As a lover of games that are a bit out there, happy to do their own thing even if that may not be something anyone has ever asked for, I do enjoy periodic surprises from the eShop like this one. But who knows, perhaps there has been an audience out there demanding a title where your goal is to cultivate, train, and race different living sushi creatures that I just never bumped into. No matter the origins of the game’s unique idea, it’s now available on the Switch and here to at least mildly amuse you with its unique setup.

The idea here is that after a humble start with only a paltry few ingredients to choose from to be your initial sushi racer, you’ll work to help them win, train them to improve, pull together some winnings, perhaps unlock some more options, buy your next race winner, and so on until you achieve ultimate victory. Your role in the races isn’t terribly direct, for the most part you’ll just be able to decide when to make use of your boost or special abilities. With that in mind, you’ll need to rely on solid training and perhaps a little luck as you try to beat the competition and hopefully not have your racer get eaten as they run across various tables, with patrons randomly grabbing from the moving buffet in front of them.

The thing is, you’re really going to have to enjoy that pretty basic loop since even though you’ll have new abilities and things to consider with new racers and higher-end events, fundamentally very little ends up being different. As I said, it’s less of a racing game than a sim where you have some limited ability to help influence the outcome. That isn’t to say that making the right decision of when to use what skills you have won’t be a key to success, especially since skill cooldowns can leave you exposed if you aren’t careful. It’s definitely an odd title, which helps to give it some weird charms, but that may not be enough to get you to ignore its limited scope.