Bundle: Memory – The Original Matching Game from Ravensburger + Rush Hour Deluxe – The Ultimate Traffic Jam Game!

Genre: Compilation / Puzzle

Players: 1-4 Competitive (Local Split-Screen), 2-6 Competitive (Local)

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Review:

Bundle: Memory – The Original Matching Game from Ravensburger + Rush Hour Deluxe – The Ultimate Traffic Jam Game!, released on Nintendo Switch in 2024, is a Compilation containing the two named games, both previously released on Nintendo Switch in 2022.

I have separately reviewed these games. Here is what I thought of each of the games in this collection:

Game	Genre	# of Players	Score
Memory – The Original Matching Game from Ravensburger	Card Game	1-6 Competitive (Local)	C-
tl;dr Memory is a solid take on the classic Card Game that has players matching cards to clear them. This release has a good presentation and healthy amount of options. The problem is the $20 price seems far too steep for what’s on offer here, when you can play a basic game of Memory using a standard deck of cards, or you can spend $40 to get Clubhouse Games, which comes with 51 different games. With that being the case, it’s hard to recommend this game.
Rush Hour Deluxe – The Ultimate Traffic Jam Game!	Puzzle	1-4 Competitive (Local Split-Screen)	C-
tl;dr Rush Hour Deluxe is a videogame version of the classic Puzzle Game that has players sliding vehicles around a grid to try to make room for a red car to exit. While the game itself is fine, the $20 price tag is absurd, and I cannot recommend it for that price, especially when you have numerous other less-expensive ways to play this game.

In short, I think these are both solid takes on the games they’re based on, but felt like the prices for these games were just far too high to make these releases worth getting.

Okay, so that’s where the bundle becomes far more important, right? After all, if the games are basically good but the value is lacking, then hopefully the bundle can bring that missing value, right? Well… not quite. At $35, this is basically cutting $5 off the price of getting both games separately, which is an improvement, but still woefully overpriced. As of this writing, the bundle has gone on sale exactly once, for $7, and that’s not even better than the lowest price the two games have sold for ($2 each).

In other words, even as a bundle, these two games are still horribly overpriced. What’s more, at $35, this bundle is basically daring you to just go ahead and buy the $40 Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics instead. That game includes as one of its 51 games a version of Memory/Concentration/Pairs, and while it may lack a version of Rush Hour, it does have 50 other games that I’m sure will make for a more than adequate substitute. With this being the case, why would you ever want to bother with this bundle?

tl;dr – This bundle, whose absurdly long name I won’t repeat here, includes the two named games, both solid takes on classic games that were woefully overpriced in their individual releases… and this bundle does little to improve that, still being absurdly overpriced. Do yourself a favor and just get Clubhouse Games instead of this.

Grade: C-

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