This week’s Nintendo eShop releases for Europe are in, delivering new games, demos, and add-on content for Nintendo Switch – as well as plentiful discounts across all platforms.
Nintendo Switch Demos
- Doodle God: Crime City, JoyBits
Over 500 puzzles to solve and items to create as you play the role of Crime Boss or Cop. You decide how you want to play as you play through multiple hard-nosed storylines & play modes. As you build your Gang and make your fortune you must evade the Cops as well as fight off rival games in order to become the Big Boss of the City.
- Neo Cab, Fellow Traveller
Stay human in a world overcome by automation. Play as Lina, one of the last human driver-for-hire on the streets of Los Ojos. Your friend and only lifeline has gone missing; with no money and nowhere to stay, the only thing you can do is keep driving. Choose what passengers to pick up and how you engage with them to learn their stories. Balance your own emotional wellbeing with the needs of your pax as you strive to keep your perfect rating, and your job. Maybe someone in this city can help you with your own story?
- New Star Manager, Five Aces Publishing
Welcome to New Star Manager: The critically acclaimed game from Simon Read, creator of the BAFTA Award-winning New Star Soccer series. Take control of New Star FC – a beleaguered soccer club which needs your management skills and instincts to unlock the team’s potential and make it to the top of the game. This is soccer management like you’ve never experienced it – Be more than just a player, be the head, the heart, and backbone of New Star FC. Be the Manager.
Nintendo Switch Games
- 80 Days, inkle
Playing as Phileas Fogg’s loyal valet, Passepartout, you must balance your master’s health, your finances, and the time, as you choose your own path from city to city all the way around the world. Bribe your way onto early departures, but don’t let yourself go bankrupt or you’ll be sleeping rough and begging for aid! Trade items for profit, and collect the equipment for the conditions you’ll face: but too much luggage will slow you down.
- Arcade Archives Karate Champ, Hamster Corporation
Karate Champ is an action game that was released from Data East in 1984. Players train variety karate skills with a combination of stick operation, to be a champion of competitions. At the time, a bonus stage to wrestle with cattle on the beach was a hot topic.
- Beats Runner, FuryLion Group
Beats Runner is a bite-sized retro-cyberpunk rhythm action platform game. Just follow the beats and rush forward! Caution for the spikes and traps! Rush forward and collect as many stars and coins as possible! Unlock unique characters for more fun, and level up for more challenges!
- Candleman, indienova
Candleman is an action-adventure story entwined with low-light gameplay. Acting as a little candle who can burn for only 10 seconds, players will venture through unsettling darkness. Struggle to overcome obstacles based on the mechanics of light and shadow. Explore a wide range of enchanted environments while seeking distant light. Unveil the hidden treasure that concerns us all.
- CASE: Animatronics, OOO Valnat
CASE: Animatronics – scary and challenging first-person stealth horror with animatronics. Control of the police department is in the hands of anonymous hacker. Just stay alive…
- Community Inc, tinyBuild Games
As a new Manager, build a happy community and trade with other races… for profit. Yes, that’s right, we need their happiness so we can power up our portals. The Lings, your workers, will obey you and help you with your village. But beware, they can cause a lot of problems too. If this is not enough, there are other creatures that will try to do the same, they can trade, fight or help you. Oh, don’t forget about the weather and some unexpected events.
- CROSSNIQ+, Future Memory
CROSSNIQ+ (CROSS-neek plus) is a “y2k aesthetic” arcade puzzle game, featuring a late 90s-inspired futuristic visual style – and serving up brain-bending, lightning-fast gameplay straight from the golden age of arcade puzzle games!
- Cubixx, Ghostlight
Cubixx is a fast-paced action puzzle game that sends high scoring, combo chasing gameplay to the third dimension! Think you’re ready to take on the cube? Then fire up your Cubot’s laser and cut your way across 50 Arcade levels in non-stop retro-inspired action!
- Fault: Milestone One, Sekai Games
Follow Selphine, the bubbly Princess and her sharp-witted Royal Guardian, Ritona, on their journey of a lifetime back to their homeland of Rughzenhaide.
- Galaxy Champions TV, Silesia Games
Galaxy Champions TV is a top-down closed arena shooter inspired by the classic arcade game Smash TV. Get powerful weapons and power-ups, kill huge amount of enemies, level up, unlock upgrades and beat all the bosses to become the champion of the most violent TV show of all time! Are you ready to become the Champ?!
- Ghostbusters: The Video Game Remastered, Saber Interactive
The beloved and critically acclaimed Ghostbusters video game is back and remastered for Nintendo Switch! Strap on your proton pack once again and join the Ghostbusters on the adventure with the voice and likeness of the original crew as you battle to save New York!
- Hexagroove: Tactical DJ, Ichigoichie
Hexagroove combines elements of strategy, rhythm, and action games in a unique blend of self-expression. Your goal as a DJ is to combine musical loops in real time to regulate a virtual audience’s energy, working them into a state of euphoria with your artistic skills. The action swings from contemplative to frantic as you move between song sections in one of ten dance music genres. Over time you’ll unlock new musical loops, DJ tricks, and club venues to play in. Perform together with friends in your room or on the dance floor with this truly creative title.
- Lanternium, Victory Road
Lanternium by Blazing Planet Studio is a puzzle adventure game where you have to help the mighty Raccoon to overcome many obstacles and labyrinths. Set in the fantastic world, this game is family-friendly and suitable for all ages. Gameplay is based on solving the puzzles by interacting with different types of blocks and colors.
- Neo Cab, Fellow Traveller
Stay human in a world overcome by automation. Play as Lina, one of the last human driver-for-hire on the streets of Los Ojos. Your friend and only lifeline has gone missing; with no money and nowhere to stay, the only thing you can do is keep driving. Choose what passengers to pick up and how you engage with them to learn their stories. Balance your own emotional wellbeing with the needs of your pax as you strive to keep your perfect rating, and your job. Maybe someone in this city can help you with your own story?
- One Night Stand, Ratalaika Games
In One Night Stand, explore the stranger’s bedroom and seek out clues to identify who she is and what brought you both together. You may resort to some unusual methods to find the answers you’re looking for, but try not to prod and pry too much – a nosy guest quickly becomes an unwanted one!
- Pet Shop Snacks, Cool Small Games
Welcome to Pet Shop Snacks! Upgrade your bar, beautify it and stock up on the very best ingredients. Let your restaurant be the talk of the town! Learn crazy recipes from the famous dog star chef! Deliver orders on time, but be careful not to mix them up! To work!
- Rimelands: Hammer of Thor, QubicGames
Rimelands: Hammer of Thor is a turn-based RPG set in a unique world where steampunk meets Norse mythology. You’re Rose Cristo – a young treasure hunter on a quest to unveil a mystery behind a new enemy that arrives up into your world. On your way, you uncover a truth about your heritage and stop the threat that could destroy the world.
- Sniper Elite 3 Ultimate Edition, Rebellion Interactive
Sniper Elite 3 is a tactical World War 2 third-person shooter with stealth gameplay, authentic ballistics, and huge open levels. Stalk your targets through the canyons, oases, and cities of North Africa, as you sabotage a Nazi super-weapons programme that could end Allied resistance for good. Use stealth, planning, and skill to hunt your targets. From long-distance sniping to melee takedowns and explosive traps, you are as deadly up close as you are from afar.
- Soul Knight, ChillyRoom
This is the game you have always wanted in your subconscious. Explore the dungeon, collect crazy weapons, dodge bullets and shoot‘em all up! Extremely easy and intuitive control; super smooth and enjoyable gameplay, mixed with rogue-like elements.
- Soulslayer, Navila Software Japan
Yao Xiu is an ordinary young lady from a noble family. Yet it pains her to stay in the household where she doesn’t fit in. Her only way out is through marriage and starting a new family. Now, her with wedding approaching she is killed, unexpectedly, right on the eve of her big day. As Yao Xiu reopens her eyes right after her ‘death’. She finds herself trapped in a time loop—forcing her to live through the same day over and over, surviving and dying again and again.
- Spooky Ghosts Dot Com, Lone Wolf Technology
Spooky Ghosts Dot Com is a small Metroidvania about a ghost hunter named Ruby. One Halloween night a ghost hunting job comes in, but it turns out to not be a regular gig! Explore the haunted mansion, take down some ghosts, battle spooky bosses, and rescue the lost cats!
- Super Crate Box, Vlambeer
Vlambeer’s Super Crate Box is coming to bring back the glory of the golden arcade age, when all that really mattered was getting on that high score list.
- Teddy Gangs, Sabec
Teddy Gangs is a fun, fast-action fighting game where you have to beat the fluff out of any teddy that dares to challenge you, so be ready to stand up to hordes of evil teddy bears, but be warned this is not going to be a fluffy affair.
- The Tiny Bang Story, Ellada Games
Life on Tiny Planet was calm and carefree until a great disaster occurred – Tiny Planet was hit by a meteor! The world fell apart and now its future depends only on you! Use your imagination and creativity: in order to restore Tiny Planet and help its inhabitants, you will have to fix a variety of machines and mechanisms as well as solve puzzles in each of the five chapters of this game.
- Tic-Tac-Letters by POWGI, Lightwood Games
Tic-Tac-Letters is a single-player logic puzzle based on tic-tac-toe. Begin by placing letters so that there are no more than two Xs or Os consecutive in a row or column. Then continue with new letters and larger and more challenging puzzles.
- YU-NO: A girl who chants love at the bound of this world, Spike Chunsoft
Your love awaits beyond the bounds of this world! Play as Takuya, an academy student who discovers the secret to time travel thanks to a mysterious gift from his deceased father. Use the Reflector Device to travel through multiple timelines and gather clues to unlock the truth resting beneath Sword Cape!
Nintendo Switch Pre-Loads
- A Knight’s Quest, Curve Digital
Play as Rusty, a clumsy adventurer who accidentally sets about the end of the world. Solve mind-bending puzzles, defeat huge bosses, and platform your way through this action-adventure.
- Aldred: Knight of Honor, QUByte Interactive
In Knight of Honor, you are Aldred, the most powerful swordsman of the divine flame, passing through innumerable obstacles and war bosses to rid the kingdom of great evil. To progress in the game you need to be careful, each monster must be faced in a different way, switching weapons and spells can help you a lot.
- Creepy Brawlers, Mega Cat Studios
After a spectral hand pulls you out of your seat and into the silver screen, you become the underdog in an underworld championship. Lace up your gloves and get ready to duck, bob, and weave as you go toe to toe with a marathon of monsters. Better train like hell…
- Family Tree, eastasiasoft
Family Tree is a pinball platform game where you’ll be aiming your shots and bouncing on baddies to traverse many hand-crafted levels. Twist in the air and traverse devilishly designed obstacles to rescue your children, discover secrets and rack up score before you reach the goal.
- Lethis: Path of Progress, Plug In Digital
Lethis: Path of Progress is an old school 2D city builder set in a Victorian Steampunk universe called Lethis. You will have to build and manage cities, provide resources for your inhabitants while making sure there are enough workers to sustain your production lines. Trade with other cities, honor the requests of the Emperor and make your citizens happy.
- Mable and The Wood, Graffiti Games
Mable and The Wood is a Metroidvania where you can take the form of the bosses that you kill, changing how you’re able to explore the interconnected world.
- Monochrome Order, KEMCO
The world must forever make choices. The Arbiters’ mission is to use the ancient magic known as “Judgment” to follow their own justice and guide the world to a better place. A newly-appointed Arbiter, is assigned to a desolate country where he will have to make various Judgments. However, not everyone will agree with his idea of justice.
- Pocket Stables, Kairosoft
Manage your very own ranch while training your racehorses to win big in exciting races! Build training facilities like dirt courses and pools amidst the beautiful natural surroundings of your ranch. Increase your ranch’s fame and entice visitors to spend some dough at your ranch’s amenities, like ice cream stands and gift shops.
- Silk, Huey Games
Enter the biggest handcrafted open world of all time, fifty times larger than Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall! Explore three million square miles of uncharted terrain from Roman Damascus to Three Kingdoms China in an exploration RPG that transports you onto the Ancient Silk Road of 200AD.
- Super Street: Racer, Funbox Media
In Super Street: Racer, you don’t just buy your car, you build it. Use hundreds of car parts from the biggest aftermarket brands to customize your exterior, interior, and performance to go from scrap to supercar! Take your build to the streets and tear up the roads in breathtaking landscapes or world cities. From drifting on the highways in Tokyo and burning rubber in the Nevada desert to cruising the warm, atmospheric streets of Los Angeles.
- The Big Journey, Nestor Yavorskyy
The Big Journey is a roly-poly physics-based experience where players tilt the world to roll Mr. Whiskers safely through spooky caves, scorching deserts, lush valleys and more. Sporting simple but addictive gameplay, crisp storybook visuals, and a toe-tapping original soundtrack, The Big Journey is designed for players age four to ninety-four and more!
