Switch eShop News (Page 8)
Larger than (Fantasy) Life
Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time knows which side its bread is buttered. The original Fantasy Life on 3DS is a cult favourite, but not a bestseller by any means — yet its dedicated fanbase has been proselytising about the game for well over a decade, and it's those fans that have been hoping for this sequel for...
Video 27 Exciting New Games Coming To Nintendo Switch 1 & 2 In June 2025
Mario Kart! Welcome Tour! Split Fiction!
After a pretty quiet couple of months as far as Switch releases are concerned, it will come as no surprise to hear that June is set to be a biggie. You see, a little console called the Switch 2 is arriving later this week (5th June, in case you somehow missed it), and a boatload of games are coming along for...
Real steamy
Steam-Heart’s is a most curious Saturn Tribute release, for two significant reasons: Firstly, it was conceived many moons ago as hardcore hentai erotica; and secondly, it was never particularly great. It first appeared in all its grammatically incorrect glory on the NEC PC-98 home computer in 1994. Compared to the console market,...
Feature Nintendo Life eShop Selects (May 2025)
Our favourite Switch 1 eShop games released in May
The summer is here, the Switch 2 is almost here, and that means it's eShop Selects time for May. This is our very last Switch 1 edition of our monthly feature — but don't worry, things aren't changing with the release of a new console. You'll still be getting your monthly dose of eShop hidden...
News Asphalt Legends Unite Speeds Up On Switch With "Limited-Time" Sonic Event
Gotta go faster
Sega launched a new brand campaign recently which plans to dedicate an entire year to Sonic the Hedgehog's trademark characteristics of "speed and attitude". As part of this, there'll be all sorts of racing-inspired partnerships and the latest one is now live. Sonic has teamed up with Gameloft's free-to-play racer Asphalt Legends...
"It is a very firmly anti-AI sort of game"
I first caught wind of Date Everything! last year, when an animated trailer showcased a dating sim unlike anything I'd ever seen. What do you mean a humanoid fridge, grand piano, and front door can woo me? And, more pressingly, how are they all so hot? As it turns out, that title is both an invitation and...
News Lorelei And The Laser Eyes Dev Teases Switch Port Of Critically Acclaimed Text Adventure
"DEVICE Switch"
Celebrated Swedish developer Simogo — most well known for its two most-recent games, Sayonara Wild Hearts and Lorelei and the Laser Eyes — has shared a little teaser of an iOS gem running on Switch, hinting at a potential console port. That game is Device 6, a text-based adventure game that launched on mobile and tablets back in...
News PowerWash Simulator's Final Free Content Update Splashes Onto Switch
Sud's up
After four years of service, Square Enix and FuturLab have released the last content update for PowerWash Simulator, titled 'The Muckingham Files 6'. Fittingly described as the "final stop" on the PowerWash journey, this free update leaves us with a mucky tube train in need of a scrubbing and the Sculpture Park — a new location where...
News A New 3D Metroidvania Has Been Confirmed For Switch 2
We'll get many more, we're sure
Maseylia: Echoes of the Past, a new 3D metroidvania from French duo Sol brothers, has been confirmed for the Nintendo Switch 2 and will launch at some point in 2026. We suspect the Switch 2 will be absolutely flooded with metroidvanias after a few years or so, so it's nice to highlight one of the early contenders...
News 'Pinball Spire' Brings "Pinballvania" To Switch Today
Flip, fire, fight
Apparition Games, which consists entirely of solo game dev Tom Voros, has just announced that its 'pinballvania' adventure game, Pinball Spire, will hit the Switch eShop...well...now. It's available today! Yes, this Indie.io-published affair, which has been garnering positive feedback on Steam since it released there in October...
News Misc. A Tiny Tale Will Fill The Chibi-Robo-Sized Hole In Your Heart This July
It's itty-bitty
While the Switch 2 will be occupying a lot of our time and space over the coming weeks and months, there are still plenty of adorable, relaxing-looking games for us to experience. Misc. A Tiny Tale is one such game, with cute, tiny robots whose goal it is to spread joy wherever they go. We've been following this one for
News Fast Fusion Launch Trailer Gives Us Our Best Look At Switch 2 Gameplay
Game launches day one with the new console
Shin'en Multimedia has released what is, to our knowledge, the first launch trailer for the Switch 2 with Fast Fusion. Launching day one with the new console, Fast Fusion is the follow-up to 2017's Fast RMX, letting you merge vehicles together to create one of potentially hundreds of combinations. The new...
News Nearly A Decade After Its Initial Release, SOMA Gets Its First Switch Trailer
Better late than never
Remember SOMA? The survival horror game that initially launched back in September 2015? Well, it's finally coming to the Nintendo Switch thanks to a collaboration between Frictional Games and Abylight Studios. The debut trailer has just launched and, we'll be honest, it looks a little rough around the edges. It's natural for...
Review Old Skies (Switch) - A Slow But Satisfying Time-Hopping Adventure
Nozzotalgia
If you're a point-and-click fan — particularly of the '90s LucasArts-y variety — then you're likely familiar with Wadjet Eye Games. This is the team that brought us back to the genre's golden age with the likes of Unavowed and The Excavation Of Hob's Barrow (on which it served as publisher), and its latest slice of nostalgia pie is...
News Curse Of The Dead Gods Follow-up 'Ravenswatch' Adds Romeo & Juliet As Playable Characters
They're free, and arrive today
Nacon and Passtech Games have just announced that their well-reviewed isometric roguelike, Ravenswatch — which is currently sitting on a very healthy 84% (PC) over on Metacritic — will receive some lovely (or should that be lovestruck?) Romeo & Juliet DLC for free today. Now that really is true love. It...
News Fantasy Life's New Entry Has Already Hit Its First Major Sales Milestone
Anything but a slow start to life
Level-5's new release Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time made its official debut on the Switch and multiple other platforms this week and it's already hit its first major sales milestone. Following a mostly positive reception from players so far, the game has now shifted over 500,000 copies. Apart from...
News Atelier Yumia Free Update #2 Now Available, Here Are The Full Patch Notes
Available now
The development team behind Atelier Yumia have been working to improve the overall experience and it's now rolled out its second major free update for the game. This latest update includes a building expansion as well as a "higher difficulty level" patch. Here's the full rundown from the official website: Atelier Yumia - Free Update...
News Fantasy Life i Is Proving So Popular That Level-5 Has Already Announced Free DLC
"We would like to express our deepest gratitude to everyone"
Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time has completely consumed many people's free time over the past week. The game officially launched on Switch on 21st May, but with an early access period on other consoles kicking things off on the 18th, player counts have been high and word-of-mouth...
Video Here's How Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time Runs On Switch
But does it steal frames?
Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time is finally out on Switch. After what feels like a lifetime since the 3DS game — look, it came out in 2014 in North America and Europe, that's a long time ago — we're delighted to see that Level-5 seemingly hasn't lost the magic. But with some fans concerned about Fantasy Life...
Mini Review Duck Detective: The Ghost Of Glamping (Switch) - A Quacking Little Mystery
I suspect fowl play
A duck stands in a fedora and a trench coat, delivering a noir-style monologue about how his recent divorce has fueled his bread addiction. If this image doesn't tickle you, then you'd better give Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping a miss. If it does, oh boy, do we have the recommendation for you. Much like developer Happy...
Blade of glory
When Onimusha: Warlords launched for Switch all the way back in 2019, we had optimistically assumed that its sequel would be right around the corner. How naïve. A bit of patience has been required, but now, more than six years later, Onimusha 2: Samurai’s Destiny has finally been given the same remaster treatment. We can’t be too...
News Shinobi: Art Of Vengeance Shows Off Gorgeous Hand-Drawn Action And Environments
Neo City showcased in new trailer
We've got another new trailer from Sega and Lizardcube of Shinobi: Art of Vengeance, the upcoming brand new 2D action platformer in the long-running Shinobi series. Today, we're getting a look at Neo City, a neon-lit industrial city where danger lurks in the shadows; this is the second locale we've seen after Oboro...
Exclusive Fast Fusion Will Contain 12 Tracks, Free Content Update Confirmed
All performance modes have also been detailed
Shin'en Multimedia's FAST Fusion is set to be a true visual highlight when it launches on the Nintendo Switch 2 day one on 5th June 2025. Like its predecessor, FAST RMX, Fusion looks to take full advantage of the new hardware's capabilities to produce blistering performance at the highest resolution...
News Fortnite Devs Hit With Unfair Labour Practice Filing Following AI Darth Vader Fiasco
SAG-AFTRA hits back
Voice acting union SAG-AFTRA has filed an unfair labour practice charge against Epic Games, the creator of Fortnite, and Llama Productions, the game's signatory company, for using an AI-generated voice of James Earl Jones to portray Darth Vader in-game. In a statement posted on its website (via
Video Lizardcube On Bringing The Art Of Shinobi: Art Of Vengeance To Life
An exclusive behind-the-scenes look
Sega's ninja classic Shinobi returns this August with the help of Lizardcube and in the lead up we've been learning more and more about this new entry. The latest update shares a behind-the-scenes look at the development of Shinobi: Art of Vengeance - which is aiming to push the limits of 2D animated games as...
Review Arcade Archives NebulasRay (Switch) - A CGI Deep-Cut After Decades Of Waiting
Namco's 1994 shmup has never been ported previously
Namco's 1994 shmup NebulasRay is one of those games which arrived at an odd point in the history of arcade gaming. Launching many months before Rare stunned the world with the CGI sprites of Donkey Kong Country, it was one of the earliest examples of a 2D video game built around pre-rendered...
Review Into The Restless Ruins (Switch) - A Marvellous Meld Of Dungeons, Deckbuilding & Auto-Combat
Celtic connections
It's possibly becoming a bit of a hard sell these days, the old roguelike dungeon-crawling adventure, replete with retro/pixel visuals. We know it. However, as busy and as overstuffed with pale imitators to the greats as this genre is, it's still well worth keeping an eye out for the odd gem. And here we have an example of said...
News Fortnite Turns To The Dark Side With AI Darth Vader Voice, And Of Course It's Been Swearing
Update: Fortnite says it's issued a hotfix
Here's a statement that gets worse the longer you read it: Fortnite's new Star Wars season has gained a Darth Vader NPC that can talk to you in the voice of the late, great James Earl Jones via a generative AI chatbot. Forget Imperial Admiral Motti's lack of faith, we find this disturbing (thanks for the...
News Switch eShop Racer 'New Star GP' Unlocks Frame Rate Ahead Of Switch 2's Launch
Time extension
The Virtua Racing-like release New Star GP, which made its debut on the Switch eShop last March, has recently received a new update with some extra "performance improvement options". According to a post on ResetEra, you can now unlock the frame rate in the game - apparently suggesting the developer behind the title could be getting...
News 'Into The Restless Ruins' Launch Trailer Reveals The Hand Of This Unique Dungeon-Crawler
Deck-building, dungeons and death. Oh my!
Wales Interactive's Into the Restless Ruins is upon us and, if you've not heard of this one until now, pay attention, because it's very good. If you have been following along with the game's progress so far, you'll know that it's a dungeon-crawler/roguelike with a superbly unique twist. The...
News Goodbye Productivity, 'Cookie Clicker' Is Coming To Switch Next Week
Chip shortage
Yes, you read that headline correctly. Cookie Clicker, the infamous idle game about clicking a cookie, is coming to Switch, fresh out of the oven, on 22nd May. We'd imagine that you will be familiar with Cookie Clicker already. This one was initially released by one-man dev Julien 'Orteil' Thiennot back in 2013 and quickly built up a...
Review Labyrinth Of The Demon King (Switch) - FromSoft & Horror Vibes Straight Out Of '97
Not for the faint of heart
Retro-inspired games have reigned supreme for some time now in the indie scene, but one niche that’s been getting increasingly more attention in recent years is modern projects that aim to replicate the primitive 3D games of the fifth console generation. There’s something distinctly appealing about the roughness of...
Mini Review Please, Touch The Artwork 2 (Switch) - Another Absurd Little Art Exhibit
Touch, I remember touch
The first Please, Touch The Artwork was a stylish puzzler inspired by Piet Mondrian and De Styjl, the Dutch abstract art movement that reached its height around a century ago. We enjoyed Belgian dev Thomas Waterzooi's cracking little curio immensely back in 2022, and this follow-up (which has been available elsewhere since...
Review Dunk Dunk (Switch) - An Affordable, Enjoyable, But Flawed Twist On Basketball
Not quite a slam dunk
Remember when local, arcade party games were a dime a dozen? The late 2000s and early 2010s were filled with bite-sized, fun, and digestible experiences you could hop in and out of or sit down to play with friends. Well, Dunk Dunk revitalises that spirit in 2025 with a fun local co-op, action-platforming twist on basketball...
Review 1000xRESIST (Switch) - A Sci-Fi Narrative Masterpiece, Hair To Hair
You can (not) Resist
We know. We’re pretty late with this one, but this bears talking about. Cast your mind back to 9th May 2024 and "Indie Game Day", with multiple outstanding games dropping simultaneously, demonstrating the variety, beauty, and necessity of independently-owned game studios. We covered several of them
News Shantae's Revived GBA Game 'Risky Revolution' Finally Scores Switch Release Window
I whip my hair back and forth
Back in July 2023, we heard that developer WayForward was returning to a previously cancelled GBA entry in the Shantae series, Risky Revolution, for a release on both the classic hardware and modern consoles. While we're still waiting to hear a solid launch date, the dev has finally provided us with a release window,...
News Buy Deltarune On Switch And Get The Switch 2 Version "At No Additional Cost"
A "cross-buy" offer
Deltarune will be releasing the same day as the Switch 2 and ahead of the big launch, Toby Fox has provided an update in his latest newsletter about how you'll be able to access his game on your new Nintendo system. If you've already bought the game on the original Switch, or plan to get it on this platform any time soon, you'll...
News The Hundred Line's Script Is Long Enough To Print 60 Paperback Novels
According to its director, at least
The Hundred Line - Last Defense Academy is out now on Nintendo Switch and, by all accounts, it stands as one of the best games from directors Kazutaka Kodaka and Kotaro Uchikoshi. It's a pretty hefty title, too, boasting 100 unique endings with more narrative twists and turns than your average George R. R. Martin...
News Tales Of The Shire Physical Release Announced For Switch, Pre-Orders Live
Return to the Shire this July
Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of the Rings Game will release digitally on the Switch this July and today it's been confirmed there will also be a physical release arriving on the same date. This was announced by 'iam8bit' and there'll be a standard retail edition (including a fold-out map and digital soundtrack) and...
News Double Dragon Gaiden Doubles The Fun With A "Free DLC" Update On Switch
Beat 'em up today
[Tue 18th Mar, 2025 02:30 GMT]: If you love beat 'em ups on the Switch and haven't tried out Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise of the Dragons just yet, now might be the time to finally give it a go. Maximum Entertainment has announced there's some new "free DLC" on the way in the form of two new fighters Jeff and Abore. These two...
News Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered Physical Switch Release On The Way
Pre-orders open soon
[Sun 9th Feb, 2025 14:00 GMT]: Lara Croft returns next week in Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered and it looks like a physical release could be on the way. Nintendo Everything recently asked Aspyr's Brand Manager Matthew Ray about the chances of a physical version and it seems there'll be an update "soon". Q. Is there a physical...
News Game Devs Weigh In On Switch 2, And A "Much Better" eShop Is A Must
"Oh, you don't like hentai on your Switch?"
Everyone is eager to chat about the Switch 2 console in general right now, and GamesRadar has spoken to a number of developers about what they want from the brand new console, and lo and behold, the eShop has entered the chat once again. Yep, the eShop has been getting a little bit of a doing once again,...
News Freedom Wars Remastered Updated On Switch, Here Are The Patch Notes
Bug fixes, adjustments, and more
Bandai Namco has issued a new patch for Freedom Wars Remastered on the Switch, bringing the game up to version 1.8.0 (thanks, Nintendo Everything). It's a fairly hefty one that introduces several bug fixes, gam
News Star Wars: Grand Collection For Switch Now Available, Nine "Iconic" Games In One
Celebrating Star Wars Day
It's May the 4th and you know what that means - it's Star Wars Day! As part of this year's celebrations, developer Aspyr has released a new 'Grand Collection' on the Switch. The Star Wars: Grand Collection contains a total of nine games for $139.99 / £125.99. Right now though, it's available in select locations for half...
Feature Nintendo Life eShop Selects (April 2025)
Our picks for the top Switch 1 eShop games of April
Ready for better, brighter weather (at least in the northern hemisphere) and eShop Selects? Us too! Admittedly, our eyes are firmly set on the near future. The Nintendo Switch 2 is just over a month away, and that means a whole slew of big, new games are waiting for us. It's safe to say, things...
Video Here's Another Look At The Lord Of The Rings 'Tales Of The Shire' Game
The Shire comes to Switch this July
In case you somehow missed it, we're getting another Lord of the Rings game, but this one is probably like no other entry you've seen in the series before. This new title, known as Tales of the Shire, has been described as a "cosy" Tolkien-inspired lifestyle-like game and it's arriving on the Switch this July. In...
Poll Orange Or Red Switch eShop - Make Your Choice
Which do you prefer?
The latest Switch update brought with it a couple of pretty substantial new features in the form of Virtual Game Cards and GameShare as Nintendo looks to prepare for the upcoming Switch 2. In addition to this (and, apparently, a few nasty error messag
News Nintendo eShop Cards Are Apparently Getting A Refresh For Switch 2
New gen, new look
Since announcing the Switch 2, Nintendo has been updating its services, storefronts and even merch to reflect this new generation. Now, in the latest update, Switch eShop cards are reportedly getting a "visual refresh". Some of these new eShop cards have apparently already been shared on social media and it seems Nintendo will be...
News Awesome Roguelike 'Astral Ascent' Doubles In Size With Ver. 2.0 Launch & New DLC
Go on then, just one more run
When Astral Ascent arrived on Switch in 2023, we called it "Probably the best roguelike since Hades", and we weren't lying, it's awesome. Well, soon enough, the run-based action will be getting even awesome-er with its ver. 2.0 launch and the arrival of a new DLC pack, 'The Outer Reaches'. The additions are coming...
Review Shotgun Cop Man (Switch) - Move Over, Meat Boy, There's A New Sheriff In Town
Devilishly good
Gun recoil (or kickback) has often been viewed as a negative in gaming; something that, through the application of unlockable perks, can be lessened or even eliminated entirely. Yet with Shotgun Cop Man, recoil is fundamental to both combat and traversal. Created by Swedish developer DeadToast Entertainment (Victor Ågren), Shotgun...
