In this insane race showdown of epic proportions, you’ll play as the world’s greatest secret agent, Danger Mouse, starring in Quark’s latest reality TV show, The Danger Games. Speed through city streets, battle enemies, and dodge explosions as you struggle for first place! Will you make it to the finish line in one piece?!

Play as Danger Mouse, Jeopardy Mouse, Colonel K, Penfold, or a host of other lovable heroes and nefarious villains from the hit BBC show, Danger Mouse. Gain new character and item cards with each win that can be used to activate new attacks in races, or enhance and strengthen your characters.

The Danger Games on Nintendo Switch™ also supports up to 4 Joy-Con™ controllers on one device, so you can face off against your friends from the comfort of your living room (or anywhere else!).

Danger Mouse is basically an obstacle course racing game where the better you handle the obstacles and their evasion, the more likely you end up in the first place. As this game is clearly aimed at kids with rich parents, it is easy and aside from the collecting of cards, there is bluntly speaking no real challenge in it.

As it is on Switch, you would love to take it with you on the go, but as the racing is mostly done online, you are in a bit of a pickle when you want to (ab)use the game to keep your kids happy on the go. At home, sure this plays well, with some big issues, but more on that later on.

I am a 41-year-old man. This is a children’s game. So I played it, but I also asked my brother’s youngest boy to play this one for me and tell me if he liked it. I tend to do this more often as he is the player that would benefit most from its childish gameplay and difficulty. He did enjoy it a little, but being spoiled with an uncle like me, he said he had played many better games at my place. This did not bode well for Danger Mouse.

Personally, I think it is a game to be avoided in every sense of the way. Microtransactions to buy power-ups, but they are so expensive, it felt like a rip-off. I did not bother getting one of em, because I prefer not to throw away my money, despite my often use of the meme on my twitter account. Spending money to enhance my cards in a game, sorry, this is not something I would do for a game that is being deleted from my micro SD card right after I finish this review.

The gameplay itself was slow to say the least, I often felt like I was playing better iterations of this game 10 years ago on my first iPhone and that is saying a lot.

The game also crashed on me, something that has not happened in a while. I have over 500 games on my beloved console, so to actually achieve this, is quite the feat?

I know I am sounding very negative about this game, which despite all its shortcomings will have an audience that will enjoy it much more than me, I just can not stand the microtransactions at those prices and the overall lack of proper gameplay, add that full-on crash on top and yeah, you know pretty much where I stand.

If not for the decent graphics, those cards do look sweet, this game would be a real bummer.