Touch Selections is a combination of two games from RCMADIAX: Peg Solitaire and Avoider. Only thing new to this release is an extra title menu (to select the 2 games from) with a new music track reserved for this.


Peg Solitaire is a bland and glitchy adaptation of the board puzzle game. The music is catchy for a minute, but that can't be said about the design. We come to expect board games on the eShop to try and stand out with realisitic 3D graphics and online-crossplay (Pure Chess), or adding character with details and art (Lucadian Chronicles). Seeing Peg Solitaire however, it's hard to speak about graphics, it looks almost text-only with only a brown playing field and green peg icons.

You can move the peg icons around the playing field on the touchscreen. The rules are easy: Pick a peg and jump over another one to make it disappear. Goal of each of the 14 differently shaped boards is to clear them all until only one last peg is standing. You can select each of the 14 boards right from the start. On one hand it's nice to have a bit of content and some variety right off the bat, on the other hand it would be nice to unlock them one by one making steady progress. I guess that's up to the player here.
There are four buttons on the playing field. "info" displays the instructions, "reset" resets the board and your current score, "undo" resets your last move, and "menu" brings you back to the Peg Solitaire title screen from which you can either go back to the board selection or all the way back to the Touch Selections main menu (if you want to check out the other game).

Peg Solitaire displays your "Current Score" and the "Best Score" in showing how many "Jumps" you have used and how many "Pegs Left". A perfect score would be 1 peg left plus the lowest number of jumps possible. However, the "Best Score" is totally messed up. It erased my old records, and when I achieved another one, it overwrote data for the other boards: I got a highscore of 10 Jumps on the first board but now 10 is the highscore for every board. It's disturbing because some of the boards can't be beaten with only 10 jumps, that is impossible and now my highscores look cheated. If that wasn't annoying enough, the "Current Score" also has a bug! If you exit a board to select a different one your jumps will transfer over, so you'll have to make sure to press the "reset" button after selecting a board. The whole scoring in this game is a mess, it's advised to not pay any attention to the scores and play it only casually or you'll get frustrated.


In stark contrast to Peg Solitaire's strategic thinking gameplay and reasonable content, is the fast-paced simplicity of a dodging game that is called Avoider. All you do is touching the screen to make your white triangle follow your touch trying to dodge the pink triangles coming from the top of the screen and the sides. The longer you endure, the more points you get. Your highscore will be saved (yes, here it works), and that's all there is to it. When you get hit it's Game Over and the game engages you to post your all-time highscore to Miiverse before you can "play again" or go back to the "main menu".

While Peg Solitaire is a bad-looking and glitchy console adaptation of a classic board game with 14 different boards to choose from, Avoider is a hopelessly barebones and effortless highscore game that gets boring after a couple of quick rounds. Touch Selections is a horrible combination of lazily made throwaway shovelware.


Written by SKTTR, 16th September 2016