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A perfect fit for the Switch; The most fun builder; Competent in handheld mode; Tons to do

Performance issues; No touchscreen support

Having spent plenty of time questing, building and defending its virtual settlements on myriad other platforms - including fellow portable, PlayStation Vita - Dragon Quest Builders has finally brought its masonry wares to Nintendo Switch.

Dragon Quest Builders has to be one of my favourite building games in a few years. I reviewed the PS4 version back in 2016 and the Switch version is out in a few days time bringing the experience to a portable console.

The Nintendo Switch's roaring success all around the world, and in Japan perhaps more than anywhere else, means that Japanese developers found out a bit late perhaps that they should probably do better to support the system as much as they can since not only Nintendo is shifting a lot of units, but...

Dragon Quest Builders is one of those bizarre games that tries to marry one genre with another. In this case, it's the RPG-like qualities of the Dragon Quest series being married to block-based, world-constructing, survival qualities of a game like Minecraft.

Dragon Quest Builders was a sleeper hit when it launched on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita back in 2016, blending ideas seen in open-world builder games like Minecraft with traditional quest devices seen in the mainline Dragon Quest games.

Since it's impossible to talk about Dragon Quest Builders without referencing Minecraft in some way, let us start early on by saying that there are indeed similarities, because Dragon Quest Builders is a title that pays tribute Mojang's game in a lot of ways.

A brilliant, feature-packed game that any self-respecting Switch player should be picking up right about now

Minecraft but better, way way better. Works well on the switch. Graphics are dumb down vs PS4 obviously) it has no effect on game play.

Surprised by this game a lot, looks almost identical to the PS4 version, just slightly lower shadow quality and locks at 30fps when docked but the game is amazingly addictive and fun, it holds your hand in the crafting for the people that aren't really into it all that much or just don't like the...