This week’s Nintendo eShop releases for North America are in, delivering new games, demos, and add-on content for Nintendo Switch – as well as plentiful discounts across all platforms.
Nintendo Switch Demos
- Automachef, Team17 – Free
It’s time to engineer tomorrow’s kitchen, today. Plan. Position. Program: Design and build automated restaurants, then program them to run like well-oiled machines! Do you have a can-do attitude and the know-how to conquer the world of automated restaurants?
- Daemon X Machina Prologue Demo, Nintendo – Free
This new action-mech game launches on Sept. 13, but players that want to take those powerful mechs for a spin can now try out the free demo version of the game. In the Prologue demo, players will pilot their mechs through the beginning of the game, and all progress earned will carry over to the main game, once purchased. A key feature of the demo is the ability to play in local co-op mode with up to four players (additional accessories may be required for multiplayer mode; sold separately).
- Desktop Bowling, SAT-BOX – Free
A full bowling experience that’s simple to play and supports up to 6 players. Change your desk into a zoo, an iceberg, and a variety of other stages. Master over 90 different types of bowling balls. Feel the bowling ball in your hands through the Nintendo Switch Joy-Con controllers!
- Domiverse, Haunted Tie – Free
Face off against up to 3 friends locally in this fun and frenetic arena fighting game. A single mistake can be fatal, and there’s no room for mercy in Domiverse. Your friends are obstacles you must destroy in order to get the power crown. So go for it and become the ultimate champion!
- Fifty Words by POWGI, Lightwood Games – Free
A brand new word search puzzle from POWGI. This time there’s no grid, no list of words to find and no wrong letters! Discover the 50 intertwined words and paint them with vibrant highlights to create a unique piece of blended color art as you relax into each puzzle.
Nintendo Switch Games
- Arcade Archives Pinball, Hamster Corporation – $7.99
Pinball is a pinball game released by Nintendo in 1984. The rules are simple even for beginners: try to gain points without losing the ball. However, with various tricks and features, the game offers a depth that even experts can enjoy. Fans can also enjoy seeing Mario and Lady from Donkey Kong in the bonus stage!
- Asdivine Menace, KEMCO – $12.99
A century after the events of Asdivine Dios, peace has finally settled in. That is until a visitor from another world suddenly shows up proclaiming the entire universe is about to be destroyed. Hearing this, Izayoi sets off in an attempt to reverse this seemingly pronounced fate with a trio of very idiosyncratic spirits as they criss-cross four worlds in search of an answer.
- Battle Supremacy: Ground Assault, Atypical Games – $19.99
Battle Supremacy: Ground Assault features huge content – never-ending lines of modern combat vehicles, huge environments with realistic weather, online multiplayer and countless single-player missions and drills.
- Blasphemous, Team17 – $24.99 (available Tuesday 10th September)
A foul curse has fallen upon the land of Cvstodia and all its inhabitants – it is simply known as The Miracle. Play as The Penitent One, a sole survivor of the massacre of the “Silent Sorrow.” Trapped in an endless cycle of death and rebirth, it’s down to you to free the world from this terrible fate and reach the origin of your anguish.
- Bulletstorm: Duke of Switch Edition, Gearbox Publishing – $29.99
Step into the boots of Grayson Hunt, an exiled member of the elite assassin group Dead Echo, after a battle with his former general sends them both crash landing on the abandoned resort planet of Stygia.
- Creature in the Well, Flight School Studio – $14.99
The Creature in the Well game is a top-down, pinball-inspired, hack-and-slash dungeon crawler. As the last remaining BOT-C unit, venture deep into a desert mountain to restore power to an ancient facility, haunted by a desperate Creature. Uncover and upgrade powerful gear in order to free the city of Mirage from a deadly sandstorm.
- Deadly Premonition Origins, TOYBOX – $29.99
The original open-world survival horror game is now on Nintendo Switch. If you’ve never experienced the cult classic, now you can play it at home, on the go or while drinking coffee in a remote hotel in the woods.
- Divinity: Original Sin 2, Larian Studios – $49.99
This critically beloved and fan-favorite role-playing game is now available on the Nintendo Switch system. With the power of Nintendo Switch, players can slay monsters and unleash magic with up to three other friends at home or on the go.
- Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 Lite Version, Bandai Namco Entertainment – Free
Experience some of the game’s key elements for free, with the Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 Lite version. The following features are available in the Lite version: The first 5 episodes of the Story Mode; Online Matches; and all contents of the Hero Colosseum.
- Fifty Words by POWGI, Lightwood Games – $7.99
A brand new word search puzzle from POWGI. This time there’s no grid, no list of words to find and no wrong letters! Discover the 50 intertwined words and paint them with vibrant highlights to create a unique piece of blended color art as you relax into each puzzle.
- Final Fantasy VIII Remastered, Square Enix – $19.99
It is a time of war. The Republic of Galbadia, under the influence of the sorceress Edea, mobilizes its great armies against the other nations of the world. Squall and other members of SeeD, an elite mercenary force, join hands with Rinoa, a resistance fighter, to fight against Galbadia’s tyrannical rule and to prevent Edea from fulfilling her ultimate goal.
- Gnomes Garden: Lost King, 8Floor Games – $9.99
Go on an adventure through a world of secrets and mystical creatures in this exciting casual fantasy strategy game, Gnomes Garden. A bunch of quests, over 40 levels in four unique worlds – all this awaits you right now. Restore ancient buildings, collect magical harvests, carefully distribute resources. All this is the key to success.
- Gun Gun Pixies, PQube – $49.99 (available Tuesday 10th September)
When their home planet Pandemo comes under attack, Usamaeru and Kamerieru travel to earth to study humans and learn enough to save their home. The Pixies infiltrate a girl’s dormitory where everything is giant, including the girls they’ve come to study! Your weapons are loaded with Happy Bullets with positive effects! Use them to gather information from the girls.
- Headliner: NoviNews, Unbound Creations – $13.99
An award-winning adventure where you control the news and its impact on society, your friends and career. Different choices lead to unique combinations of endings.
- Himno, Ratalaika Games – $4.99
Can you be the light in the darkness? Himno is a non-violent, no death platformer. Use wall-jumps, slides, and dashes to reach new heights in randomly generated maps! Using intuitive and easy to learn controls, parkour through each map to overcome platforming challenges to reach new districts.
- Hopping girl KOHANE Jumping Kingdom: Princess of the Black Rabbit, D-O – $19.99
This game is an action-puzzle game that the player operates Kohane who rides pogo-stick to aim for a goal. You can enjoy a full-fledged action, even with a simple operation with one hand’s thumb. The important point of the game is magic stamps with various effects. Let’s step on the magic stamps well and aim for a high score.
- Hyperforma, HeroCraft – $9.99
Hyperforma is a captivating story about a lone explorer who makes his journey into the relic cyberspace Ancient Network, an artifact of a mysteriously vanished civilization of the past, hoping to reveal the secrets of its masters. The gameplay of Hyperforma represents a reinvention of a classic puzzle-based arcade that is viewed as a hacking process of sophisticated virtual defense systems.
- If My Heart Had Wings, MoeNovel – $19.99
Aoi Minase returns with shattered dreams to his wind-swept hometown of Kazegaura. There, atop a hill lined with wind turbines, he encounters a wheelchair-bound girl, Kotori Habane, and a beautiful, white glider soaring through the sky. Together, they decide to revive their school’s defunct Soaring Club in order to ride the Morning Glory, a phantom cloud carried on the wind that blows across Kazegaura.
- Just Black Jack, Run-Down Games – $1.99
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- NBA 2K20, 2K Games – $59.99
NBA 2K has evolved into much more than a basketball simulation. 2K continues to redefine what’s possible in sports gaming with the NBA 2K20 game, featuring best-in-class graphics and gameplay, ground-breaking game modes and unparalleled player control and customization. Plus, with its immersive open-world Neighborhood, the NBA 2K20 game is a platform for gamers and ballers to come together and create what’s next in basketball culture.
- OBAKEIDORO!, Free Style – $19.99
A thrilling, heart-pounding struggle! Humans have three minutes to work together to get away from the Monster. Playing as the Monster, you’ll have to utilize your skills to catch the Humans! Play Bogeyrun! online or offline with up to four players.
- Pocket Clothier, Kairosoft – $12
Ever wanted to run your own clothing store? Now you can! Let your inner fashionista flower as you cultivate a quaint corner shop into a world-class super brand. Position mannequins, run promotions, even set up an in-store crepe stand. Dream up other ways to stand out so that shoppers can’t stay away!
- Remothered: Tormented Fathers, Darril Arts – $29.99
Remothered: Tormented Fathers is the pure and realistic survival horror video game. Psychology plays a huge role within the game: heroes and enemies are atypical and the line between good and evil is blurred. The plot is rich of unpredictable twists, but touching at the same time.
- Risk of Rain 2, Gearbox Publishing – $29.99
No run will ever be the same with randomized stages, enemies, bosses, and items. Play solo, or team up with up to four friends online to fight through hordes of monsters, unlock new loot and find a way to escape the planet. Additional survivors, stages, items, enemies and features are still in active development and will be added in multiple free content updates.
- River City Girls, WayForward – $29.99
There’s trouble once again on the mean streets of River City, but this time the boys are in over their heads! In this all-new entry in the legendary beat-’em-up series, hot-blooded heroes Kunio and Riki have been captured, leaving it to their hard-hitting girlfriends, Kyoko and Misako, to serve up some payback.
- SpaceColorsRunner, Arach Games – $5.99
SpaceColorsRunner is an Arcade game in which you have to be extremely vigilant! Cosmos, a distant galaxy, colorful planets, and dangerous obstacles. You start the game with one of the top 10 starships in the galaxy. Be concentrated and fast enough to survive and achieve the best results. Collect galactic coins to expand your fleet with more machines.
- Space Cows, All In! Games – $12.99
Space Cows is a cheesy twin-stick shooter featuring weaponized toilet plunger and intense zero gravity combat. Shoot, dash and wobble in slow motion to save cows and lay vengeance upon an evil corporation.
- Spice and Wolf VR, Gemdrops – $24.99
Kraft Lawrence is a traveling merchant who meets Holo, a beautiful woman who can transform into a wolf. As they travel together they face many hardships, such as having to walk in the rain. In order to avoid the sudden downpour, Holo and Lawrence take shelter in an old, abandoned water mill in the woods. They huddle around a small fire and enjoy a slightly strange but relaxing time together.
- Star-Crossed Myth: The Department of Punishments, Voltage – $29.99
Your days are dreamless and mundane until, one night, you notice a star sparkling in the heavens. Suddenly, the beautiful gods of the stars appear before you. Their goal? To erase their sins. This exquisite, heartrending true love… all began with a sin.
- Star-Crossed Myth: The Department of Wishes, Voltage – $29.99
Your days are dreamless and mundane until, one night, you notice a star sparkling in the heavens. Suddenly, the beautiful gods of the stars appear before you. Their goal? To erase their sins. This exquisite, heartrending true love… all began with a sin.
- Super Jumpy Ball, Casual Games – $4.99
Super Jumpy Ball is a simple and fun 2D platform game for 1-8 players, inspired by retro platformers. Faced with clever level design and challenging obstacles, players must find their way through each level while bouncing, wall jumping, avoiding spikes and spike balls.
- Super Kirby Clash, Nintendo – Free
To defeat bosses this wicked, it’ll take a whole team of Kirbys! In this free-to-start multiplayer action game, you can choose from four unique Roles and join up to three other players to take down tough bosses. Puff up your power by crafting weapons and spending materials at the Shoppe to receive even MORE weapons, not to mention armor and items. Pass a Joy-Con controller to a friend to play locally, and if you have a Nintendo Switch Online membership, you can even play online.
- The Battle Of Mahjong, Kusone Studio – $9.99
The Battle Of Mahjong is the best longan game, players can know more about the quintessence of Chinese culture and the fun of mahjong through the challenges of the game. Every mission has certain connections, once you’ve won all the battles, the hidden characters and different functions are waiting for you.
- The Long Journey Home, Daedalic Entertainment – $29.99
The Long Journey Home combines an open world full of galaxies, planets, and anomalies with quests and mechanics of a rogue-like RPG. You have to make decisions – and choose to live with the consequences. One destination. Endless adventures. Where will this journey take you?
- Throne Quest Deluxe, Valorware – $5.99 (available Wednesday 11th September)
Throne Quest Deluxe is a seem-less open-world Action Role Playing Game (ARPG). Delve into an adventurous world full of dungeons and crypts, fighting many types of vicious monsters and search for huge amounts of loot.
- Wand Wars, Moonradish – $19.99
Wand Wars is a fast-paced, top-down, magical sports game. Players ride brooms over ancient arenas, cast arcane spells and turn opponents into adorable chickens.
- Wuppo: Definitive Edition, Knuist and Perzik – $14.99
After losing its home, one lonely Wum must travel the length and width of the world to find a new place to live. From the metropolitan haven Popocity to the cavernous Bliekopolis, our Wum will discover magical places and encounter strange creatures. But this Wum is no traditional hero and only by using wit and charm can it succeed in this massive journey.
