The runaway success of Dispatch proved there's still a place for the kind of narrative adventures that TellTale Games made famous. Adhoc Studio, a studio composed of veterans from TellTale Games, Ubisoft, and Night School, revived the formula and delivered one of 2025's biggest hits in Dispatch.
After its October release, it has sold more than two million copies and received huge critical acclaim.
It currently has a Metacritic rating of 89 and was nominated for several of The Game Awards.
Our Clara Lester loved Dispatch. In her review, she wrote:
"The worldbuilding is fantastic, and the writing is high-quality. It's very lighthearted in tone, compared to what I was anticipating, with some moments having me pause the game so I could finish laughing. However, the game also knows when to get serious."
Now Nintendo Switch players can join in the superheroic party, as Dispatch comes to Nintendo's consoles on January 28. Switch 2 will get a free update for offering enhanced performance with up to 60fps and 1440p resolution compared to 30fps and 720p on the original console.
Dispatch is also on sale in the PlayStation Store and discounted in Steam's Winter Sale. The beauty of this game is that it places superheroes in a world that has completely accepted and integrated their presence. They have a literal dispatch that sends the proper superheroes to the proper disaster or crime scene.
Our hero, or our dispatcher, is Robert Robertson. Better known as Mecha Man, he has to get a real job to repair his battle suit and hopefully one day defeat his nemesis. Hey, not all superheroes are independently wealthy like Batman, cough cough.