One of the things I’ve encountered quite a bit on the Switch where budget games are concerned are concepts that I’ve run into in the mobile space. There are plenty of titles I’ve played that are actually available on phones and tablets, but even if they happen to only be on consoles that doesn’t mean they necessarily need to be there either. Avenue Escape, in my mind, falls pretty heavily into this category, not doing much to make it clear it had to be on a dedicated gaming console, and even for a budget price really not offering much bang for the buck.

What you really have here is a game all about determining the necessary order of things in each puzzle in order to safely get all vehicles cleared. The concept isn’t a complicated one, and a positive to note is that it’s pretty easy to pick up intuitively. Given a certain layout of streets, and a variety of vehicles arranged in them, you’ll need to thoughtfully clear them one by one. Each of them provides you with the direction they’ll follow when activated, so with that information you should have all you need to methodically move them out one at a time.

I’ll admit that it does add a wrinkle I haven’t seen before in the form of pedestrians crossing the street that you’ll need to be mindful of, but honestly that’s really more of a distraction that slows you down than an enhancement of note. Unfortunately, in the end there are only so many variations and curve balls you can throw into something like this. If you take your time and are good at plotting out where each vehicle will go based on their arrows you should simply be able to use deductive logic to help you through, and whether that’s represented far more simplistically like you may see on a phone, or with some decent graphics, the fundamentals don’t change. If you’re looking for something light to blow through pretty quickly, it may offer a temporary challenge, but it’s slight at best and you can play games like it for free on your mobile device while losing little in translation.