Review: Gecko Gods (Switch 2) - A Stripped-Back Zelda-Lite, Uneven But Made With Love | Switch Plaza News

Review: Gecko Gods (Switch 2) - A Stripped-Back Zelda-Lite, Uneven But Made With Love | Switch Plaza News

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Review: Gecko Gods (Switch 2) - A Stripped-Back Zelda-Lite, Uneven But Made With Love

Nintendo Life · 18 July 2026

A cold-blooded puzzling adventure. It took me the best part of four hours to click with Gecko Gods. Some may argue that my initial hesitations — about playing through a Zelda-lite 3D adventure as a gecko plucked straight from the wild, with little motivation beyond consuming bugs — put me in the wrong frame of mind from the start. But that was only a niggling kind of hesitation. The frustration that did for me, at least for a while, came from elsewhere. First, let’s address the gecko in the room. I like to lose myself in games – to have my imagination free to notice connections and themes and …

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