Diving back into the casual puzzle adventure subgenre, I’ll admit that at a few points in the past they’ve been a pretty relaxing way to burn some time and stimulate some brain cells. One issue has been the fact that most of the ones I’ve played on the Switch feel like they’re really just conversions from quite a few years ago, so the video segments pushing their story tend to look pretty awful. If you can get over that hump, you may still get some mileage out of them.

Silverwood Bay is a bit more of a throwback to an earlier time in my mind, not really featuring the connective tissue of an adventure format, but instead simply moving from puzzle to puzzle with some mild narrative elements. The focus is primarily on hidden object puzzles, so if that’s your jam this will serve up more than the average. In the interests of keeping things fresh while generally sticking with the same style of play, the game at least employs different ways of showing clues, includes multi-step elements, and at least tries to not just fall into everything feeling roughly the same.

Thankfully, there are some other puzzles that will vary quite a bit to break things up as well. These range from ones that resemble classic jigsaws to a degree to ones where you’ll simply swap areas to try to display a larger image and other similar variations. It lacks the level of differentiation of some of its peers, and it isn’t shooting for much in the way of a story to pull things together, but for hidden object fans it may be just the thing you were looking for.