The latest Nintendo Download update for North America has arrived, and it's bringing new games galore to the eShop in your region. As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and comment down below with your potential picks for the week. Enjoy!
Nintendo Switch
Dragon Quest Builders 2 (Square Enix, Fri 12th July, $59.99) To stop the worshippers of an ancient evil, you must join forces with the mysterious Malroth and build a ravaged world into the realm of your dreams. In this RPG adventure, you’ll explore huge islands, gather and craft with materials, design towns, level them up, and defend them from monsters and bosses alongside townspeople. Read our Dragon Quest Builders 2 review.
God Eater 3 (Bandai Namco, Fri 12th July, $59.99) Now you can experience the game's intriguing story, distinct characters, and stylish, high-speed combat whenever you're on the go, both alone and with friends! Jump into the fray of lightning-fast battle as you wield your God Arc! God Arcs are weapons you can transform to slash, shoot, and devour any Aragami that stand in your way!
Let's Sing 2019 (Koch Media, Tue 16th July, $39.99) Whether you're training your voice solo or celebrating a karaoke party with friends and family – it will be a success with Let’s Sing 2019’s new game modes and features.
Psyvariar Delta (Dispatch Games, Today, $29.99) ABOUT THE GAME: First released in arcades in 2000, this enhanced version retains the classic BUZZ system that lets players enjoy the thrill of levelling up by avoiding direct hits and evading enemy attacks just enough to graze their planes. Read our Psyvariar Delta review.
Nintendo Mobile
Dr. Mario World (Nintendo, out now, free to start) Nintendo’s newest mobile game, Dr. Mario World, is now available for smartphone devices. In this free-to-start puzzle and virus-matching puzzle game, meddlesome viruses have the in-game world in a panic, and Dr. Mario and friends must eliminate them by matching capsules with viruses of the same color. Dr. Mario World can also be played together with friends and family around the world. In Versus Mode, players can turn up the intensity by challenging their friends or any other players online to a one-on-one showdown in real time.
Switch eShop
Arcade Archives Ninja Spirit (HAMSTER, Thu 4th July, $7.99) Ninja Spirit is an action game released by IREM in 1988. The game follows Tsukikage, who was raised in the way of the ninja. As he learns the truth about where he came from, he sets out to travel the land as a rogue ninja to get revenge against the creature that killed his parents.
Blazing Chrome (The Arcade Crew, Today, $16.99) In Blazing Chrome, machines rule the world and the few humans left are on the edge of total extermination, lacking power, prestige or status among their metal and circuits overlords. Bring your best pal and kick some metal butts to free the humankind while enjoying a classic run’n’gun, fully loaded with action and exciting fights! Read our Blazing Chrome review.
Bouncy Bullets (Ratalaika Games, Fri 12th July, $4.99) In a world where the sky is blue and water is pink, with icebergs replaced by floating ice-creams, Bouncy Bullets is a colourfully vibrant first-person shooter that will task players to traverse wonderful terrains, in a bid to reach the portal that awaits them at the end of every level!
Dead in Vinland: True Viking Edition (Plug In Digital, Today, $27.99) DEAD IN VINLAND is a survival/management game, mixed with RPG and adventure elements, about a Viking family trying their best to survive on a mysterious island. This “True Viking” edition comes with all the DLCs released!
Desktop Bowling (SAT-BOX, Mon 8th July, $7.39) 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!
Distrust (Alawar Premium, Tue 16th July, $11.99) A helicopter crash left a group of explorers stranded near an Arctic research station. The survivors will have to resist the nightmares of dead frost and hunger. As they try to escape the dangers of the long dark polar night and find the way to the shelter of the abandoned station, all they are doing is sinking deeper into a nightmare scenario.
Doodle God: Crime City (JoyBits, Today, $6.99) WATCH YOUR CRIME CITY COME ALIVE AS YOU PLAY! 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.
Eagle Island (Screenwave Media, Today, $19.99) Join Quill & his owl companion Koji as they uncover the secrets of Eagle Island! Brave scorching deserts, lost tombs, sub-zero mountain tops, & lush jungles as the duo tracks down the Guardian Eagle Armaura in order to save their friend!
Forklift - The Simulation (Polygon Art, Tue 16th July, $9.99) Forklift - The Simulations drops you in the seat of a realistic and completely physic simulated forklift. Enthusiasts will enjoy the realistic look and feel of driving. Manage a Warehouse and deliver the goods in time. Master and unlock 9 different challenges with increasing difficulty. You learned everything and feel ready for the job? Dive into the endless mode! Deliver randomly selected goods within a tight time limit to their destination.
Laser Kitty Pow Pow (QubicGames, Fri 5th July, $2.99) Cute? Maybe. Fast? Sure. Wild? You bet! Laser Kitty Pow Pow is the “purrfect” arcade game for vibrant, fast-paced, and easy to pick-up action.
Lethal League Blaze (Team Reptile, Fri 12th July, $19.99) Lethal League Blaze is an intense, high-speed ball game, with unique characters, outta sight sounds and none of that weak shit. In Shine City, the anti-gravity ball game has long been illegal. The group who kept playing was dubbed the Lethal League.
Let's Go Nuts (Wed 17th July, $9.99) I'm sure that you always wanted to play a platform game with cute squirrels, where each level is full of objects to move, funny monsters to defeat, and nuts to collect. I'm entirely sure that was always your dream. You can save squirrels in single-player levels, endless mode, and local co-op multiplayer because your friends can dream too!
Lost Orbit: Terminal Velocity (PixelNAUTS Games, Tue 16th July, $9.99) LOST ORBIT centers around the exploration of space. Players take control of a lone astronaut who sets off on a dangerous journey to rejoin his civilization, armed with only an improvised set of equipment and a relentless spirit.
Mad Bullets (isTom Games, Fri 12th July, $8.99) Mad Bullets, the wackiest shooter will put your reflexes and laughing muscles to an intensive test. You can forget about boring stories, complicated controls and irritating tutorials, and jump right into a mind-blowing, high-speed action.
Metaloid: Origin (7 Raven Studios, Today, $9.99) Metaloid: Origin is a fast-paced gun ’n run 2D platformer. Take on the role of one out of three android warrior's known as “Predator” and dash through 9 different levels in order to save their planet from a robot army led by Lucian Corp, whom invade their planet and exploit the planetary resources to fuel their galactic war efforts.
Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet (ASHGAMES, Today, $19.99) Pirate heroine Nelly Cootalot takes on the villainous Baron Widebeard in this point and click adventure game. Meet a cast of outlandish characters and face perplexing challenges in your quest for the Treasure of the Seventh Sea. What is Baron Widebeard planning?
Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets (BeautiFun Games, Today, $14.99) Professor Lupo is a space scientist who’s been travelling around the galaxy on the Aurora Space Station, gathering the most impressive collection of aliens: his Horrible Pets. Adorable and harmless at first sight, these aliens turn into nasty, lethal creatures once they sense a human being close by.
Skulls of the Shogun: Bone-A-Fide Edition (Golem, Today, $19.99) Fast, compact and yet consistently thoughtful, there’s nothing else quite like Skulls of the Shogun -- and, for me, it earns its place amongst the genre’s greats.
Streets of Rogue (tinyBuild Games, Fri 12th July, $19.99) Streets of Rogue is a rogue-lite about player choice, freedom, and anarchic fun. The game takes inspiration from fast-paced top-down rogue-lites and adds free-form, experimentation-driven, emergent gameplay elements of immersive sims and RPGs.
Super Mutant Alien Assault (Fellow Traveller, Fri 12th July, $9.99) The Citizen Kane of Super Crate Box clones - dance with death through randomised rooms to clear your space freighter of irradiated aliens in a brutal arcade platformer shooter stuffed to the brim with unlockable weapons, explosives, special abilities and defense moves.
Tiny Metal: Full Metal Rumble (Area 35, Today, $14.99) TINY METAL marks its return with FULL METAL RUMBLE packed to the brim with bigger, better, and more metal content. A new engrossing wartime narrative and beloved tactical gameplay return as TINY METAL: FULL METAL RUMBLE revisits the core of what made the first franchise entry a beloved and intense, turn-based strategy experience.
Vektor Wars (Super Icon, Today, $9.99) Welcome to an 80’s neon future inspired first-person cyber shooter. The year is 2024 and you are Commander James Moses, a Space Ranger. Your mission: destroy the robot death army, rescue the Robodudes and save the world!
Wayout (Nestor Yavorskyy, Today, $2.99) Turn off the grid by pushing all the buttons in the right order and find a way out of this puzzle. It's not as easy as it sounds.
Ziggurat (Milkstone Studios, Fri 5th July, $14.99) Ziggurat is the best combination of First Person Shooter and Rogue-LITE you have ever seen. Become a neophyte sorcerer, and get ready for your rite of passage: Enter the labyrinth and face dangerous challenges to prove your worth and become a powerful wizard!
Nintendo eShop Sales
Check out the full list of deals available this week here.
So that's your lot for this week's North American Nintendo Download. Go on, be a sport and drop a vote in the poll above, and comment below with your hot picks!
Comments 43
Pretty good week; Switch and mobile.
Hmm. I forgot about Dr Mario.
The font in DragonQuest Builders 2 is so small! I can't imagine playing this game with Switch Lite's smaller screen. You'll need a magnifying glass to read.
I forgot about the new Tiny Metal game. I really enjoyed the first one. It's not an enhanced version of the first one is it anyone?
Nothing for me, but pretty good week.
I was mildly interested in the Dr. Mario mobile game until I found out how apparently predatory its microtransactions are
@Spoony_Tech I think it's a full-blown sequel.
I must have that Forklift Game!
I’m saving myself for Fire Emblem!!!!!
I didn't see the "Still waiting for DC Universe Online" option on the poll.
Dr. Mario World is really fun so far. I’m mostly going to be playing the new free DLC in The Messenger though.
@nintendolie
Luckily you can zoom in on the screen now
This is a fantastic week. Dragon quest builders 2, blazing chrome, ziggurat, super mutant alien assault, streets of rogue, psyvariar delta...
Dragon Quest Builders 2 and God Eater 3.
Dynamic duo of awesome games with awesome demos.
Dragon Quest Builders 2 is my summer game! Can't wait to start playing that in a few hours. Also downloaded Dr. Mario for quick little sessions here and there.
I bet I'm the only one who voted for Forklift: The Simulation.
God Eater for me, with Blazing Chrome and Lethal League a little down the line.
Pre-ordered God Eater and Dragon Quest builders 2 for both me and my wife! Two most anticipated games of the summer for me and her
The Messenger Picnic Panic DLC for me 😀 nothing wrong with not spending a buck on games this week.
Every week is just a flood of names to me, it's rather difficult to parse and see what may actually be interesting.
Streets of Rogue looks great and I’ve been waiting for this on Switch for awhile.
Getting physical DQB2 tomorrow.
My wallet is safe this week, except for free Dr. Mario World which is fun for a few minutes here and there. But I'm ready for the Switch $ onslaught soon.
Builders 2 for me.
Are there really forklift enthusiasts?
Hey @Dazza why no mention of the Umihara Kawase Fresh! physical release?
@flapjack-ashley i did!
DQ Builders 2 for me. Going to be a light month. Recovering from car repairs.
Was getting God eater but tried the demo and its a mess.
Getting God Eater 3 physically since I never played the series before, downloaded Dr. Mario for like...an hour or so before deleting that game. lol
"Streets of Rogue"? Is the soundtrack by a dime-store version of Yuzo Koshiro?
Dragon Quest Builders 2 is pretty sweet and so is Blazing Chrome, but I'm waiting for MUA3 and FE Three Houses. July is turning out to be a crazy good month though. Lots of solid games.
I'm too busy playing Super Mario Maker 2 and Banjo-Kazooie at the moment.
Blazing Chrome is everything I need in my life right now.
@Lord Really? I played the demo and I thought it was pretty good. You make me feel like I missed something. Let me know why you think that, before I waste 60 bucks.
Note: I only played the 1st mission. Liked what I saw, didn’t want to spoil the rest, so I stopped playing. Would I have seen something beyond that to stop me from buying it?
I'll probably try out Dr. Mario World in the next few days. I don't plan to drop any actual money into the game though.
Not getting Dragon Quest Builders 2 until next week and I’m getting it physically
With Donkey Kong 3 and Dr. Mario World coming out, I think I am good for my I want to waste a few minutes before jumping back into XC2.
Nothing this week, waiting for MUA3 next week.
Downloading? Nothing. Physical pickups? Dragon Quest Builders 2 and Psyvariar Delta. Everything else can wait for a steep discount.
They wanna release Dr Mario for mobile fine but that game definitely belongs in the eshop! Cmon Nintendo!
Eagle Island and Blazing Chrome once I'm done with this sick Messenger DLC!!!!
God Eater 3 and Tiny Metal for me, though my paycheck comes next week.
DQB2 physical this week or next, but no downloads for me this week.
Forklift Operator? Really?? I really think we're scraping the bottom of the barrel here - and this is coming from a former forklift driver. Not a terrible job by any means, but how many people look at forklift driving and think "wow, that would be an incredible video game"?
@Realness well it's mostly personal feelings, coming from a different but similar game MHGU. I found the whole prison hub clunky and the biggest let down. The gathering and crafting did not feel very intuitive and the big creature takedowns had very little satisfaction feel, mostly caused by button basing more than controlled exploitation of creature weaknesses. In multiplayer the lack of character classes and weapon classes would lead to less team co-op and more all for self style play.
Show Comments
Leave A Comment
Hold on there, you need to login to post a comment...