--- title: Rime For Nintendo Switch Has A Release Date At Last description: Rime, developer Tequila Works' haunting puzzle game that arrived in May, will finally add the Nintendo Switch to its list of platforms. canonical: https://time.com/4886387/rime-nintendo-switch-release-date/ author: Matt Peckham article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-08-03T19:52:18.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-08T09:27:10.054Z article:section: Business og:title: Rime for the Nintendo Switch has a release date at last og:description: Here's when you'll be able to get it og:url: https://time.com/4886387/rime-nintendo-switch-release-date/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8174e3d328a4dd4e/6988d859656a3fd6d7bd11da/rime-screenshot.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1920 og:image:height: 1080 og:image:alt: rime-screenshot og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Rime for the Nintendo Switch has a release date at last twitter:description: Here's when you'll be able to get it twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8174e3d328a4dd4e/6988d859656a3fd6d7bd11da/rime-screenshot.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _Rime_ for the Nintendo Switch Has a Release Date at Last > Sponsored content. 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Rime review_ by [Matt Peckham](https://time.com/author/matt-peckham/) ## Matt Peckham Aug 3, 2017 7:52 PM UTC by [Matt Peckham](https://time.com/author/matt-peckham/) ## Matt Peckham Aug 3, 2017 7:52 PM UTC The worst you could say of [Tequila Works’ _Rime_](http://www.tequilaworks.com/en/projects/rime/) is that it’s an above-average puzzle game, and the best would involve talking about how lovely its interactive watercolor-ish vistas looked. If you missed it when it arrived for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in May because you’re rocking a Nintendo Switch, it finally has a release date for [Nintendo’s hybrid handheld-TV games console](http://time.com/4685094/nintendo-switch-review/): You can download a copy for $30 on November 14 in the U.S. If you’d rather buy the physical version, there’s a $10 premium, or $40 total. That version includes a download code for the game’s soundtrack by composer David García Díaz. (You can [sample some of it here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqn8%5FcST%5F%5FM).) I neglected to mention it [in my review of the game](http://time.com/4786966/rime-review/), but it’s quite nice, a lovely mix of orchestral, organ and electronic sounds that map beautifully to the game’s shift between ebullient and elegiac moments. _Rime_ was originally supposed to be a PlayStation 4 exclusive back in 2013, so it’s kind of amazing to think that after all this time, it’s available on three platforms, about to be joined by a fourth. **Buy now:** [_Rime_, Amazon, $39.99](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MQWPV4T/ref=as%5Fli%5Fqf%5Fsp%5Fasin%5Fil%5Ftl?ie=UTF8&tag=timecom-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B01MQWPV4T&linkId=b189949c0ded293b8bacb9f832608c86) ## Transcript This is Time Magazine's games critic Matt Peckham, and today I'm reviewing a game called Rime. [ MUSIC ] Rime is an adventure game with puzzling elements by studio Tequila Works. They're a Spanish studio whose first game Deadlight was a survival horror that came out back in 2012 and their second game just came out it's called the Sexy Brutal it's a very interesting game in which players will live a day over and over in order to solve a murder mystery. And now Rime a game that was first shown many years ago and reportedly went through many design [ UNKNOWN ] [ UNKNOWN ] is a young boy who has landed on an island [ UNKNOWN ] your not sure who you are or what happened. It's also not clear what you're supposed to do but these mysterious ruins back in the distance. And you're incentivized to explore on the merits of simple curiosity and the way the world looks. [ MUSIC ] Rime is definitely a gorgeous game, and it's beautiful in that distinctive way that few games are, in the sense that Abzu might be, or Fumito Ueda's Iko, or the painterly thing that Nintendo is doing in its Nintendo Switch and WiiU game The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. And so much of what's interesting about Rime can be had simply by looking. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] What is less interesting about Rime unfortunately are its puzzles. Rime is primarily a traversal game where you're poking around the perimeters of each area trying to find the way forward. Some of that is genuinely interesting because much of why you would wanna play Rime involves solving its mysteries. And those mysteries de- cloak piecemeal in accord with your choices. Race through areas front to back and you'll get the Cliff's notes account of the story. Scrutinize areas for collectible clues on the other hand, and if not quite everything is illuminated significantly more can be greened. Some of the puzzles do seem naval like this one that involves the particulars of light and shadow and position but too many others are either painfully obvious or merely the upshot of busy work. Think of problems and games whose solutions are simple matters of elimination where deduction is not on the menu and you merely poke your nose in the possibility space until you inevitably trip on the resolution. Making progress thus becomes a matter of noticing pretty obvious cues. In Ryan's case, traversal marks on stones or movable dispits with that, doohickeys and then obliging some rote action. Nothing surprises, which feels like a critical flaw in the medium that values the latter above diamonds. So what is Rime about? Well, its title is obviously signalling to Samuel Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, another tale of sea borne calamity. But it's also making reference to a less known form of the word. Which is to make something clear or vacant, to remove or take something away. In other words, something ceremonial is behind the games maneuvers, and some of it's a bleak incantations, unless I go right for a ritual. Its final moments are commensurately heartbreaking, but also bracing. The payoff which is powerful Doesn't resolve the game's shortcomings. In games as in so much else the journey must by definition upstage the destination. But the ending is beautifully handled. Cleverly connected to the undertaking and if you are in the mood for what amounts to a laconic and tranquil excursion to beautiful spaces, almost worth the price. If you find any of that interesting, the game is available for download for PC, Playstation 4 and Xbox one on May 26th and sometime later this year for an Nintendo switch. 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