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Strange Antiquities Wins Praise, With Caveats on Switch Controls

The follow-up to Strange Horticulture refines shopfront deduction through layered tools, branching choices, multiple endings.

Overview

  • New reviews from Nintendo Life and Polygon commend the sequel’s cozy‑occult puzzle loop and evocative prose‑driven worldbuilding.
  • Players run an occult antique shop, deducing the correct artefact for each customer by cross‑referencing an in‑game catalogue and contextual clues.
  • Nested investigations expand the formula with scales, close inspection, gemstone guides, runic combinations, secret nooks, and map‑based searches.
  • Critics note the game feels PC‑first with mouse controls, while the Switch port’s joystick cursor can feel laggy despite added cursor‑speed settings and no Switch 2 mouse support.
  • Repeated errors trigger a Yahtzee‑like dice challenge that guards against sanity loss, and accessibility options include autolabelling, a magnifying glass, arachnophobia mode, and easy‑to‑read fonts.