Taking on the local multiplayer space on the Switch is no small feat. With Mario Party sitting at the top and a host of indie competitors swarming for attention it takes some effort to distance yourself from the pack. Marooners, in principle, manages to do something fresh which I applaud. Sort of taking the ADHD route to setup rather than needing to go through the slow and perhaps more boring structure of a game board or participating in single events it shotguns you through a series of them, that you’re able to even effectively randomize, and if a specific sequence is taking too long it won’t hesitate to put that on pause, move to another, and come back to resume where it left off later. Of course you can opt to make things a little more structured and predictable but the option to keep things chaotic is something unique that I appreciate. While I like the overall structure I’m less enthused on a case by case basis with the mini games themselves. Quite simply there isn’t enough depth or variety to them, too often they devolve into people running around trying to grab coins, avoid obstacles, and perhaps knock each other out so they can grab a pot of coins by surviving to the end. If Marooners was able to lean a little more into variety and unpredictable gameplay, forcing everyone to adapt, it could have taken on a sort of multiplayer WarioWare quality but, alas, as it stands it’s just decent but not particularly great.