollo Justice Trilogy at Half Price — This Week’s Switch Picks (from ₩2,490)

This post records the second October week of the Nintendo Switch eShop sale. The card prices above were eShop prices at the time, while the price chart lower on each game page is Steam (PC) — a different store. If you’re reading this later, the deals may be over, so treat what follows as a guide for what to pick first.

Seven of the fifteen are “part N” of something

This lineup is unusually full of numbers. Cat Quest III, Monument Valley 3, Trine 5, River City Girls 2, the bundled Ace Attorney Investigations Collection and Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy, plus the latest SUPER ROBOT WARS Y — seven games that drop you into the middle of a series. The other eight are standalone indies like Scarlet Tower, Dungeon Clawler and Mini Airways, plus DREDGE and Sticky Business, which we already featured in August. So this week, before price, the real question is can you jump in without the earlier entries?

Fine without the earlier games — and where opinions split

Cat Quest III doesn’t need its predecessors. A reviewer who played the series in order summed it up: “You don’t need 1 and 2, but if you play them, a few things will feel a little more familiar.” Another ranked the fun as “3 > 2 > 1.” Trine 5 is likewise a fresh adventure each time, so nothing blocks a newcomer. Monument Valley 3 is the opposite: the more of the series you’ve played, the more divided the reviews. Some fans of 1 and 2 call it “hollow compared to parts 1 and 2,” while others say “still a puzzle game that never disappoints” — and for first-timers that whole debate doesn’t apply. SUPER ROBOT WARS Y is an unnumbered standalone crossover, so no order to worry about, but if you don’t know the robot anime involved, there’s little pull to follow the story.

The two Ace Attorney sets ended the same day — and have an order

Ace Attorney Investigations Collection and Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy both ended their eShop discounts on October 12. If you’re buying both, a reviewer spells out the order: “If you’re wondering about the order, play 1-2-3 → Investigations → 4-5-6.” In story time, Investigations sits between the original trilogy and Apollo Justice. The reception differs too. For Investigations, praise gathers around part 2 — one 61-hour reviewer wrote “Part 1 is a bit of a letdown at the end, but 2 is legendary fun.” The Apollo Justice set is far more divisive: the most-upvoted negative review says “If you loved the 1-2-3 trilogy and expect that vibe, don’t buy this,” while a 66-hour reviewer noted “Isn’t it impressive in a way that everyone’s opinion is so wildly different?” If you loved the original trilogy and want more of that feel, Investigations is the safer pick; the Apollo set suits those curious about what happens after.

Three puzzlers, three kinds of pressure

Three games here count as puzzles, but they work your brain in completely different ways. Mini Airways is time pressure — in one reviewer’s words, “it’s not a game about planning optimal routes to save time; it’s about slotting planes in without collisions using half memory, half control.” Monument Valley 3 has no pressure at all: mistakes cost nothing, and reviewers report finishing in 2–4 hours. Trine 5 is physics and co-op: you combine three heroes’ abilities to build a path, and it’s long — one reviewer saw the ending at 18 hours, saying “the volume is several times bigger than the previous game.” Pick by that: Monument Valley 3 to unwind, Mini Airways for sweaty palms, Trine 5 to sink time into with friends.

How many people can play differs for each

Four games support co-op: Lost Castle and Trine 5 up to 4 players, River City Girls 2 with 4 local / 2 online, and Cat Quest III with 2 local. More important than the number is how it feels solo. Lost Castle is tough alone — a 16-hour reviewer said “the density of fun in solo and multiplayer is completely different” — while Trine 5 is built so every puzzle can be solved solo. If you’re playing alone, games designed for one from the start — DREDGE, Beholder: Conductor, Ogu and the Secret Forest, Monument Valley 3 — are the easier fit.

Check before you buy

Some things the cards can’t tell you. The Switch version of Lost Castle has no Korean. Scarlet Tower has Korean, but the translation draws complaints — a 13-hour reviewer called it “still very rough” — and some reviews warn about heavy screen flashing. Beholder: Conductor is short: one review says “it’s over in about 4 hours,” and you can’t save whenever you want. Dungeon Clawler is the opposite, with long runs — a reviewer who quit after 2 hours wrote “one run took 2 hours to reach floor 20.” Mini Airways gets mistaken for a Mini Metro sequel because of its name, but as a 45-hour reviewer pointed out, it “has nothing to do with the Mini series” — it’s from a different studio.

If you’re reading this later

What stood out this week was repeat prices. DREDGE (₩11,120) and Sticky Business (₩4,400) came back at exactly the same eShop sale prices we recorded on August 18 — not a won different. The Nintendo eShop runs long sales and repeats less often than Steam, but as here, the same discount can return unchanged. If you missed it, a similar price may well come around again. For games we haven’t yet seen return, like the big half-price bundles, check the Steam-based price history on each game page.