Simogo Legacy Collection

Genre: Compilation

Players: 1

The Nintendo Switch 2 Difference

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Review:

Simogo Legacy Collection, released in 2025 on PC, Nintendo Switch, and Nintendo Switch 2, is a Compilation of seven games from developer Simogo of Lorelei and the Laser Eyes and Sayonara Wild Hearts fame, with all of these games previously released on mobile devices from 2010 through 2015.

Here is what I thought of each of the games in this collection:

Game	Genre	# of Players	Score
Kosmo Spin	Arcade	1	C+
tl;dr Kosmo Spin has players rotating a planet your character is standing on to deflect balls being shot out by a UFO and avoid its tractor beam. This is a really adorable Arcade-style game, but it does get repetitive pretty quickly.
Bumpy Road	Auto-Runner	1	C-
tl;dr This Auto-Runner has players deforming the land to move around a vehicle and bump up the car into the air as a sort of jump. It has an adorable concept and presentation, but it’s awkward to control no matter which way you play it.
Beat Sneak Bandit	Puzzle-Platformer / Stealth / Music-Rhythm	1	B
tl;dr This clever blend of genres has players moving a thief through a multi-level house retrieving stolen clocks while evading guards and spotlights. It takes a very simple idea and gameplay and finds some truly clever ways to make use of it.
Year Walk	Graphic Adventure	1	D+
tl;dr This game focuses on odd Swedish folklore and traditions, and it has some really compelling atmosphere, but you’ll do a lot of wandering lost in screens in a barren-looking wood while trying to find what you’re supposed to be doing. Interesting for a bit, but not very enjoyable and it becomes tedious quickly.
Device 6	Visual Novel / Graphic Adventure	1	B
tl;dr This game features a story about a woman who finds herself trapped in a strange place, and makes use of scrolling text in some really creative ways that are truly ingenious in how they play with the format… but it’s far too easy to get stuck and not know how to proceed.
The Sailor’s Dream	Visual Novel	1	B+
tl;dr This game features a similar style of gameplay to Device 6, but is less about puzzles and storytelling and more about a sort of passive experience of exploring the visuals and text. The result has much of Device 6’s creativity without the frustration of getting lost or hitting roadblocks.
SPL-T	Puzzle	1	D
tl;dr This extremely simple-looking black-and-white Puzzle game has players splitting boxes to make sets of four squares. It’s an interesting concept, but it’s hard to see how you’re supposed to approach the strategy, and it seems inconsistent in when it will let you split boxes and when it won’t, even when the size is the same. The result makes this too frustrating to push past the dull presentation.

In short, I think the highlights here are Beat Sneak Bandit, Device 6, and The Sailor’s Dream, but honestly I think all of these games are unique and interesting enough to be deserving a look, even if I don’t think they ultimately end up being very fun.

Since these games come from a mobile platform, a lot of work has been put into making sure you can play these in whichever way best fits your play style. You can use the two analog sticks to move cursors to simulate two fingers (with L and R to tap and ZL and ZR to drag and rotate the screen), you can also move one of the cursors using gyroscopic motion control. And in handheld mode, you can touch the screen directly as you would have done on a mobile device. This selection of control options really makes Nintendo Switch the most ideal place to play this collection of games (well, apart from Nintendo Switch 2, but more on that farther down).

The games are presented within a menu presentation that simulates a “screen within a screen” with a selection of jazzy music playing in the background. In addition, there’s a wealth of bonus content here, including supplemental and promotional materials, prototypes of a few games (including early versions of unreleased games not in this collection, Rollovski and The Sensational December Machine), an audio podcast, promotional art… if you’re at all a fan of Simogo’s games and curious to see some of their early experiments, this is a delightful look behind the scenes.

While I don’t think any of the included games in Simogo Legacy Collection is truly spectacular, the fact that they’re all interesting with a few of them being well worth playing, with such love and care put into the presentation and adaptation to Nintendo Switch, and with plenty of supplemental materials, that the $15 price tag seems like an absolute steal here. If you enjoy creative, artsy games that experiment with videogames as a medium, you will absolutely want to pick up this Compilation.

tl;dr – Simogo Legacy Collection is a Compilation of seven mobile games, most of which do some really creative experimentation with the videogame medium, a loving adaptation that makes the Nintendo Switch a nearly-ideal platform to play these games on (second only to Nintendo Switch 2), and plenty of great extra content. For only $15, this is a steal, and players curious to play some truly unique games should absolutely want to add this to their collection.

Grade: B+

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The Nintendo Switch 2 Difference

Simogo Legacy Collection – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition

Genre: Compilation

Players: 1

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Review:

Simogo Legacy Collection is not the sort of game you would expect to get a feature-rich Nintendo Switch 2 Edition, given that it’s a collection of mobile games from 10-15 years ago. And yet that’s exactly what Simogo has done with this bundle, which players can upgrade to for free if they own the Nintendo Switch version of the game.

First, Simogo boasts that this version of the game ups the framerate and resolution to 120FPS/1440p or 60FPS/4K in TV mode, and 120FPS/1080p in handheld mode. While nice, I’ve got to be honest, I had trouble noticing the difference, since these are old 2D games. However, if you want pristine image clarity, you’ve got the best that you can hope for here.

Simogo doesn’t advertise it, but the loading times have also been reduced here, with the Nintendo Switch version of the game taking 15 seconds to start up, and that time being cut down to 8 seconds on Nintendo Switch 2. It’s not a huge difference, but it’s an improvement all the same.

However, the big addition here is, in addition to all other control modes, The Nintendo Switch 2 version of the game supports adaptive dual mouse mode, with each mouse acting like a separate finger on the touchscreen. I don’t think this made it significantly easier to control games like Bumpy Road that were awkward to play, but it’s a nice additional option for players who want it, and a great example of a smart way to use the mouse mode feature.

Is this a massive difference from the Nintendo Switch version? No, not really. But for a free upgrade to a game that’s, let’s be honest, pretty niche… this is a surprising amount of effort put into the Nintendo Switch 2 release of this game. If you weren’t interested in the Nintendo Switch release of this game, I don’t think this version is going to change your mind, but if this game sounds interesting to you, know that it is that much better on Nintendo Switch 2.

tl;dr – Simogo Legacy Collection is a Compilation of seven mobile games, most of which do some really creative experimentation with the videogame medium, a loving adaptation that makes the Nintendo Switch 2 an ideal platform to play these games on, and plenty of great extra content. For only $15, this is a steal, and players curious to play some truly unique games should absolutely want to add this to their collection.

Grade: B+

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