Sports Story is an adventure developed by Sidebar Games, released 23 December 2022 on Nintendo Switch.
What Sports Story is
Sports Story is an adventure game developed by Sidebar Games and released in 2022. It is available on Nintendo Switch only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Embark on a golfing adventure in both ordinary and fantastical places. Undertake full-time study at a renowned tennis academy. Make friends and enemies in your quest for sporting excellence. Dungeons, espionage, mini games, buried treasure and you get to meet the queen. Make your coach proud by competing in Decasportathon.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Sports Story holds a critic score of 40 out of 100. That places it above 4% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2022 averaged 74, so it scored 34 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Sports Story launched on 23 December 2022, within three weeks of Marvel's Midnight Suns, Chained Echoes, High on Life and Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII - Reunion. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 5 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Marvel's Midnight Suns, Chained Echoes, High on Life, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII - Reunion.
Official trailer
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