This week’s Nintendo eShop releases for North America are in, delivering new games, demos, and add-on content for Nintendo Switch and Nintendo 3DS – as well as plentiful discounts across all platforms.
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Nintendo Switch Demos
- Ape Out, Devolver Digital – Free (available Monday 22nd July)
Ape Out is a wildly intense and colorfully stylized smash ‘em up about primal escape, rhythmic violence, and frenetic jazz. Build up nearly unstoppable momentum and use your captors as both weapons and shields to crush everyone on your procedurally generated path to freedom.
- Bot Vice, DYA Games – Free
Show off your skills and reflexes in this frantic gallery shooter arcade action title – Filled with bullets, bots, and explosions! You play as Erin Saver, who carries out a personal vendetta against the criminal gang the Wildbots while bringing them to justice.
- Desktop Table Tennis Trial Edition, SAT-BOX – Free (available Friday 19th July)
The desk sets the stage for this easy to enjoy ping-pong game! It may be simple to play, but don’t take your eye off the ball. Challenge your friends to a ping-pong match anytime, anywhere. Shake and swing the Joy-Con controller to really feel like a part of the action.
- KILL la KILL IF, Arc System Works – Free (available Friday 19th July)
All looks and feels of the original anime series remodeled with 3D Cell-look technology! Perform devastating combos, destroy your opponents, and relive the anime with your favorite scenes from the original series, revived with stunning visuals and cinematics! Discover a brand new story through the eyes of Satsuki as she becomes the protagonist for the very first time!
Nintendo Switch Games
- Adrenaline Rush: Miami Drive, Cool Small Games – $3.99
Find yourself smack in the middle of a police chase! Get a taste of adrenaline and thrills! It’s all waiting for you in Adrenaline Rush: Miami Drive. Driving in the wrong direction, crackups and spectacular crashes, dizzying speed ‒ all this against the incredible backdrop of the night city and highways.
- Alien Escape, KORION – $4.99
System failure! Fuel is empty! Timmy and his alien troop crash-land their UFO on an unknown planet. They seek help at a nearby castle… But unfortunately for them, they are soon captured and forced to do hard labor. They refuse to accept this fate and decide to escape from the fortress. In this puzzle platform adventure, Timmy tries to use his abilities to influence gravity, escape from the gruesome castle, save his friends and defeat evil.
- Arcade Archives Shusse Ozumo, Hamster Corporation – $7.99
Shusse Ozumo is a sports game that was developed by Technos Japan in 1984. Players play as Sumo wrestlers, and aim to become a Yokozuna. Shusse Ozumo is the oldest sumo arcade game and was the forerunner of later Sumo Tournament games. Sumo is a competitive full-contact wrestling sport where a wrestler(Rikishi) attempts to force another wrestler out of a circular ring (Dohyo) or into touching the ground with anything other than the soles of the feet. Dance a battle of skill and power in the sumo ring! There is only room for one yokozuna!
- Archlion Saga, KEMCO – $4.99
Too many games in the dusty shelf waiting to be played? No problem, this pocket-sized RPG provides you an adequate experience. Here you go an adventure packed with emotion and accomplishment. A hero will appear in a time where the foretold end of the world is approaching. It’s Archlion King, yourself. Set out for a journey toward the far east for the final battle!
- Astro Bears, SONKA – $6.99 (available Friday 19th July)
Get ready for the biggest cosmic comeback on Nintendo Switch. Astro Bears is back and shinier than ever, with loads of improvements, new Bears, planets and play modes to pump up the party… again! Introducing a new update for the game that hundreds of thousands of players fell in love with. Experience even more chaotic gameplay with infinite or finite Ribbons, Planets ranging from small to huge, and 8 Bears with different stats to experiment with.
- Automachef, Team17 – $14.99 (available Tuesday 23rd July)
Welcome to Automachef, a resource management puzzler where you design kitchens, program machinery and watch your genius come to life. 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?
- Battle and Crash, Starsign – $4.99
Battle and Crash is a car battle action Game in which you take out car after car in a battle royal to achieve victory. Compete for unique Rifles, Missiles, Lasers, and clash and take out your enemies in an ultimate battle royal!
- Battleship, Marmalade Game Studio – $19.99 (available Wednesday 24th July)
Play a classic game of Battleship based on the popular Hasbro board game or bombard the enemy with airstrikes, mines and surgical strikes in the brand new Commanders mode. It takes a tactical commander to sink your opponent’s fleet before they find yours.
- Bubble Cats Rescue, Cool Small Games – $3.99
Jump into bubble excitement now! Experience an adventure and join Alice the Cat as she races around the world to free all of her baby kitties. They need your help! Rescue them from the evil bubbles. You’ll need to be skillful and accurate.
- Etherborn, Altered Matter – $16.99
Etherborn is an elegant leap in the gravity-puzzle genre; an environmental puzzle platformer built on exploring and understanding gravity-shifting structures. You are a voiceless being that has just been born into a world where a bodiless voice awaits your arrival. As your first thoughts emerge, you realize your journey has just begun. You must reach this ethereal voice to fully understand your own existence.
- High Noon Revolver, Keybol Games – $2.99 (available Tuesday 23rd July)
High Noon Revolver is a 2D Action Shooter; blast your way across 3 layers of platforming, collecting gold and obtaining upgrades helping you go from puny to powerhouse! Play as a cast of colorful characters, each with unique weapons and abilities (like Chickens with Shotguns and Robots with Swords!). Chase down and collect bounties on Wanted outlaws everywhere from Sunken Ships to Haunted Mansions!
- Jim Is Moving Out!, Cinemax – $14.99 (available Friday 19th July)
Jim Is Moving Out! is a physics-based game, where players have to pay attention to the environment, carefully plan their next move and be ready for everything! From the concrete jungle, through the land of sun and dunes, up to northern wilderness – JIMO will send you on the adventure you won’t forget, especially in co-op mode. If you are keen to solve puzzles, like to listen to classical music and love co-op gaming experience, you need to try this game.
- JumpHead: Battle4Fun!, Light Maze – $8.99 (available Friday 19th July)
Compete to see who is the greatest Jump Champion by landing on as many heads as possible, each one earning you points. Take advantages of combo to crush your friends before one of them uses a ridiculous, but deadly bonus from an arsenal of twenty-six items to get an edge over you!
- Lust for Darkness, SimFabric – $14.59
A psychological horror of seeking satisfaction on the border of two intertwining worlds. An intriguing plot with erotic and occult themes guides the player’s character through the Yelvertons’ Victorian mansion and a perverse land inspired with Lovecraft’s works and paintings of Zdzisław Beksiński.
- Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order, Nintendo – $59.99 (available Friday 19th July)
The Marvel Ultimate Alliance series returns for the first time in 10 years with a new action RPG exclusively on the Nintendo Switch system. Assemble your ultimate team of Marvel Super Heroes from a huge cast, including the Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy, X-Men and more. Team up with friends to prevent galactic devastation at the hands of the mad cosmic tyrant Thanos and his ruthless warmasters, The Black Order.
- Mini Trains, QubicGames – $5.99 (available Friday 19th July)
Mini Trains transport you in a cozy playroom with the best railways tabletop ever, packed with 40 different layouts. You will be challenged to build tracks in situations that constantly get more puzzling. Use your logic, imagination and engineering skills to safely lead the trains to their final destination. And of course, you get to sit in the driver’s cab and blow the whistle!
- Mochi Mochi Boy, Ratalaika Games – $4.99 (available Friday 19th July)
Mochi Mochi Boy has to rescue his friends from the Devil! In order to do this, you must be clever enough to outwit the devil by stretching, twisting, and warping over each tile past 130+ floors of his tower. Be careful though, once you move over a tile, you can’t go where you’ve already been! Twist carefully for hidden dangers like spikes, bombs, spring traps, and monsters in the devilish dungeon mode.
- Pawarumi, Manufacture 43 – $14.99 (available Wednesday 24th July)
Pawarumi is a modern shoot’em up set in a retro futuristic sci-fi pre-Columbian universe. You’ll take control of the almighty ship Chukaru and its three unique weapons! Shoot wisely to either do double damage, heal yourself or charge your Super Attack!
- Quest Hunter, 2 Zombie Games – $16.99
Quest Hunter is an isometric action-RPG where your choice drives the story. Find tons of treasures and secrets, solve puzzles, equip your character, level up your skills and finish off enemy bosses. Play on the couch, alone or with friends, or make it an online party for up to four players!
- Redeemer: Enhanced Edition, Koch Media – $29.99 (available Friday 19th July)
Intensive top-down action: Subdue your opponents with a wide range of firearms and melee weapons such as knives, truncheons, fire axes, hammers, and much more. Use your abilities as a mercenary to tame your opponents. You have at your disposal brutal fighting techniques, combos, charged attacks, and jumping techniques.
- RISE: Race The Future, VD-DEV – $16.49 (available Monday 22nd July)
RISE: Race The Future is a racing game set in a near future where a new kind of wheel technology will let you drift on all type of terrains and especially on water.
- Royal Roads, 8Floor Games – $9.99
The princess embarks on an exciting adventure to hunt down the evil witch and turn back into her true self. Get ready for vibrant locations, exciting levels, fun characters, simple gameplay for any age, great music and a storyline you’ll never forget. Adventure awaits on the Royal Roads!
- Run the Fan, Silesia Games – $3.99 (available Tuesday 23rd July)
Run the Fan is a unique game that requires strong strategic planning, as well as quick reflexes and precision. The game consists of over 50 boards, and your goal is the same on each of them: to switch on the fan. But to achieve that, you must do much more than just push the button!
- Switchy Road, Dispatch Games – $4.99
Follow the road as you switch shapes to cross through the ever-changing gates. The new gaming sensation that’s crossing the nation is endless fun for the whole family!
- Tarot Readings Premium, Crazysoft – $8.99
Use our tarot reading cards adviser to learn about your future and fate! The tarot reading is a pack of playing cards used in parallel for divination in the form of tarotology and cartomancy. With our game, you can have the full taro experience! It makes you feel like you are visiting a real gypsy tarot reader. She will shuffle the cards, let you choose them and then present them and explain their meanings.
- The Drama Queen Murder, Ocean Media – $9.99
There’s been a murder in the world-famous Eastville Opera House, which is the hub of high society in Eastville. Everyone who’s anyone is a regular visitor. But tonight it’s the final curtain for someone… because Dolores Molinero, the Queen of Drama, has been cruelly murdered. As the new crime investigator in town, it is your job to unravel this tale of love, passion, and intrigue to unmask a murderer.
- World Cruise Story, Kairosoft – $12
Get ready to take the helm of history’s grandest, most over-the-top luxury cruise liner for an unforgettably addictive excursion at sea. Deck your own ship with everything from lavish suites and first-class restaurants to casinos and hot tubs! You call the shots as you travel the world, visiting every country on the map–even entertaining royalty with tours truly fit for kings!
Nintendo 3DS Games
- Pinball Breakout 3, nuGAME – $6.99
Pinball Breakout is a breakout game which combines the game mechanics of a traditional breakout game and a flipper game. Play through 15 exciting levels as you aim for a high score.
